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The regular SATURDAY MORNING meeting of the Charlotte GNU/Linux Users Group is scheduled for the fourth Saturday of the month.

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The June meeting topics are in discussion on the mailing list. Please join in this discussion...

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For April:

Our guest speaker was Dr. Richard Hipp. A Charlotte resident and past LUG speaker, Dr. Hipp has developed many open source software solutions. Most notable is SQLite, the highly used, extremely fast, serverless SQL engine.

Kevin Jones drove in from Greenville, SC, and gave the group a great overview of his project - Free Linux PC.

When: April 25, 2009

10:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Where: Levine Building I

Ground Floor Food Court (Follow signs to "Subway")

Levine Campus - Central Piedmont Community College

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For March:

When: March 28, 2009

10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Where: Levine Building I

Ground Floor Food Court (Follow signs to "Subway")

Levine Campus - Central Piedmont Community College

There was an open discussion about the future of the LUG, and of all things open..

Attendance was, of course, mandatory...

We had a good crowd. Microsoft was having a big indoctrination ceremony nearby, but we managed to stay away from their free gimshaws and goodads...

Leam documented the meeting specifics, so refer to the mailing list for details. As always, if you have a question, ask...

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The March Tuesday night meeting of the Charlotte GNU/Linux Users Group

was scheduled to be held on the fourth Tuesday of March.

TUESDAY NIGHT MEETING

When: March 24, 2009

18:00 to 20:00

Where: Levine Building I

Ground Floor Food Court (Follow signs to "Subway")

Levine Campus - Central Piedmont Community College

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The February meeting was on 02/28/09

the Levine Campus of Central Piedmont Community College

from

10AM to 12;30

February 28th (I think I already said that...)

wih

our guest

Greg DeKoenigsberg - from Red Hat.

His topic was

OLPC - One Laptop Per Child

Linux in Schools

Fedora

and more...

Thanks, Greg.

Greg brought an actual OLPC laptop & demoed "Sugar", the OS...

Links:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Sugar

http://laptop.org/en/

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Welcome to the Charlotte GNU/Linux User Group (CharLUG) website.

We are a GNU/Linux User Group for folks of all levels of expertise...novice, hobbiest, somewhat experienced and professionally involved with GNU/Linux and the Free Software Foundation (FSF). One of our primary goals at CharLUG is helping people become acquainted with GNU/Linux and FSF and helping them learn as they discover what a great operating system GNU/Linux really is. If you have an interest in GNU/Linux and/or FSF and would like to help CharLUG continue to serve the GNU/Linux community, and the Free Software Foundation in the Charlotte Metrolina area, please let your interest be known on the mailing list or in a private e-mail to

As our old meeting place is under construction, we are currently holding monthly meetings at the LEVINE Campus of Central Piedmont Community College, in the Levine I building, ground floor...

See http://cpcc.edu for directions, and further information on the Levine Campus...

Thank you for your interest in GNU/Linux, the Free Software Foundation and CharLUG...

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The next monthly meeting will take place on the last Saturday of the month, at 10 AM.

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