{"id":2,"date":"2010-08-19T00:43:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T00:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.cialug.org\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-02-19T19:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T01:12:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cialug.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are We?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are a group of Free *nix Enthusiasts who all happen to live in Central Iowa. Our experience levels range from those who are just starting to play with Linux to seasoned professionals who have been with it since the very beginning.<\/p>\n<h3>When Do We Meet?<\/h3>\n<p>We meet on the third Wednesday of each month at 7 pm. Check out the <a href=\"\/?page_id=233\">Events Schedule<\/a> for the complete list.<\/p>\n<h3>Why Should You Come?<\/h3>\n<p>Well, first of all, we&#8217;re a fun group of intelligent people. Secondly, you might learn something that would be useful later in life. Lastly, you might find some good professional contacts.<\/p>\n<h3>How To Communicate With Us:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IRC:<\/strong> connect to <a href=\"ircs:\/\/irc.libera.chat:6697\">irc.libera.chat:6697 (TLS)<\/a> and \/join #cialug (we are no longer using our old free node channel)<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"\/mailman\/listinfo\/cialug\">Mailing List<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cialug.slack.com\">Slack Team<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAAMAAPGUL_tUQTI5SkM3NTVWOEhWUVpBQ1BVTU0xUEVSUi4u\">Join<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Some of our members have blogs. You can follow recent postings in the sidebar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a title=\"Notes from our past meetings\" href=\"\/?page_id=59\">Meeting Notes<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Notes, links, and more information from past meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCQjWbkKyJ83_5Ti64Lk74_g\">Meeting Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a group of Free *nix Enthusiasts who all happen to live in Central Iowa. Our experience levels range from those who are just starting to play with Linux to seasoned professionals who have been with it since the very beginning. When Do We Meet? We meet on the third Wednesday of each month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cialug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cialug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cialug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cialug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cialug.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.cialug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/www.cialug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cialug.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}