FSCK had its roots as TSLUG (Truman State Linux Users Group). It was founded by a group of Computer Science students in the Spring of 1999. Dr. Bindner was our founding advisor, Ben Story was the founding President and Tyler Schmidt was the founding Vice President. Although Linux centered, the group explored various open source software and interoperability of it with the Truman computing environment. The name was later changed to better reflect the mission of the organization.
The three Computer Science organizations at Truman State University put on a big event to promote Free Software and the use of GNU/Linux and Unix. On Sept. 30 - Oct 2, 2003 an interactive workshop was held to introduce people to GNU/Linux and Unix. It was a 6 hours long session targeted towards individuals who have minimal or no knowledge on these subjects. The workshop was held in Violette Hall 1232 for a fee of $10. We had a huge turn out, including some people who did not get to sign up, because we only had room to accommodate 30 people on the school computers and 6 more people who could bring their own laptops.
On Friday October 3, 2003 we had keynote speaker Richard Stallman. He gave a lecture plus Q&A session from 4:00-7:00 p.m. in Violette Hall 1000, a large lecture hall. Admission was free.
The final event on Sunday, October 5, 2003 from 11:00 - 4:00 in Violette Hall 1010 was an InstallFest where people could bring in their own systems and have students and professors assist them in installing an operating system on their machine.
If you couldn't make it to the workshops, you can still check out Getting Started With GNU/Linux which contains most of the topics that were presented; thanks to Jon Beck, Don Bindner, and Caleb Jorden.
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