The Charlotte Linux User Group

It's getting closer. On Saturday, 10:00am our installfest will start at the Hackspace. Everybody is welcome to bring their machine and we will be happy to help and guide you through the installation and setup of Linux.

But the installfest has now an additional focus.

The CharLUG is currently preparing for an installfest.

What is an installfest?
Wikipedia has a nice definition:
An Installfest (a portmanteau of installation and festival) is an event, generally sponsored by a local Linux User Group, university or LAN party, at which people get together to do mass installations of computer operating systems or software, most often Linux and other open source software.

When: February 19, 2011 4:00pm
Where: Amélie's French Bakery, 2424 N. Davidson St. Charlotte, NC
Meetup link: here

When: December 3, 2010 6:30pm
Where: Growler's Pourhouse - NoDa
Link to the official page: here

Proposed: dual-homed, high-availability geekery, Friday night in NoDa. Growlers for the drinking and the revelry, and the optional art viewing. Also, the grand opening of the Charlotte Hackerspace is Friday night. Its a few blocks away, but it offers geekery like no other!

When: December 7, 2010 6:00pm
Where: Panera Bread - South Park
Meetup link: here

Seeing the success of the University City mini meets I decided to schedule one for South Charlotte.

To accommodate most people I am putting it at 6-10pm. I will be there for the whole duration but I expect people to come and go at various times. Same style as the University City mini meet, no formal topics, just tech talk and coffee.

If you are using Pidgin and MSN then most likely you saw a lot of "omega.contacts.msn.com" errors today. Luckily there is an easy fix for this issue.

1. Get the latest certificate for omega.contacts.msn.com. You can do this by going to https://omega.contacts.msn.com in your favorite browser and download the certificate for the site (click on the certificate icon and choose save to file). Or you can simply use the attached file.

We added a page for upcoming meetings. It can be accessed here.

We will keep this page in sync with the Meetup pages. But this might be of course not always the case. If you are missing any meetings here or on the Meetup or if you want to suggest and/or organize a meeting please contact us or post to the Meetup.

When: November 22, 2010 7:00pm
Where: Not chosen yet
Meetup link: here

These days we all likely have web servers & not enough time to figure out why they're not performing as fast as we'd like. Red & I both have interests in this topic at the social meeting I suggested we cover the tools to analyze your web server, common tweaks to Apache/Linux and infrastructure design

The Meetup group is now directly accessible from the main menu. Join the meetup and the mailing list to keep up to date!