Show Past Events
Location: McBryde 240
Subject: First meeting of the semester; Intro to VTLUUG!
Presenter: rsk (rishik@vt.edu)
Description: Discussing VTLUUG past, present, and future.
slides @ https://vtluug.org/files/2024/rsk-intro/intro.pdf
Location: McBryde 240
Subject: Funding, CS Afilliation, and server room field trip!
Presenter: rsk (rishik@vt.edu)
Description: We will briefly meet in MCB 240, before moving to the TOP SECRET seventh floor of Whittemore hall
to pay a visit to the VTLUUG/WUVT server rack.
Items up for general discussion:
+ Funding -- how much we have, and what to spend it on.
+ Colo in WHIT is a pain in a post-jkh world. would CS help?
+ server happy happy playtime
Location: McBryde 240
Subject: Retro gaming and ripping dvds
Presenter: Brendan W. Roeting (roetinb@vt.edu)
Description: An original N64 will be brought for people to play and take a look at along with some gameboys to show how saving
ROMS and Save Files are done. We will also learn how to rip dvds to an .mkv format to be used without the physical
medium including blue-rays and 4k movies.
+ elections soon?! think of all the cool new officer titles...
Location: McBryde 240
Subject: elections!
Presenter: milo (miloc@vt.edu)
Description: it's VTLUUG election season, this time for the Spring '25 - Fall '25 cycle!
Location: McBryde 240
Subject: LIGHTNING TALKS!
Presenter: various (officers@vtluug.org)
Description: The lightning talk: the favorite clubular passtime of LUUGers who can't muster up the end-of-semester energy to come up with a real presentation.
Premeditated lightning talks (follow the guide on the vtluug/calendarium github repo to add yours, if you feel like it):
+ typst: LaTeX for rust-huffing zoomers (rsk)
Location: McBryde 240
Subject: Free (as in speech) Computer Algebra Software
Presenter: Ross George (rossgeorge@vt.edu)
Description: Why use a regular calculator when you could use a really awesome one? Where can you find a really awesome one? How do you use one? Why do you want to use one? Find out!