MTU LUG Meeting Minutes February 12th, 2009

Server Status
 Lego is missing
 Has not changed since last time
 Still needing to manually update some of our mirrors
 Kuk needs hardware
  $29.90 IDE cables
  $11.30 shipping
  $104.97 3G DDR 400
  Total 410.45
 Cables - yes
 Memory - Hold off for now.  We're not sure how much it takes

Installathon
 March 21
  Rooms weren't available so now a new dates
 Presentations
  Installing linux on game system 
   Wii
   Playstation 3
  Introduction to Ubuntu - Steve
  Video games in Wine - Dark-Fx
   Photoshop in Wine - Lenor
  Open Source Gaming - Christian
  Bash and Fortran - Pastore

Website
 Lenor - Update the CSS for the web page
 Is the wiki useful?
  Who has admin?
 Links back to the home page
` Christian: complete layout redesign
 Voted Lenor as website admin

LFS/Junkyard wars rules
 Still at same time
 2 weeks in our meeting room
 Facebook event?
 Teams?
  number of members effects judging
 Rules
  what ever is impressive to the judges?
  Points
   difficult hardware
   network
   X
   clustering application
   Number of machines
   Time spent working on build
  Allow them to have working computers on sight? 
  Netboot? if they build the server...
  Steve is providing a desktop for people to download stuff
  they can look stuff up on their own computer, but not connect it to their build (can't use it to download packages)
  Judge has discression over music in the room
  First one done? total time taken?
   Status at the end of the day
 Judges
  Steve
  Christian
 Reward?
  Thumb drives
  Floppy drives
  CD Drives
 Talk to Next Century
  Pastore will talk to Next Century and Computer Mechanix

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