[GLLUG] Meeting Minutes, 7 October 2004

[Charles Ulrich]

Greetings fellow LUG members. If you didn't attend the meeting, here's
all the cool stuff that you missed.

Vital Statistics
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14 people attended the meeting which started at 6:00PM and ended at 
approximately 9:00PM.

Official Business
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Jeff asked again for a volunteer to fill the positions of Publicity 
Director. We may have a treasurer, but we're waiting to hear back from 
him. Step up, if you can, because we could really use your help in 
deciding the feasibility of going non-profit.

We're also running dangerously low on upcoming presentations. Just think 
of something you know well and tell us about it. Even beginners are 
welcome to do presentations. Send a message to the list or to 
asenchi at asenchi.com to let us know and we'll do our best to pencil you 
in for a night that you'll be available.

Finally, we're also looking for volunteers to teach LPI sections. These 
are really easy since we have the course material already. All you have 
to do is go up in front of the class, follow the course material, and 
field questions. Piece of cake!

Presentation
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Charles (that'd be me) gave a presentation on rdiff-backup and other 
backup strategies and fielded a number of questions regarding backups, 
mirroring and filesystems.

General Banter
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There was discussion regarding the possibility of a group project to 
build a digital video recorder using Linux and PC hardware. The idea 
was that the group as a whole would do the research, decide on 
hardware, and build the system. Those who wished to have their own PVR 
would buy the same hardware as was used for the "prototype" and obtain 
a copy of the prototype's hard disk image also. One person would 
finance the prototype and then keep it after the project is over.

http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/

There also also discussion about various helpdesk request trackers. 
Request Tracker 1 (rt1) was mentioned as being in use at an MSU help 
desk, but lacked many potentially useful features. Rt3 was also used by 
some in attendance, but they disliked its large number of required Perl 
modules and insufficient performance. An alternative request tracker 
that was brought up was OTRS, but nobody had used it.

http://otrs.org

There was pizza.

Next Week's Meeting
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October 14, 2004, 6:00PM @ Atmosphere Annealing, Inc.

LPI Certification Training
by GLLUG Members

Want to learn about Linux but aren't sure where to start? Or would you 
like to bone up on your Linux mastery so you can ace the Linux 
Professional Institute certification exam? The GLLUG LPI certification 
training sessions may be the answer. While we don't provide the exam 
itself, we do present material straight out of IBM's DeveloperWorks LPI 
study guides so you will have all of the knowledge you'll need to run 
your own Linux machines in confidence and maybe even pass the LPI exam 
if you choose to take it. We'll have experienced LUG members there to 
teach the material and answer your questions in way too much detail and 
to top it off, these sessions are FREE.

Upcoming Events
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- 14 Oct LPI Certification Training
- 21 Oct Installfest and Beginner's Night
- 28 Oct Presentation

- 04 Nov Presentation
- 11 Nov Installfest and Beginner's Night
- 18 Nov LPI Certification Training
- 25 Nov [ No Meeting; Holiday ]

- 02 Dec Installfest and Beginner's Night
- 09 Dec Presentation
- 16 Dec LPI Certification Training
- 23 Dec [ No Meeting; Holiday ]
- 30 Dec [ No Meeting; Holiday ]

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