2000.05.15 Meeting Notes

News

• Motif has been released as source code under a non-free license (restricted use).
• In Sunday's Sacramento Bee newspaper, James Glick's take on the ILOVEYOU virus was that it used a feature in MicroSoft software that MS put there to control the desktop. Ironically, this was originally written for Slate (Microsoft's magazine).

Committee Reports

• Demo - Henry House is our new public outreach officer and Demo Committee chair. VA Linux is providing LUGOD a Pentium III computer and monitor (equipped with "Quake 3!") on an extended loan. It should arrive in a few weeks.

• Installfest - The next IF will be this Sunday, May 21, from 10am to 6pm, Room 1131, Engineering Unit II, UC Davis. Evan Scarisbrick will be in charge, since Pete will be out of town. LUGOD will be offering free installs and help fixing broken systems. To attend, RSVP Pete via the online form. We also are looking for installers.

• LERT - LERT received $15 in donations in the past two weeks.

Other Business

• Financial Report - We collected $41.25 in voluntary dues and a LERT deposit from Pete Salzman.

• Installfest - The next installfest will be Sunday, May 21st.

Presentation

• Bill Saphir of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory spoke about the use of Linux for Scientific Computing (including the topic of clusters).

  Notes will be available...

Attendance

• Bill Kendrick
• Henry House
• Jen Rutherford
• Seth Nagao
• Joel Baumert
• Pete Salzman
• Rhonda Bailey
• Bill Saphir
• Remington Stone
• Ted
• Teddi
• Laura Winkelbauer
• Bill Broadley
• Michael Huntington
• John Wagner
• John Kinsella
• Angie Glascow
• Drew Parsons
• Mike Simons
• Zach Johnson
• Bob George
• Paul Condon
• Bill Snell
• Paul Romberg
• Erik Engelhard
• Gabe Rosa
• Nicole Carlson
• Brennon Reynolds
• ... and 4 others

Quote of the Week

"Games, pornography, and MP3's are powering the technology." - Bill and Pete.