The Central Ohio Linux User Group

Ohio's Oldest Linux User Group

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Welcome, to the Central Ohio Linux User Group (COLUG) web site. COLUG meets to discuss our common interests: Linux system setup, the various GNU, BSD, and Open Source branches, computer networking, system maintenance and administration, use, security, software development, and computing anecdotes, largely in a Posix/Unix™ context.

COLUG has been meeting monthly since July 1995. COLUG discussions are also held via the mailing list. Anyone interested in Linux or Free and Open Source Software ("FOSS") is welcome to participate; there are no dues, fees, or formal process of attaining membership for either the participation in the mailing lists or attendance at the meetings. Meeting presentations are free to attend and are archived. Some of our members are Assurors and perform no-cost CAcert Verifications at meetings.

Stated another way:
Question: This sounds neat. I want to join the group. What is the procedure for this?
Answer: To attend a meeting - show up. To join the mailing list - sign up.

We are an unincorporated association, operated not for profit, with a principal purpose of educational mission [which falls under the description of federal IRC 501(c)(3)]. We are proud of the increase in knowledge which this form of education as to the Open Source alternative offers to proprietary approaches, which this focus has represented over the years.

After review of this website, please direct any questions about COLUG to colugx@colug.net.

Information about the presentation plans of the next meeting may be found in the most recent post to C.O.L.A. here.

Announcements

November 2008 COLUG Meeting

Date: Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Time: 1:00 pm (kickoff+1) to 3:00 pm
Location: Franklinton Public Library
Topic: Austin Godber will discuss Git and Josh Williams will discuss converting from a closed-source proprietary database system to Postgres.

This summary and the meetings detail page are always the best and authoritative source of information on the upcoming meeting. They are not updated until at least the 18th of the month, immediately preceeding the meeting. When the meeting information on the webpage is updated an announcement is also sent to the mailing list.

The updates are done by volunteers. If you would like to help in the planning or announcement process, please send an email to the address above.

The site is actively maintained, and seeks to be a useful portal for the Open Source community. We house several Open Source projects and mailing lists.

If you or your company are in the GNU/Linux/Open Source market, and want to effectively reach that segment, please consider sponsoring a COLUG meeting. Send an email for more information.

Preview content from a past presentation

Josh Glover presented at the March 2005 COLUG meeting. His "Introduction to Subversion" (local PDF) was a follow on to his earlier "Introduction to CVS" (June 2004 meeting). He placed the master copy of his presentation content at his site.