2008-10-30

MTU LUG Meeting Minutes October 30th, 2008

Server

• We're maxing our pipe out and it's fine
• Slow Progress on Kuk

LAN Party

• Only 28 people
• They don't need us or our switches anymore
  • They didn't like how much logo space we wanted

Penguicon

• Want Registration, E-mail Steve

Shirts

• Need to think of Ideas
• Previously we had competition
• Mary designed the old ones
  • She's not here anymore
• A new Design would encourage Alum and people with shirts to get new ones

Spring Installathon

• Tentatively the weekend after Career Fair
  • February 21st
• Ideas? Changes? Comments?
• Coerse CS classes to offer Extra Credit
  • SysAdmin class is in Spring
• It's a lot easier to install Linux than a few years ago
  • How do we update Installathon?
• Mostly we help with weird hardware and odd laptops
• More Distros Present
  • CRUX? Arch Linux?
• Games during install
  • ET on demo machines
  • Doom Sysadmin
• Free Pie
• Merchandising
  • Shirts
• Two Rooms?
  • Partition to separate Presentations
• Table Tents
• More Exciting Presentation
  • Getting Portal to Run in Wine
• More Useful presentation
  • Getting your Laptop to Sleep and Resume
  • Getting Wireless to work
• Actually Give out Official CD's
  • Someone going to Order them Now?
  • We're one of the Top Mirrors for Ubuntu we should ask for express delivery
  • We're requesting 60
• Linux From Scratch Marathon!
  • Junk Yard Wars?
    • Build the computer from scratch
    • Then Linux From Scratch
    • Noon one day to Noon next day
  • Instead of Installathon

PR Person

• It's in the Constitution
  • People that want it: Sean Bulger, Markus
  • Vote! almost unanimous for Sean
  • Sean leaves next semester. Markus when Sean leaves?
• Ideas
  • More Events
    • LFS Race, Open Source LAN party, Presentations
  • Posters for Around Campus
• Linux Format magazine Discounts?
  • Like $25 an issue
  • Cause we're a student group
• Giant Paper Mache Penguin in front of EERC Tree?
  • 40 foot Penguin Attacking the EERC?
• Carnival events?
  • Glenda Statue?!
    • Also Tux, Puffy, BSD Daemon, The Gnu
• Linux Advocacy, See Ruckus
  • Linux is disappearing from most of the Labs on campus
  • Departments might not want to switch
    • but might be forced to maintain interoperability

Campus Network update

• Most recent network outage was from inside resnet
  • Possibly one of the network devices
• This brought up by network outage during meeting

Where is Byan?

• He came this time!
• How to set up a checking account?
  • Get the forms from the credit union
  • Steve can go up to the credit union
• Schedule time in budge hearing
  • Money for installathon
  • Need receipt from Film Board

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