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

Looking forward to our Linux User Group meeting. 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.

Topics:

• What’s new in Linux - any new distros?
  • Zorin OS - https://zorinos.com/
• Cryptography for communications - ProtonMail and the Wire app
• Question and Answer time - discussion

Hope to see you there this Thursday! Starting time is 6:00 pm .

– Matthew from Orange Computer

Linux!

Looking forward to our Linux User Group meeting. 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.

Topics:

• New package management: flatpack, appImage, snaps and more - presentation by Isaac
• Maybe a bit about an Arduino project

Hope to see you there this Thursday! Starting time is 6:00 pm .

– Matthew from Orange Computer

Thursday, June 15th

Start time: 6pm

Location: People’s Food Co-op, 5th Street entrance. Meeting room on second floor.

Topics of Interest: Raspberry Pi projects. If you’ve done something with a Raspberry Pi micro-computer, please share what you’ve done with the group.

Hope to see you there!

– Matthew from Orange Computer

@KE9XQ Hi Bill,

No problem. The best thing is to get started, try a few things and then let us know when you get stuck or if you have specific questions. Most of us in the LUG have a lot of experience with Ubuntu and can probably answer questions or point you in the right direction.

What would you like to do with an Ubuntu installation? General use?

Thanks Bill and talk with you more soon,

– Matthew

Looking forward to the May meeting of our La Crosse LUG.

Where: People’s Food Coop, meeting room on second floor. Entrance on 5th Street. Heads up, Cass Street is completely closed between 4th and 7th Streets. You may need to drive around a bit before finding your way to the entrance. Best way is to come in by King Street from either direction. Parking is available on the street and in the nearby parking ramp.

When: Thursday, May 18th from 6pm - 8pm (or a bit later).

Presentations:

• Pete will be presenting on how he uses the imaged editing tool GIMP
• At 7pm, Adam will be presenting the distro Manjaro and why it has become his preferred Linux distro

Other short topics are welcome, so feel free to bring a Linux related bit of show and tell.

Hope to see you there!

– Matthew from Orange Computer

@mythgard If he didn’t, Orange Computer can sponsor the LUG Meetup page. We’ll find out soon and make it happen.

– Matthew from Orange Computer

@dan_frank Thanks for bringing up this lclug.org forum at the meeting. I’ll be promoting it’s use.

– Matthew from Orange Computer

Hi Linux Folks,

Starting in April 2017, we changed the meeting place for the Linux User Group. We are now meeting in the upstairs meeting room of the People’s Food Co-op. The entrance, with stairs and elevator just inside, is on 5th Street between Cass and King.

We meet the third Thursday of every month.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

– Matthew from Orange Computer