PLUG - Resources and Links Index

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User Groups

Portland Linux/UNIX Group (PLUG) -- or did you think we'd forget about ourselves?
Beaverton Linux/UNIX Group (BLUEgroup)
BizNix
Eugene Unix and GNU/Linux user Group
Greater Seattle Linux Users Group
Klamath Falls Linux Users Group
Linuxchix, a world-wide group dedicated to ``give women who use Linux a comfortable environment in which to discuss the OS they love" is organizing a local chapter in Portland.
Mid-Willamette Valley Linux Users Group
Perl Mongers, a Perl Users' Group, has an active chapter in Portand
Portland Area System Administrators (PASA)
Portland Java Users Group
Portland State Aerospace Society -- Rocket Scientists who use Linux to run their machines.
Portland Linux Users Group The other Linux User's Group in Portland.
Open Source Users Group at the University of Oregon
Tillamook Linux User Group -- ``an informal group of Linux users that meet once a month on the 3rd Monday at the Whiskey River Fish Hatchery to share our thoughts, ideas and experiences with Linux."
Tri Cities Linux Users Group
Vancouver, WA Linux User Group -- not the user group in the larger city located to the north in British Columbia

Other Linux User groups can be found at the following links for either Oregon or Washington.

Non-Profits Promoting Open Source

Free Geek not only diverts those old computers from a landfill by recycling their components, they also refurbish many of them, load them with Linux and give them a new life.
Open Source Development Labs (OSDL)
TeX Users Group (TUG) -- The world headquarters is located in Portland, Oregon.
Linux Fund
The Personal Telco project -- This began in a discussion at a PLUG meeting, and as a result Portland has the second largest number of registered nodes for any US city.

Companies Making (or Intending to Make) a Profit from Open Source

Iron Mountain Foundry, LLC
Microsharp
Pogo Linux, Inc.
Portland Group
SSC -- the publishers of Linux Journal
Wirex -- Sponsors of the Linux Security Module

Other companies can be found by using the search engine on the web page of the Software Association of Oregon

Consultants Specializing in Open source

Accelerated Learning Center
email - ed AT alcpress DOT com
Axian, Inc.
email - info AT axian DOT com
Cheep Geeks, Inc.
email - info AT cheepgeek DOT com
Magnet Internet
email - mking AT magnetinternet DOT com
David Mandel and Associates
email - dmandel AT DavidMandel DOT com
Naked Ape Consulting, Ltd.
email - info AT naked-ape DOT com
Ocean Consulting
email - molson AT oceanconsulting DOT com
PlasmaLink Web Services
email - phudec AT plasmalink DOT com
Rauhaus Networks
email - srau AT rauhaus DOT net
Stonehenge Consulting Services
email - merlyn AT stonehenge DOT com
Zot Consulting
email - info AT zotconsulting DOT com