Meeting Notes for 20030116

[Jonathan Nicol]

Just talked to my friend Andrew who manages the MGH collabs for sacg. He
said we could probably use a lab for an installfest on an evening or
weekend.


Jonathan,

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Jonathan Nicol, Client Services
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On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Richard Lotz wrote:

> Maybe 7-8 people showed up total (not all at once).  I was out of there
> by 15:00, so hopefully no one tried coming by after that.
>
> Good news is that the Ethernet is free, I knew they didn't have any
> control over the infrastructure there.  So, if/when future meetings are
> desired we can reserve rooms in the HUB for 2 hours with out any fee.
>
> Mostly just a bunch of slacking and discussing potential meeting topics:
>
> * Ruby
>
> A few people expressed interest in learning something about Ruby.  It
> sounds like Evan is willing to talk something about it.  Perhaps this
> should be our next official meeting?
>
> * Install Fest
>
> I've had a few people express their ability to help at an install fest.
>   Not enough to keep it fully staffed but it is a start.  Obviously an
> install fest would be most useful to the rest of the campus population
> as (one would presume anyway) that everyone here already has Linux/BSD
> etc installed.  For an install fest to happen we'd  need a room with
> Ethernet and plenty of power for at least 3 hours (ideally 5 or more).
> I've heard rumors that we might be able to get access to the MGH
> colabs.  If this *is* possible we /might/ be able to use the monitors
> there so that no one has to cart around 17-21 inch monitors around
> campus (especially with limited car access to buildings).  Also, I (or
> if someone else wants to organize it) would need to look into drafting
> (or reusing) some waiver before anyone touches a system.  At least I
> don't want anyone to come bitching to me because they lost 5 years of
> quicken data and favorites when their windows partition is accidently
> fdisked.
>
> * Perl DBI
>
> William said that he could discuss DBI a bit if people are interested
> in it.  This would include at least some cursory discussion of SQL and
> databases.
>
> * GDB
>
> I have someone ( a coworker ) that is willing to give a GDB talk,
> however he won't be available until March.
>
> * Wireless AP
>
> I can give a demo of setting up Linux to be a Wireless access point.  I
> realize that some people might not have a lot of use of a demo on a
> soekris board (since not many people have one and they are $200+ for
> just the board, you still need a WiFi card.  If people are interested
> in howto/demo of how to install linux and set it up as a wireless AP +
> captive portal then let me know which would be the preferred format.
> a) on a soekris embedded PC, or b) on a low end PC.
>
> * GSLUG Meetings
>
> So, even before I was president (or what ever I am) of the LUG this
> wasn't a very meeting oriented group.  If people do like the meeting
> format there is the Greater Seattle Linux Users Group.  Perhaps people
> could organize meeting carpools down to GSLUG?  Alternatively if any of
> you have ties to GSLUG and could persuade some of their speakers to
> present to the UW we could consider that as well.
>
> Other random topics:
>
> * Pickles and Fries
>
> What the hell is with "special sauce" and if you want to charge me $5+
> for a vegi burger, a small fry, and $0.12 worth of soda you better be
> willing to do a "special order" and take the stupid mayo derived
> special sauce off.
>
> -richard
>
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