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Welcome to the Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group℠. We are a not-for-profit organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that provides collaboration resources, including mailing lists, presentations, installfests, and this wiki for Linux users of all backgrounds.

See our about page for more background on us, Linux, and free/open source software.

Just like an open source software project, we develop WPLUG in collaboration with the community: everyone is free to contribute. What does Western PA need out of WPLUG℠? What do you need out of WPLUG? Join our mailing list and tell us!

Upcoming Meetings & Events

Got something technology-related on your mind? Even if you're not a WPLUG member, we invite you to answer our Call for Presentations and talk about it at one of our meetings.

Subscribe to the wplug-announce mailing list to receive notices about future meetings!

Upcoming Related Events

E-mail info@wplug.org to have your event posted here.

PROPOSED: TechEventCalendar

The past related events page has examples of what we've done in the past. Check out these other interesting organizations for more to do!

Past Meetings

Every WPLUG meeting and event is recorded in our past meetings page. You may also view slide presentations from previous meetings. If you're new to WPLUG, this will give you a better idea of what we do.

Getting Involved

Things that WPLUG does which you can participate in.

Membership - Join the hottest Linux users group in Western PA!
Board Information - List of members on the WPLUG Board of Directors; records of WPLUG board meetings.
Committee Information - List of WPLUG committees.
Past Activities - Activities which are no longer ongoing. Let us know if you're interested in re-activating any of these.

Online Resources

WPLUG provides a variety of online resources to its members and the community at large. In fact, you're looking at one of them right now: the WPLUG wiki. We provide these resources as a way for our members to help each other, spread the word about Linux and other open source, and socialize.

Mailing Lists - The WPLUG mailing lists are a big part of our community; there are several hundred subscribers. We have lists for topics ranging from general announcements to jobs and classified ads.
Internet Relay Chat - A chat channel that we operate on the FreeNode IRC network. At times, this can be a very good way to get information.
WPLUG members can get an @wplug.org e-mail address, and can also use our RSS aggregator (similar to Feedly, or the now-defunct Google Reader)
Twitter - The official WPLUG Twitter account
LinkedIn - A professional networking group used by many WPLUG members.

Organizational Materials

Bylaws - WPLUG's governing rules.
Special Rules of Order - Supplementary rules that address gaps in the bylaws.
Meeting Checklist - What needs to be done at WPLUG general user meetings.
Venues - Information on where WPLUG meets.
Financial Documents - Forms to report expenses and request funding from WPLUG.
Election Instructions - How to vote in WPLUG's board elections.
Historical Documents - Organizational materials that are kept for future reference.
Inventory - Stuff that belongs to WPLUG: who has it and where.
TODO - Things that need to be done on the wiki.

Swag

Order clothing and other cool stuff with the WPLUG logo from CafePress.

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+__NOTOC__
 Welcome to the Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group&#8480;. We are a not-for-profit organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that provides collaboration resources, including mailing lists, presentations, installfests, and this wiki for Linux users of all backgrounds.
-See our [[Wplug:About|about page]] for more background on us, Linux, and free/open source software.
+See our [[WPLUG:About|about page]] for more background on us, Linux, and free/open source software.
 Just like an open source software project, we develop WPLUG in collaboration with the community: everyone is free to contribute. What does Western PA need out of WPLUG&#8480;? What do ''you'' need out of WPLUG? Join our [[MailingLists|mailing list]] and tell us!
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 Got something technology-related on your mind? Even if you're not a WPLUG member, we invite you to answer our [[CallforPresentations | Call for Presentations]] and talk about it at one of our meetings.
+Subscribe to the [http://{{SERVERNAME}}/mailman/listinfo/wplug-announce wplug-announce mailing list] to receive notices about future meetings!
-See our [[UpcomingMeetings | future planning]] page for information about WPLUG's longer-term plans for meetings & events.
 == Upcoming Related Events ==
-* Saturday, October 19, 2013 - [http://cposc.org/ Central PA Open Source Conference] - at IU13 Conference Center in Lancaster, PA
-* Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 7:00pm - [http://www.meetup.com/pghpython/events/137394522/ PGHPy Talks at Google] - at Google Pittsburgh
-* Monday, October 28, 2013, 6:30pm - [http://www.meetup.com/pittsburgh-ruby/events/137689902/ PghRB October OpenHack] - at ShowClix in Downtown Pittsburgh
-* November 3-8, 2013 - [https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13 USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference] - in Washington, D.C.
-* Thursday, November 7, 2013, 6:30pm - [http://www.meetup.com/pittsburgh-ruby/events/143979972/ PghRB talks on Metaprogramming & Functional Programming] - at IBM Squirrel Hill
-* Tuesday, November 12, 2013, 7:00pm - [https://groups.drupal.org/pittsburgh Drupal Pittsburgh Meetup], Editing a Node - at Plumb Media in Garfield
-* Wednesday, November 27, 2013, 7:00pm - [http://www.meetup.com/pghpython/events/dcrjzdyrpbkc/ PGHPy Coding at IBM] - at IBM Squirrel Hill
-* Friday-Saturday December 13-14, 2013 - [http://drupalcampohio.org/ Drupal Camp Ohio 2013] - at Ohio State University's Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center in Columbus, OH
 E-mail [mailto:info@wplug.org info@wplug.org] to have your event posted here.
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 * PROPOSED: [[TechEventCalendar]]
-The [[Past Related Events | past related events]] page has examples of what we've done in the past.
+The [[Past Related Events | past related events]] page has examples of what we've done in the past.  Check out these [[WPLUG:About#Groups|other interesting organizations]] for more to do!
 == Past Meetings ==
-Every WPLUG meeting and event is recorded in our [[Past Meetings | past meetings page]]. If you're new to WPLUG, this will give you a better idea of what we do.
+Every WPLUG meeting and event is recorded in our [[Past Meetings | past meetings page]]. You may also view [[:Category:Presentations | slide presentations]] from previous meetings. If you're new to WPLUG, this will give you a better idea of what we do.
+== Getting Involved ==
+Things that WPLUG does which you can participate in.
+* [[Membership]] - Join the hottest Linux users group in Western PA!
+* [[WPLUGBoard | Board Information]] - List of members on the WPLUG Board of Directors; records of WPLUG board meetings.
+* [[Committees | Committee Information]] - List of WPLUG committees.
+* [[Past Activities]] - Activities which are no longer ongoing.  Let us know if you're interested in re-activating any of these.
 == Online Resources ==
 WPLUG provides a variety of online resources to its members and the community at large. In fact, you're looking at one of them right now: the WPLUG wiki. We provide these resources as a way for our members to help each other, spread the word about Linux and other open source, and socialize.
 * [[MailingLists | Mailing Lists]] - The WPLUG mailing lists are a big part of our community; there are several hundred subscribers. We have lists for topics ranging from general announcements to jobs and classified ads.
-* [[Membership]] - Join the hottest Linux users group in Western PA!
 * [[IRC | Internet Relay Chat]] - A chat channel that we operate on the [http://www.freenode.net/ FreeNode] IRC network. At times, this can be a very good way to get information.
+* [[Membership#Member_Benefits | WPLUG members]] can get an @wplug.org e-mail address, and can also use our RSS aggregator (similar to Feedly, or the now-defunct Google Reader)
-* [[Study Group | Certification Study Group]] - A self-study group is forming for participants to assist each other in obtaining Linux certification.
 * [https://twitter.com/wplug Twitter] - The official WPLUG Twitter account
-* [http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=150161/ Linkedin] - A professional networking group used by many WPLUG members.
+* [http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=150161 LinkedIn] - A professional networking group used by many WPLUG members.
-* [http://www.archive.org/details/OhioLinuxfest2009/ Ohio Linux Presentations] - Recordings of presentations at the 2009 Ohio Linux Fest held September 25 and 26, 2009 in Columbus OH. The theme was "40 years of UNIX."
-* [http://wiki.cposc.org/cposc2009/ CPOSC Talks] - Slides from Central PA Open Source Conference held October 17, 2009 at Harrisburg University. Attendance about 150.
-* [[Wplug:About#Groups|Other Interesting Organizations]] - We're not the only game in town. Go and explore!
-* [[Commission to Reform WPLUG]] - An informal group created to fix long-standing problems in WPLUG.
 == Organizational Materials ==
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 * [[Venues]] - Information on where WPLUG meets.
 * [[FinancialDocuments | Financial Documents]] - Forms to report expenses and request funding from WPLUG.
-* [[Committees | Committee Information]] - List of WPLUG committees.
-* [[WPLUGBoard | Board Information]] - List of members on the WPLUG Board of Directors; records of WPLUG board meetings.
 * [[Election Instructions]] - How to vote in WPLUG's board elections.
 * [[HistoricalDocuments | Historical Documents]] - Organizational materials that are kept for future reference.
 * [[Inventory]] - Stuff that belongs to WPLUG: who has it and where.
 * [[TODO]] - Things that need to be done on the wiki.
-== Projects ==
-* [[Wilkins School Network]] - Design, deploy and maintain a network for the [[Wilkin School Community Center]].
-* [[LiveCD]]
-* [[MediaWiki]] - The software that powers this wiki
-* There is interest in a new users' sig
-== BOINC-based Teams  ==
-* [[SETI@home | WPLUG SETI@home Team]] - Our team to assist with experiments for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
-* [[Rosetta@home | WPLUG Rosetta@home Team]] - Team to "help to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases."
-* [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ BOINC] - Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
 == Swag ==