The Portland Linux/Unix Group, also called the Portland Linux Users Group, (PLUG) is a group of Linux enthusiasts in Portland, Oregon. The group was started in early 1994 as a venue to discuss and promote Linux, and is one of the oldest Linux User Groups in existence. Its existence has contributed, in part, to the ___location of the Open Source Development Labs in the Portland suburb of Beaverton, as well as the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland three years in a row.
Note that this is not the same group as PDXLUG, which confusingly describes itself as a Portland Linux User Group.
PLUG's activities include the following:
- Active mailing lists - The group's general list averages between 800 and 1000 messages a month (as of 2004).
- Linux Advanced Topic Talk - A monthly meeting covering subjects that are considered too technical for average users.
- PLUG's Linux Clinic - A monthly installfest
- PLUG for Education - A group dedicated to promoting Linux for use in education.
Other groups and projects associated with PLUG include:
- CRIME -
- The Linux Fund - LinuxFund gives grants to worthy Open Source projects.
- FreeGeek - a not for profit community organization that recycles used technology to provide computers, education, Internet access and job skills training to those in need in exchange for community service.
- Personal Telco - a wireless community project. PersonalTelco is the reason Portland was declared the most Un-wired city in America in 2003.
- MWVLUG - The Mid-Willamette Valley Linux Users Group.