2009.01.19 Meeting Notes

Location

Project Reports

• Installfests — The next IF will either be on Sat. 1/24 or Sat. 1/31, depending on what venue we can get.
• LERT — No news.
• Library — No change. (Unfortunately, LUGOD library not brought to tonight's meeting for give-aways, as planned.)

Other Business

• 10th anniversary celebration — Tonight's meeting marked LUGOD's 10th birthday, so we celebrated with:
  • Various give-aways, including gigantic collections of Linux Journal magazines donated by Mike Simons and Tedd Depner
  • A raffle of prizes:
    • Books from O'Reilly Media (Ubuntu Kung Fu, Perl 6 and Parrot, Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, Python for Unix and Linux Sys Admins, Version control with Subversion, The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD and Eclipse, Linux Pocket Guide
    • T-Shirts from O'Reilly Media
    • Notebads from Google
    • Tux penguin mugs from LUGOD members Scott and Kate Miller
    • Compaq Tux penguin PEZ dispensers, Linux Music and Sound and Programming Linux Games, and a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 PDA plus accessories from LUGOD member Bill Kendrick
    • A Linux t-shirt from LUGOD member Steve
  • 8 Village Bakery pizzas, chips, veggies and drinks (from LUGOD)
  • A personalized LUGOD anniversary cake from LUGOD member Eric Engelhard and his wife Gabriella, of Vevey Confections
  • A failed attempt at calling Pete Salzman, who founded LUGOD in 1999 (and now lives in New Jersey)
  Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen!
• News — The next LUGOD meeting will be February 16th, and feature a Rave talk from Spectsoft.
• Financial Report — $290.00 in voluntary dues were collected. (That includes a $200 donation from Tim Riley.)

Presentation

• Allison Randal, chief architect of the Parrot project, talked about this Virtual Machine for dynamic languages (such as Perl, Python and PHP).
• Presentation slides (112KB PDF)
• Photos of this meeting

Attendance

• At least 80 people (no attendance taken, due to the sheer number of attendees, and lack of time)
• Only one was trapped in the library after we locked up for the night.