Minutes 2009-02-12

MTU LUG Meeting Minutes February 12th, 2009

Server Status
	Lego is missing
	Has not changed since last time
	Still needing to manually update some of our mirrors
	Kuk needs hardware
		$29.90 IDE cables
		$11.30 shipping
		$104.97 3G DDR 400
		Total 410.45
	Cables - yes
	Memory - Hold off for now.  We're not sure how much it takes

Installathon
	March 21
		Rooms weren't available so now a new dates
	Presentations
		Installing linux on game system	
			Wii
			Playstation 3
		Introduction to Ubuntu - Steve
		Video games in Wine - Dark-Fx
			Photoshop in Wine - Lenor
		Open Source Gaming - Christian
		Bash and Fortran - Pastore

Website
	Lenor - Update the CSS for the web page
	Is the wiki useful?
		Who has admin?
	Links back to the home page
`	Christian: complete layout redesign
	Voted Lenor as website admin

LFS/Junkyard wars rules
	Still at same time
	2 weeks in our meeting room
	Facebook event?
	Teams?
		number of members effects judging
	Rules
		what ever is impressive to the judges?
		Points
			difficult hardware
			network
			X
			clustering application
			Number of machines
			Time spent working on build
		Allow them to have working computers on sight? 
		Netboot? if they build the server...
		Steve is providing a desktop for people to download stuff
		they can look stuff up on their own computer, but not connect it to their build (can't use it to download packages)
		Judge has discression over music in the room
		First one done? total time taken?
			Status at the end of the day
	Judges
		Steve
		Christian
	Reward?
		Thumb drives
		Floppy drives
		CD Drives
	Talk to Next Century
		Pastore will talk to Next Century and Computer Mechanix

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