Click a link in the first column to download/view/open/whatever that file. Click here to attach another file. GNHLUGtradeShowBanner2-1.pdf: GNHLUG Show Banner, 72 ...
These are the meeting notes from the AutumnalSummit2005. Please feel free to comment on them by using the comment box. COMMENT{type "below"} Main.TedRoche read topics ...
Now that we're a real LegalEntity, we're supposed to get a bank account. Banking needs We're basically just looking for a checking account. Doesn't have to earn interest ...
Minutes/notes from Autumn 2007 Board Meeting, Saturday, 3 November, 2007, at the Hopkinton, NH Town Library. TOC Attendance Board Members Main.MaddogHall Main.TedRoche ...
Notes from the BoardAgendaSummer2007 meeting will go here. MAINWEB .TedRoche 19 Aug 2007 Ben finally gets ahold of the GNHLUG treasury. Thanks to Ben for semi-posing ...
As of our 2005 report with the State of NH (see LegalEntityDocuments), the Board of Directors consists of (in order of appearance): Jon Anderson Hall 80 Amherst Street ...
Drafted for handouts for the GNHLUG booth at HossTraders. Letter sized poster appropriate to tape to doors with directions to meeting. GNHLUG and logo GNHLUG.swx is ...
GNHLUG is divided into several smaller "chapters" or "mini-LUGs" (see Www.OurChapters). Main.BenScott 03 Apr 2005 Or is GNHLUG an "umbrella" LUG for shared resources ...
There are various "computer shows" that take place at semi-regular intervals. Some of them happen almost every weekend. They are generally a place where vendors rent ...
To: {The Speaker} CC: {CentralLUG Volunteers} {Speaker} My, how time flies! Your {date} presentation to CentraLUG is only three weeks from next Monday! Thanks for ...
The Domain Master is currently Main.ColeTuininga. He works for DynDNS, and gets some free services as part of the deal, and he's generously offered to let GNHLUG make ...
-- Main.EdLawson 30 Jan 2004 The immediate goal of this project is to help NHSTE with its programs to introduce Linux to school technical personnel and to provide ...
This is a SLUG meeting where many fun and exciting things will be discussed. Sorry I can't be more specific; this is a demonstration. Main.BruceDawson 06 Oct 2005 ...
Please consider attending the FallGNHLUGQuarterlyMeeting on 3 Nov 2005. CentraLUG should do something to organize car pools up there. CentraLUG's meeting will be an ...
The group's Fearless Leader (AKA Chairperson) is currently MAINWEB .TedRoche. Past leaders have been: Jon ( MAINWEB .MadDog) Hall (1995-2000) MAINWEB .JerryKubeck ...
This demonstrates a form that can be attached to each !EventAnnouncement topic. This form should be filled in when the topic is created. Name Type Size Values Tool ...
This page has the current list of SWAG available for giving away as MeetingDoorPrizes and similar things. (SWAG Souvenirs, Wearables, And Gifts) If your chapter needs ...
Policy on Harassment (draft by MAINWEB .MadDog, 4 April 2009) The Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group (GNHLUG) is intent on creating a welcoming environment for ...
Combine the old-style "Linux install fest" with elements of our abandoned NewUserNight project to create a HelpFest. A HelpFest would be targeted at anyone who needs ...
Overview It has been announced that the Hosstraders event itself has been discontinued. Hosstraders was a big hamfest (amateur radio festival) and "flea market for ...
TOC Overview Our Internet presence currently consists of a web site, a list server, and a few random things. For a variety of reasons, we are have secured our "own ...
Parent: PromotingOurselves One problem we have is reaching our "target market": Local computer geeks. Computer geeks are notoriously hard to find. They don't read ...
LinuxWorld Expo is held in Boston April 3 6, 2006, with a tradeshow Expo on the 4th, 5th and 6th. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A GNHLUG is ...
Contents Overview This page LegalEntityDocuments Official documents (registration, etc.) LegalEntityHistory Where we've been, how we got where we are, why we did ...
Here we collect documents related to our status as a legal entity. This should be "official" documents only, that actual have some force of reality behind them. Not ...
An EIN (Employer Identification Number) identifies an organization to the Federal government in particular, the IRS. It is used for way more than just employers. ...
Efforts have been made before, but not completed, turns out they were Ben to make GNHLUG a registered organization with non-profit status. This is noted not to condemn ...
Links and references to third-party resources that may be useful in managing our status as a entity. State of New Hampshire Secretary of State Corporate Division ...
We are a LegalEntity, a non-profit corporation, per the state of NH. However, there is discussion about what kind of non-profit status we should seek with the IRS ...
This page collects information on the 501(c)(3) (charitable organization) applications process, under the assumption that we are going to try for that. See also LegalEntityType ...
TOC What is LibraNet? Libranet is a packaging of the Debian distribution with design goals of getting you started quickly, providing a large number of packages, and ...
Library Project Overview The "GNHLUG Library Project" is/was an effort to maintain Free/Open Source Software on CD/DVD for local libraries, for them to lend to their ...
Some other user groups have evolved to become mouths of their "sponsors". To prevent that from happening, we decided to limit the influence of commercial entities ...
This page lists external web pages that have links to GNHLUG. We need to keep track of these pages, to update and correct any out-of-date information on them. http ...
We once tried to put on a kind of "Linux expo". We called it the "Linux Business Show". We got a lot of volunteers and a lot of interest, but ultimately, we bit off ...
The ListMaster manages the operation of the various e-mail mailing lists. In the past, the lists used to be hosted at ZK3, a building in the vast Digital Equipment ...
There are several mailing lists that operate independent of these. See Www.MailingLists for them. The following are aliases at the gnhlug.org domain. Note that several ...
GNHLUG operates several e-mail mailing lists for discussion and dissemination purposes. See Www.MailingLists for the list of lists. Use of the mailing lists is covered ...
Places to post meeting announcements are in the table below. Please post notices only to those regions the event is in! Region Paper Submission Page Email address ...
See also: MeetingMinutes05Feb2004 This so-called "agenda" was created by shamelessly plagiarizing Main.MadDog's "food for thought" message to gnhlug-org (dated 5 Feb ...
Some of the things to discuss at this meeting are: Sign papers of incorporation. mail.gnhlug.org is getting slaughtered with spam. Will instituting some spam counter ...
TOC A place to store a template of the email announcement you post to the forums. Helps to remember to mention the time, date, place and where to get directions, ...
Parent : MeetingGuide Related: MeetingPolicies Table of Contents TOC Continuity It is important for the meeting to take place in it's normally held place, since that ...
Door prizes are usually items contributed by some company or individual. Usually they take time and effort to arrange, and you would like them to be given out "fairly ...
The GNHLUG Organizer's Guide to Running a Meeting This guide is mainly for running a "general" meeting, i.e., one intended for all commers. Meetings held for organizational ...
This is a list of ideas and suggestions for meetings. Various sources have contributed over the years. This list includes both topics (subject matter) as well as techniques ...
Note: this page is a synthesis of the former pages MeetingIdeas and MeetingSpeakers. We're trying to normalize our redundant data a bit. The following table lists ...
This page documents possible meeting locations. Not just the regular ones, but others, past and possible future. Nashua Area Martha's Exchange 185 Main Street Nashua ...
See also: MeetingAgenda05Feb2004 Corrections and additions welcome! Attendees Rob Anderson Jon "maddog" Hall Ed Lawson Rob Lembree Ben Scott Discussion Everyone seemed ...
Parent: MeetingGuide Related: MeetingContigencies Table of Contents TOC Introduction These policies are intended to protect the group and it's members, and to ensure ...
Parent: MeetingGuide Table of Contents TOC Giving Notice Advance notice is critical for a successful meeting. Notify early, and notify often. (It is worth noting ...
Parent : MeetingGuide Table of Contents TOC Preparation Stuff to do immediately before the meeting. Check in with facilities staff Hang signs and banners Chairs and ...
The following table lists some speakers and what they are willing to talk about. And check individual TWiki pages (for example: Main.BruceDawson) to see find topics ...
Parent: MeetingGuide Related: ArtWork, GiftStock This is where (someday) you will find posters, arrows, banners, etc., for use at meetings. This page might contain ...
Throughout GNHLUG's life there's be an active voice against membership fees. The reasons voiced have been: We don't need membership fees. It would create a barrier ...
We had a "New User Night" project at one time. It is currently abandoned. The concept of HelpFests has been suggested to replace it. See also the Www.NuN Topic in ...
To: discuss@gnhlugNoSpam.org cc: maddog@liNoSpam.org Subject: The Old Penguin of the Mountain Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 08:27:56 0400 From: Jon maddog Hall Hi, In light ...
The "Org" mailing list is gnhlug-org@gnhlugNoSpam.org It is for the discussion of "organizational" issues involving GNHLUG. Things like meeting and event planning ...
notes/minutes from 2008 Q3 Board Meeting currently draft and incomplete further transcription of audio record will follow all formal decisions are already recorded ...
Notes/minutes from 2009 October Board Meeting. Location Time: Saturday, 3 October, 2009 Space: Small Meeting Room, West Branch of the Manchester Public Library, 76 ...
This is a list of "Organizational Meetings". These are not General/Regular Meetings, which are about Linux or other techie stuff. See Www.OurChapters for that. These ...
These are the nominal policies of GNHLUG. Note that these pages are presently more descriptive than prescriptive. To the best of the author's knowledge, they have ...
Some of the projects that GNHLUG members are interested in pursuing are: LibraryProject Main.RobLembree EducatorLinuxProject Main.EdLawson HossTraders Main.BenScott ...
GNHLUG exists as a LegalEntity, but (so far) mainly for legal purposes, not for actually organizing activities. In order to maintain the LegalEntity, the organizers ...
Here's what I'm thinking: Main Web is reserved "TWiki operations" user pages (there tend to be a lot of them) new user registration top-level TWiki management TWiki ...
Some ideas for promoting Linux both locally and globally (but mostly locally) by group members and other interested parties are: Active HossTraders Proposed ComputerShows ...
One of our chronic problems is getting interest in GNHLUG, both from a "regular membership" standpoint, and from the standpoint of getting volunteers. This page is ...
From the ProposedByLaws2005 topic, October 2005, the matching "Articles of Agreement" New Hampshire registration application is in PDF form. Here's the text, scraped ...
Draft of bylaws in Open Office 1.x format and State of New Hampshire filings as a PDF. Please review and comment below. Main.TedRoche 11 Oct 2005 The "original draft ...
Bylaws Of The Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group ARTICLE 1 NAME, PURPOSE Section 1: The name of the organization shall be the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users ...
The major portition of the GNHLUG website is a Wiki system. We are using the TWiki software to power our Wiki. See WorkingOurWeb and PlanForOurWeb for more information ...
Here's proposed text for an announcement to the gnhlug-announce list. Feel free to make suggestions or edits. This was sent to the gnhlug-announce list on 9 Feb 2006 ...
This page is cheifly of historical interest at this point. Main.BenScott 15 Oct 2006 How should we approach the GNHLUG InternetServer project, from an administrative ...
Backing up our InternetServer would be a very good idea. Main.MattBrodeur and Main.BenScott worked to set up an rsync-over-ssh scheme for backing up some of the web ...
We use a system of scripts called admchange to coordinate changes. The idea is to provide a mechanism to keep various admins (in different locations, and with different ...
This section outlines methods and tools used to keep the server from dissolving into a chaotic mess. ServerChangeControl how we go about making non-trivial changes ...
Our InternetServer, liberty , provides DNS (Domain Name System) service. We use ISC BIND named . It runs runs chrooted under /var/named/ . liberty is the SOA nameserver ...
When it comes to our InternetServer, there will be some unavoidable discussion on choice of distro, even if we avoid a prolonged debate. This page gives that discussion ...
Introduction The ServerDistro page started off an attempt at an organized decision process on choosing a distribution. The idea was for people to first simply state ...
Parent: InternetServer See also: ServerToDo, ServerFromHiveToDebian As of March 2006, this is done. The main web site and TWiki are now running on liberty. GNHLUG ...
Notes on test migration to my Debian development server (practice only, I'm not saying we MUST use Debian. Flame OFF.) Server was Debian unstable, about 3 weeks out ...
Discussion in progress: http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/private/gnhlug-sysadmin/2006-April/000332.html Services which WERE hosted by rogue This have all been moved ...
For the InternetServer project, we should have some explict goals. What are we trying to accomplish? What aren't we trying to accomplish? This page is mainly concerned ...
For our new InternetServer, Main.BenScott has a 1U rackmount server with some fairly nice specs he has donated to the cause of GNHLUG. Pics and Intel tech docs are ...
If ServerHardware wasn't enough for you, here are the hardcore tech details, now that I have them. Intel SRMK2 base system (chassis, main board, platform hardware ...
Players DEC (Digital Equipment Corp); in particular, the now-defunct zk3.dec.com facility For a long time, the listmaster there was Mark Gelinas Bruce Dawson and ...
TOC Parent: InternetServer Sub-pages ServerMailLists ServerMailSpam See Also MailAliases System (root) mail We need to figure out what to do with system mail. This ...
TOC Parent: ServerMail Peer pages ServerMailSpam See Also MailAliases MailingListPolicy Overview All GNHLUG mailing lists are currently hosted on the server liberty ...
TOC Parent: ServerMail Peer pages ServerMailLists See Also MailAliases Overview Spam affects us in two ways: Spam to public contact addresses, such as webmaster@ ...
We will want to monitor liberty, to make sure everything is working properly, and have it alert us if that's not the case. Internal monitoring Both the hardware and ...
We need to pick a hostname for our InternetServer. Criteria for the name, in roughly descending importance: 1 Easy to type, spell, and say 1 Unambiguous and non-confusing ...
If you are interested in helping out with administration of the GNHLUG InternetServer, please: 1 Create an account on this website (TWiki), if you haven't already ...
Why did we even bother getting our own server? See Also: ServerToDo, ServerGoals Background The GNHLUG websites and mailing lists (and some of the local LUG stuff ...
Ideally, it would be nice to have everything on a system under some kind of formal revision control. This would let everyone see who changed what, when they did it ...
Our InternetServer will need to be protected against all the Internet nasties (which are legion). Don't forget to sign your comments! TOC Goals Availability Keep ...
TOC Policies Package management Generally speaking, it is preferred to keep all install software under package management, i.e., RPM. Mostly because it makes software ...
Our InternetServer has twin 73 GB SCSI hard drives. Details at ServerHardware. Mirroring Consensus was that disk mirroring (RAID level 1) was appropriate. There is ...
This is the technical "To Do list" for the new GNHLUG InternetServer. Add and update as you like! See also ServerGoals, which is more administrative/political. TOC ...
Parent: InternetServer General It seems regular (monthly, if not weekly or even daily) software updates have been the norm these days. As some of these updates will ...
The idea is that we supply local public libraries with copies of Www.FreeSoftware on CD. Those CDs could then be loaned out to library patrons, just like a book. We ...
Agenda Review and adoptions of last meeting's minutes Appointment of Officers Status of GNHLUG Purchase / possession of GNHLUG server Splitting Discuss list into ...
Determine what exists currently Determine what members are currently missing out on meetings and try to get them involved (in particular) Pick a date and time for ...
The following people are attending the Www.Organizational.SummerSummit2005. Notes on what occurred are in the Organizational.SummerSummit2005Notes. People should include ...
TOC GNHLUG Summer Summit 2005 This was held at Bruce and Carole's farmhouse in Loudon, NH on 20 Aug 2005 between 9:30am and 5:30pm (more or less). It was the response ...
Agenda Running Meetings (Wood Badge) maddog couldn't say enough about the Scout's "Wood Badge" program to train leaders. (Google it for some interesting tales.) maddog ...
What went on at the SummerSummit2006 meeting. Attendees: Main.HeatherBrodeur, Main.MattBrodeur, Main.MadDog Hall, Main.JimKuzdrall, Main.RobLembree, Main.BillMcGonigle ...
This is for describing and commenting on things that "need to be done" to the software running this website. Feel free to insert action items using ACTION ... MAINWEB ...
How to find the people to enrich the ranks, become volunteers, and let us further our plans for WorldDomination? Who are the people we want to attract? UNIX sysadmins ...
A new position, proposed at the SummerSummit2005. A central coordinator to help each of the chapter co-ordinators schedule meetings, plan on getting announcements ...
TOC Overview The big goal: Allow anyone to telecommute to our meetings and join in. Goals Short-term goals: Using existing technology to at least broadcast our meetings ...
All new Event Announcements will be created using this template. Typically the user will replace this text with whatever s/he wants to say. WIKIUSERNAME DATE
We've been offered a booth at USENIX. The conference itself runs June 1st to June 3rd; on May 30th, they'll be training, but no expo. The !LinuxWorld experience was ...
Please keep in mind that all of these people are volunteers and do other things for a living! Real Name Wiki Name or Email Comments David Berube Main.DavidBerube Current ...
This is the TWiki.Organizational Web. Here is information use for those trying to organize GNHLUG. It mostly covers things like running meetings, findings speakers ...
This is a demonstration of how our Wiki can be more useful, making it easier for anyone to add a new event. (The "anyone" can be restricted using TWiki.TWikiAccessControl ...
This page is for noting when significant events happen with this GNHLUG tool. Please put a brief description in the following text box whenever you make some non-frequent ...
INCLUDINGWEB Web INCLUDINGWEB Web Home Changes Index Search Statistics Webs WEBLIST{" $name" separator ""} INCLUDE{" MAINWEB . WIKINAME LeftBar" warn "Create personal ...
The WebMaster takes care of the web pages at www.gnhlug.org. Main.BenScott currently owns the main InternetServer. He's the coordinator for all the ServerPeople. If ...
This is a subscription service to be automatically notified by e-mail when topics change in this Organizational web. This is a convenient service, so you do not have ...
Organizational Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the Organizational web. These preferences overwrite the site-level preferences in TWIKIWEB ...
TWiki's Organizational web SCRIPTURL /view SCRIPTSUFFIX /Organizational The Organizational web of TWiki. TWiki is a Web-Based Collaboration Platform for the Corporate ...
GNHLUG web sites: http://www.gnhlug.org/ main web site; currently an "alias" for the Www Wiki Web http://wiki.gnhlug.org/ our Wiki; you're reading it GNHLUG chapter ...
See WorkingOurWeb for the details on how to make changes to our web pages. See also: PlanForOurWeb, Www.WebToDo TOC Search Search this web for the literal string ...
Hello, and welcome to GNHLUG! We're always happy to gain new members. :) I'm more than willing to try and answer any questions you may have, or at least try and point ...
"After all, aren't we just a bunch of drinkers with a computer problem?" Rich Soule, on the GNHLUG mailing list This topic is currently a little incoherent I'm ...
GNHLUG is: The Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group. Loosely defined. Somewhat disorganized. But getting better! A bunch of people who say we're all part of GNHLUG ...
This is an extremely quick introduction to using Wiki and TWiki. After you have a basic idea of how to use Wiki, you should check out WorkingOurWeb and PlanForOurWeb ...
As reported to the org mailing list on 22-Dec-2006: Two brief meetings were held prior to the Nashua LUG last night. A meeting of the incorporators (those who signed ...
Want to help out with this web site? Great! Here's how: 1 See WikiCrashCourse to learn about how Wiki and TWiki work. 1 Register a TWiki user ID at Main.TWikiUsers ...
The biggest help for Non-Profits is removing their work burden. (And learning a new system is a really big burden for a lot of non-profits). These are prime candidates ...
Projects concerning promotion of Linux in New Hampshire schools The Www web has a Www.LinuxInSchools page with a few links. (Add some more.) There are two aspects ...