Our December meeting is this Tuesday 7pm at the United Way. Click for Google Map.
Bring some tech stuff that you don't want anymore. We can do a not-so-secret Santa thing. Remember one tech's trash is another tech's treasure. There's a dumpster diver in everyone.
And of course there will be christmas tech talk, hannukah magazine trades, kwanza hardware exchange and free software for everyone.
Our November meeting is this Tuesday 7pm at the United Way. Click for Google Map.
Our September meeting is this Tuesday 7pm at the United Way. Click for Google Map. Bring your favourite beverage. Andrew will bring pizza and snacks.
Our tentative topic is Linux audio/music. Andrew has been working with MIDI on UbuntuStudio and will do a very brief demo. Bring a recent project, even if it's not audio-related.
And of course we will have harmonious tech talk, tuneful hardware give aways and rhythmic software sharing.
Rather than our usual first Tuesday, our August meeting will be held on the second Tuesday, August 9th, at 7 pm. Location to be announced, but probably at our usual location: the United Way, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound.
Our July meeting is 7 pm Tuesday July 5th, at our usual location: the United Way, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound. Click for Google Map.
Bring your favorite keyboard. Bring weird keyboards. Let's see how many different keyboards we can put on the table and get a photo of it.
And you can bring anything else that interests you to show off or ask questions.
Our June meeting is 7 pm Tuesday June 7th, at our usual location: the United Way, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound. Click for Google Map.
Last meeting Andrew brought a Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu Mate. This month he will bring the same Raspberry Pi running a 19 inch touchscreen calendar. A work in progress … but already functional. If you have a Pi project or other system-on-a-chip type project, please bring it. Andrew will also bring his new favourite OpenWrt router, the ASUS RT-N16. It uses a Broadcom SOC, runs Linux kernel 3.18.20.
And as always, we will have free hardware, tech talk, and magazine/book trading.
Our May meeting is 7 pm Tuesday May 3rd, at our usual location: the United Way, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound. Click for Google Map.
The theme for this meeting will be Ubuntu Mate. Andrew will bring PCs, rPi, etc. running Mate. if you haven’t seen it yet, give it a whirl, decide if it lives up to the hype.
Of course, everyone is invited to bring your latest project. Show off what you’ve been building or buying.
And we always have tech talk, magazine trades and free hardware.
Rather than our usual first Tuesday, our April meeting will be held on the second Tuesday, April 12th, at 7 pm, at our usual location: the United Way, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound. Click for Google Map.
No further details at this time.
Due to the expected winter storm on March 1st, our March meeting has been postponed to Tuesday March 8th.
Our March meeting will now be held on Tuesday March 8th, 7 pm, at our usual location: the United Way, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound. Click for Google Map.
This will be an important business meeting, so please attend if you can. Chris, our STARS program coordinator for some years now, is stepping down from that post. We will need to discuss the question of his replacement. Update, 3 March: Chris has informed us that he will be continuing as STARS coordinator. (STARS is the program through which BGLUG refurbishes used computers, installs Linux, and makes them available through the United Way to "at risk" students who would not otherwise have a computer.)
Our February meeting is 7 pm Tuesday February 9th, at our usual location: the United Way, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound. Click for Google Map.
No further details at this time.