-- Zot O'Connor
Announcing the continuation of the Portland Linux Users Group Advanced Topic Meetings. *********** Sponsored by MandrakeSoft ******************* The Fifth Talk is (Feb 20) Wireless Mania Introduction: Wireless, WiFi, 802b.11, etc. Its all over the papers. But what does it mean to Linux. Well lets find out. This is more of a clinic than a talk. Everyone is asked to bring their wireless cards and access points. Let's have more gigahertz waves bouncing around there than a bag of microwave popcorn. So everyone is asked to bring any all all wireless LAN cards. Lets find out which brands will work, and which won't! Feel free to bring other OSes as well and see if we can work across platforms! Checkout http://www.linux-wlan.com mail archive http://ww.lifix.fi/extarchive/lwlan =============================================================== Advanced Topic Meetings are held on the third Wednesdays at 7:30 pm in the conference room at Club Sport in Tigard. Directions are below. So the rules: 1) The speaker has 15 minutes free. No abusing the speaker for 15 minutes. After that, its a free for all. 2) There are stupid questions. The speaker (and the group) can deem a question too basic for the topic, too off-topic, or just dumb. This may seem rude, but the idea is to stay deep into the topic. For instance, given a talk on Cryptography, it can be expected that the room knows all about public/private key pairs. The speaker should list topics you are expected to know before arriving. 3) There should be a lot of questions and feedback from the audience. 4) Everyone, including the speaker should feel like the topic is over their head. 5) All are invited, but be sure to know the talk is aimed at experts/advanced Linux persons (or those that *think* their experts). PLUG would like to thank MandrakeSoft for sponsoring these talks. MandrakeSoft has agreed to fly Jay out to us! The Place: Club Sport is located at 18120 S.W. Lower Boones Ferry in Tigard. This used to be a Costco, and was Sports Nation. When you enter, go up the stairs to the Restaurant and continue through the restaurant towards the left back and look for th conference rooms. It is near the bathrooms. Club Sport was Sports Nation which was owned by Costco. In fact the building was a Costco until Costco moved to 72th St. The room is scheduled 7:30 - 10:00pm. The restaurant will server you food and beer. Get there early to order off the menu, and bring the food inside. We may have the room early depending on the week. There is service during the meeting. Directions: Mapquest: http://www.mapquest.com/cgi-bin/share?s1ca09un55xehnlk >From Downtown/Hillsboro. Take I5 South. 2 Exits south of the 217 interchange, take 'Boones Ferry/Durham Road' Exit. There is a Borders Book store at the exit. Head west from the exit, but get to the left turn lanes immediately. You will turn left onto Lower Boones Ferry (note of confusion here, the road that goes under the interstate is 'Boones Ferry' until this light. Across the light it becomes Durham Road. If you see REI, you went too far). >From Gresham/South: Take 205 S to I5, head I5 north, Go 2 exits to the 'Boones Ferry/Durham Rd/Lake Oswego Exit.' Turn left at the end of the ramp, go under the bridge/I5 in the center lane. Turn left at the 2nd light. The first light will put back on I5 South. The left hand turn lanes are tricky to get to. Lower Boones Ferry: The road follows I5 for a few blocks past the transit station and then bends Right. After the trailer park, and across from the Schiender Trucks (Big Orange Cabs) is a large red sign with the C from Club Sport lit up. Turn left into the parking lot. Goto the front entrance of the Building. Bus: There is a major Park and Ride at the corner of I5 and Boones Ferry. There is probably lots of buses that go there, but coming back may be more difficult. I recommend you post to the PLUG list (www.pdxlinux.org) and secure a ride back to downtown to more active bus routes after 10:00pm.
