Hi everyone,

Our monthly Linux meeting is 6:00 - 8:00(ish) Thursday, June 21st at the People’s Food Co-op on 5th Street in La Crosse. We meet in the room on second floor. There’s an elevator in addition to stairs.

Topics are likely to include a presentation on a Linux based home automation system and more information on NextCloud. We’ll also wrap up the more “formal” part of our meeting around 7:45 to allow time for smaller group conversations and collaboration on projects. We have the room until 9pm and the co-op is open until 10pm.

Hope to see you there!

– Matthew from Orange Computer

Hello,

After my presentation, I did set up NextCloud on one of my own servers in my home network. To get it to be seen by other computers on the network, I had to run at least these two commands:

sudo snap set nextcloud ports.http=80 ports.https=443

This allows connections to port 80 from other machines, but https still won’t work even though the port is open. To enable that with a self signed certificate:

sudo nextcloud.enable-https self-signed

After that, all web traffic was redirected to https, but your browser will give you a warning that it isn’t a valid certificate. You’ll have to add a security exception to your browser to actually get the login page to show up.

I hope that’s helpful.

I’ve been happily experimenting with NextCloud on the home nextwork. Gave my wife and kids accounts and we’ll experiment with it. So far, I really like it.

– Matthew

Just a general announcement for people looking for information about our group.

We meet on the third Thursday of every month, usually at the People’s Food Co-op in La Crosse. Meeting time with presentation is from 6:00 - 7:45, with time for small group discussion and hangouts afterwards.

In May, our topic is NextCloud. Quite a few people in our group are already using this and we’ll hear from a few of them. NextCloud is an open source private cloud server software that you can host yourself or pay someone else to host for you.

You can use it for Calendar, Contacts, file sync/sharing and much more.

More info at https://nextcloud.com/

– Matthew from Orange Computer

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Hi everyone,

We’ll be meeting on Thursday evening starting at 6:00 in the upstairs meeting room of The People’s Food Co-op in La Crosse. Entrance with stairs and elevator to the second floor is on 5th Street.

Topic

We will postpone the presentation on NextCloud, as the people who wanted to speak on this topic won’t be available this month.

Instead Bob will be presenting on Scuttlebutt, which is a decentralized social network.

Here’s what Bob shared about it on the Google Group:

Actually, if you want to do a scuttlebutt install-fest, I might want
to do a little preparation.

Here’s what it’s about:
https://staltz.com/an-off-grid-social-network.html
https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/

You could install before the meeting if you want, but it’s fairly
quick to install:
https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/#quick-start

The prep is for step 3 where they tell you to “Go to the list of pub
servers and get an invite code from one.”

That’s been very difficult lately. I would want to check around
tomorrow before the meeting and make sure somebody has a pub with
invitations ready to go.

If we get to the meeting, you’ll be able to see all the local
scuttlers on wifi anyway and I can probably find a pub invite on the
spot. But would be better to arrange something beforehand.

Don’t worry if none of this is understandable except for the first
couple of links, which I hope are. And as always, if nobody wants to
do this, it’s ok with me. I’m coming to the meeting anyway.

I look forward to seeing you there!

– Matthew from Orange Computer

For this month, we have are using a different meeting space.

Thursday February 15: 6pm - 7:45pm
Kathy’s Cookie’s 125 6th Street South (not far from the Food Co-op)

http://www.lacrossedowntown.com/business/kathys-cookie-company-l-l-c/

Kathy will have cookies for sale, but no dinner items. Maybe eat before you come and save room for dessert!

There’s no built in projector, but if someone brought one we might be able to project on a wall. I think most of our time is usually discussion, so it should work fine.

Also a good opportunity to bring a computer of your own to do a fresh installation on or to ask questions and get help from other members.

In March, on the third Thursday, we may be helping with an “install-fest” of sorts with Western Tech. More details coming on that.

Look forward to seeing you there!

– Matthew from Orange Computer

Hello Linux folks,

Our November meeting with be at 6:00 pm on Thursday the 16th. Place is the meeting room on the second floor of the People’s Food Co-op in downtown La Crosse.

We’ll be discussing the new version of Ubuntu with the GNOME desktop environment and the latest release of Firefox web browser. Other Linux related topics are welcome, too. Let me know if you’d like to give a short presentation.

See you there!

– Matthew from Orange Computer

We meet the third Thursday of every month in the 2nd floor meeting room of the People’s Food Co-op at 6:00 pm.

David will be leading a discussion on “What makes Linux, Linux”.

We usually have a presentation on a Linux related topic. Always time for discussion and questions. If you are wanting to know more about Linux, this group is a great resource.

Looking forward to the meeting!

– Matthew from Orange Computer

Firefox Presentation

The main presentation will be given by Isaac on some of the new technology in the Firefox web browser. A lot has been happening in this area of technology development, but most of us don’t pay much attention as a web browser seems like an old standby. Join us and find out new features and technology in the recent versions of Firefox (and what’s coming out soon).

Time and Place

We’ll be at the People’s Food Co-op in their second floor meeting room. Entrance by the stairs and elevator is on 5th Street. Starting time is 6:00.

Hope to see you there!

– Matthew from Orange Computer

Topics of Interest for Discussion

• Encryption

  • LastPass is known to be the best secure password manager
  • Threema.ch - alternative message app

• Weekend Tech Hangout at Coulee Tech Link

• Encrypt individual files - recommendation from David Klann

• Topic Ideas

  • Overview of Linux ecosystem - basics
  • Firefox - Isaac will be speaking about Firefox in September
    • What things are changing?
    • Extensions - addons
    • Firefox varients - what are they?
  • Shells - options beyond bash
    • Bash overview
    • scripting
    • how to use the shell for everyday things
    • command line network trouble-shooting
  • More cryptography stuff
    • security
    • crypto-currency