2001.08.20 Meeting Notes

News

• August 25th, Linux10 (10th anniversary BBQ/picnic in Sunnyvale)
• August 26-30, LinuxWorld Expo in SF
• August 27, LUGOD's Gabe Rosa to present SAMBA at RoseLUG in Roseville
• Sept. 4, Part 2 of The GIMP at LUGOD
• Sept. 16, LUGOD, SacLUG and RoseLUG's big Installfest in Sacramento
• Oct.2, MacOSX talk at LUGOD
• Loki Games files Chapter 11
• AbiWord 0.9 is out. Stable soon!

Project Reports

• Demo - No demo is scheduled, but one will probably take place on the 3rd Saturday of September. LUGOD is replacing the 50lbs 19" CRT monitor for the demo machine with a 15lbs 15" flatscreen LCD.

• Installfests - LUGOD, SacLUG and RoseLUG will be holding a join Installfest in Sacramento on Sept. 16th. Visit LUGOD's Installfest page for info. and to RSVP.

• LERT - No news.

• Library - A two-week maximum checkout time is now in place, since some items are being kept far too long. We also received "Gimp in 24 hours" and "vi IMproved".

Other Business

• Icecream FUNdraiser - The FUNdraiser we held for EFF a few months ago raised $33.48. LUGOD is donating a total of $100.00.

• Financial Report - $83.54 in voluntary dues were collected.

Presentation

• Bill Kendrick did a presentation on the basics of The Gimp.

  Slides are available: gimp1.sdd.gz (GZipped StarOffice presentation)

Attendance

• Bill Kendrick
• Melissa Hardenbrook
• Pete Salzman
• Joel Baumert
• Eric Engelhard
• Jeff Newmiller
• Marianne Waage
• Gabe Rosa
• Doug Barbieri
• Seth Nagao
• Lee Welters
• Lee Dutler
• Steven
• Susan
• Mark H
• Donald Dunn
• Tom P
• Jim
• Brett P
• Matt J
• Jamie
• Chris
• Gary
• Ryan
• Sam P
• Jeff R
• Gayle Lopez
• Debbie
• Henry
• Jeff Newmiller
• Verbus Counts
• Brian Lavender
• Stephen Helms
• Rhonda Bailey
• ... and 3 others

Quote of the Meeting

• "I started playing Carmaggedon at about 9am... I stopped at... 5pm" - Pete Salzman

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