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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

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