2010.01.18 Meeting Notes

Location

Project Reports

• Installfests — Still looking for a venue. Always looking for volunteers.
• LERT — No recent activity.
• Library — Nick Schmalenberger grabbed the LUGOD Lending Library from Henry House and delivered them to Bill Kendrick, who extracted the titles that CSU Bakersfield's CS Department hoped to get. The remainder [ed: 3/5th, actually; a few boxes were forgotten!] were brought to tonight's meeting. A Solano Community College student grabbed some from that collection for their CS Department library, and the rest were placed out as freebies for meeting attendees.

Other Business

• News — No news.
• Financial Report — $196.76 in voluntary dues were collected tonight. An anonymous $100 donation towards food for tonight's meeting is on its way, as well.
• Becoming a UC Davis "Campus Affiliate Group" — Alex Mandel still needs to fill out the paperwork.
• Explorit membership — No report.
• Anniversary celebration — This meeting marked our 11th anniversary. We served free food, held a raffle, and had lots of give-aways.
  • LUGOD bought (with help from an offer of a $100 donation prior to the meeting) 8 pizzas from Village Bakery, as well as drinks, ice, veggies and dip, chips and serving-ware.
  • Gabriella Engelhard of Vevey Confections donated a cake.
  • Unexpected snacks were brought by Nick Schmalenberger (home-made apple dessert) and Steve Inness (cracker, cheese and meat plates).
  • Mike Simons and Daphne Pareas picked up the pizza and snacks, and helped prepare them prior to the meeting.
  • O'Reilly Media donated books for the raffle.
  • Liferay donated some t-shirts and polo shirts for the raffle.
  • Bill Kendrick brought a USB scanner as a freebie.
  • Nick Schmalenberger brought a VA Linux PS/2 keyboard for the raffle.

  Presentation

  • Wilson Man, Senior Software Engineer are Liferay, Inc., talked about Liferay Portal, Liferay Social Office, and what 'portlets' are, and briefly discussed developing portlets.
  • Presentation slides and links
  • Photos of this meeting

  Attendance

  • Approximately 45 people attended

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  Last updated: 2010 Jan 31 09:19