Greater Lansing Linux User Group

I'm having trouble with the mailing list, so I'm raising the alarm bells here. Per the ConCom (and Jer in particular) there is no Brazilian Beef planned for this year. Nobody wanted to step up to run it, and honestly I can't see that any real effort was made to recruit somebody. Consequently it was cut from the budget.

Arrangements have been made to hold our weekly meetings in the third-floor conference room of the downtown Lansing branch of the public library, beginning September 18th. The library is located at the corner of Capitol and Kalamazoo, and Capitol Avenue is one-way southbound there. You may find directions to the library at its website, http://www.cadl.org.

Hello all,

After a rousting game of Stepmania with me, Rhouser realized that he never made a post about the fact that this is our last week at Ted-Dee's Sandwich Shop.

Let me make this clearer: This is our LAST WEEK at Ted-Dee's Sandwich Shop!

As of right now, there are the possibilities of:

It's been a while, but I'm ready to kick the sessions back up. We've already covered the basics of procedural programming, scope definition and requirements, etc. We've also started some of the most basic design for our group project. Now, we'll start writing real OOP psuedocode as a group. This will spill over into at least a second session, but perhaps a third as well. The additional sessions will be held on successive weeks.

Update: Due to a schedule conflict, this session has been pushed back one week to September 4th.

Starting on August 7th, our meetings will once again be at Ted-Dee's Sandwich Shop in downtown Lansing at 6:30 pm. Tomorrow night is the last night of the blues festival. Ted said that we should park to the north, possibly in the state lot. He also said that the shop is not as busy as he thought it might be, so we should not have any issues. I hope to see you all there.

After many threads on the mailing list it has become official that at the very least our next two meetings will be at Bells Pizza.


"The next two GLLUG meetings (10th and 17th) we will be meeting at
Bell's pizza on Grand River Ave. in East Lansing, MI by the MSU
campus. Google map available at http://tinyurl.com/66q5l2 "


This time, we'll actually get all the way down into object oriented programming. We'll start with examples at first to cover all the concepts, then move into flushing out some of the basic design ideas we talked about at the last meeting. Please bring pen and paper, as I'll be asking people to write down some basic psuedocode.

Due to some event conflicts downtown, we have moved our regular meeting location from Ted Dee's back to the Ideal Solutions / ACD.net building until future notice. The conflicting events will last through sometime in August.

This session will cover establishing requirements, identifying interfaces, and breaking a problem down into more manageable portions. Essentially, this is how to approach a problem/design from a very high level. Many programmers get this stage wrong and projects takes many times longer to complete/maintain as a result. Depending on timing, this might cover some very basic modeling and OOP compartmentalization. I expect this session to be shorter than the previous ones, so we'll still have time to chat about other things.