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BLUG was started in 1998 by a small group of computer geeks in Bellingham, Washington who wanted to get off Windows and learn from local Unix gurus.  Our focus is on Linux and all Open Source software.

We hold a presentation meeting the first Thursday of the month at Bellingham Technical College in Campus Center room 201 (CC201). On the third Wednesday, we hold an informal organization meeting with the time and location being Bellingham Makerspace (located in the Bellisfair Mall, next to Dicks Sporting Goods). We also put on special events including the regional LinuxFest Northwest in the Spring.

Next Meeting

Security in the modern Environment

08/20/2025 at 05:30 PM

Josh will be discussing (and demonstrating!!) security tools, software, and hardware for the modern environment. Expect HAK5 gadgets and anything Defcon had in their store in the last few years.

Past Meetings

BLUG meeting Thurs July 2nd at BTC

07/02/2015 at 06:30 PM

On Thursday, July 2nd, at BTC, IN ROOM – CC201,
from 6:30pm til 9pm, BLUG will have it’s regular
public meeting.

Meeting includes:
“Hands-on Help Time” from 6:30pm til 7pm, BLUG/LFNW & Linux News,
Q&A, and a presentation by (not JD) Joshua Drake “Debian/kFreeBSD”

“Hands-on Help Time”:
Starting at 6:30pm, 1/2 hour prior to the regular 7pm start time,
BLUG offers hands-on help for anyone with a Linux issue.
Bring your computer and let the BLUG folks give you a hand.

“Presentation”:
By Joshua Drake “Debian/kFreeBSD”
– Why kFreeBSD is good for the ecosystem (competition fuels open
source projects, encourages writing of platform-independent glibc code)
– glibc + GNU userspace = familiar environment for the Linux user,
with the benefit of some cool BSD kernel features
 * pf vs iptables (readability, speed+statefulness, extensibility)
 * ZFS vs LVM (ZFS send/receive and upgrades, RAID effectiveness)
 * jails vs linux solutions like linux containers and UML (one tool
included in the kernel vs a conglomeration of many)
Some other cool kFreeBSD tricks:
– Linux compat layer – Maybe include a demo of a Squeeze i386 Linux
system running in a jail and what this could mean for the future
– Static FreeBSD binaries can run in a kFreeBSD system (useful when
Debian is run within a jail)
A demo / showcase of what jessie-kfreebsd can do already:
– minetest, openarena, and sauerbraten all in the repos and functioning
– WebGL stuff works on IceWeasel (from sid):
 (http://pirateradiotheater.org/files/m.grl/demos/06_models/)

Location:
ROOM CC201, on the 2nd floor of BTC’s new Campus Center Building.

Remember this meeting is open to the public, tell your neighbor
and bring a friend!

LFNW recap DotOrg meeting, episode 2, this Thurs 11th

06/11/2015 at 07:00 PM

This Thursday June 11th, 7p til 9p, is episode 2
of our BLUG/LFNW DotOrg LFNW recap meeting

This meeting will be in the library of the Re Sources building.
Access is up the stairs off the alley in the back.

Address is 2309 Meridian Street, Bellingham, WA 98225

Those interested in participating in BLUG/LFNW organizational
planning are welcome.

Jakob will be doing a presentation followed by discussion.

The focus will be on how to improve LFNW for organizers as
well as attendees.

So, bring your good ideas.

BLUG meeting Thurs June 4th at BTC

06/04/2015 at 06:30 PM

On Thursday, June 4th, at BTC, IN ROOM – CC201,
from 6:30pm til 9pm, BLUG will have it’s regular
public meeting.

Meeting includes:
“Hands-on Help Time” from 6:30pm til 7pm, BLUG/LFNW & Linux News,
Q&A, and a presentation by Joshua Drake “The Elephant in the Jungle”

“Hands-on Help Time”:
Starting at 6:30pm, 1/2 hour prior to the regular 7pm start time,
BLUG offers hands-on help for anyone with a Linux issue.
Bring your computer and let the BLUG folks give you a hand.

“Presentation”:
By Joshua Drake “The Elephant in the Jungle”
“Exposing the good, bad and ugly of AWS including cost/performance
comparisons. We will also discuss how to pairs with PostgreSQL
which should apply to any relational database.”

Location:
ROOM CC201, on the 2nd floor of BTC’s new Campus Center Building.

Remember this meeting is open to the public, tell your neighbor
and bring a friend!

 

BLUG meeting Thurs May 7th at BTC

05/07/2015 at 06:30 PM

On this Thursday, May 7th, at BTC, IN ROOM – CC201,
from 6:30pm til 9pm, BLUG will have it’s regular
public meeting.

Meeting includes:
“Hands-on Help Time” from 6:30pm til 7pm, BLUG/LFNW & Linux News,
Q&A, and a presentation by Carl Symons “Fresh KDE”

“Hands-on Help Time”:
Starting at 6:30pm, 1/2 hour prior to the regular 7pm start time,
BLUG offers hands-on help for anyone with a Linux issue.
Bring your computer and let the BLUG folks give you a hand.

“Presentation”:
By Carl Symons “Fresh KDE”
“Almost all aspects of KDE technology have seen significant and
substantial rework recently…without radical changes to things operate.
Users and reviewers comment…
‘Just installed the KDE Plasma 5 desktop and it just looks awesome.’
‘Upgraded my mother’s laptop to KDE Plasma 5. She loves it. Great job!’
‘Trying out the new KDE for the first time on Linux Mint and
 have to say: Totally blown away! Amazing stuff!’
Presentation topics:
Development environment – big changes, mostly unnoticeable to users
Familiar desktop and work-flows, now smoother and more modern
Qt & KDE
Installation Demo”

Location:
ROOM CC201, on the 2nd floor of BTC’s new Campus Center Building.

Remember this meeting is open to the public, tell your neighbor
and bring a friend!

 

BLUG meeting this Thurs April 2nd at BTC

04/02/2015 at 06:30 PM

On this Thursday, April 2nd, at BTC, IN ROOM – CC201,
from 6:30pm til 9pm, BLUG will have it’s regular
public meeting.

Meeting includes:
“Hands-on Help Time” from 6:30pm til 7pm, BLUG/LFNW & Linux News,
Q&A, and a presentation by Joshua Drake titled “AWS: The down and dirty”

“Hands-on Help Time”:
Starting at 6:30pm, 1/2 hour prior to the regular 7pm start time,
BLUG offers hands-on help for anyone with a Linux issue.
Bring your computer and let the BLUG folks give you a hand.

“Presentation”:
By Joshua Drake titled “AWS: The down and dirty”
This presentation focuses on when AWS is a viable option and when
 it is not. We will explore the technologies, where AWS fails to
 deliver as well as when AWS is a good choice. This presentation
 will include a dollars and cents attitude toward the technology
 as well as discuss why as Free Software/Open Source people flock
 to the platform they are leaving their ideology behind.

Location:
ROOM CC201, on the 2nd floor of BTC’s new Campus Center Building.

Remember this meeting is open to the public, tell your neighbor
and bring a friend!

BLUG/LFNW DotOrg Committee mtg this Thurs, Mar 12th @ RE Sources

03/12/2015 at 07:00 PM

This month’s meeting of the BLUG/LFNW DotOrg Committee is this Thursday
March 12th from 7pm till 9pm in the library room at RE Sources.

The address is 2309 Meridian Street Bellingham, WA 98225
Access is from the stairs off the alley in the back.

BLUG folks interested in participating in BLUG/LFNW organizational
planning are welcome.

LFNW is getting closer =8’O

 

BLUG meeting Thurs March 5th at BTC

03/05/2015 at 06:30 PM

On Thursday, March 5th, at BTC, IN ROOM – CC201,
from 6:30pm til 9pm, BLUG will have it’s regular
public meeting.

Meeting includes:
“Hands-on Help Time” from 6:30pm til 7pm, BLUG/LFNW & Linux News,
Q&A, and a presentation by James Mason on “How SUSE is helping
 you rock the cloud”

“Hands-on Help Time”:
Starting at 6:30pm, 1/2 hour prior to the regular 7pm start time,
BLUG offers hands-on help for anyone with a Linux issue.
Bring your computer and let the BLUG folks give you a hand.

“Presentation”
By James Mason on “How SUSE is helping you rock the cloud”

Location:
ROOM CC201, on the 2nd floor of BTC’s new Campus Center Building.

Remember this meeting is open to the public, tell your neighbor
and bring a friend!

 

BLUG/LFNW DotOrg Committee mtg this Thurs, Feb 12th @ RE Sources

02/12/2015 at 07:00 PM

This month’s meeting of the BLUG/LFNW DotOrg Committee is this Thursday
Feb 12th from 7pm till 9pm in the library room at RE Sources.

The address is 2309 Meridian Street Bellingham, WA 98225
Access is from the stairs off the alley in the back.

BLUG folks interested in participating in BLUG/LFNW organizational
planning are welcome.

LFNW is just a couple months away =8’O

BLUG meeting this Thurs Feb 5th at BTC

02/05/2015 at 06:30 PM

On Thursday, Feb 5th, at BTC, IN ROOM – CC201,
from 6:30pm til 9pm, BLUG will have it’s regular
public meeting.

Meeting includes:
“Hands-on Help Time” from 6:30pm til 7pm, BLUG/LFNW & Linux News,
Q&A, and a presentation by Adrian Klaver on Pytest

“Hands-on Help Time”:
Starting at 6:30pm, 1/2 hour prior to the regular 7pm start time,
BLUG offers hands-on help for anyone with a Linux issue.
Bring your computer and let the BLUG folks give you a hand.

“Presentation”
By Adrian Klaver on Pytest:
‘Pytest, Python testing made fun’ http://pytest.org/latest/

Location:
ROOM CC201, on the 2nd floor of BTC’s new Campus Center Building.

Remember this meeting is open to the public, tell your neighbor
and bring a friend!
 

BLUG/LFNW DotOrg Committee mtg this Thurs, Jan 8th @ RE Sources

01/08/2015 at 07:00 PM

This month’s meeting of the BLUG/LFNW DotOrg Committee is this Thursday
Jan 8th from 7pm till 9pm in the library room at RE Sources.

The address is 2309 Meridian Street Bellingham, WA 98225
Access is from the stairs off the alley in the back.

BLUG folks interested in participating in BLUG/LFNW organizational
planning are welcome.

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