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title: "About"
date: 2022-10-03
type: "page"
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**Linux Users Group at UCLA (LUG@UCLA)** goal is to promote computer users freedom with Linux and other Free/Open Source software.

## Activities

1. **[Linux installfests](https://linux.ucla.edu/installfest.html)**: on the 2nd Friday of every quarter.
1. **Linux Help & Advice**: in office hours and Discord.
1. **Tech Talks**.
1. **[Edit-a-thons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit-a-thon)**: Bi-quarterly group editing events aimed to contribute to free knowledge on Wikipedia, and other Linux Wikis.
1. **Mirrors**: to give students quick access to Linux Distros and Software.


## Visit us
[**Join our Discord server**](https://discord.gg/EmGKCa48R6)

If you want help installing Linux or just want to eat  and hang out, come to installfest!  The [LUG Lounge](https://linux.ucla.edu/wiki/index.php/Lounge),  at **Boelter Hall 2763**, is a meeting/study/hangout  place for the group and facilitates a lot its activities. Feel free  to stop by and meet other Linux users (as well as people in ACM and UPE)!   


There is a makerspace on the floor below us, where you can go and 3D print things (as well as lasercut them). 

There is also a trash heap outside the first floor (next to the  Engineering IV building), where you can sometimes find old  monitors/computers and old networking equipment.