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Minutes 2010-03-25

2010-03-25T23:46:22Z

Ehntoo: New page: <pre> 0. Officer's Reports Budget not looking good. We should appeal. We're mirroring Unity, a distribution designed to be the base of other distributions. Servers are happy,...

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0. Officer's Reports
Budget not looking good. We should appeal.
We're mirroring Unity, a distribution designed to be the base of other distributions.
Servers are happy, including Fedora.
Sekhmet may be gaining faster processors this eve.
1. Installathon
April 3 MUB Commons
EDS Ads have been registered
Table tents will be created
No filmboard slides
Posters early next week. (Sunday)
Sign up for presentations
Need to run through presentations with an officer beforehand
Location/Date to be decided (watch your email)
10. Student Activities Fee
We need to use ours
Need documents for things we're paying for
Penguicon expenses
Deadline coming up soon
11. Conventions
Notacon Contingent cannot be led by Andrew Meyer
Parents fund won't fund it due to time constraints
Anyone else to pick it up?
100.Open Floor
New Compiz - Ubuntu may catch it for 10.04
Neat OS feature - ctl>alt>del invoke xkill?
101.Presentation
Andrew has toys.
He has a clock from adafruit industries.
Monochron - plays pong to tell the time
http://www.ladyada.net/make/monochron
Also has a mintyboost, but it's not here.
Possible Sekhmet processors.
110.QA
111.exit(-44809)
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Main Page

2010-03-25T23:27:21Z

Ehntoo:

Welcome to the MTU LUG wiki. Feel free to sign up for an account and then add pages!<br>
If you're new to wiki, you might want to play around in the [[Sandbox]] for a while.

=News=

[[Presentation sign-up|Sign-Ups for Installathon Spring 2010]]
==[[:Category:LUG Server rules|(Proposed) rules for use of this server]]==
Please edit. We're looking for suggestions (ASAP).
* [[IRC Rules|MTU LUG IRC Rules]]
* SYN ACK
* [[Shell Server Rules]]
* [[Mirror Usage Rules]]
* POF
* [[Officer Rules and Responsibilities]]
* ETC.
* EOT

=Who we are=
The [http://lug.mtu.edu Linux Users Group]
is a [http://www.sa.mtu.edu/stulife/stuorg/ student organization]
at [http://mtu.edu MichiganTech]
that was established in 2002
to further students knowledge of Linux or UNIX based operating systems and
discuss technological advancements in Operating Systems.
Here is list of [[Members]] and
some of their [[Member Projects|projects]].

Each week, after the business part of the meeting,
we try to have a [[Lead discussions|discussion]]
on a topic of general interest.
Edit the [[Lead discussions]] page
to sign up to lead a discussion
or add to the list of topics that you would like
to learn more about.

== Current Pages of Interest ==

*[[WEP]]
*[[:Category:Meeting_Minutes | Meeting Minutes]]
*[http://lug.mtu.edu/wiki/MTU_LUG_wiki:Current_events Installathon 2009]
* New! [[Show and Tell]] Sign up!

== Current Pages That Need Work ==
*[[Software]] you can get free/cheap as an MTU student
*[[Area Businesses]]
*[[EERC_Tree]] (picture needs author's approval)
*[[Jabber]]
*[[Linux]] (2 sections defined, but no data)
*[[Locations of Wireless Access Points]]
*[[LUG Services]]
*[[Mandriva]]
*[[Michigan Technological University]]
*[[MTU Jargon]]
*[[SUSE]]
*[[MTU LUG Jargon]]

Main Page

2009-11-13T00:14:49Z

Ehntoo:

Welcome to the MTU LUG wiki. Feel free to sign up for an account and then add pages!<br>
If you're new to wiki, you might want to play around in the [[Sandbox]] for a while.

=News=
===[[:Category:LUG Server rules|(Proposed) rules for use of this server]]===
Please edit. We're looking for suggestions (ASAP).
* [[Treasurer Nominations]]
* [[IRC Rules|MTU LUG IRC Rules]]
* SYN ACK
* [[Shell Server Rules]]
* [[Mirror Usage Rules]]
* POF
* [[Officer Rules and Responsibilities]]
* ETC.
* EOT

=Who we are=
The [http://lug.mtu.edu Linux Users Group]
is a [http://www.sa.mtu.edu/stulife/stuorg/ student organization]
at [http://mtu.edu MichiganTech]
that was established in 2002
to further students knowledge of Linux or UNIX based operating systems and
discuss technological advancements in Operating Systems.
Here is list of [[Members]] and
some of their [[Member Projects|projects]].

Each week, after the business part of the meeting,
we try to have a [[Lead discussions|discussion]]
on a topic of general interest.
Edit the [[Lead discussions]] page
to sign up to lead a discussion
or add to the list of topics that you would like
to learn more about.

== Current Pages of Interest ==

*[[WEP]]
*[[:Category:Meeting_Minutes | Meeting Minutes]]
*[http://lug.mtu.edu/wiki/MTU_LUG_wiki:Current_events Installathon 2009]
* New! [[Show and Tell]] Sign up!

== Current Pages That Need Work ==
*[[Software]] you can get free/cheap as an MTU student
*[[Area Businesses]]
*[[EERC_Tree]] (needs a picture)
*[[Jabber]]
*[[Linux]] (2 sections defined, but no data)
*[[Locations of Wireless Access Points]]
*[[LUG Services]]
*[[Mandriva]]
*[[Michigan Technological University]]
*[[MTU Jargon]]
*[[SUSE]]
*[[MTU LUG Jargon]]

Treasurer Nominations

2009-11-13T00:14:21Z

Ehntoo: New page: Nominations: Alex Klinkhamer

Nominations:
Alex Klinkhamer

Minutes 2009-11-12

2009-11-13T00:04:15Z

Ehntoo:

<pre>
10 Officers' Reports
11 Server Status
20 Communications Rules
30 Shell Server
40 Open Floor
50 Guide to IRC, Part 1: Pidgin/Empathy
60 Questions. / Answers?
70 SLEEP 604740
80 GOTO 10 # Next week
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[[Category:09-10 School year]]
[[Category:Meeting Minutes]]

Minutes 2009-10-29

2009-10-29T23:54:02Z

Ehntoo:

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10 Officers' Reports
Ubuntu release going well, server's not very fast at the moment.
Penguicon is coming up.
We get money from USG for conventions, this applies.
11 Shirts for sale
Will be here in a few minutes
22 SIF Jan 19, please start thinking of some awesome demonstration
We need a booth. Anyone want to volunteer?
20 Open Floor
Ubuntu may introduce a paid distribution model within synaptic. How would this effect things?
Probably not much.
Firefox clicking problems.
We don't have any suggestions, but dig around on launchpad.
30 Flashfire OS
A customized ubuntu by one of our members
aims to improve the user's experience out of the box, including beter
It's like c++ for ubuntu, ubuntu incremented.
Includes:
gwibber, integrated with desktop notifications
multimedia codecs and flash
desktop notification greetings for new users
a web-based package manager based around apt-url
chromium snapshot
vlc, realplayer
Meant to still be lightweight
public beta next week
Search for 'flashfire os' on facebook, also twitter
http://flashfireos.delgadoservicesonline.com
http://build.reconstructor.org to make your own distro

40 QA
50 Shell Server/Dismissal

60 SLEEP 604740
70 GOTO 10 # Next week
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[[Category:09-10 School year]]
[[Category:Meeting Minutes]]

Minutes 2009-10-22

2009-10-22T23:05:46Z

Ehntoo:

<pre>
Agenda:
1. Meeting Order
Meeting brought to order at 19:03
2. Officers' Reports
Servers are working
3. Open Floor

4. Nor's Desktop (and mjgardes)

5. [[CustomBashPrompt|AGMLego's BASH stuff]]

6. Q/A

7. New Shell Server / Dismissal
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[[Category:Meeting Minutes]]
[[Category:09-10 School year]]

Minutes 2009-10-21 (Officers)

2009-10-22T22:30:40Z

Ehntoo: New page: <pre> Ideas for improvement of LUG order and structure: Post rough meeting structure on wiki mainpage Use the wiki to keep track of meeting minutes and to post discussion topics be...

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Ideas for improvement of LUG order and structure:
Post rough meeting structure on wiki mainpage
Use the wiki to keep track of meeting minutes and to post discussion topics before the meeting
Wiki editing instead of IRC on projector
Laptops are not an issue during meetings
Shut up when someone else is talking
Potentially elect a new treasurer

Officers are here to administer lug (administrative tasks)
We're facilitators, not here to keep you entertained.
Get involved.

Weekly meetings take effort to put together

Presentations on shell commands?
Simple preparation
helps people

We will hold presentations if people offer to give them.
Presentation signup on the wiki
5-15 minute presentations
Get approved by an officer
Make a wiki version for posterity

Hold help sessions in Fisher Hall
Experienced linux user sits in the fisher lobby on a weekend, just to help people

Command line presentations
Find
Grep
Locate
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[[Category:Meeting Minutes]]
[[Category:09-10 School year]]

Minutes 2009-10-22

2009-10-22T22:22:15Z

Ehntoo:

<pre>
Agenda:
1. Meeting Order
2. Officer's Reports
3. Open Floor
4. Nor's Desktop (and mjgardes)
5. AGMLego's BASH stuff
6. Q/A
7. New Shell Server / Dismissal
</pre>

[[Category:Meeting Minutes]]
[[Category:09-10 School year]]

Minutes 2009-10-22

2009-10-22T22:20:25Z

Ehntoo:

<pre>
Agenda:
1. Meeting Order
2. Officer's Reports
3. Open Floor
4. Nor's Desktop (and mjgardes)
5. AGMLego's BASH stuff
6. Q/A
7. New Shell Server / Dismissal
<pre>
[[Category:Meeting Minutes]]
[[Category:09-10 School year]]

Minutes 2009-10-22

2009-10-22T22:19:21Z

Ehntoo:

<pre>
Agenda:
1. Meeting Order
2. Officer's Reports
3. Open Floor
4. Nor's Desktop (and mjgardes)
5. AGMLego's BASH stuff
6. Q/A
7. New Shell Server / Dismissal
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Minutes 2009-09-24

2009-09-25T00:56:54Z

Ehntoo:

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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Server Status
All is well and good with the world.
Postfix doesn't enjoy 60MB Logfiles.

Wiki
Now open for public signups again, captcha protected.
Don't be evil.
Links from mainpage need updating.

Installathon
See http://lug.mtu.edu/wiki/MTU_LUG_wiki:Current_events
PR Officer needs to make posters.

Lug Social
We need to have some.

Miscellany

Those present:
Mitchell Johnson (Secretary)
Alex Klinkhamer
Beth Russart
Brandon Crowley (Vice President)
Andrew Meyer (Server Admin)
Matthew Gardeski (President)
Lenore Towne
Steven Vormwald
Jesse Wisniewski
Alicia Gervais
Nate Scowcraft
William Cody Laeder
John Pastore
Raven Rebb
Nick Trierheiler
Gabe Delgado
Jacob Wittse
Peter Markheime
Chris Hasmiter
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[[Category:Meeting Minutes]]
[[Category:09-10 School year]]

Minutes 2009-09-24

2009-09-25T00:55:25Z

Ehntoo:

<pre>
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Server Status
All is well and good with the world.
Postfix doesn't enjoy 60MB Logfiles.

Wiki
Now open for public signups again, captcha protected.
Don't be evil.
Links from mainpage need updating.

Installathon
See [[http://lug.mtu.edu/wiki/MTU_LUG_wiki:Current_events]]
PR Officer needs to make posters.

Lug Social
We need to have some.

Miscellany

Those present:
Mitchell Johnson (Secretary)
Alex Klinkhamer
Beth Russart
Brandon Crowley (Vice President)
Andrew Meyer (Server Admin)
Matthew Gardeski (President)
Lenore Towne
Steven Vormwald
Jesse Wisniewski
Alicia Gervais
Nate Scowcraft
William Cody Laeder
John Pastore
Raven Rebb
Nick Trierheiler
Gabe Delgado
Jacob Wittse
Peter Markheime
Chris Hasmiter
</pre>

Members

2009-09-24T23:42:08Z

Ehntoo: /* Current Members */

== Officers ==
'''President''': [[User:Mjgardes|Matthew Gardeski]] MSE Major (2011 With some luck)

'''Vice President''': [[User:blcrowle|Brandon Crowley]] CS (2011)

'''Secretary''': [[User:ehntoo|Mitch Johnson]] CS (2011)

'''Treasurer''': [[User:Byan|Bryan Laur]] CS (2010)

'''Public Relations''': Marcus Beltman CS (2011)

'''Server''': [[User:Agmeyer|Andrew Meyer]] CpE/EE Major (2012)

'''Faculty Advisor''': Phil Merkey Math (1977)

== Current Members ==

Jeff Tyson CS (2008)

Lenore Towne CS (201?)

John Pastore Math (1901)

[[User: Tokyo-18|A'Lisa Krawciw]] CpE/EE Major (2010)

[[User:blcrowle|Brandon Crowley]] CS Major (2011)

Alex Klinkhamer

Beth Russart

Lenore Towne

Steven Vormwald

Jesse Wisniewski

Alicia Gervais

Nate Scowcraft

William Cody Laeder

Raven Rebb

Nick Trierheiler

Gabe Delgado

== Alumni ==
[[User:rsmudge|Raphael Mudge]] CS Major (2004)

[http://www.dingostick.com Adam Shirey] CS Major (2004)

[[User:gzphreak|Dan Clark]] CS Major (2005)

[http://khanbo.com Mary Farmer] EE Major (2005)

[[User:spi|Steven Isaacson]] CS Major (2005)

[[User:base16|Justin TerAvest]] CS Major (2005)

[http://xobes.com Andy Zobro] ME Undergrad, Engineering Masters (2005)

[[User:Jon787|Jon DeVree]] CS Major (2006)

[[User:Sgowtham|S Gowtham]] Eng. Physics (Sometime in 2006)

[[User:Chong|Timothy Carmean]] CSY Major (2007)

[[User: Techieb0y|Peter Corbett]] CSY Major (2007)

[[User:Physcofish|Jon Klimowicz]] CS Major (December 2007)

[[User:Freshmen|Andrew Swartzendruber]] CpE Major (2008)

[[User:MrVoids|Andrew Miller]] CpE/EE Major (2008)

[[User:Adamjaskie|Adam Jaskie]] CS (2008)

== Past Members ==
[[User:Rachel|Rachel Pierce]] (2004-2005) transfered to [http://www.stolaf.edu/ St. Olaf]

Minutes 2009-09-24

2009-09-24T23:40:32Z

Ehntoo:

Thursday, September 24, 2009
Server Status
All is well and good with the world.
Postfix doesn't enjoy 60MB Logfiles.

Wiki
Now open for public signups again, captcha protected.
Don't be evil.
Links from mainpage need updating.

Installathon
See [[http://lug.mtu.edu/wiki/MTU_LUG_wiki:Current_events]]
PR Officer needs to make posters.

Lug Social
We need to have some.

Miscellany

Those present:
Mitchell Johnson (Secretary)
Alex Klinkhamer
Beth Russart
Brandon Crowley (Vice President)
Andrew Meyer (Server Admin)
Matthew Gardeski (President)
Lenore Towne
Steven Vormwald
Jesse Wisniewski
Alicia Gervais
Nate Scowcraft
William Cody Laeder
John Pastore
Raven Rebb
Nick Trierheiler
Gabe Delgado
Jacob Wittse
Peter Markheime
Chris Hasmiter

Minutes 2009-09-24

2009-09-24T21:48:22Z

Ehntoo: New page: Thursday, September 24, 2009 -- To be continued.

Thursday, September 24, 2009
-- To be continued.