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Minutes 2008-01-17

2008-01-17

Lug Meeting January 17th, 2008

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Held Officer's Meeting on Tuesday

Lead Discussions
 Pre-Planned, Any member, something interesting to bring people to meeting
 Enough Content = won't be turned down

Fund Raising
 Need More money for server stuff
  Especially UPS, currently 25% capacity but only production machines
 Remote Hair Cutting?  only if linux powered
 Corey did Follow up on Doughnut distribution but person did not get back to him
 Fisher Lobby or Dow? both have regular bake sales
 What to sell?  what ever people are willing to make and bring
  Would like to have doughnuts

Events
 New Stuff!! New Ideas!! New Designs!!
 Mary Poster idea?
 Reserve table tent date
 In Meeting Table Tent Ideas
  On Board, Drawn by Steve, dictated by Mary
  Examples of events we might have?
  Send people to website
  Empty front? get people to open?
  Model Table tent on T-Shirts
  unzip|strip|touch|finger|mount|fsck|more|yes|umount|sleep
  Christian will do table tents  :( WHY OH WHY?!
 Demo's?
  Myth TV, Home brew PVR (it's like TiVo!)
  DRM stuff, restricted file formats
  Application Tour or Application Equivalents
  Compiz/Beryl?  Mary doesn't like it...
  Getting Steam to run.  maybe done by Dark
 Student Involvement Fair?
  Is it too late? we could burn stuff (CD's)
 Bonzai
  CS student Orgs party in CS labs
 Big banner thing for at tables at events
  Andrew will look into it
 OLED Ceiling Tiles?
  OMG *Feels Sick*

Old Hardware
 Not sure... weed out old hardware
 Donation Pile
 Stuff not claimed?  Stick in a dumpster or in front of we support

New Hardware
 Brian has donated usage of new machine
  NOT TO BE TAKEN APART OR THROWN OUT
  Judicial Services?
 Couple of Gigs of backup?
  They don't want idle stuff on there new spiffy fast stuff

Adviser
 Travels a lot that's why not around
 A thing he saw
  Whole management run through Wiki
  Agenda and minutes done through Wiki
  Status Reports through Wiki Logs
  Does Pictures
  Problems...  security?

Wiki Stuff
 Group from DCS?
  Dark, talk to Todd
  So stuff can be ISO password
 Put all of our stuff up on a Wiki like Adviser guy Saw
 Secondary Wiki?  no... not enough cause for it yet.

Server Admin Duties?
 Will propose update to server admin duties in the next two weeks

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