This last saturday, K-Slug held it’s first ever Hacker Saturday. You might be asking, what’s that? Well, it’s a time to get together and work on side projects that many of us have as well as solve Linux related problems. Most of us don’t get around to working on our side projects and they tend of slide out of existence. The idea behind Hacker Saturday was to provide an opportunity to get together with friends to work and get help on our projects.

We met at the Bluestem Bistro and set our laptops up. For this being a Linux Users Group, there sure seemed to be a lot of Apple hardware present. We even heard one girl say, “Wow, look at all the Macs in there.” But MacOS X being built on a Unix base, plus just being a good OS, makes it acceptable to us (execpt Toebee). We ended up having about 6 to 8 people show up, with two ACM guys stopping by too. Once we were setup, we worked on projects from 17:00 to 20:00. Most of the work, was tweaking installs and getting eye-candy like XGL and OS X’s quake-like terminal running. As far as actual projects go, there were plans made to revive the web based CourseScheduler killer, which I would really like to see get finished.

All-in-all it was a great time and Bluestem Bistro had some great food too. K-Slug has the same room reserved next Saturday from 17:00 to 20:00, so come out if you want to work on a project or if you have any Linux problems that need solving.

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