The May 2008 meeting of the Triangle Linux Users Group will be held on May 8, 2008 at Red Hat at 7pm. For directions, go to http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/ww/americas/raleigh.html. The subject of this meeting is the impending Fedora 9 release. Max Spevack and others will discuss the progress of Fedora, new features, etc.

We will also hold our annual Steering Committee Elections. The candidates for the election are:

Matt Frye (re-election)
Cristobal Palmer (re-election)
Alan Porter (re-election)

To help celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Triangle Linux Users Group, we are holding a commemorative t-shirt contest. To be included in the voting, shirt designs must include:

1) The phrase"Triangle Linux Users Group" or "TriLUG"
2) An indication of the 10th anniversary

To help everyone participate, we've created this template. Download at will. Get your friends involved. Don't worry about resolution for now. If your design is selected, we'll work with you to beef up the production version.

For the past 15 years, ibiblio has remained one of the major brands in the Open Source ecosystem providing services to over 3,000 projects in Open Source and Open Information. A center for collaboration, innovation and service, ibiblio (as sunsite.unc.edu and later as metalab.unc.edu) pioneered website hosting, Internet radio, network-distributed Linux distributions , and other ground- breaking activities.

Paul Jones, founder and director of ibiblio.org, will talk about how the Big Ideas are put into practice and how they have played out in such

The next meeting of the Triangle Linux Users Group will be at 7pm on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at Red Hat (directions and location information).

Our speaker will be Mark Spencer of Digium giving a talk entitled "From Project to Product"

Next Meeting is March 13, Mark Spencer on Asterisk. See you next month.

The January 2008 meeting of the Triangle Linux Users Group will be held on January 10 at Red Hat in Raleigh, NC at 7:00PM. Directions available at http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/ww/americas/raleigh.html

We will be conducting the annual food drive for Raleigh Rescue Mission at the December Social, so bring:

- Canned corn, peas, carrots, soups, veg-all, applesauce, oranges, baked beans, chili beans, cranberry sauce
- Jars of apple sauce, baby food, pasta sauce
- Dry goods such as instant mashed potatoes, dried soups, stuffing, oatmeal, cereal, crackers, baby formula, pasta, mac & cheese
- Plastic bottles or other containers of non-perishable juice

The Triangle Linux Users Group will be holding it's annual December Social on December 13 from 7-10pm at the DoubleTree RTP at 2515 Meridian Parkway, Durham, North Carolina. This special meeting is sponsored by Google.

Please RSVP by December 7 at http://www.trilug.org/wiki/TriLUG_December_Social_2007 if you plan to attend.

Thanks again to Pat Patterson and Sun Microsystems for this month's great meeting. The meeting was well-attended and the presentation timely and interesting.

The November 2007 meeting of the Triangle Linux Users Group, sponsored by Sun Microsystems, will be held Thursday, November 8, 2007 at Red Hat. Directions can be found here.