NYLUG (New York Linux Users Group) is a LUG ( Linux User Group) based out of

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. NYLUG supports all things

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and

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in the greater

area. NYLUG meets on a monthly basis, and features a speaker or speakers who give presentations of interest to the NYLUG membership. These presentations are generally either technical or related to

. NYLUG's first presentation was in January, 1999 and NYLUG has been in continuous operation since then. As such, NYLUG is the oldest LUG in New York City.Linux User Groups of New York
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and an IRC channel. In addition to monthly presentations, NYLUG holds monthly workshops and occasional social events for its membership. A significant number of members of NYLUG were involved in planning for the first

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in the United States - which was held in

in August 2010.

Notable speakers

Chris DiBona Chris DiBona ('cdibona', born October 1971) was the director of open source at Google from August 2004 until January of 2023. The open source team at Google oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through pro ...

Theodore Ts'o Theodore (Ted) Yue Tak Ts'o (曹子德) (born 1968) is an American software engineer mainly known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to file systems. He is the Secondary developer and maintainer of e2fspro ...

* Jon "maddog" Hall *

Jeremy Allison Jeremy Allison is a computer programmer known for his contributions to the free software community, notably to Samba, a re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, released under the GNU General Public License. Other contributions in ...

* Dr. Eben Moglen * Miguel de Icaza *

Eric S. Raymond Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book ''The Cathedral and the Bazaar''. He wrote a guidebook for the ...

* Dan Ravicher * Klaus Knopper *

Dave Aitel Dave Aitel (born 1976) is a computer security professional. He joined the NSA as a research scientist aged 18 where he worked for six years before being employed as a consultant at @stake for three years. In 2002 he founded a security software com ...

Benjamin Mako Hill Benjamin Mako Hill is a free software activist, hacker, author, and professor. He is a contributor and free software developer as part of the Debian and Ubuntu projects as well as the co-author of three technical manuals on the subject, ''Debia ...

Elliotte Rusty Harold Elliotte Rusty Harold (born ca. 1960) is an American computer scientist, lecturer and author of several books on Java and XML and the creator of XOM, an open source Java class library for processing XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a mar ...

Craig Nevill-Manning Craig Graham Nevill-Manning (né Nevill) is a New Zealand computer scientist who founded Google's first remote engineering center, located in midtown Manhattan, where he was an Engineering Director. He also created Froogle (now Google Shopping) ...

* Moshe Bar * Ian Pratt * Alex Martelli *

Donald Becker thumbnail, Donald Becker is an American computer programmer who wrote Ethernet drivers for the Linux operating system. Becker, in collaboration with Thomas Sterling, created the Beowulf clustering software while at NASA, to connect many in ...

Arthur Tyde Arthur Tyde is an American software entrepreneur and private investigator based in San Francisco and SE Asia. He has been an advocate for Open Source software since founding the first Linux Users Group in the San Francisco / Silicon Valley Area.BA ...

* Chris Blizzard * Havoc Pennington * Jason Perlow * Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan * Zed Shaw * Russ Nelson *

David S. Miller David Stephen Miller (born November 26, 1974) is an American software developer working on the Linux kernel, where he is the primary maintainer of the networking subsystem and individual networking drivers, the SPARC implementation, and the IDE ...

* Wietse Venema *

Gabriella Coleman Enid Gabriella Coleman (usually known as Gabriella Coleman or Biella; born 1973) is an anthropologist, academic and author whose work focuses on cultures of hacking and online activism, particularly Anonymous. She previously held the Wolfe Ch ...

* Tom Limoncelli * Thomas Bushnell *

Stefano Zacchiroli Stefano Zacchiroli is an Italian and French academic and computer scientist who lives and works in Paris, and a former Debian Project Leader. Debian involvement Zacchiroli became a Debian Developer in 2001. After attending LinuxTag in 2004, he ...

* James Turnbull *

Lennart Poettering Lennart Poettering (born 15 October 1980) is a German software engineer working for Microsoft and the original author of PulseAudio, Avahi and systemd. Life and career Poettering was born in Guatemala City but grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Br ...

* Karen Sandler *

Frank Karlitschek Frank Karlitschek (born 25 July 1973) is a German open source software developer living in Stuttgart, Germany. Karlitschek argues on his blog that "Privacy is the foundation of democracy." He says that people should have a basic right "to cont ...

* Chris Lamb (software_developer) *

David Reveman Compiz () is a compositing window manager for the X Window System, using 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management. Effects, such as a minimization animation or a cube workspace, are implemented as lo ...

Michael Kerrisk Michael Kerrisk is a technical author, programmer and, since 2004, maintainer of the Linux man-pages project, succeeding Andries Brouwer. He was born in 1961 in New Zealand and lives in Munich, Germany. Kerrisk has worked for Digital Equipment, ...

References

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External links

NYLUG Homepage

NYLUG Hacking Society/Coding Workshop

NYLUG Meetup page
Information technology organizations based in North America Linux user groups Organizations based in New York City