This Friday OSLUG (as we now know it) is three years old! To celebrate, we'll be handing out the fancy new shirts and eating a penguin shaped cake at our next hacking social. Good times.

Who: Students and anyone that needs to pick-up a shirt
What: OSLUG's 3rd birthday
Where: Penguins Nest, Dearborn 401
When: Tuesday, 2/27, 6pm
Why: Because these things are worth celebrating!

If you have any other ideas of activities to help celebrate this monumental occasion, please speak up!

Also, for the trivia nuts out there -- here is the original thread, which kicked off the current OSLUG back in '04. It's a fun reminder of our shaky beginning. :)

Hacking socials are now supported by Western Family along with Google. If you are not familiar with Western Family, they are a "store brand" for independent retailers. This is a really cool donation since it supports our local independent grocery store and our LUG!!

What can we do with their donation? Well, about 2 trips (enough to last us to ~10 meetings) of goodies like this:

Thank you Western Family!!!

This Tuesday (1/9) we will be starting '07 off right. We'll have a workshop from 6:00pm-7pm about Mediawiki (the software that powers wikipedia).

Who: Students interested in learning how to use mediawiki and wikipedia
What: Mediawiki/Wikipedia overview
Where: Penguins Nest, Dearborn 401
When: Tuesday, Jan 9th, 6pm-7pm
Why: More knowledge + pizza

As an extra bonus, the LUG room is now painted ... this would be a good time to check it out.

If there is one day you spend time helping the open source movement on campus, make it Saturday, November 11th. We have two events going on that need lots of help.

Event 1) InstallFest6

Who: Community at large
What: InstallFest6, we help people get Linux installed on their machines
Where: Penguins Nest, Dearborn 401
When: Saturday, Nov 11th, 1pm-6pm
Why: Installing Linux is a "good thing"(tm)

Please sign up!

Event 2) Beaver Open House

Who: College of Engineering
What: Open house showing off all the fancy things engineering has going on, including us!
Where: Kelley Engineering Center
When: Saturday, Nov 11th, 10:30am-12pm AND 1:30pm-3:00pm
Why: Another chance for us to get involved in our local community. At the Beaver Open House we will be sharing the free software love with people from all the engineering departments... just like we did at the community fair and the EECS open house.

Please sign up!