CLUG/GPUL Introduction text.

[Asociacion Universitaria GPUL <gpul@ceu.fi.udc.es>]

Hi!

 This is our introduction text published in USENET some months ago about
 our Lug...


Since September 1998, A Corunna Linux User Group (CLUG) from the University
of A Corunna (Spain) has been growing in members and activities.

This Linux users group currently has 31 members who are developing several
scientific and general Linux utility projects. Members also organize various
Linux related activities.

The main purpose of this Lug is to promote the Linux Operating System and
support our members in their Linux projects (With Documentation, Books,
Magazines, hardware, web space, mailing lists and moral aid)

	Activities we're organizing...

	-Courses: Linux Installation and configuration, Linux networking, 
		        Perl and scripting, GTK ...)

	-Conferences: University of A Coruna Computer Sciences Faculty helps
                   us to organize talks with Linux developers, and companies
		   like netscape, Oracle...

	-Linux Meetings: Conferences, Talks, Linux projects expo
			 and new Linux products demonstrations. You can bring
			 your own Linux box to these meetings.

	-Masive Linux CD: We buy in the USA the latest Linux products CDs for
			  our members, and people of the University of A
                          Coruna University massively for saving S&H. 

	-Linux related Books, magazines and printed documentation available
			in our premises for our members.

	-Advisory service: We'll try to answer every kind of questions
			in our room (Room 0.05 Computer Science Faculty) 
			about the Linux OS.

	-Mailing lists: We maintain diverse public and private linux related 
			mailing lists. We also offer adapted mailing lists to
			each CLUG project if it's required.

	-Linux News on Web: In our web page you can read some important
			Linux related mailing lists/newsgroups.
			FreshMeat, Linux announce, Bugtraq, Linux kernel
			are some of them.
			Other computer_nerd News found in Inet, are procesed
			(in Spanish) by our members and showed in the
			webpage.

	-Hundreds of FREE Debian and Linux related software CDs are
	 spread out to our visitors and members each year.	


	-FTP ftp.ceu.fi.udc.es is maintained with 11 Gb. of Linux programs, 
	 sources, parallel computing, technical docs, CLUG projects,
	 cryptography.

	-Web Mirror in our site of Debian, Gnome, GGI and SAL (Scientific 
	 Applications for Linux) projects, we also manage other ftp mirrors, 
	 like MKLinux, Beowulf, userfs, Ultrapenguin, linux-ha, RTLinux...

CLUG members work and collaborate in different projects...
Our main projects are:

	-BlackListed... modified Talkd to simulate a 'mesg n'
	 when a talk request is received from a given
         user/machine/domain/tty/time 

	-GGL ... GPUL game library.  Library to aid in games and complex
	         graphical aplications programming. By now, it will have
		 SVGAlib and GTK support.

	-PenguinBot... Hardware+device driver+API library for Linux 
	 for robotics control, data adquisition, buildings control, security
	 systems. This project will let our Linux computer get life and
	 recive/export physical data. We will apply Artificial intelligence
	 and neural networks algorithms to this device.
 
	-LUG exchange project... Exchange program for working together
	 with other LUGs in other countries in various projects.
	 Member of EuLug (European university Lug), and keeping in
	 touch with UULUG (Utrecht University Lug) for a posile Lug
	 exchange.
       
	-And some other projects...

        -We will maintain and create Debian packages.

	


More information

	web: http://ceu.fi.udc.es/GPUL (sorry, yet in Spanish)
	mail: gpul@ceu.fi.udc.es

	Grupo de Programadores y Usuarios de Linux.
	Depacho 0.05
	Facultad de Informática, Campus de Elviña
	15008 A Coruña
	Spain.


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