It has been awhile since I have posted any updates here. So here we go. In case you have been wondering we have not dissolved, in fact we have been very alive! Most of our communication happens in the chat room. So what I have done was added a really nice web based interface so you can join us. Check out the Mibbit chat client.

So far we have been meeting monthly at the Pizza Ranch in Sioux Falls. This will continue until we get some presentations lined up. When that happens I will make sure to post here so keep checking!

The Siouxland Linux Users Group will be having a Mandriva install fest in celebration of Mandriva Linux 2008 on November 17th, 2007. So if you are interested in getting help installing this distribution or learning a little more about it, please join us!

The meeting will be held at The Siouxland Library Main Branch 201 North Main Avenue, PO Box 7403, Sioux Falls, SD 57117-7403. Click here for directions.

Just posted the minutes for our gutsy release party. We have a few more events planned for November so stay tuned!

Gutsy Gibbon is expected to be released on the 18th of October! So in celebration, the next SLUG meeting is going to be part meeting, part Ubuntu release party. You can check out the Ubuntu release party wiki or the South Dakota Ubuntu team page for more info.

UPDATE: The meeting has been moved to Colorado Tech, due to Sankofa closing earlier (3pm). Please let anyone else know that was planning on attending!

Click here for directions.

The meeting will be held in room 172, which you can find on the CTU Campus Map (pdf).

Thanks to those who came by! You can check out the minutes to see what you missed out on or get links to the sites we talked about. I look forward to seeing you at the next meeting!

For the first time in a long while, we will be having a SLUG meeting! This will be held at the new Sankofa location in downtown Sioux Falls. There is no presentation planned for the time being, however, this will be more of an organizational meeting. If you have not done so yet, please sign up for the mailing list and submit your ideas for the meeting! Please note that Sankofa has moved from its original location from 41st St. to the 8th and Railroad Center.

Click here for directions.

I would just like to announce that there is now a South Dakota Ubuntu team that has recently started up. For more information and to become involved please check out the South Dakota Ubuntu team wiki page. From there you can find links to their mailing list, IRC channel and launchpad team page. Its great to see more local interest!

It's Web Design and Development Month at O'Reilly and they just put together a special resource page dedicated to web development essentials including books, PDF Short Cuts, articles, and author events: http://www.oreilly.com/go/webdev

Also, you can recieve 35% off any of these titles when you use discount code DSUG on the site. There's also free ground shipping in the US on orders over $29.95.

From the forum post: "On Feb 15 at Colorado Technical University the IEEE Siouxland Section Computer Society will be hosting a technical meeting on gEDA".

"In one sentence gEDA is a collection of tools that can be used to design a printed circuit board on Linux. This is an invitation to all those involved with SLUG that may be interested in these tools, or just conversing about how Linux was used to scratch this itch."

Please look at the original forum post and visit siouxland.org for much more information.

Independence Day

A lot of you have heard about net neutrality lately. If you are still a little unsure of what this is all about, I highly recommend you check out savetheinternet.com and watch their video, Independence Day.

Also, don't forget to check out Humanity Lobotomy from the Four Eyed Monsters website. This one is quite a bit longer but still very good.