BerkeleyLUG meetup this Sunday 2025-11-09, Chromebooks offer
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Aaron
Nov 5, 2025, 11:47:22 PM (23 hours ago) Nov 5
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Hi all,
Timely notice here of the first Berkeley Linux User Group meetup of the month.
Both the virtual and the in-person physical meetups start at 11:00am _PST_ this upcoming Sunday, November 9th, and go to 2:00pm or however late people want to participate.
Please see the currently available meetup schedule at https://berkeleylug.com/meetings graciously provided by Michael P for further BerkeleyLUG meetup details.
Info of _BerkeleyLUG's_ virtual meetup thru Jit.si Meet ...
https://meet.jit.si/BerkeleyLUG
Dial-in: +1.512.647.1431 PIN: 1036 1972 20#
The in-person physical meetup will be at SoDoI Coffee Tasting House
2438 Durant Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94704-1611
1-510-990-6487
+ SoDoI is located slightly West of Telegraph Ave in the parallel corridor of several stores between Durant and Channing, under parking structure
+ SoDoI Coffee Tasting House webpage is at https://sodoicoffee.com/company/tasting-house/ and Michael's location-directions and parking info are at the Meetings webpage https://berkeleylug.com/meetings .
+ An OpenStreetMap.org approximation for locating SoDoI Coffee Tasting House is at https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/41746370 -- although likely best to instead refer to Michael's written directions at the Meetings webpage https://berkeleylug.com/meetings .
+ Yelp writeup is at https://www.yelp.com/biz/sodoi-coffee-tasting-house-berkeley-2
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In addition and for those who may be interested, am informed that SF-LUG participant John Strazzarino is giving away some Chromebooks he and his contacts at Straycap Makerspace in Hayward acquired and revamped with Lubuntu 25.10 courtesy of FixitClinic's Peter Mui and others.
They are Dell Chromebook 11 3180 machines with 4GB RAM and 16GB eMMC storage. AC charging adapters are included with these.
Would estimate that the Chromebooks are most useful for standard, low-resource-requiring productivity tasks carried out visiting public WiFi locations and/or while travelling, e.g., web-browsing, sending email, transfering files to/from the Chromebook via its external USB ports, writing short notes, viewing images, viewing PDFs, ...etc.
For further info on freely obtaining one of these Chromebooks with Lubuntu installed, you can contact John via...
jstrazzarino(at)gmail.com
415-608-4222
Cheers :-)
Timely notice here of the first Berkeley Linux User Group meetup of the month.
Both the virtual and the in-person physical meetups start at 11:00am _PST_ this upcoming Sunday, November 9th, and go to 2:00pm or however late people want to participate.
Please see the currently available meetup schedule at https://berkeleylug.com/meetings graciously provided by Michael P for further BerkeleyLUG meetup details.
Info of _BerkeleyLUG's_ virtual meetup thru Jit.si Meet ...
https://meet.jit.si/BerkeleyLUG
Dial-in: +1.512.647.1431 PIN: 1036 1972 20#
The in-person physical meetup will be at SoDoI Coffee Tasting House
2438 Durant Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94704-1611
1-510-990-6487
+ SoDoI is located slightly West of Telegraph Ave in the parallel corridor of several stores between Durant and Channing, under parking structure
+ SoDoI Coffee Tasting House webpage is at https://sodoicoffee.com/company/tasting-house/ and Michael's location-directions and parking info are at the Meetings webpage https://berkeleylug.com/meetings .
+ An OpenStreetMap.org approximation for locating SoDoI Coffee Tasting House is at https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/41746370 -- although likely best to instead refer to Michael's written directions at the Meetings webpage https://berkeleylug.com/meetings .
+ Yelp writeup is at https://www.yelp.com/biz/sodoi-coffee-tasting-house-berkeley-2
--
In addition and for those who may be interested, am informed that SF-LUG participant John Strazzarino is giving away some Chromebooks he and his contacts at Straycap Makerspace in Hayward acquired and revamped with Lubuntu 25.10 courtesy of FixitClinic's Peter Mui and others.
They are Dell Chromebook 11 3180 machines with 4GB RAM and 16GB eMMC storage. AC charging adapters are included with these.
Would estimate that the Chromebooks are most useful for standard, low-resource-requiring productivity tasks carried out visiting public WiFi locations and/or while travelling, e.g., web-browsing, sending email, transfering files to/from the Chromebook via its external USB ports, writing short notes, viewing images, viewing PDFs, ...etc.
A couple of Dell Chromebook 11 3180 Specifications and Review websites are
https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/dell-chromebook-3180For further info on freely obtaining one of these Chromebooks with Lubuntu installed, you can contact John via...
jstrazzarino(at)gmail.com
415-608-4222
Cheers :-)
-Aaron
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