Notre Dame Linux Users Group

Seeing as no one has updated this site in a few years I figured that now would be a good time to start. In preparation for our first meeting on the 30th I figured I should make a mission statement so all of you members out there can see what we are all about.

First off my name is Richard Dominguez and I am your Czar for the 2009-2010 school year so get used to it. The other three officers this year are our grand Vice-Czar Kevin Partington and the Administrative Secretary to the Czar Kevin Madder. I am sure you will be hearing from them soon enough.

Now on to why we are here. OIT, as lovely as they are, refuse to acknowledge the increasing number of Linux users on campus and that on the one hand makes me sad. However on the other hand that gives us the unique position to show them up in terms of support, accessibility, and knowledge. I am not CSE, I am merely a tinkerer but with our great numbers I am sure there is bound to be someone who has solved a problem you may have run into.

In the spirit of complementing OIT (read: surpassing) I have posted two tutorials in the tutorial section for two of the most common problems people will run into. The first tutorial deals with setting up Residence Hall Printing which I have used for the last year (so you know it works). The other tutorial is about setting up the scary AFS Space which I honestly figured out a couple of days ago so there could still be a couple of kinks in it. If you find anything please comment and I will try to see what I wrote down wrong.

We hope to see you all at our first meeting

Setting up printing using CUPS
By: Richard Dominguez

One of the first hurdles that open source users are likely to face on campus is trying to figure out how to set up printing for their machines. Lucky for you this is a fairly easy task that even an inexperienced open source user can accomplish.

ND AFS for Linux
By: Richard Dominguez

AFS has been one of the weaknesses of open source use on campus. OIT provides instructions that are descriptive enough to set up AFS access on Windows and Apple computers but unfortunately for open source users the set up is a little more complicated. Once it has been set up however it is easy to manage.

Hey everybody out there. NDLUG is still alive (barely) and is looking to meet again soon. We've met twice this year under the new "leadership" of President Samuel L. Banina and Vice President Dan Dugovic.

If you are interested in receiving updates about the club make sure you are on the club listserv. You can find the details at listserv.nd.edu or if you don't want to mess with all that, you can let me know at sbanina at nd dot edu and I'll make sure you're on the list.

We're looking for officers still for next year! If anyone is interested please send us an email at ndlug@nd.edu. Help keep NDLUG alive!

The year certainly is winding down. We've got a little bit of business to get down to this month of April. We'll be having our last official meeting of the year next Wednesday night. Curt's working on getting a speaker for us, more on that when I know. Unfortunately, there won't be any food. The CCC has cracked down on that, so we can't spend any more money on food at meetings if we want an allocation at all next year. However we do plan on having a bowling night or something like that before then end of the year, as well as an InstallFest sometime around the last week in April or first week in May. More on that in the weeks to come as we iron out the details.

Last semester didn't see much in terms of interaction via our website. I really hope that this semester (and hopefully future semesters) will be very different. If you're interested feel free to sign up so you can vote in our polls, help contribute to the wiki section, and comment on our posts and content. We want your input so we can make ndlug and our site great!