Sacramento Linux Users’ Group - Brian E. Lavender

August General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0700

General discussion and I will bring notes on updating Debian Exim mail server to use TLS certificates from Lets Encrypt. We generally meet on the second floor. Look for open laptops and the possible printout of a penguin on the table.

See you there.

Brian

July General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Meet at Kupros for social. See you there.

June General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0700

We will meet at Kupros for this meeting!

Bring your gadgets, laptop, etc., and we will discuss, evangelize and strategize the upcoming meetings. We usually congregate on the second floor. Look for a penguin printout or hackers with their laptops open.

Brian

May General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700

We will meet back at Kupros for this meeting!

Brian

April General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700

This will be a social meetup at the Raley’s on Freeport. See the locations page for more details. Bring your laptop, gadgets, questions, curiosity, etc. There are a series of big tables.

Raley's Store 415

4690 Freeport Blvd.
Sacramento CA,
95822

March General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700

This will be a social meetup at the Raley’s on Freeport. See the locations page for more details. Bring your laptop, gadgets, questions, curiosity, etc.

Raley's Store 415

4690 Freeport Blvd.
Sacramento CA,
95822

February General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800

This will be a social meetup at the Raley’s on Freeport. See the locations page for more details. Bring your laptop, gadgets, questions, curiosity, etc.

Raley's Store 415

4690 Freeport Blvd.
Sacramento CA,
95822

January General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800

We will meet back at Kupros for this meeting! The last meeting we had, some noted that it was too loud. I had been thinking about a different location, but I didn’t investigate, so we will continue at Kupros for now.

Bring your gadgets, laptop, etc., and we will …

December General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800

We will meet back at Kupros for this meeting!

Brian

Kevin demonstrates AI document repository

Brian E Lavender — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Kevin will present his Byte Vision local document analysis tool.

This talk will be at the Bel Aire Arden. Note that the meeting will be on Monday, rather than the usual Tuesday.

4320 Arden Way
Sacramento, CA 95864

Formal Methods and Program Correctness

Brian E Lavender — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700

We will talk about the use of SPARK/Ada to verify program correctness using automated tools.

Tools / notes from meeting

Ada compiler in Fedora is GNAT
JGrasp visualization tool . We used this tool to view the Ada 95 tutorial programs. JGrasp will not parse SPARK directives.
Ada 95 tutorial.
Alire …

September General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700

We have a change of topic for the September meeting.

Have you ever used the Liferay Digital Experience Platform? The next meeting, we will do a little exploring in Liferay.

We will investigate Liferay form creation and special field types.

After meeting note

We attempted to create a simple form …

August General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700

We will return to Kupros for this meeting. It will be open discussion. Bring your gadgets, questions, and projects that you may be working on.

Kevin provide a preview for his Byte Vision local document analysis tool.

Brian

July General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700

We will discuss C# on GNU/Linux.

Many thanks to James at Strad Meadery for hosting SacLUG for the July meeting

Strad Meadery graciously provided their facility to us for hosting the meeting. James (from Strad Meadery) says that if we plan to eat during the meeting that we should …

June General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700

SacLUg at Kupros again!. This will be a social hangout. Bring whatever gadget or your favorite project or questions (maybe we can answer), and socialize.

May General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700

We will return to Kupros for this meeting. This will be a social hangout. Bring whatever gadget or your favorite project or questions (maybe we can answer), and socialize.

Third installment of Clojure

Brian E. Lavender — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0700

This is our third installment of Clojure. Once again, it is at the Raley’s 447 in Natomas.

4650 Natomas Blvd
Sacramento, CA 95835

More Clojure

Brian E. Lavender — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0800

More talk on Clojure! Diego will give us more details to using Clojure. It should prove interesting!

This time we will learn how to create a new endpoint, read query parameters, and learn how to use cookies in Clojure.

Note that this meeting is at the Raley’s in Natomas …

January General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0800

Social Meetup at Kupros. See you there. It appears that many of us have been using Thinkpads running GNU/Linux. Bring which gadget you have and hang out and socialize.

Brian

February General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0800

We will be at Bel Air Market at Arden. Please see the locations link to see the location.

Have you ever wanted to learn Lisp?

Clojure is a modern Lisp running on the Java Virtual Machine to build Web servers.

In this talk, we’ll learn a little bit about …

December General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0800

We will be at Kupros for this meeting. This will be a social hangout. Bring whatever gadget or your favorite project or questions (maybe we can answer), and socialize.

November General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0700

We will be at Kupros for this meeting. This will be a social hangout. Bring whatever gadget or your favorite project or questions (maybe we can answer), and socialize.

Thank you to everyone who came to this meeting!

October General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0700

We will return to Kupros for this meeting. This will be a social hangout. Bring whatever gadget or your favorite project or questions (maybe we can answer), and socialize.

September General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0700

We will explore integrating a React application into Liferay per David Nebingers blog post, From React App to React Client Extension in 5 Easy Steps.

August General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0700

We will be at the Bel Aire Something Extra Gather Room again on Arden.

More hands on demo with Spring Boot and React.

Full Stack Development with React

We will continue to walk through various aspects of the Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 3 and React: Build modern web …

July General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0700

We will be at the Bel Aire Something Extra Gather Room again on Arden.

The room has a large screen TV with HDMI in, so we will have some sort of hands on demo.

Full Stack Development with React

Just when you thought you had everything going with the older …

June General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0700

We will be back at Bel Aire in their meeting room.

Full Stack Development with React

We will walk through various aspects of the Full Stack Development with Spring Boot and React using Fedora 40.

Examples

Tools in use

Fedora 40
Eclipse
VS Code
MariaDB sudo dnf install mariadb-server
Postman …

April General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Social meetup at Kupros. Bring your gadget or just hang out talk GNU/Linux or whichever project you find interest in and/or working on.

Brian

May General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Social meetup at Kupros. Bring your gadget or just hang out talk GNU/Linux or whichever project you find interest in and/or working on.

Brian

March General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0800

Sen will talk about his embedded video player project! He gave a talk at a conference. You will definitely want to check out this talk!

Notes:

Sen gave a great presentation on his video player and provided an in depth discussion on the usage of different codecs and their availability …

February General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0800

We will be doing a social at Kupro’s. I didn’t book the room at Raley’s.

Brian

January General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0800

Social. Hang out and drink beer and talk GNU/Linux. If you have a gadget you have or some code, please bring it and show and tell.

Meeting notes

provided by Gary!

I’d like to thank Brian for hosting the group meeting at Kupros last night.

It was supposed …

Meet our new guy Sen

Brian E. Lavender — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0800

We will hang out and drink some beer and eat!

September General Meeting

Brian E. Lavender — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Meet to hang out and see if we can make some progress on the saclug site.

Dude, where is my car?

Brian E. Lavender — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0700