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Announcements

Resources

Handspring Visor and J-Pilot Guide (LinuxLookup). A quick reference guide for using the Handspring Visor with the Linux desktop through the J-Pilot interface has been posted to the LinuxLookup site.

When the going gets weird: Getting help in StarOffice (LinuxOrbit). This HOWTO on LinuxOrbit "will give you the steps to follow to resolve many of your Linux desktop problems. Because StarOffice, Sun Microsystems' open-source office suite, is a program that just about every Linux desktop user will encounter, we'll use it as an example. You should find that following these steps will help for many other programs as well."

HOWTO set up NVIDIA 3D drivers on Red Hat 7.1. Evil3D has posted a new HOWTO for setting up the NVIDIA 3D drivers. This HOWTO covers the Linux distro Red Hat 7.1, and the unique steps needed for both Intel and non-Intel motherboards.

Events

BOFs at O'Reilly Open Source Convention. There will be a number of Birds of a Feather Sessions (BOFs) at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in San Diego, CA, July 23 - 27, 2001. Topics include (but are not limited to) Perl, Python, Java and FreeDOS.

Caldera International hosts Forum 2001. Caldera International Inc. announced that it will host Forum 2001, August 19 - 22, 2001 at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Calif. Forum 2001 will focus on development, deployment and management solutions for Linux and UNIX systems.

LinuxWorld San Francisco to Showcase Embedded Linux Solutions. IDG World Expo announced that the upcoming LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, to be held August 26 - 30, 2001 at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center, will feature an Embedded Linux Pavilion sponsored by the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC).

Also at LinuxWorld, a Job Fair.

Events: July 19 - September 13, 2001.

Date	Event	Location
July 19 - 25, 2001	Networking Event 2000(ne2000)	Nuenen, the Netherlands, South
July 19 - 21, 2001	The Open Group Quarterly Conference	Austin, Texas
July 19 - 20, 2001	The Open Group Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum	Austin, Texas
July 19 - 21, 2001	The IEEE PASC (POSIX) System Services Working Group meeting	Austin, Texas
July 19 - 20, 2001	MacWorld Conference & Expo	New York City
July 23 - 27, 2001	O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention	San Diego, California
July 25 - 28, 2001	The Ottawa Linux Symposium
July 28 - 29, 2001	Rocky Mountain Software Symposium 2001(RMSS 2001)	(FourPoints Sheraton in Cherry Creek)Denver, Colorado
July 31 - August 1, 2001	Open Innovation	Santa Clara, California
August 2 - 4, 2001	Yet Another Perl Conference Europe 2001(YAPC)	(Hogeschool Holland)Amsterdam, Netherlands
August 4 - 5, 2001	LinuxCertified Linux System Administration BootCamp	Cupertino, California
August 13 - 18, 2001	IPsec Interoperability Workshop (Bakeoff)	Espoo, Finland
August 14 - 16, 2001	Embedded Internet Conference 2001	Santa Clara, CA
August 14 - 16, 2001	LinuxWorld China	Beijing, China
August 19 - 22, 2001	Forum 2001	University of California at Santa Cruz, Calif.
August 20 - 24, 2001	HP World 2001	(McCormick Place)Chicago, IL, USA.
August 20 - 21, 2001	JabberCon 2001	Keystone, Colorado
August 23 - 25, 2001	LinuxWorld Hong Kong	Hong Kong
August 26 - 30, 2001	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo	San Francisco
September 2, 2001	Erlang Workshop - Firenze	Italy
September 4 - 7, 2001	Embedded Systems Conference	(Hynes Convention Center)Boston, MA
September 6 - 7, 2001	Open Source Health Care Alliance(OSHCA)	(The Posthouse Hotel Kensington)London, UK
September 12 - 13, 2001	Linux Expo	Birmingham, UK

Additional events can be found in the LWN Event Calendar. Event submissions should be sent to lwn@lwn.net in a plain text format.

User Group News

Linux Users' Group of Davis. LUGOD, The Linux Users' Group of Davis, will be holding a Linux demonstration on Saturday July 21, 2001 at the Davis Food Co-Op, Davis, CA.

LUGOD's regular meeting on August 8, 2001 features "Automated Retrieval System (Robotic Cranes)", presented by Michael Egan, Sonoma State University.

CFP: Unix and the desktop. The Netherlands Unix User's Group (NLUUG) will hold its annual autumn conference November 8, 2001 in De Reehorst, Ede (Netherlands). The call for papers, inviting submissions for talks on end user experiences and new developments related to the Unix desktop and multimedia applications, remains open until August 24, 2001.

LUG Events: July 19 - August 2, 2001.

Date	Event	Location
July 19, 2001	St. Louis LUG(SLLUG)	(St. Louis County Library, Indian Trails Branch)St. Louis, MO.
July 19, 2001	Omaha Linux User Group(OLUG)	Omaha, Nebraska
July 19, 2001	Linux User Support Team, Taegu(LUST-T)	Taegu, Korea
July 19, 2001	South Mississippi LUG(SMLUG)	(Barnes & Noble)Gulfport, Mississippi
July 19, 2001 August 2, 2001	Gallup Linux Users Group(GalLUG)	(Coyote Bookstore)Gallup, New Mexico
July 19, 2001	SSLUG: Hyggemøde på Niels Bohr Institute	Denmark
July 19, 2001	Belfast Linux Users Group(BLUG)	Belfast, Northern Ireland
July 19, 2001	Linux Enthusiasts And Professionals of Central Florida(LEAP-CF)	(DeVry Institute)Orlando, FL.
July 19, 2001	New Orleans Linux Users' Group(NOLUG)	(University of New Orleans (UNO) Mathematics Building)New Orleans, Louisiana
July 20, 2001	Rock River LUG(RRLUG)	(Rockford College)Rockford, Illinois
July 21, 2001	SVLUG Installfest	Silicon Valley, CA
July 21, 2001	LUGOD Linux Demo	Davis, CA
July 21, 2001	North Texas Linux Users Group(NTLUG)	(Nokia Centre)Irving, Texas
July 24, 2001	Hazelwood Linux User Group(HLUG)	(Prairie Commons Branch Library)Hazelwood, Missouri
July 24, 2001 July 31, 2001	Kalamazoo Linux Users Group(KLUG)	(Western Michigan University)Kalamazoo, Michigan
July 24, 2001	FLUG: DNS af Michael Nielsen	Denmark
July 27, 2001	The Nashua Chapter of the Greater New Hampshire LUG(GNHLUG)	(Martha's Exchange)Nashua, NH.
July 28, 2001	Consortium of All Bay Area Linux(CABAL)	Menlo Park, CA
July 28, 2001	Central Ohio LUG(COLUG)	Columbus, Ohio
August 1, 2001	Silicon Valley LUG(SVLUG)	San Jose, CA
August 1, 2001	Southeastern Indiana LUG(SEILUG)	(Madison/Jefferson County Public Library)Madison, IN
August 1, 2001	Kansas City LUG Demoday(KCLUG)	(Kansas City Public Library)KC, Missouri
August 2, 2001	Edinburgh LUG(EDLUG)	Edinburgh, Scotland
August 2, 2001	UNIX/Linux Special Interest Group of the Dayton Microcomputer Association	(DMA office at 119 Valley St)Dayton, OH, USA.
August 2, 2001	SSLUG: Hyggemöte på Malmö Högskola	Denmark

Additional events can be found in the LWN Event Calendar. Event submissions should be sent to lwn-lug@lwn.net in a plain text format.

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