Re: [Fwd: Re: first meeting]

[Christian Jacobsen <cjjacobs@xxxxxxx>]

Was a decision on the location ever reached?  if so... what the heck is
it?


On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 16:39 -0400, Tim Carmean wrote:
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> Subject: Re: first meeting
> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:57:06 -0400
> From: Kyle Schneider <kwschnei@xxxxxxx>
> To: Tim Carmean <tecarmea@xxxxxxx>
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> A MUB room would be a good idea IMO, more comfortable, better
> environment.
> 
> Kyle Schneider
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> On Aug 29, 2004, at 3:46 PM, Tim Carmean wrote:
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> | OK so its getting to be about that time again for a new year of lug
> | meetings!  I was talking to some people and I think the general
> | concensus is to keep meetings on thursdays at 7pm.  I have heard some
> | input that people might want to look into moving the location to some
> | place with wifi (like the mub).  If we wanted to move to the mub we'll
> | have to make a decision soon because those rooms go fast.  It makes no
> | difference to me so maybe I'll start a thread.
> |
> | Hopefully this being a new year we'll see some new faces at the
> | meetings.  If this is the first message you are seeing to this list let
> | me be the first to welcome you.  If you are currently running linux or
> | some other unix variant then thats great!  If you are looking for help
> | to get your linux system up and running then you have come to the right
> | place.  We're a fun bunch of geeks and we enjoy helping out with
> | whatever we can.
> |
> | So last year we left some ideas up in the air for this year.  Lets
> | recap
> | a little bit.  We have funding from USG this year to do things like
> | installathons and giveaways and the like.  We need to make sure that we
> | take full advantage of this money.  It looks like Penguicon is going to
> | fall close to finals week in the spring so we'll have to look into that
> | a bit more.  We need to get things squared away for K-Day.  As of right
> | now I don't believe we have any CD's in the works.  Knoppix was a good
> | idea last year and Knoppix 3.4 is extremely nice.  Knoppix 3.6 was
> | recently released but I haven't played much with it.  I still stick to
> | my opinion that Gnome is a better DE to give to a new user and I think
> | there was a new version of Gnoppix with Gnome 2.6 out.  K-Day should be
> | at the top of the agenda.
> |
> | Presentations:  Last year I did a presentation on AutoFS and
> | integrating
> | it with Hotplug for automounting of removable media.  Over the summer I
> | looked into what is known as Project Utopia.  Project Utopia is a
> | combination of a few things from the freedesktop project such as hal
> | and
> | dbus, udev, and the Gnome Volume Manager.  The result is absolutely
> | beautiful integration of removable media into your Linux desktop.  I'll
> | plan to give a quick presentation on the projector with that one night.
> | ~ If anyone has any other presentation ideas we'd love to hear them.
> |
> | Ok so that about wraps up this huge email.  I'll be waiting for
> | feedback
> | from everyone on date, time, and location.
> |
> | Tim
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