MTU LUG Meeting Minutes September 25th, 2008

Server Status
 Website
  People that said they'd look into it aren't here
 Not Changed since last week
 Need to move our extra computer (GZ) out of my dining room.
 it was suggested that we figure out how to get more power ($$)
 We have no idea where our power is coming from.
 Mirror ideas? forward to agmeyer@mtu.edu
  OpenBSD? we already have an on campus mirror (CEC)
  FreeBSD? they don't let people mirror them

Where's Byan?
 *Shrugs*

Installathon
 Peninsula room reserved from 11am-6pm October 11th.
 Advertising
  Film Board thingy *almost* done.  should be up this weekend (we got extension)
 Install linux then not tell them how to use it until they come to meetings?
  (Hold them hostage) hehe
 Presentations should be done by next week

Penguicon
 Who wants to go?
  Andrew, Brandon, Marchus, Alex, Fey, Christian, Steve
 When is it in relation to exams?
 We get $400 from USG for people to go.
 Registration is $35 a person
 Hotel is $94 a night group rate
 $$$ transportation
 Registering the week after Installathon

LAN party
 Borrow our Switches for LAN party in wads
 * in E. Mcnair wants to run LAN party in W.M. Lounge
  maybe later run a campus wide one
 Borrow our 3 24-port switches
 Dr. Merkey, 72port switch in his office
 We'll advertise heavily so they know where their fun came from
  Put out our donation bin

Unicode on IRC
 Random odd characters make managing things on IRC very difficult
 Steve and Jon wrote module for Unicode on server
 Mostly just rule out non-printing characters
 for a Unicode Nick make first character an underscore "_" ?

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