Due to a Despite the lack of official university support for alternative operating systems, there is an ever-growing number of Linux/and Unix users and CS and ECE courses which require Linux. Over our 15 year history, VTLUUG has provided a number of services to the campus community including [http://mirror.ece.vt.edu open-source software mirrors], [http://map.vtluug.org detailed OpenStreetMap data for Blacksburg], [[VTLUUG:Acidburn|shell accounts]] and a [[gp:Main page|Virginia Tech wiki]]. VTLUUG would like to obtain dedicated space in order to hold office hours several times per week to provide technical support and installation help, as well as small group hands-on tutorials that can not be effectively accomodated at during our weekly meetings.

* CNS port available (preferably with a static IP IPs availablefor us)

* Behind bur-6509-1.vl702.cns.vt.edu so we can use our IP allocations(this may be harder than we originally thought, as CNS might use VLANs to further restrict subnets to individual buildings)

* [[gp:Whittemore Hall|Whittemore Hall]] - has 100Mbps CNS ports but hardly any spare IPv4s. SEC and IEEE have offices on the 3rd floor, and unallocated space may be available as a radio lab recently moved to the CRC. Exterior doors are locked after 10pm and on weekends to everyone except ECE students, but we can prevent them from locking from the inside. Potentially hard to find for freshmen. Can also open doors with an allen keyWe could easily run Ethernet to our rack and/or the [[darknet]] from here.

* [[gp:Squires Student Center|Squires Student Center]] - highest concentration of student organization offices, including [[gp:WUVT|WUVT]] and [[gp:VTARA|VTARA]], so would be easier to get an office here. Building has enforced closing times (~12am?) but is open on weekends. After hours member access would only almost certainly be possible if impossible, as we are would not be located in the media wing, which would be unlikely as it is all in use.