2001.04.16 Meeting Notes

News

• Spindletop.com - an open source hardware co-op that formed an LLC to get funds to boost their non-profit, which helps get good equipment to open source programmers, cheaply.
• New Linux game company: Tripsoft.
• Microsoft "Clippy" is no more (as of Windows XP)
• Windows XP to have firewire support, but NOT USB 2.0
• RedHat 7.1 released; 2.4 kernel, USB support, updated XF86
• A company in Israel developed a mouse with braile pins, for the blind.
• Iomega to give $40 rebates to people who bought Zip drives between 1995 and March 2001. (Due to class-action suit regarding "Click of Death")
• Libranet Linux requiring people to pay for latest version of their Debian-based distro. (2nd-to-latest versions are free)
• Indrema (Linux-based game console) died, due to lack of funding.
• LUGOD's Mother.com account was disabled due to hacking; SSH on Mother.com was trojaned.
• Star Trek: Next Generation back on Fox 40.
• The Economist magazine publised pro-Open Source articles
• SacLUG lost its meeting place, due to Calweb changing their hours.

Committee Reports

• Demo - Next demo to be April 21st (UCD Picnic Day) at Border's Books, between 3pm and 6pm.

• DCN - No news.

• Other LUGs
  
  • Apr. 17th - BALUG meeting in SF. Topic still TBA!
  • Apr. 17th - MacNexus meeting in Sac. Adobe.
  • Apr. 21st - LUGOD holds Linux demo at Borders in Davis.
  • Apr. 21st/22nd - LUGFest in Simi Valley (near Los Angeles).
  • May 1st - LUGOD meeting. Cisco/Vovida on Open Source Voice over IP.
  • May 2nd - SVLUG meeting in San Jose. Mobile Linux "and other fun stuff."
  • May 3rd - SVBUG meeting in San Jose. Topic TBA.
  • May 14th - LUGOD meeting. Topic TBA; probably VMWare.
  • May 20th - Installfest in Davis.
  • June 6th - SVLUG meeting. Counterpane.
  • June 18th - LUGOD meeting. OpenGL.

• Installfests - April 15th IF cancelled due to Easter. Next IF will be May 20th.

• LERT - No news.

Other Business

• Pic*Nix - A LUGOD picnic was planned for this past weekend. Nobody who was planning on going was at the meeting, so we don't know if it even happened! :^)

• Linux Game Show - LUGOD contacted DCTV (Davis public access TV) regarding doing our Linux trivia gameshow on actual television. They seem very keen on the idea!

• Future Talks - Upcoming, currently unscheduled talks that LUGOD will be having will include: VMWare, Borland on Kylix, SETI@home, and more.

• Financial Report - $14.23 in voluntary dues were collected.

Presentation

• Mark K. Kim demonstrated "Blender," the free 3D modeling, rendering and animation program for Linux (and other OSes).

Presentation notes available
(External mirror)

Attendance

• Bill Kendrick
• Jim Riffel
• Jen Rutherford
• Mark Kim
• Foo Lim
• Henry House
• Eric Engelhard
• Stephen Helms
• Edwin Groot
• Brian Lavendar
• Melissa Hardenbrook
• Jeff Duncan
• Brad
• Steve Nguyen
• Jeff Rausch
• Monica Lau
• Steve
• Ryan
• Chris
• Eric Mullinix
• Jean

Quotes

• "I just use Linux because it doesn't piss me off as much as Windows" - Brad

Photos of this meeting