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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