Linux Users' Group of Davis - "LUGOD 2001.05.21 Meeting Notes"

2001.05.21 Meeting Notes

Eazel shuts down. Nautilus is Open Source, so it's development should continue.
The movie "Shrek" was rendered with Linux systems. DreamWorks is switching from SGI to Linux!
Nokia announces the "Media Terminal," a Linux-based set-top device that can play games. Loki will be releasing titles for it.
A court ordered an IBM representative 30 hours of community service for spraypainting IBM's "Peace, Love and Linux" logos in Chicago.
2600 sued for putting up a site called "fordsucks.com". Ford has been suing numerous sites that supposedly infringe on their brand names (including some wildlife-related sites with the word "jaguar" in them!!)
Katje Sabin of the Davis Enterprise commended our public relations!

Demo - The next Demo will be May 26th at the Davis Food Co-Op.
Installfests - The last Installfest was yesterday. We had 8 installees. We are looking to secure a location for IFs during the summer - Richard Lowenberg of DCN and Kevin Murikoshi of the CS Club might be able to help. We may also consider contacting Explorit.
LERT - Nothing to report.
Library - We purchased two new books, including the excellent Advanced Perl Programming.
Linux Primer - Pete Salzman and Henry House (among others) are creating a document for new Linux users, which LUGOD can pass out at meetings and events.

Elections - No nominations were made, so no voting is necessary. Bill Kendrick remains root (President), Pete Salzman remains sys (Vice President), Jen Rutherford remains typescript (Secretary) and Rhonda Bailey remains /dev/null (Treasurer). We are considering voting only once a year or switching to "vote of non-confidence" to reduce voting-related overhead.
Financial Report - $44.40 in voluntary dues were collected.
Raffle - We gave away some prizes. Most notable was Mark Kim winning a second Ximian-Gnome plush monkey.

Brian Lavender of Worldcom in Sacramento talked about the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), and demonstrated it using roaming Netscape bookmarks and preferences.
Pete Salzman showed the Linux game "Jagged Alliance 2", a roleplaying strategy game created by Tribsoft.

"You call them foolish, but if it had worked, it would have been GENIUS" - Pete Salzman on Eazel not knowing how they'd make money
"I found a mate for the other one!" - Mark K. Kim, on winning a second Ximian-Gnome plush monkey.
"If you had n wifes, wouldn't you get n-1 convictions?"

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Last updated: 2001 Jul 18 16:03