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Games for Change Festival, June 3rd

This June, the only festival dedicated to the exciting new movement using Digital Games for Social Change will explore real-world impact, the latest games and funding strategies. Hosted in New York City by Parsons The New School for Design, the 5th annual Games for Change Festival will take place on June 2 - 4, 2008. Expert practitioners -- academics, activists, non-profits, funders -- will be called in to examine the impact of current games, evaluations planned and the ongoing work to build the field. You will have a chance to see a variety of new games in development first-hand, festival-goers can play the latest state-of-the-art games. Join us!

Check out the festival site here: http://www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2008/index.php

Registration for the 2008 Fifth Annual Games for Change Festival is now available!

Leading scholars Jim Gee and Henry Jenkins will open the festival with a keynote conversation on June 3rd at 4:30pm. We are pleased to announce our closing keynote this year will be the Honorable Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, scheduled for 4pm on June 4th. Featured panelists include: Jim Gasperini, creator of Hidden Agenda, and Chris Crawford of Balance of Power and Balance of the Planet fame; Ken Eklund, creator of World Without Oil; Michael Levine, Director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center; Shelley Pasnick, head of the Center for Children and Technology, Mary Flanagan Director of the Tiltfactor Lab, Tracy Fullerton of USC's EA Innovation Lab, and representatives from Participant Productions, the MacArthur and Knight Foundations, PBS, and Electronic Arts, among many others. You will find our usual excellent blend of provocative panels, informal working groups, funders meetings, ample networking opportunities and the ever-popular Expo Night where you can see - and play - the new games firsthand, sponsored by Microsoft.

And don't forget the pre-festival workshop for newbies on June 2nd. We are happy to announce that this beginners workshop for non-profits new to the field. Let The Games Begin: A 101 Workshop for Making Social Issue Games was a MacArthur Foundation DML Competition award-winner out of more than 1000 applicants! A separate registration for that day is now available from the festival site here: http://www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2008/101.php We are thankful for the generous contributions of our sponsors AMD and Microsoft, as well as Parsons the New School for Design.

Ubuntu version 8.04 codename "Hardy Heron" will be released on Thursday April 24, 2008

Sean actually had the idea, but let's celebrate the latest release of Ubuntu Hardy Heron, this Thursday, release day.

Following our usual plan:

Meeting at the Orient Buffet, on the north end of the Poughkeepsie Plaza on the east side of Rt. 9, near Blockbuster and Wendys. Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/34d5ac

People generally start showing up around 11:50am, we get a table at noon with a few extra chairs for any stragglers.

Cost is $9 if you get soda, $8 if you get water.

MHVLUG turns 5

Thanks to Pat Ladd for another awesome birthday cake, and of course to our fearless leader Sean for another great year!

Mon 18th Feb to Fri 22nd Feb Ubuntu Developer Week!

No traveling required presented via IRC on #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode!

We are pleased to announce the first ever Ubuntu Developer Week . What does this mean? We’ll have one week full of action-packed IRC sessions where you can:

• learn about different packaging techniques
• find out more about different development teams
• check out the efforts of the world-wide Development Community

• participate in open Q&A sessions with Ubuntu developers

• and much much more…

All your favourite Ubuntu developers will be there who will introduce you to lots of parts of Ubuntu development including packaging, virtualisation, desktop application testing, development processes, collaboration techniques and lots lots more. This is the perfect time to get started, get up and running and in touch with future team members.

So, what are you waiting for? Go and see the timetable and then see how to attend. Oh, and lets spread the word!

The Sessions:

• Patching packages - Martin Pitt will explain the different techniques of patching packages. His session will help you get started with UbuntuDevelopment as it’s a good entry point to improving the software we use every day.

• Launchpad PPAs - Launchpad Hackers Celso Providelo and Matthew Revell will introduce you to a great feature of Launchpad: Personal Package Archives. Building packages for testing and preview reasons made easy.
• Packaging 101 - Daniel Holbach will talk you through the most important properties of Ubuntu and Debian packaging.
• MOTU School - Working with Debian - We’ll have James Westby around, who is very interested in collaboration between Debian and Ubuntu. His session will showcase tools, initiatives and processes to make this happen.

• Introduction to the ServerTeam - Interested in servers and services in the Ubuntu landscape? Matthias Gug introduces you to the ServerTeam.

• MOTU Processes - Interested in becoming a MOTU? Daniel Holbach will explain the MOTU processes: how to get involved and how to get things done.
• Virtualisation - Virtualisation is definitely one of the hottest topics at the moment. Virtualisation Specialist Søren Hansen will talk you through the state of things and answer all your questions.
• Kubuntu - For those of you interested in development of the big K, we’ll have the Kubuntu developers around.
• Ubuntu Derivatives Team - We have new Derivatives coming up almost every day. The Derivative Team aims to make collaboration seamless and help derivatives to get things done.
• Debdiffs and how to get them submitted - Daniel Holbach will showcase one of the most important entry points to get involved: how to produce good patches and explain how to get them submitted for inclusion.

• First steps on contributing (MOTU/TODO & MOTU/TODO/Bugs) - MOTU contributor Nicolas Valcárcel will talk about his experiences and give you first-hand hints how to get started.

• Desktop Packaging Session - Mastermind of the french Desktop mafia Sébastien Bacher will take you on a tour through Desktop Packaging: your entry point to the Desktop Team
• SRU/Security updates - Two of our MOTUs, William Grant and Luca Falavigna, experienced in doing security and stable release updates will talk about exactly that.
• Firefox 3 Extension Packaging - We’ll have Mozilla hacker Alexander Sack around, who will talk you through packaging of Firefox 3 Extensions.
• Writing Scripts For Automated Desktop Testing - QA developer Lars Wirzenius spent quite some time thinking about testing of applications and will take you on a tour through testing Desktop applications.
• Bughelper - making bug work easier - Bugmaster Brian Murray and bughelper hacker Markus Korn are the de-facto maintainers of python-launchpad-bugs and bughelper. Numerous tools make use of the interface and make working with bugs much much easier.

• BugTriage - Pedro Villavicencio has an incredible record of triaged bugs and even managed to give Sébastien Bacher a run for his money. He’ll get you started doing bug triage which is one of the most important points of development.

• MOTU Q&A session - This session has become an institution and happens every Friday at 13:00 UTC. For once we’ll move this to a later time and invite you all to be there. Prepare your questions and let’s get started together.

• Library Packaging - Long-time MOTU Stefan Potyra will talk about the bread and butter of almost all packages: libraries and how to package them right.

Ubuntu version 7.10 codenamed "Gutsy Gibbon" will be released on Thursday, October 18, 2007

You can download a CD image here. We are also in the process of ordering CDs to hand out at the meetings, if you need a copy please post to the list!

MHVLUG Participates in Software Freedom Day

at the Hyde Park Free Library

Mark your calendar for Saturday the 15th, and join us in promoting Free (Open Source) Software.

See the page and sfd2007_flier.pdf the flyer for details!

MHVLUG Turns 4

Believe it or not, we've been here for 4 years, serving the community, and creating a lot of great content. Check out the MonthlyMeetings page for an archive all our pasts talks.

Here's to another 4 years of MHVLUG!

mhvlug.org upgrades (12/20/2006)

MHVLUG has been upgraded to Mandriva 2007.0, and MoinMoin has been upgraded to 1.5.6. As of a month ago mhvlug.org is now running on Xen 3.0.3 (migrated from User Mode Linux).

How Can I Help? (10/29/2006)

A new HowCanIHelp page has been created for people who are interested in helping out more with the group. Please read it if you are interested.

MHVLUG Turned 3 years old! (3/7/2006)

Migration to MoinMoin 1.5.2 Complete (2/7/2006)

We've migrated to a new wiki engine update. What does this mean to you? Well, there are nifty new features like:

• A GUI Edit feature, that gives you WYSIWYG like editing capabilities
• Page Trail now works, and the last 5 pages you visited will be shown across the top
• The Editors are much improved for screen layout, so you aren't always scrolling to find the submit button.

The theme is mostly ported (with a few nits left). Comments are always welcomed on the MailingLists. Enjoy!

MHVLUG.org MoinMoin Upgrade Coming (2/5/2006)

http://mhvlug.org may be unavailable some this week after the meeting, as the wiki will be upgraded to the latest MoinMoin 1.5.2. This will include a new GUI page editor, as well as many other enhancements and bug fixes. Expect the conversion to be done by Feb 15th.

MHVLUG Swag (2/5/2006)

Get your MHVLUG Swag at http://cafepress.com/mhvlug.

Planet MHVLUG (1/5/2006)

See what your fellow LUG members are blogging about at http://planet.mhvlug.org. If you want to get your blog added to the feed list, please just speak up on the mailing list.

MHVLive Updated (12/6/2005)

MHVLive, the LUG's LiveCD, has a new revision out. See its page for ISO downloads, etc.

MHVLUG.ORG Upgraded to Mandriva 2006.0 (12/4/2005)

The MHVLUG.ORG web server has been upgraded to Mandriva 2006.0. There was a brief website outage due to a change in the apache configuration that I missed. Things should be up and running great now.

MoinMoin upgraded to 1.3 (3/21/2005)

MoinMoin, the wiki software used to run this site, has been upgraded from 1.2.4 -> 1.3.4. With that comes a brand new MHVLUG theme. All data should have been migrated in the process, if anything looks off, please let us know at mhvlug@mhvlug.org . The server will be moving soon, so we want to ensure wiki content is right before that move.