MHVLUG Monthly Meetings are held the first Wednesday of every month (exceptions for holidays and special events), from 6pm - 8pm at the MHVLS Auditorium (next to Adriance library) in Poughkeepsie NY.

MHVLS's map to the Auditorium is here, Google Maps is here.

Meetings often followed by dinner at The Palace Diner. Directions are here, or just follow the caravan!

Current Meeting

Future Meetings (unclaimed or being worked on)

MHVLUG meetings are normally the first Wednesday night of the month.

• Jun 4th 2008 - Squeak and eToys - programming

• Jul 2nd 2008 - KVM (tentative)

• Aug 6th 2008 - Zenos - Bruce

• Sept 3rd 2008

• Oct 1st 2008

• Nov 5th 2008

• Dec 3rd 2008

We also need people to give 5 minute "Lightning Talks" at meeting starts

Topic Requests

• ruby on rails
• shell scripting primer
• BSD
• distribution-neutral development
• developing for Gnome vs. KDE (or both!)
• Video editing (capture, encoding, Cinelerra)
• 101 Great Ways to Wreck Your Linux Box
• System Monitoring with Zenoss

• a tutorial on a project from the current month's SourceForge Top 10

• PGP/GPG

• new requests here

Past Meetings

2008

• May 7th 2008 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network (using linux)

• Apr 2nd 2008 - The Linux Kernel

• Mar 5th 2008 - Wearable Linux Computing

• Feb 6th 2008 - DBUS - SeanDague

• Jan 2nd 2008 - Advanced Ubuntu: What every users needs to know about their Ubuntu/Debian System

2007

• Dec 5th 2007 - Open Source Show and Tell

• Nov 7th 2007 - Django Python Application Framework - Sean O'Connor

• Oct 3rd 2007 - Security and Privacy

• Sep 5th 2007 - Linux CNC Device

• Aug 1st 2007 - Thin Clients

• Jul 10th 2007 second Tuesday - Software Freedom Law Center - GPLv3

• Jun 6th 2007 - SE Linux

• May 2nd 2007 - RAID & LVM

• Apr 4th 2007 - Home Networking Round Table

• Mar 7th 2007 - System Backup Strategies

• Feb 7th 2007 - Getting More Done on Linux - SeanDague

• Jan 3rd 2007 - Digital Photography

2006

• Dec 11th 2006 second Monday - Troubleshooting Hardware on Linux

• Nov 6th 2006 - Digital Picture Frame

• Oct 2nd 2006 - Web Photo Albums

• Sep 11th 2006 - Ubuntu

• Aug 7th 2006 - Xen - SeanDague

• Jul 10th 2006 - Project Orange

• Jun 5th 2006 - Blogging Software - Jay & Ben

• May 1st 2006 - Linux Networking

• Apr 3rd 2006 - Wind River, Embedded Linux

• Mar 7th 2006 - Desktop Shootout

• Feb 6th 2006 - RPM Package Manager - SeanDague

• Jan 9th 2006 - Blender - JimWeir

2005

• Dec 5th 2005 - Logical Volume Manager - MikeGrundy

• Nov 7th 2005 - Programming Python - MikeMuller

• Oct 3rd 2005 - Asterisk & VoIP - Be your own phone company - DraGorn, PorkChop, NYCCCP

• Sept 12th 2005 - Useful Linux programs

• Aug 1st 2005 - Scripting Simple Tasks - JimDoherty

• July 11th 2005 - Linux Devices for Your Home (WRT54G, MythTV)

• June 6th 2005 - The Linux Command Line Interface - SeanDague

• May 2005 Linux Security

• April 2005 Tinfoil Hat Linux (i.e. Open Source Crypto Tools)

• March 2005 Linux in the Datacenter Environment

• February 2005 The mystery that is PAM

• January 2005 Knoppix, how to use it and how to hack it

2004

• December 2004 Linux Audio Editing

• November 2004 Linux Virtualization

• October 2004 X11 - an Introduction to your Graphical User Interface

• September 2004 Linux Gaming or All Work and No Play

• August 2004 Stupid Geek Tricks

• July 2004 Freedom Downtime movie screening

• June 2004 Debian Linux

• May 2004 Content Mangement Systems

• April 2004 Wireless Networking

• March 2004 Linux Distro Shootout

• February 2004 Network Security

• January 2004 Gonga Media Device

2003

• December 2003 DNS/BIND

• November 2003 Linux Packaging Technology

• October 2003 Mail Client Shootout

• September 2003 Photography under Linux (i.e. bring out the Gimp)

• August 2003 Wine & Codeweaver's CrossOver Office

• July 2003 Samba: Dances with wolves

• June 2003 Revolution OS movie screening

• May 2003 Kernel Configuration

• April 2003 Beowulf Linux Clusters

• March 2003 Firewall/NAT with iptables