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 Nov 5th
11/03/2009 at 12:00 AM
Thursday, Nov 5th, at BTC, in room D5, from 7pm til 9pm, is BLUG’s open to the public presentation meeting.
This month we will have demonstrations of the latest release of SuSE, kubuntu, and ubuntu, as well as our Q&A period with the latest Linux in the news reports.
BLUG meeting this Thurs Oct 1st at BTC
09/29/2009 at 12:00 AM
This Thursday, Oct 1st, 7pm til 9pm, in room D5, at the Bellingham Tech College, is BLUG’s monthly presentation meeting.
This month Jakob Perry will present:
“Building rich sites and applications with Drupal”
We’ll also have our regular Linux help, Q&A time, and “Linux in the News”.
In addition we’ll have two special reports from our LFNW representatives who’ve just returned from attending Ohio LinuxFest and LinuxCon.
Remember, this is a public event. So, spread the word, bring friends, and anyone interested in Linux.
BLUG Picnic this Sat Aug 15th
08/15/2009 at 12:00 AM
Our annual Summer BLUG Potluck is this coming Saturday Aug 15th from 4pm till 8pm at Jakob’s (see BLUG Mailing List Post for Address)
http://www.peakserv.com/mailman/listinfo/blug-list
Remember it’s a BYOB potluck and family affair so bring friends and family.
BLUG DotOrg Committee Thursday at Mark’s
08/10/2009 at 12:00 AM
Reminder:
BLUG’s Dot Org Committee meets this Thursday at Mark’s from 7pm til 9pm.
Aug 6th meeting on Forensics
07/25/2009 at 12:00 AM
On Thursday Aug 6th, in room D5, at BTC from 7-9pm, BLUG will have it’s monthly Open to the Public meeting.
This month’s presenter will be Brian Pate who’ll cover computer forensics.His presentation will cover the following scenario:
“A company employee stole some software from his company. He broke into a Senior employee’s account to gain access to restricted areas of company servers. The “bad” employee is using Linux as a desktop, and is making standard forensic tools difficult to work with. Under this scenario, I’ll show, using Linux based software, how to process this case.
Specific items that will be touched:
Using Autopsy (linux based forensic processing UI)
Imaging and Hashing techniques
Recovering deleted Items
Recovering communications (email, messengers, etc)
Web history analysis
Importance of Log Correlations
External media and it’s importance
Methodologies and Legalities of Digital Forensics”
Sounds like a lot of fun and of course we’ll have our regular Q&A session with Linux in the news with a report from Bill, Bob, and John about LFNW at OSCON.
DotOrg Committee Mtg this Thurs July 9th
07/07/2009 at 12:00 AM
This Thursday July 9th, from 7pm til 9pm, at Mark’s, will be our monthly meeting of Blug’s DotOrg Committee.
We’ll be discussing next month’s Blug presentation, our OSCON plans, and other business.
Public Install Fest and NewUser Tutorial
06/07/2009 at 12:00 AM
On Thursday July 2, from 7pm til 9pm, in Room D5, at the Bellingham Technical College, BLUG will hold a Free Install Fest and NewUser Tutorial.
This free workshop is open to the Public. All those interested in learning Linux and or installing Linux on their computers are encouraged to attend.
Bring your computer, monitor, keyboard and mouse, and BLUG volunteers will help you install Linux. Volunteer Linux instructors will also be there to help you get started using your new installation.
Bring or tell anyone interested or just curious about Linux to come watch the action and see just how easy it is to have this free operating system up and running on a computer.
Meeting this Thurs June 4th at BTC
06/04/2009 at 12:00 AM
This Thursday, June 4th, from 7pm til 9pm, in room D5, at Bellingham Tech College will be our next open to the public BLUG meeting.
Our monthly presentation will consist of three presentations with:
Mike Titus, lecturing on mod_vhost and mod_vhost_alias,
John Blanford talking about mod_rewrite and
Mark Ashworth will talk about mod_proxy and mod_proxy_ajp with a bit
of mod_vhost and just enough mod_rewrite to do what’s needed.
We’ll also have our regular Q&A session, as well as Linux in the news reports.
BLUG meeting May 7th – Netbooks
05/30/2009 at 12:00 AM
Netbooks are a new low-priced, low-powered platform with most of the advantages of laptops, except being very low cost and even more portable. The presentation will go over standard hardware features, advantages and disadvantages of netbooks, and efficiently using Linux to make the most of the platform.
BLUG meeting Thurs Apr 2nd
03/30/2009 at 12:00 AM
This Thursday, April 2nd, at BTC, from 7pm-9pm is BLUG’s regular public meeting.
This month’s presentation will be on Openbox presented by James Sundquist.
“Openbox is a *box window manager that you can use either within or without standard desktops such as Gnome/KDE. Openbox uses fewer system resources and leaves you with a cleaner desktop. It appeals to both power users and those running ancient hardware.”
We will also have a little LFNW planning discussions as it is only 26 daze till LFNW!
Invite a friend