2011.10.17 Meeting Notes

Location

Project Reports

• Installfests — No report.
• Hands-On Demo — Nothing scheduled.

Other Business

• News —
  • Steve Jobs (Apple, NeXT) and Dennis Ritchie (C, Unix) have both died.
  • Sacramento Drupal group meets this Wed. (Oct. 19).
  • OLPC SF summit, Oct. 21-23.
  • Geospatial event, Oct. 22 @ UCD. RSVP.
  • Mountain View ACCU meeting, Oct. 25: "Programmers and Truthiness".
  • Ubuntu 11.10 has been released.
  • SF Science Hack Day takes place Nov. 12-13.
  • November's LUGOD meeting location and topic are not yet confirmed.
• Becoming a UC Davis "Campus Affiliate Group" — No report.
• Davis Community Network (DCN) Resource Allocation Committee) — No news.
• Financial Report —
  • $22.00 in donations were collected.
  • Financial documentation is up-to-date on lugod.org/devnull/
  • At long last, we've received a response from the California Franchise Tax Board (CAFTB). We are officially a tax-exempt group in CA. However, the letter lists our starting date as 3/9/2010, whereas our non-profit status with the IRS was as of 3/9/2000. Greg thinks it's likely that they mistyped, and will contact them for clarification.
• Officer Elections — Nominations for elected officers (root=president, sys=vice-president, typescript=secretary, and /dev/null=treasurer) are now open. If you'd like to nominate yourself, or someone else, for a position, please email the club secretary, Andrew Roach, at typescript@lugod.org.

Presentation

• Ariel Waldman, founder of SpaceHack.org and creator of SF Science Hack Day, discussed what it means to hack space exploration and science, why it's important, the motivations behind it, and what it means for the future of science.
• Photos of this meeting
• Presentation slides

Attendance

• Bill Kendrick
• Greg FitzGerald
• Steve Inness
• Thomas Turner
• Michael Seydel
• Mikel Mcdaniel
• Tim
• Paul
• Colin
• Charlie Shattuck
• Bill Broadley
• Ariel Waldman
• ... and 1 other