Past Meetings

2013

• Saturday, August 10, 2013 @ North Park, 1:00-6:00 p.m.: The 12th annual WPLUG Open Source Picnic!
• Saturday, July 13, 2013 @ 2:00-3:30 pm, IBM Pittsburgh: Security, privacy, and anonymity. The NSA surveillance scandal has taken the world by storm. How can free software help protect your personal information?
• Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. - General User Meeting, Topic: Taking Linux with You at IBM Pittsburgh
• Saturday, May 18th, 2013 - General User meeting and Raspberry Pi Demo/Workshop, Brookline Library, 2:00pm
• Saturday, April 20 @ 6-8:00 PM: Pittsburgh Geek Bowl. Come play "poker bowling" with us for fabulous prizes! If that's not enough, how about a peek at Google Glass? WPLUG board member Justin Smith was one of 8,000 people accepted into Google's "Project Glass" last week, which will shape the future of wearable computing. Come learn about his proposal!
• 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]