mug.org – A Michigan-based Linux and UNIX Free and Open Source Community
Next Meeting – Tuesday, December 10, 2024, 6:30pm EST
QRCodes
This month we’ll be talking about QRCodes.
We’ll explain what they are and show a few ways to create them.
You should walk away with a much better understanding of what those things are and how you can use them.
We’re also going to have a quick talk on the Unix grep utility.
Next Meeting – Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 6:30pm EST
Debugging
This month we’ll be talking about debugging.
As a special treat, for everyone who shows up to the meeting, we’ll have a free copy of Julia Evan’s Pocket Guide to Debugging.
If you don’t know about Julia Evan’s, you are in for a surprise. She creates illustrated PDFs that she calls `Zines.
Her Debugging ‘Zine is fantastic and it would normally cost you $12, but we’ve worked out a deal with Julia that allows us to give a copy to everybody who attends our meeting. The trick is, you actually have to join the meeting, either through Zoom or the Live Youtube streaming event. During the meeting, we’ll ask that anyone who wants a copy give us their email address, either through the Zoom chat or through our Mastodon channel.
We’re also going to have a quick talk on the Unix find utility.
Next Meeting – Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 6:30pm EDT
Run Your Own Mail Server
It’s impossible to run your own email! Not quite. But you must do it
carefully and correctly.
This talk discusses the current state of email, with a focus on the
small independent server operator. What do you need to run your own
mail? How can you use protocols like DKIM and DMARC without wrecking
either your ability to communicate with the outside world, or your
sanity?
It can be done. It’s not actually that hard, once you understand
what’s important and what you can ignore.
About the speaker:
Michael W Lucas’ new book is, coincidentally, Run Your Own Mail
Server. He’s giving this talk on the tenth anniversary of his becoming
a full time writer, so the meeting will end with cake. It’s a virtual
meeting, so you need to bring your own cake.
Next Meeting – Tuesday, September 10, 2024, 6:30pm EDT
Unix/Linux: The basics
We’ve had a lot of requests for an Intro to Linux type of presentation so this month, we’re going to jump in and have some fun.
Here’s what we plan to cover:
If you are new to Unix/Linux or want to get into it, this meeting should help you get started.
Next Meeting – Tuesday, August 13, 2024, 6:30pm EST
Operating System upgrades in a High Performance Computing environment: The long and winding road to Ubuntu
Joe Ryan will be discussing how the High Performance Computing Cluster at Michigan State University transitioned to Ubuntu 22.04 from CentOS 7 and the operating system upgrade process. Constraints, challenges, OS evaluation, and a brief overview of how we transitioned users to the new operating system will be discussed.
After a full career as a U.S. Army Pilot, Joe transitioned to the technology sector and currently works as a Linux sysadmin using multiple automation tools to manage a 1000+ node High Performance Computing Cluster at Michigan State University. He’s been learning programming languages since the 80s, but he’s never had a professional developer role. In addition to playing with open source technologies in a home lab, he enjoys riding motorcycles, bicycles, and being on the water sailing or paddling.
Next Meeting – Tuesday, July 9, 2024, 6:30pm EST
A brief introduction to tmux.
tmux is a terminal multiplexer, a tool that makes working on the command line better and easier. It can allow you to work across connections, and to get multiple views on the computers that you are using. murph will show what it does, how to install it on popular systems, and how to use it.
murph is a long time Linux user, long time Fediverse denizen, and EFF supporter.
Next Meeting – Tuesday, June 11, 2024, 6:30pm EST.
Mastodon and the Fediverse: Decentralized Social Networking and Services
Mastodon and the Fediverse is a collection of decentralized and digital
social spaces.
Decentralization empowers small groups with local community moderation
while also allowing worldwide interaction.
Free Software projects in the Fediverse include Mastodon, PixelFed,
PeerTube, Mobilzon, Nextcloud, Matrix, Friendica, WordPress, and
WriteFreely are helping us re-decentralize the Internet.
Standards like the W3C recommended ActivityPub allow the various services
to interact.
Other FLOSS projects helping build the Fediverse include Misskey,
Funkwhale, Pleroma, Plume, Diaspora, Hubzilla, and Owncast.
Most projects offer hosted instances.
All enable us to self-host as a community or individually.
Attendees will learn about:
CW: The presentation also features an homage to famed Fedizen and MUGizen
Craig Moloney.
Our speaker, der.hans is aFedizen, Rush fan and friend of Craig
Next Meeting – Tuesday, May 14th, 2024, 6:30pm EST.
This month, we’re going to do something different and fun.
There’s a programming website called Advent of Code: https://adventofcode.com.
It’s an Advent calendar of 25 small programming puzzles for a variety of skill
sets and levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.
You can see the first puzzle at https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/1.
We’ve rustled up a few volunteers to show us how they solved it in the following languages:
We should be able to get through each language in 10-15 minutes. Hopefully that’ll
allow enough time to explain how the solution works.
If you’d like to volunteer, join us at the meeting show us how you’ve solved the
puzzle using your favorite language.