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Hibiscus Coast GNU/Linux Users Group

Today:

HBCLUG exists to support and promote the use of free software and GNU/Linux on the Hibiscus Coast.

2010: Year of Freedom?

Around the World, vendors and governments are rejecting closed formats and pushing for free software in their workplace. In NZ, the Public Sector Remix saw thousands of local and national government PCs shift to free software based apps. We must be close to the tipping point by now.

Can we turn 2010 into the year that software freedom became mainstream? HBCLUG invites you to take part in some of this years special events.

Software Freedom Day 2010

Software Freedom International have announced the date:

As we've hit the 2010 mark, the whole SFI team wishes the best for all of you Software Freedom supporters and to Free Software as well. We're starting this year with a new board and will soon resume our activities: those include upgrading the website, making new plans for this year and preparing Software Freedom Day 2010. We will also start to go through the competition submission results and hopefully be able to elect the 2009 winners within a month. So stay tuned and get ready to prepare our grand celebration on Saturday, September 18th, 2010!
HBCLUG usually has a stall outside Orewa Public Library, other places given the volunteers. Sometimes wu have seminars. I'll call for help closer to the date.

Installfests

... TBA: I hope to have four installfests in 2010, corresponding to the school terms.

Phoenix Project

Do you have old hardware sitting in a corner someplace? HBCLUG restores old computers, recharges them with gnu/linux, and donates them to a worthy home. I can pick up from most places. Use the feedback link to take part.

GNU/Linux Courses

These are a collection of crash courses which amount to supervised tutorials covering essential skills in the topic area. Interested? Click the feedback link. There is a home-page too.

Community Project?

Is there something you'd like to do? Something you are doing? Tell me about it and I'll add it to this list.

Windows is not "popular"

- it is "common" (like the cold.)

To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just have to work on it.

-- Scott Granneman, an author, entrepreneur and adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis