Linux User Group Directory

linux.wauug.org was a shared home for the Linux user groups of the East Coast of the United States and a few friends across the border in Canada. This is the directory as it stood in the late 1990s, restored from the archive. Founding dates and meeting places are kept as they were recorded at the time.

East Coast US Linux User Groups

Boston Linux and Unix (BLU)

Boston, Massachusetts. Founded April 1994, one of the oldest groups on this list. www.blu.org

DC Linux Users Group (DCLUG)

Formerly DC-Linux. Meets in Bethesda, Maryland, usually at the National Institutes of Health. Founded July 1994. The group that started this server. See the full DC LUG page.

LUGMAN

Meets in Centreville, Virginia. Founded October 1994. Long-time partner of DCLUG on the Bethesda and Virginia installfests, and the home of the mini-installfest.

UMLUG

University of Maryland at College Park. Founded November 1995. The campus group whose AFS FAQ lived on this server for years.

Piedmont Linux User Group

Burlington, North Carolina. Founded January 1996.

RiVaLUG

Richmond, Virginia. Founded June 1997.

WPILA (WPI Linux Association)

Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded September 1997.

SMLUG

Southern Maryland. In the late 1990s it was still looking for members.

Eastern Canadian Linux User Groups

Scarborough Linux User Group

Near Toronto, Ontario.

OCLUG

Ottawa Carleton, Ontario. Founded March 1997.

Related Technical User Groups

Linux International

The non-profit that promoted Linux worldwide in the 1990s.

USENIX

The Advanced Computing Systems Association, formerly the Unix Users' Group. www.usenix.org

SAGE

The System Administrators Guild, with local chapters DC-SAGE (Washington, DC) and Old Bay SAGE (Baltimore, Maryland).

WAUUG

The Washington Area Unix Users' Group, Bethesda, Maryland. The U in our name, and the group this machine was first named for.

AWCNCC

Association for Women in Computing, Washington DC Chapter.