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title: "About"
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date: 2022-10-03
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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.
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## Activities
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1. **[Linux installfests](https://linux.ucla.edu/installfest.html)**: on the 2nd Friday of every quarter.
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1. **Linux Help & Advice**: in office hours and Discord.
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1. **Tech Talks**.
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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.
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1. **Mirrors**: to give students quick access to Linux Distros and Software.
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## Visit us
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[**Join our Discord server**](https://discord.gg/EmGKCa48R6)
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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)!
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There is a makerspace on the floor below us, where you can go and 3D print things (as well as lasercut them).
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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. |