Meetings & Location

Due to lock down issues related to Covid our meetings have moved to all virtual. We may switch back at some point in time, but physical meeting space is hard to come by in Rockford. We meet the second Thursday of each month through Jitsi Meet and the meetings last  from 6:00 – 10:00pm.

2023 RRLug Virtual Meeting Schedule

• January 12 2023
  
• February 09 2023
  
• March 09 2023
  
• April 13 2023
• May 11 2023
  
• June 08 2023
• July 13 2023
  
• August 10 2023
• September 14 2023
  
• October 12 2023
  
• November 09 2023  <<<<<  Next Virtual Meeting
• December 14 2023

Future Presentation Topics

( Crossed off topics were given in the month listed )

• Automating system deployment and management
  Tips and Tricks
• Cool Pi/SBC projects
• Development toolchains
  compilers / linkers, etc
  embedded tools
• Favorite utilities – tools
  have everyone contribute a project that they rely on for their work.
• Filesystem deep dive
  ZFS, Ext4, BTRFS, XFS etc.
  which filesystem is right for your application. ZFS, Ext4, BTRFS, XFS, etc.
• Gaming on Linux
  Open Source
  AAA Games – Steam, etc.
• GitOps for Fun and Profit– February 2022
  The basic mechanics of GitOps in a Kubernetes context.
• Home server hosting
  how to get away from the cloud
  alternatives to Google, O365, etc.SBC based server solutions
• Linux Design Tools
  CAD
• Linux Distribution reviews?
  Pick a disto that we all install and review at a next meeting?
• Linux friendly gadgets
• Linux Media production
  Audio/Video editing
  Music production – multitrack recording,
• Linux Troubleshooting
• ML and AI applications on Linux
• Open source infrastructure
  firewalls
  virtualization
  containers
  load balancing, etc.
• Retro emulation on Linux
  Old games systems
  mini computers, etc.
• Techniques for managing Linux
  Linux systems at scale
  Linux system admin and server setup and deployment
  Linux security hardening
  Active Directory integration
• WSL2 –  August 2021
  Using WSL2 on Windows

Attend The Virtual Meeting

The Jitsi Meeting meeting information is provide in two flavors. First will be on our website in the form of a meeting notice. Second it will be sent out to our LUG email list. You can subscribe to that by clicking on the link below. The list is pretty low traffic so you shouldn’t be spammed in any way.

Subscribe to the LUG list:     RRLug+subscribe@groups.io

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Rasmussen College

6000 East State Street (Chase Bank Building) 

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Rockford, Illinois

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