1999.02.23 Meeting Notes

Once again we met at Steve's Pizza. We ended up in the not-quite-back room, which turned out to be a bit of an annoyance. Though we had plenty of room, there was background noise. sys is going to be calling further ahead of time to prevent this from happening again. :)

• Please be sure to sign up to the mailing list! All announcements from now on will be through there.
• Amendments to the LUGoD Constitution
  • Yolo to be changed to Yolo county in Artcle 2, Number 3
  • Changing the policy of voting on a matter brought up at a meeting in Article 5:
    "In the absence of objection to voting, a vote will take place immediately. Otherwise uoting will take place at the next meeting."
• Dan Benson from the OCA announced an upcoming talk:
  • Wes Hardacre, programmer of the UCD SNMP will be talking
  • Where: 1131 Engineering 2 on UCD campus, 1st floor conference room
  • When: March 10, 5pm
  • Possibly form a group and head to Sudwerks later
  • He hopes to get more open source contributors together for recognition, sharing, and talks.
• Make sure to reserve a place farther in the future, so we don't get stuck in a room full of screaming babies and drink vending.
• Installfest suggestions
  • spreading info, if not necessarily Linux CDs
  • maybe a table by the MU, Farmer's Market, or picnic day
• Linux in the News
  • There was a CNN show on Linux, mostly RedHat, at 10p, Feb 24
  • Linux-thing on local public TV. It was lousy and the guy didn't know what he was talking about.
  • Pro-linux article in PCWeek
  • SacBee article about Linux's recent backing by big companies, IBM, Dell, etc.
• Microsoft Update 99: Several people volunteered to pass out pro-Linux flyers and pamphlets at the MS update, Feb 26 in MU 2.
  • The talks targeted were:
    • 1:00 - 2:30p: Office 2000 overview
    • 2:45 - 4:15p: Windows 2000/Windows NT
  • Marianne Waage will make pamphlets if text is provided for her
  • Cross-mail info to oca list: oca-users@ucdavis.edu