Thanks all to everyone that came out to the 7th anniversary talk last night.  It was a great talk, and really showed how much impact you can have on people's lives as an open source developer. 

I'm really also touched by everyone that pitched in on the gift Bruce presented me with last night.  And thanks again to Pat and Max who provided us with the Cake and Coffee respectively, helping to make it a perfect night.  We had 25 people at the meeting, and 15 at dinner afterwards, a nice healthy turn out.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The MHVLUG Hack-a-thon this past weekend was  great success.  Thanks for everyone that participated in it.