Past Meetings

2013

• Saturday, February 9, 2013 - General user meeting @ 2:00 p.m. in Wilkins School Community Center - final vote on amendment of Section 8.4 of the bylaws; Presentation: Build Your Own Certificate Authority Using xca; Presentation: The Rise and Fall of the WebOS Mobile Operating System; Open Source License Smackdown!
• Saturday, January 12, 2013 - 2:00pm - General User Meeting; business meeting followed by "Lightning Talks" (short, informal presentations)

2012

• Saturday, December 8th, 2012 - Installfest - Monroeville Public Library, 4000 Gateway Campus Boulevard Monroeville, PA 15146 from 12:30-4:30 PM
• Saturday, November 10, 2012 - General User Meeting and WPLUG Board election
• Tuesday, October 30th, 2012 - Meet The Candidates session on IRC - 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Saturday, October 13, 2012 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm - Nominations and General User Meeting at WSCC - Presentation Lightning Talks. You have something you are doing/interested in at work,home,play? Then maybe you could give us 10-15 minutes to tell us about it. Please email events@wplug.org with a summary of you talk.
• Sunday, August 19, 2012 - 1:00pm to 6:00pm - WPLUG Annual Summer Picnic - North Park, Lakeshore Pavilion
• Saturday, July 14, 2012 - 1:30pm to 4:00pm - General User Meeting, Topic: Advanced SSH by Vance Kochenderfer at WSCC
• Saturday, June 9, 2012 - Installfest - 1:00pm to 4:30pm - Brookline Library
• Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm - General User Meeting, Featured presentation topic: iproute2 by John Lewis at WSCC
• Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm - Presentation only, Topic: Introduction to Virtualization on Linux using KVM by Pat Barron at WSCC
• Friday, March 16, 2012 - 7:00pm - Installfest at HackPittsburgh shop in Uptown
• Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm - General User Meeting, Topic: Introduction to SSH by Vance Kochenderfer at WSCC
• Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 1:30pm to 5:30pm - InstallFest! and GUM at WSCC

2011

• Saturday, December 3, 2011 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm - Installfest at Northland _Library
• Saturday November 12, 2011 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm - Election and General User Meeting at WSCC Speaker: openSUSE Linux Guru Don Vosburg
• Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm - Meet the Candidates for the WPLUG Board of Directors on the IRC channel - come and ask questions so you can be informed for the election
• Saturday, October 8, 2011 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm - Nominations and General User Meeting at WSCC - Presentation: Mysql Replication in the Enterprise by Nick Schembri
• Saturday September 17th 2011 Software Freedom Day Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm Where: The Pittsburgh Public Market
• Sunday, August 21, 2011 - 1pm to 6pm - Picnic at Snyder Park in Whitehall
• Saturday, July 9, 2011 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm - General User Meeting at WSCC
• Saturday, June 11, 2011 - 11:00am to 3:00pm - Installfest at Brookline Library
• Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm - Joint talk with Pittsburgh Cocoaheads on GNUStep at Brookline Library
• Saturday, April 9, 2011 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm - General User Meeting at WSCC
• Saturday, March 12, 2011 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm - Installfest at Monroeville Public Library
• Monday, March 7, 2011 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm - Field Trip at CMU Gates
• Monday, February 7, 2011 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm - Table Topics Meeting at Panera on 5430 Centre Ave
• Saturday, January 8, 2011 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm - General User Meeting at WSCC

2010

• Saturday, December 11, 2010 - 10:30am to 12:30pm - General User Meeting at WSCC
• Saturday, November 20, 2010 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm - InstallFest at WSCC
• Saturday, November 13, 2010 - 2pm to 5pm - General User Meeting/Elections at Panera Bread Galleria. Topic: Doubleheader - The Arduino Embedded Device by Robert Blackwell and Introduction to Objective-C by Mark Dalrymple.
• Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 8p to 9p - "Meet the Candidates" IRC Session, freenode.net, #wplug channel
• Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 2pm to 3:30pm - General User Meeting/Nominations at the Wilkins School Community Center. Topic: Blender Film Festival - Elephants Dream, Big Buck Bunny, and the newly-released Sintel.
• Saturday, September 18, 2010 - 10:30am to 12:30pm - Nomination Meeting & General User Meeting at WSCC
• Sunday, August 29, 2010 - 1pm to 5pm - 9th Annual Open Source Picnic at Snyder Park
• Saturday, August 14, 2010 - 10:30am to 12:30pm - General User Meeting at WSCC - Presentation: Seamonkey
• Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 10am to 3pm - InstallFest at Northland Library, McCandless Twp
• Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 10:30am to 12:30pm - General User Meeting at WSCC - Presentation: Extending OpenOffice
• Saturday, June 12, 2010 - 10:30am to 12:30pm - General User Meeting at WSCC
• Saturday, May 15, 2010 - 9:30am to 2:30pm - Installfest at Monroeville Public Library
• Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 10:30am to 12:30pm - General User Meeting at WSCC - Topic: Tools for Network Booting and Cloning Systems
• Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 10:30am to 12:30pm - General User Meeting at WSCC
• Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 10:30am to 12:30pm - General User Meeting at WSCC - Topic: Open Source in Medicine
• Saturday, February 27, 2010 - 10:30am to 3:30pm - InstallFest at Brookline Library
• Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 10:30am to 12:30pm - General User Meeting at WSCC - Topic: Puppet infrastructure management
• Saturday, January 9, 2010 - 10:30am to 12:30pm - General User Meeting at WSCC - Topic: Drupal web CMS

2009

• Saturday, December 12, 2009 - 10:30 am to 12:30 pm - General User Meeting at WSCC - Topic: Haiku OS
• Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 12p to 4:30p - InstallFest - WSCC
• Wednesday, October 28 - 8p to 9p - Meet the Candidates for the Board election - online forum on the WPLUG IRC channel
• Saturday, October 31 - 10:30a to 12:30p - General User Meeting and Elections at WSCC
• Saturday, September 19 - 10:30a to 12:30p - General User Meeting at WSCC - Presentation: What's new with KDE
• Saturday, August 22, 12p to 5p - Installfest - WSCC
• Sunday, August 2, 12p to 5p - Open Source Picnic at Snyder Park
• Saturday, July 11 - 10:30am to 12:30pm - General User Meeting at WSCC - Presentation: VoIP PBX for Small & Medium Businesses
• Saturday, June 6 - 10:30am to 3:30pm - Installfest at Brookline Library
• Saturday, May 9 - 10:30am to 12:30pm - General User Meeting at WSCC
• Saturday, April 4 - 10:30am to 12:30pm - General User Meeting at WSCC - Topic: Seriously Free Software
• Saturday, March 7 - 10:30a-12:30p - General User Meeting at WSCC - Topic: Openmoko project
• Saturday, February 7 - 10a-4p Installfest at Brookline Library
• Saturday, January 17, 2009 11a-1p - General User Meeting - Favorite Open Source software for Windows - WSCC

2008

• Saturday, December 13, 2008 10am-noon - General User Meeting - Shell Scripting - WSCC
• Saturday, November 22, 2008, 10AM to noon - Membership Meeting: WPLUG Board Election - WSCC
• Saturday, October 4, 2008 - Membership Meeting: Elections
• Saturday, September 20, 2008 - SoftwareFreedomDay
• Saturday, September 13, 2008 - Membership Meeting: Board Nominations, General User Meeting - Speaker: Patrick Wagstrom
• Saturday, August 9, 2008 - Installfest
• Saturday, July 26, 2008 - Special Event: Screening of Elephants Dream & Big Buck Bunny - Presentation: Roland Hess on Blender and the production of Elephants Dream
• Saturday, July 12, 2008 - General Users Meeting: Presentation/Speaker Ted Rodgers on new kernel items and Linux management.
• Saturday, June 28, 2008 - General Users Meeting Speaker: Jonathan Daniel of Wellspring Software, Aspect-Oriented Programming
• Thursday June 19, 2008 Table Topics: "Please Won't You Be My Neighbor"
• Sunday May 18, 2008 - Snyder Park, Whitehall - Annual Open Source Picnic
• Wednesday April 23, 2008 - Venue: John Harvard's Brew House - Round Table Topic: What do you get for free?
• Saturday March 29, 2008 - CMU Newell-Simon 3002 - Presentation: "Uses of OpenLDAP" and "Two-Factor Authentication" - Brian Seklecki
• Saturday April 5, 2008 - CMU Newell-Simon 1507 - InstallFest
• February 26, 2008 - Table Topics: Is 2008 the year of the Linux desktop?
• February 2, 2008 - CMU Newell-Simon Hall 1507 - Installfest - Demo: OLPC Laptop and Kiddix Computing
• January 12, 2008 - CMU Newell-Simon Hall 3002 - General User Meeting - Presentation: Gentoo Linux by Ted Rodgers

2007

• December 12, 2007 - Panera Bread Waterworks - Topic(s): Distros and Applications
• December 8, 2007 - CMU Newell-Simon Hall 3002 - Speaker: Neal Sofge of RAND Topic: Bricolage CMS
• November 10, 2007 - CMU Newell-Simon 1109 - InstallFest - Featured: OpenSolaris
• October 20, 2007 - CMU Newell-Simon Hall 1507 - Board Elections - General User Meeting: MythTV
• September 15, 2007 - SoftwareFreedomDay 2007
• September 8, 2007 - CMU Newell-Simon Hall 3002 - Board Nominations
• August 11, 2007 - CMU Newell-Simon Hall 1507 - Installfest
• August 5, 2007 - Annual WPLUG Open Source Picnic at Snyder Park in Whitehall
• July 14, 2007 - CMU Newell-Simon Hall 3002 - Linux on Mobile Devices - SDG Systems
• June 9, 2007 - CMU Newell-Simon Hall 3002 - High Availability Web Services (also treasurer elections)
• May 12, 2007 - CMU Newell-Simon Hall 1507 - Installfest
• April 14, 2007 - CMU Newell-Simon Hall 1507 - General User Meeting - Presentation: "Rookie Mistakes" - Membership Meeting / Treasurer Nominations
• March 10, 2007 - CMU Newell-Simon Hall - General User Meeting - Presentation: "How do I do that?" - Membership Meeting / Bi-Laws Amendment Vote
• February 10, 2007 - CMU Newell-Simon Hall 3305 - Installfest
• January 13, 2007 - CMU Newell-Simon Hall 3002 - General User Meeting and Lightning talks on editors

2006

• Saturday, December 16, 2006 - 10:00am - 3002 Newell-Simon Hall, CMU - Bill Moran spoke about making backups with Bacula
• Saturday, November 18, 2006 - 10am-3pm - Carnegie Mellon Newell Simon Atrium - InstallFest!
• Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 12:30pm - Squirrel Hill Library - Lightning Talks and Elections
• Thursday, October 19, 2006- 6:30pm - Carnegie Mellon Wean Hall 5409 - Showing of Elephant's Dream
• Saturday, September 16, 2006 - 12:30pm - Squirrel Hill Library - Patrick Wagstrom - GNOME

2005

Sat/Sun 22nd May 2005 CMU Installfest [Photos]