LXNY Events Page

Revised 21 July 2010

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NJLUG
New Jersey Linux Users Group [cookie] [2003]
Also contains links to other New Jersey Users Groups.


World Wide Web Artists' Consortium There is a WWWAC Open Source SIG.
[cookies][some events are free, some are pay]

Monthly New York Area Events Schedule


First Mondays

Linux/Unix SIG (LUNICS) of Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey


First Wednesdays


NYC *BSD User Group [cookie]


First Thursdays

C++ and Java SIG of the NYPC
Place: NYPC HQ, Suite 1560 in what is still called The New Yorker Hotel, A Ramada Hotel, 481 Eighth Ave. at 34th Street, Manhattan
There are also study groups within this group that meet regularly at other locations.

New York Linux Scene
This group may be meeting regularly on this day?
Warning: This group has a strange privacy policy, and contact may be perilous.


Second Mondays

New York chapter of the Internet Society [cookie]


Second Tuesdays

1. Long Island Linux Users Group

Place: Farmingdale State (formerly SUNY), Room 202/204 Gleeson Hall
Time: 8 pm.
Free and open to the public.


2. Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group of New York City

General Membership Meetings are suspended pending securing a new location.
VICUG NYC telephone hotline 212 502 7664

Section 508 - FITAI (Federal Information Technology Accessibility Initiative. Legislation about Federal agencies electronic accessibility to disabled people.


3. NYPC Linux Society NYPC SIG, named ``The Linux Society''.
Place: NYPC HQ, Suite 1560 in what is still called The New Yorker Hotel, A Ramada Hotel, 481 Eighth Ave. at 34th Street, Manhattan
Time: 6:15pm (sharp) to 8:30pm

There is also a study group listed.

The NYPC web site says that SIG meetings are free and open to the public. This listing is based on the general pattern of this group.

4. Lisp NYC [cookie]
General Meeting.
Time: 7-8pm approximately, followed by socializing.
Location: TBA


Second Wednesdays
2. GNUbies GNU/Linux/Free OS Beginners Group N.B. The URL is temporary.
The group is not meeting regularly (as of July 2010).


Third week
Westchester Linux SIG
1. "Linux Special Interest Group" of the Westchester PC Users Group.
Place: White Plains Middle School
The day varies.

contact: Ed Weinberg


New York Perl Mongers Page
2. New York Perl Mongers
The day varies. There may be multiple meetings, any day of the month, but many months have a meeting some day in the third week.



Third Sundays
Southern Connecticut Open Source Users Group

SCOSUG started April 22, 2001
"There is no fee to join and everyone is welcome."


Third Tuesdays

Perl Seminar New York [seasonal]
Meets in NYPC office at the New Yorker Hotel, 34th Street and 8th Avenue, Manhattan.

Contact James Keenan


Third Wednesdays?
New York Linux Users Group
Place: Google, 76 Ninth Avenue, Manhattan
Time: 6:30-8:00pm

These meetings are not open to the public. Contact NYLUG for Google's attendance requirements, in advance of the meeting.

After the meeting (c. 8:15 or 8:30), meet NYLUG at TGIFs 677 Lexington Avenue at E. 56th Street, 2nd floor, Northeast corner.


Third Thursdays
Unigroup of New York, Inc.[cookie]
Usually in odd numbered months only (Jan, Mar, May, Jul, Sep, Nov).


Place: Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
104 Washington Street (between Rector and Carlisle Streets)


There is an admission fee for non-members.


Third Fridays
LISP NYC MuSIG

Time: 6:30 - 9:30pm
Place: Harvestworks
596 Broadway Suite 602 (just south of Houston Street)
NY NY 10012

F/M/B/D trains to Broadway/Lafayette
the #6 train Lexington Ave. Local to Bleeker Street
or the R train BMT Broadway Local to Prince Street.


Last Wednesdays Wireless
NYC Wireless
Time: 6pm
Location: Bway.net, 459 Broadway, 2nd Floor Manhattan

A volunteer effort to provide NYC with free wireless (802.11) Internet access.

This group plans to meet regularly on the last Wednesday of each month at this location.

Meetings are free and open to the public.



Other Events

Miscellaneous

Perl

New York Perl Mongers Page
The Yet Another Society

Publication

United States Government

http://www.chillingeffects.org A powerful resource on Internet and on-line rights and policies. [Thanks to Wendy Seltzer]

www.nyfairuse.org - New Yorkers for Protecting Fair Use of Copyrighted Material







For more information:

CRYPTOME[pronounced with 2 syllables]
Declan McCullagh Politech tracks legislation effecting the free use of computers and communications.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Privacy Information Center
League for Programming Freedom
FSF Digital Speech Project

SCO
Caldera paid SCO money and Caldera, still in Utah, not Santa Cruz, now calls itself "The SCO Group."
There is an outstanding refutation of the SCO/Caldera charges in historical and intellectual context by Eric S. Raymond and Rob Landley "OSI Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint".

Metropolitan New York Government

http://www.nyccouncil.info/issues/committee.cfm?committee_id=106&ltsbdkey=5121. [cookie]





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