Main Topic: Tiling Window Managers

Adam will be talking about tiling window managers, focusing on four in particular: stumpwm, dwm, awesome, and larswm. Tilers have some surprising features that might make your everyday computing easier and faster. Learn about why you might want to try one, how to try one, and common issues and their solutions.

Adam is a post-doctoral researcher and adjunct faculty for Wayne State University's Department of Physics and Astronomy. He's been a full time Linux user for over 5 years, and worked for a short period doing server maintenance, zimbra installs and asterisk deployments. He co-founded the Wayne State University LUG, now serves as its advisor, and is an active member of the Ubuntu Michigan Local Community Team. He's a terminal lover, hates the mouse, and loves sending patches to obscure projects that nobody else seems to care about.

Secondary Topic: Productivity/Organizational tools

It's a new year! Time to get organized and start the year off with more productivity, right? But what's out there to help you be more organized and productive? Craig will give us a brief look at some of the tools that are out there to help get you organized like JPilot, and Tracks, and discuss how to apply the Getting Things Done methodology with these tools. We'll also look at what makes a good organizational tool, and how to rethink the tools you're using to get the most out of them.

Craig currently works for Sourceforge.net. He has been using Linux since a friend of his gave him a Transameritech Slackware CD back in 1994. He enjoys juggling, playing drums, playing video games, and programming.

Command of the month: screen

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held in the Auditorium on the second floor at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment