Election for the Board of Directors

The Michigan User Group is managed by a group of people we call the Board of Directors. Each year, MUG Members have the opportunity to cast their votes for the 6 people we'd like to see on the board. This is your chance to either run for a position on the board, or vote for the people you would most like to see on the board.

At this time, the following people have been nominated(in alphabetical order):

    Brown, Duane       Accepted
    Glutting, Jim      Accepted
    Harding, Rick      Declined
    Hice, James        Accepted
    McQuillan, Jim     Accepted
    Satwicz, Dave      Accepted
    Williams, Dick     Accepted

The nomination period is still open and will remain open until just before the election on Tuesday evening, Feb 10, 2009. If you would like to nominate someone, including yourself, please send an email to board@mug.org stating who you'd like to nominate.

Command of the month: diff

In this month's Unix Command Line session, Bill Allie will explain what's the diff and why you might care.

Main Topic: twitter, identi.ca and microblogging WHAT the heck are these things

Jorge Castro

Jorge will introduce us to twitter, identi.ca and microblogging with audience participation. Jorge is a former member of the Board of Directors of MUG and currently works for the UBUNTU guys formally known as Canonical Inc.

Following Jorge's introduction we'll be opening up the discussion to similar tools.

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