Sprocketology - The Cyber Sprocket Blog

The Cyber Sprocket gang was well represented at May’s meeting of the Charleston, SC Linux Users Group (CSCLUG). We met at Kennedy’s on Calhoun and enjoyed hor d’oeuvres and wine compliments of the Charleston Digital Corridor leadership, Nell and Ernest.

The meeting focused on the open source community’s direction in Charleston, and the future of the CSCLUG. The crowd was diverse and included programmers, friends of programmers, hackers (or “security experts” if you prefer), freelance writers, the economic development masterminds from the Corridor, and of course the Sprocketeers. I mostly played the role of bartender by fetching Nell all the wine she wanted and keeping Ernest’s glass too-full.

Noah Schiffman (the security expert and self-appointed head of the CSCLUG) was available with a couple of laptops running Linux (virtually or natively) that gave us the brief pleasure of challenging our abilities to get Wifi running on distributions of the operating system we’ve not worked with before. At least I got the Mac connected.

Cyber Sprocket is a strong supporter of community efforts to improve open source awareness and to promote an overall improvement in the local technical knowledge base. As the Internet has grown in accessibility and content, we have seen a corresponding growth in the availability of lackluster programming how-to guides that have taught an entire generation how to “do it wrong,” and we are committed to bring this to light and correct it. CSCLUG is a perfect place to jump-start the learning process, simply by means of exposing yourself to new/different technology. If you’re interested in trying something other than the Vista Home Edition that was packaged with your Dell, then come to the next meeting and show your support!

Now for some more blurry, iPhone photography of the event! (after the break)

Tags: CDC, community, events, linux, open source, operating systems

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