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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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An introduction to The Connecticut Free Unix Group
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<h4 align="center">by Lou Rinaldi
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<a href="mailto:lou@cfug.org">lou@cfug.org</a>, CFUG Co-Founder
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October of 1996 was when Nate Smith and I first began discussing the creation
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of a local-area unix users' group here in Connecticut, something we felt the area
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was desperately in need of. We bantered around some initial ideas; some great,
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some not so great. Finally we decided on creating a group whose focus was on
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the "free unix" community. CFUG, The Connecticut Free Unix Group, was born
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in November of 1996. Both of us had very busy schedules, so all of the time we
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were going to invest in this project came directly from our ever-decreasing
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periods of leisure activity. We agreed upon three major goals for CFUG: The
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first was the wide distribution and implementation of free, unix-like operating
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systems and software. The second was educating the public about important
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developments in the evolution of free operating systems. Finally, we strove to
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provide an open, public forum for debate and discussion about issues related to
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these topics. After writing to several major vendors and asking for donations of
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their surplus stock and/or older software releases, the packages began rolling in.
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(After all, we wanted to create some sort of incentive for people to come to the
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first meeting)! We then got started doing some heavy advertising on the
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newsgroups, in local computer stores and also on local college campuses.
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Finally, after securing an honored guest speaker for our first meeting, (Lar
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Kaufman, co-author of the seminal reference book "Running Linux"), we were
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ready to set a date. December 9th, 1996 marked the first official CFUG
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gathering, which took place at a local public library. We've held meetings on
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the second Monday of each month ever since, and are now widely recognized as
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Connecticut's only organization dedicated to the entire free unix community.
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We've since lost Nate Smith to the lucrative wiles of Silicon Valley, but we
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continue to carry on with our original goals. We have close relations with
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companies such as Caldera Inc., InfoMagic Inc., and Red Hat Software, as well
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as such non-commercial entities as The FreeBSD Project, Software In The
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Public Interest (producers of Debian GNU/Linux), The OpenBSD Project and
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The Free Software Foundation. We were also featured on the front page of
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the Meriden Record-Journal, a major local newspaper, on May 26th of this
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year. Our future plans include more guest speakers, as well as trips to
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events of pertinence throughout New England.
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For more information, please check our website -
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<a href="http://www.cfug.org">http://www.cfug.org</a>
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There is a one-way mailing list for announcements concerning CFUG.
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You can sign up by emailing
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<a href="mailto:cfug-announce-request@cfug.org">
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cfug-announce-request@cfug.org</a> with
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"subscribe" as the first line of the message body (without the quotes).
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<center><H5>Copyright © 1997, Lou Rinaldi<BR>
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Published in Issue 22 of the Linux Gazette, October 1997</H5></center>
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