The February 2008 PLUG meeting will feature the OLPC XO, and the Asus Eee-PC. The meeting will be in room 3M58 at the University of Winnipeg, at 7:30pm, on February 21, 2008.

The November, 2007 PLUG meeting was held on Thursday November 15th, at
7:30pm in room 3M58 at the University of Winnipeg. The meeting
consisted of;

(1)system configuration question and answers. A
discussion about using 'info coreutils' as in introductory manual for
new command line users was particularly good for new and experienced
users alike. (2) a review of the Ontario Linux Fest by an attending
member, a summary of the talks witnessed,and distribution of swag from
the fest.

The October, 2007 PLUG meeting is on Thursday October 18, at 7:30 pm. In room 3M67 at the University of Winnipeg. On the agenda, (1) round table discussion (2) QEMU, a free software machine emulator and virtualizer.

On Sunday October 14, 2007 between 11AM and 7PM, PLUG members will assemble at 445 Elgin to fix up old computers that were donated to the user group.

The September, 2007 PLUG meeting is on Thursday September 20, at 7:30pm, in room 3M67 at the University of Winnipeg. On the agenda (1) Election of a new PLUG board, discussion on the future of PLUG. Pizza will be available. (2) Making use of PLUG's old computers: Building a cluster as a render farm project.

PLUG is on summer haitus. Please join us again on Thursday, September 20th at 7:30 PM. Have a great summer everyone!

No topic has been planned for May 17 meeting at 7:30pm. It is a "we'll come up with a topic once assembled meeting".

The geeklog code has faithfully served us for almost 7 years now. Yet it's lack of robustness and security is showing signs that the site needs more resilient code. Look back soon for a new improved PLUG site!

In the meantime because of the spambot problem we have disabled logging in and posting of stories save for a handful of people. If you really need to post a story during the transition email me sydneyw or markj using the forms on the site.

The April 19th PLUG meeting will be a fix a problem meeting.

PLUG member and University of Manitoba computer science student Jeff Green has been accepted to Google Summer of Code. Jeff will spend this summer improving GnuCash, a free software accounting package.