The Mid Hudson Valley Linux and Open Source Users Group was created in 2003 to provide local Linux users a technical forum to gather and exchange information. We're dedicated to promoting the education and use of open technologies in the Mid Hudson Valley. We do this through our monthly technical lecture series, hack-a-thons, and meetups, as well as online via IRC, email, and the web.

Next Meeting: Sahana and 7 Years of MHVLUG Celebration - Wednesday, March 3rd at 6 pm

Presented by Sean Swehla

Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system. It is a web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves.

The Sahana project was initiated by volunteers in the Sri Lankan FOSS development community to help their fellow countrymen and countrywomen affected during the 2004 Asian Tsunami in December 2004. The system was officially used by the Government of Sri Lanka and the system was released as Free and Open Source software. Subsequently a re-write (phase II) as a generic disaster management tools was incubated with the sponsorship of SIDA, IBM and NSF (US) and it has be used by the Governments and NGOs in Philippines, Pakistan, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

This is also the 7th Anniversary meeting, so we'll be having Cake and Coffee at the meeting to celebrate. Please come out and join us in celebrating 7 years of MHVLUG.

Lightning Talks

News

Android Meetup Moving to Barnes and Noble

Submitted by sdague on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 09:46

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In January we held the Android development meetup at the Palace, which turned out to not be very condusive for getting laptops out and getting work done. So we're going to try a change of venue for February: Barnes and Noble on Rt 9 in Poughkeepsie.

We'll be meeting next Tuesday at 7pm there in the cafe. For other information, please see the MHVLUG website.

Pictures from Ed's Arduino Talk

Submitted by sdague on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 10:44

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Ed Nisley gave a great talk last night at MHVLUG on the Arduino platform, which makes a great basis for creating simple custom electronics. Ed's presentation is posted on the talk page.

We had 21 people in attendance at last count, and introduced the MHVLUG insta poll as new upfront content for the meetings (results posted as soon as I finish the backend application). I've got a bunch of pictures of the meeting below for those that missed it, or want to relive the glory.

A how-to on mhvlug.org version 4

Submitted by sdague on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 20:48

If you are curious at the tech behind the current iteration of the mhvlug.org website, I created a blog post about it on my website. It dives through the basic drupal setup and the modules I used to pull together the features of the site.

Comments are welcomed here or there.

MHVLUG 2009 User Survey Results

Submitted by sdague on Sun, 12/20/2009 - 09:43

With 38 responses to the survey so far, it seemed like a good time to pull this all together into a set of graphs, and let everyone know some of the results of the survey. We are up 8 responses from last year (we got 30 in 2008).

I threw in some random comments of mine after each of the charts. Don't expect them to be carefully thought out, they are just first impressions based on the data. If you want to throw in your own 2 cents, please comment on the story, I'd be happy to see others thoughts on the data.

mhvlug.org version 4

Submitted by sdague on Thu, 12/17/2009 - 21:29

Welcome to the new MHVLUG website. After a couple of years based on mediawiki, it seemed like it was time for a change, especially one that made it a bit easier for people to quickly find out information related to the group.

I've redone the website as a CMS using drupal, which will still allow for wiki like editting of pages using the built in editor. It will however also allow us to provide a bit more structure for things like the monthly meetings, and hopefully just make the whole site a bit easier to navigate.