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<p>summary of the meeting</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>LUG meeting 2026-09-17<br /> <br /> vote on constitution please!<br /> <br /> New people can&#039;t vote unless they&#039;ve been to 2 meetings<br /> <br /> Audits this year.. deadlines are in a week<br /> <br /> Needs to pass or we don&#039;t exist<br /> <br /> Previous constitution a mess and didn&#039;t satisfy requirements<br /> <br /> Rewritten constitution based on SLI guidelines<br /> <br />     Dissolution cause<br /> <br />     What happens to mirrors?<br /> <br />     Removal of officers if they screw up enough<br /> <br /> Constitution:<br /> <br />     Mostly the same<br /> <br />     Codify mirrors<br /> <br />     Define focus on Linux education<br /> <br />     Sysadmins defined<br /> <br />         We had them defined but were unofficial<br /> <br />         New guidelines<br /> <br />         Appointed and have to be re-appointed at the end of year by eboard<br /> <br />         Alumni can&#039;t be sysadmins<br /> <br />             We don&#039;t want to be dependent on a large pool of alumni<br /> <br />             Unreliable since they aren&#039;t fully associated with MTU or the org<br /> <br />     Officer recall<br /> <br />         2/3 all voting members can decide to remove officers<br /> <br />         If mirrors goes down for 2 weeks and it&#039;s not fixed then the whole eboard is up for re-election<br /> <br />         Has caused problems before<br /> <br />     Dissolution<br /> <br />         Mirrors goes to IT or related org with similar interest <br /> <br />         It needs to stay up <br /> <br />         would IT take mirrors?<br /> <br />             Probably, they use it and should care<br /> <br /> People who can vote stand up <br /> <br /> For: all but 2<br /> <br /> Against: 1<br /> <br /> Constitution passes <br /> <br /> Lily is tired<br /> <br /> Boring stuff over!<br /> <br /> Pre k-day presentation reused since new people are here<br /> <br /> LUG talks about Linux and has presentations<br /> <br /> Initiation for new people <br /> <br /> Planned events:<br /> <br />     Installathon sometime later this year<br /> <br />     LAN parties?<br /> <br />         Free/Open source games<br /> <br />         Or proprietary stuff is ok<br /> <br />             don&#039;t kill Freya<br /> <br />             Guillotine time! <br /> <br />                 But only once<br /> <br />                 <br /> <br /> LUG services:<br /> <br /> Mirrors <br /> <br />     Faster on campus than other mirrors servers <br /> <br />     Most major distros mirrored<br /> <br /> Shell<br /> <br />     fun little thing<br /> <br />     Linux server that we run and you can get a login to ssh in<br /> <br />     You can do what you want within reason<br /> <br />         No compromising, mining, AI, illegal stuff<br /> <br />     You get a website<br /> <br />         public_html directory for web stuff<br /> <br />         You can put web files there<br /> <br />     Choose your username as well (unlike MTU student pages)<br /> <br />     And keep it as alumni<br /> <br />     Some MTU usernames are weird<br /> <br /> Wiki<br /> <br />     Server docs <br /> <br />         Kinda outdated but work in progress<br /> <br />     Dane made hobomaxxing tutorials and reviewed public showers<br /> <br />     Screenshots from 20 years ago because this org is older than most current members...<br /> <br /> Things you can do on shell<br /> <br />     Online stuff<br /> <br />     run scripts <br /> <br />     Can bind to unprivileged ports <br /> <br />         don&#039;t run AI girlfriends<br /> <br />             or boyfriends<br /> <br />     Git stuff <br /> <br />     IRC bouncer (recently refurbished)<br /> <br />         can use it to access other networks<br /> <br />     IRC channel for chatting <br /> <br />         please join if you hate discord<br /> <br />         or want to play with IRC<br /> <br />     IRC chat bridge died<br /> <br />         don&#039;t have access to the bridge<br /> <br /> Involvement link at 73 members<br /> <br />     up from 67<br /> <br />     please join (helps with funding)<br /> <br /> Anyone can submit presentations<br /> <br />     just tell the eboard<br /> <br />         dm or ping on discord <br /> <br />         or email<br /> <br />     Anything computing related <br /> <br />         Previous topics<br /> <br />             Linux stuff, IRC, 3d rendering on google sheets<br /> <br />             Qubes OS<br /> <br />             Kubernetes<br /> <br /> End of presentation.<br /> <br />     <br /> <br />    </div>

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