[GLLUG] T-Shirt

Mon Jun 6 08:50:06 EDT 2005

Hey guys,

LPI sent me an XL T-Shirt covered w/ Penguins.  I'll donate it to GLLUG
as a swag gift if you guys want it!  Maybe a door prize or something

Mark Lachniet 

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>    1. GLLUG Meeting Minutes for June 2, 2005 (Charles Ulrich)
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> From: Charles Ulrich <dincht at securenym.net>
> Subject: [GLLUG] GLLUG Meeting Minutes for June 2, 2005
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> Project Status
> 
> MythTV: 
> 
> There was one person (sorry, don't recall the name; pipe up 
> if it's you!) attempting to get the KnoppMyth box to retrieve 
> TV listings from an Internet source. Unfortunately, the 
> machine won the battle that night.
> 
> Penguicon Computer Lounge:
> 
> There was a lot of discussion regarding what we can do for 
> the Penguicon computer lounge next year. As stated before, 
> the goal of this project is to turn next year's lounge into a 
> kind of showcase for open source software. The first thing 
> that we know we want: a terminal server. For those not 
> familiar with terminal servers, applications typically run on 
> the server, and accept input and display their output on many 
> thin client displays.
> 
> Jeff Lawton, President of GLLUG, has offered to provide 
> hardware for the server and possibly some terminals as well. 
> The rest of the terminals (we're planning for up to 20 total) 
> and peripherals will be acquired by soliciting 
> pseudo-donations of hardware.
> 
> Pseudo-donations resemble regular donations, except the 
> donator gets their hardware back after Penguicon is over. 
> Starting around January, myself along with possibly a few 
> others will be campaigning for hardware pseudo-donations. 
> We'll be aiming primarily at those actually attending 
> Penguicon so that they can just drop the hardware off at the 
> lounge when they get there and check in on it as often as 
> they like. Those who won't be attending the con but would 
> still like to donate the use of some stuff can arrange for a 
> drop-off or pick-up in the Lansing area.
> 
> We suspect that the biggest thing we'll need is 
> decent-quality monitors. At first we'll be asking for the use 
> of at least 17-inch CRT monitors or any size LCDs. (Laptops 
> are good too.) We'd like to be able to show off the shiny 
> modern Linux desktop the best that we can. Let's face it: 
> *nothing* looks good on a fuzzy Packard Bell 14-inch CRT with 
> a failing blue electron gun and a big "Free Kevin" bumper 
> sticker pasted to the side. If we're getting too close to the 
> deadline and not enough good monitors have turned up, THEN 
> we'll break down and take what we can get. But there's a good 
> chance that it won't have to come to that.
> 
> Another part of the project that will officially be in the 
> works is a Linux distribution burning station (catchy name 
> needed). The idea is that a user can walk up to the machine, 
> put a disc (or multiple discs) into a drive (or multiple 
> drives), select their distro, and burn it straight to the CD(s). 
> These was discussion on ways to isolate the drives from the 
> user via some sort of auto-loading system, but it was decided 
> that this would probably prove too complex and failure-prone.
> 
> The station itself shouldn't be terribly difficult to set up. 
> The hardest part will be writing a simple user interface for 
> selecting and burning the distributions or adapting some 
> existing tool for the job. Matt Graham has volunteered for 
> this task. I will be aiding him with this, but anyone else 
> who is interested is welcome to help out as well.
> 
> There are lots of other things we can do in the lounge as 
> well. At Penguicon 3.0, the computer lounge was the one area 
> of the whole con where space wasn't exactly at a premium. 
> Other ideas for demonstrating the power of open source
> are:
>  * A small selection of pre-burned live CDs for people who 
> haven't yet gotten around to trying Linux
>  * A MythTV demo
>  * An Asterisk demo
>  * An Installfest panel. I think the Metro Detroit LUG has 
> sponsored these in previous years... we'll have to get with 
> them to see if they plan to do the same for next year and if 
> they want our help and/or use of the lounge.
>  * Propaganda. Signs and pamphlets describing the technology 
> that we're showing off so that the lounge doesn't just look 
> like an assortment of computers thrown together for our own 
> amusement. (Which, to a degree, it will be. :P)
> 
> Finally, we'll need some staffing. Ideally, we'll want at 
> least two people on duty in the lounge at all times. One 
> person to administer to the needs of the technology and its 
> users, and another with the sole responsibility of keeping an 
> eye on everything to make sure none of the hardware walks 
> away. We may be able to offer some compensation for this. 
> Previous Penguicon policy has held that people who volunteer 
> for X number of hours (I think six?) were eligible for a 
> refund of their Penguicon registration. We'll get more 
> details on this.
> 
> Whew. I may have set a record for longest meeting minutes 
> ever. The following weeks' minutes will hopefully not be this 
> verbose and will concentrate on status updates instead. Part 
> of the reason that they're this lengthy is because I won't be 
> able to make it to the next two meetings due to short-notice 
> scheduling conflicts and I wanted to get a brain-dump of 
> everything in my head out to the list. This is a bummer, 
> since I really wanted to be there for this. Maybe someone can 
> use these notes to be an acting project lead. Also, we can 
> hopefully schedule a few meetings early next year to work on 
> the project and/or form some kind of subcommittee for it.
> 
> Oh, and there was pizza.
> 
> Charles
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