Our group has several online groups and services. Feel free to join up.
Online Services
All our channels are on irc.oftc.net. The first channel, #chiglug, is our general channel where the majority of our members hang out. Please stop by and say Hi. The second channel, #chiglug-server, is for discussing the administration of chicagolug.org. If you are interested in helping out, please join #chiglug-server or check out the ChicagoLinux:Server page. The third channel, #chiglug-games, is a good place to connect with other gamers in the group. The fourth channel, #chiglug-programmingtonight, is for our Programming Tonight meetings.
Chump is our IRC bot.
Our mailing lists.
A collection of blogs.
Online Groups
Last.fm is a service that keeps track of what music you listen to, and then produces a large number of features personalized to you. So what our group does is that it combines all the track info from our members and generates charts based on our music tracks. It also generates a last.fm radio station based upon our track info. If you already have a last.fm account please join our group and tell your friends.
Flickr is a service that allows user to upload and host images. Our group is used to share images taken by our members at our events, screenshots and other just nerdy pictures. For example we have photos in our group from Stallman's talk and some of our meetings thanks to Jordan. If you already have a flickr account please join our group and share your photos with us. Also on a related note, if anybody has a digital camera and would be willing to take pictures at our meetings and maybe even the after-meeting hang out it would be greatly appreciated.
Facebook is an English-language social networking website. It was originally developed for college and university students but has since been made available to anyone to join with an email address that connects them to a participating network, such as their high school, place of employment or geographic region. If you have a facebook account please join our group we will send out party invites for our meetings through facebook just so we can notify as many people as possible of our meetings.
Mugshot is a community software system created by Red Hat. Unlike social networking websites, it also has a desktop client component. It is meant to facilitate real-world interactions with friends, and make one's normal computer use more social. Current features include 'Web Swarm' which lets users share web links and join in conversations about them, and 'Music Radar', which displays which songs a user is listening to, and allows conversations about the song. Many features are planned, including 'TV Party'. Mugshot is free software. Most of the client code is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Various parts of the server code are distributed under the GPL, the Open Software License 3.0, the Apache License, and the MIT License, all of which are free software licences. So if you already have a mugshot account please join our group. If you need an invitation just let me know and I can send you an invite.
Here is the Google calendar for our group. This calendar is not just for our events but any events that might be interesting to our members. For instance, Ubuntu Chicago meetings, ChiPy meetings, UIC LUG meetings, Conferences in the area and other such things.
