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Upcoming Meeting:

Location:

The South Mississippi Linux Users Group attempts to hold its meetings on the third Saturday of every month.

Saturday May 19, 2012 at 2pm
Holiday Inn Express
300 West Beach Blvd.
Long Beach, MS

Topic:

This month a few members will be giving a short discussion on their OS of interest.

Scientific Linux - Stephen Berg
Arch Linux - Thomas Weber
SQL, SEO,and Wordpress - Josh Charlton

Previous meetings of 2012

April 2012

Jan Goff and Michael Rainey provided a presentation on the use of PHP in a dynamic web page. Discussed some of its benefits and drawback. Provided some sample code to demonstrate setting up of a database connection.
Other side topics were discussed out of earshot and were missed.

Attendees

Melissa Beebe
John Beebe
George Stevens
Michael Rainey
Jan Goff
Stephen Berg
Bill Maloy
George Leonard
Henry Blanton
Dave Reed
Josh Charlton
Don Newcomb
Thomas Weber
Alex Jackson

March 2012

Jim Nanney provided a presentation on the basics of BASH scripting.
A call out to the group was made seeking volunteers to provide topics and presentations for future meetings. It was stated topics should be provided by everyone, not just a few members.

February 2012

Jan provided a demo on the application called Big Blue Button. The Big Blue Button was run on a local machine during the meeting providing everyone attending the meeting to have a great view of the presentation and for presentations in the future.
Bill Maloy skipped the meeting to persue his dream of competetive coding. He didn't do as well as he had hoped. Probably due to partying all night before the event, not that he would admit it to anyone. If he decides to attend another coding event, the SMLUG will need to conjour the ghost of Burgess Meredith to get him into shape and call him a bum while he trains.

January 2012

There was fantastic turnout for this months meeting. We came very close to reaching the maximum capacity of the room. This could be the largest number of people the SMLUG has seen in a long time.
A presentation was given by Michael Rainey on configuring virtual hosts in ip-based and name-based for the Apache webserver.
Some SMLUG business was discussed:
- A request was made to the group to think of some topics for the upcoming year. There were total of seven topics suggested out of the twelve being sought. So take the opportunity to suggest a topic to help complete our goal.
- A couple of members suggested to the group to consider installing Drupal onto the SMLUG wiki to help manage our content and work to improve the look and feel of the site.