CLUG Meeting 2025-01-28
Location: Warrior Healing Center, 1838 Paseo San Luis, Sierra Vista
Date: Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Meeting Minutes:
Attendees:
- There were 8 attendees. One new person.
Upcoming CLUG Events:
- 06 February, IEEE speaker (Overview of IEEE 802.11 and Wi-Fi), 1730-1830, U of A campus, PMR
- 09 February, No host lunch with Walter Mack, 1300-1400, Taco Giro, 2097 Fry Blvd
- 13 February, Ubuntu Hour, 1800-1900, Schlotzsky’s, 3900 E. Fry Blvd.
- 25 February, CLUG Meeting, 1700-1830, Warrior Healing Center, 1838 Paseo San Luis
- 16 March, Linux Get-Together,1300-1700, 5831 W. Kessler St., Tempe
Useful CLUG links:
- CLUG website: https://cochiselinuxusergroup.org/
- CLUG FaceBook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1059259857477393/
- CLUG Mailing List Archives: https://www.freelists.org/archive/cochiselinux
Announcements:
- To date we have donated 150 computers to individuals and groups and conducted 253 installs on desktops and laptops.
- We have 33 people on our mailing list and 48 people on our Facebook page.
- We have 2 desktop computers and 2 laptop computers ready for donation.
Future Presentations:
- TBD, “Installing a Linux OS on a Chromebook” by David Garcia & Rex Bouwense
- TBA, “Using Alias” by David Garcia
Presentation:
- Grub Repair by Rex Bouwense
- Slides are available on our website https://cochiselinuxusergroup.org/Resources/
Discussion/Activities:
- Discussed the IEEE speaker series and our support for them. Some of the topics presented are of interest to the majority of the members
- A member asked if the Outlook calendar can be synced with Thunderbird calendar or Google calendar. See https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-sync-outlook-calendar-with-google-calendar/#dt-heading-sync-google-calendar-to-outlook-calendar for a solution and step by step procedure.
- There was a discussion about Microsoft vs Linux security.
Aftermath:
- Several of the members retired to Carl’s Jr for a burger and some additional Linux discussion