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WLUG now has Elgg (open source social networking)
by Chris O'Halloran 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Hello all WLUG list subscribers, Since Peter Reutemann's presentation on Elgg at our last Monday evening meeting, Peter, Ewen Cummings and John Billings have been working to establish Elgg on the wlug server. Elgg is open source social networking software and our case, is another avenue for WLUG club members to interact online. You can share photos, create discussion forums, write your own blog, link in your twitter feed, and follow discussions via RSS. There are many more plugins available and the site will continue to receive additional features. The existing wiki is not being superseded by this at all and will still be the place to document technical and linux related things. So it is my pleasure to extend this invitation to all members and list subscribers to check out Elgg, create yourself a profile, upload a photo of yourself and have a bit of play on the site - maybe even create a group for your own pet topics and invite others to join. http://elgg.wlug.org.nz/ The following site lists many of the plugins available to the site. If you'd like to see them added, please contact me, Peter, Ewen or John. http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins Thanks again to Peter, Ewen and John for setting this up and creating a there to match the existing server. Cheers and regards, Chris O'Halloran WLUG President.

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Fairfield Community Computer Center
by Bruce Kingsbury 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Te Whare O Te Ata computer center, 60a Sare Cres. is now open five days a week, 3PM-6PM, Monday-Friday walk in sessions. Help available for anyone who's fairly new to computers and/or Linux and wants to learn. Internet connection and computers available, no need to bring your own. Gold coin donation only. http://www.fairfield.org.nz/home/community-computers (also looking for volunteers who have good computer skills and can explain things patiently to supervise a few sessions, so I don't have to be here every day ;)

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Juniper router eng needed .
by Gregory Machin 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

HI. We are battling go find a contractor that can assist us with configuration changes to our Juniper routers. If you are interested in the work or know anyone that can do it please contact me off the list. Thanks Gregory Machin 0211 844 347 -- - TLA - three letter acronym ... - We are loosing the art of communication through progress.. Proverbs 27:17 (New International Version) 17 As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.

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WLUG Fixit Meeting tomorrow
by Meeting Reminder bot 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

A reminder; the WLUG Fixit Meeting is tomorrow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Describe http://www.wlug.org.nz/SaturdayWorkshop.2011-09-03 here. See here for details http://wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2011-07-02

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 28 Aug '11

28 Aug '11

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Describe http://www.wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2011-08-29 here. Peter Reutemann has volunteered to introduce and talk about Elgg. Elgg is an open source social networking engine. Bring your laptops along http://elgg.org/ Meeting starts at 7pm

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New contact details for Wayne Grimsey
by Wayne Grimsey 25 Aug '11

25 Aug '11

Happy new year, WLUG. I moved house this week. My new contact details are: Wayne Grimsey 48A Southey Street Leamington Cambridge Landline: 07 827 8449 Cell: 027 451 2688 Hope you've all had a happy and safe holiday. Wayne > From: wlug-request(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Subject: wlug Digest, Vol 235, Issue 6 > To: wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:00:03 +1300 > > Send wlug mailing list submissions to > wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wlug-request(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wlug-owner(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of wlug digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Thursday Night Christmas Curry (David Hallett) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:19:40 +1300 > From: David Hallett <david(a)pulsar.net.nz> > To: Hamilton Thursday Night Curry > <hamilton(a)list.thursdaynightcurry.com>, Waikato Linux Users Group > <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> > Cc: waikato(a)nzcs.org.nz > Subject: [wlug] Thursday Night Christmas Curry > Message-ID: > <AANLkTimvR+QbuOq8x7XHuyagOAhKbtisS+JSM+y0ik5i(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > We're looking to start running Hamilton curry nights again. > The recent Christmas Curry had a good number of registrations. It was there > that a suggestion was made there to reinstate the Hamilton Thursday Night > Curry. > > If you are interested in attending (even irregularly) please let me know you > intention, and whether you prefer weekly, fortnightly, or monthly. > I'm going to use the NZCS Events System ( > http://www.nzcs.org.nz/events/waikato_bop) to manage RSVPs and booking, thus > significantly reducing the administration overhead. > > Kind regards, > > David Hallett, BSc, MNZCS ITCP > P.O. Box 15-516 > Hamilton, New Zealand > > Phone: +64-7-210 5520 > Mobile: +64-21-802 256 >

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 25 Aug '11

25 Aug '11

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Describe http://www.wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2011-08-29 here. Peter Reutemann has volunteered to introduce and talk about Elgg. Elgg is an open source social networking engine. Bring your laptops along http://elgg.org/ Meeting starts at 7pm

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Introductions and Instant Infrastructure
by Chris McClimans 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

Hello Local Linux Community, I'm an opensource enthusiast who has recently moved to the area and looking to get a bit more connected. I'm currently working on an instant infrastructure project to assist small to medium offices (non-profits and education are my primary targets) setup a functioning centrally managed computing and network infrastructure. The initial code is up at github. https://github.com/passionengine/ii/wiki Long term we should be able to boot an entire infrastructure from a smartphone or simple network device and create usb boot sticks for anything that doesn't do pxe booting. It will take bare metal machines (no os, no virtualiziation) and build them up with Ubuntu, XP, and/or Vista configured with a chef-client to keep them maintained centrally via a chef based infrastructure. I'm hoping to pull a demo together by mid-september and present at Software Freedom Day weekend (Waikato on Saturday and St. Mary's on Sunday). I'd been keen to have coffee or chat with anyone interested in working with me on this project. Cheers, -chris

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WLUG committee meeting August 29th
by Chris O'Halloran 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Hello all, Next Monday night Peter Reutemann will be doing an introductory presentation on Elgg, an open source social networking tool. http://elgg.org/ Bring your laptops and wifi smartphones along and hopefully we'll have a bit of fun experimenting with a working server. http://wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2011-08-29 Cheers, Chris O WLUG president.

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Software Freedom Day 2011
by John Billings 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

SFD 2011 is a little more than a month away, and I'm just wondering who all wants to be involved. It's on 17th September this year. We are planning to have it at Uni, at the very least we can use our regular meeting room, and have a really low key day, or in the past we held it in the S block building foyer, and used some of the lecture rooms to do presentations. I was over at the Uni today and talked to Sally Jo and she seemed to think that would be fine if we wanted to have it there again. The NZCS meeting today was about the Linux cluster there, and the presenter said he'd be keen to give a talk/demo the cluster at SFD. We will be putting up a display at the library first week of September, as all the boards were booked the second week, and distributing some flyers around. If anyone remembers what we did in 2007, I thought that went well, having some tables set up w/ different demos and information, and we ran presentations throughout the day. I'm good for one table, and one presentation on something (possibly 20 years of Linux?) So let me know who all wants to be involved and what you would like to do. Best, John

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