Date: March 16, 2006
Location: Walnut Creek

Dennis Oxford is back. Paid dues. Called to order 7:25 pm by Newton Hammet.
Discussion of wireless networking Atheros.
Drupal has been decided on for our web site.
Lilian Simmons accepted nomination for mailing list manager.
Dennis Oxford accepted nomination as Webmaster.
It was noted one candidate for each post. Motion to accept the
entire slate passed unanimously.
Slate:
President = Newton Hammet
Secretary = Paul Elliot
Treasurer = Jim Westbrook
Program Coordinator = Joe Barr
Mailing List Manager = Lillian Martinez Simmons

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: March 9, 2006
Location: Walnut Creek

Newton Hammet called meeting to order 7:30pm.
Pay Pal takes $.50, should Pay Pal dues be $10.50?
Newton Hammet move PayPal dues charge should include cost of using Pay Pal. Passed.
Secretary request separate place on Web Page for minutes.
Announcement: lyx 1.4.0 has just been released.
Discussion of burn bans and red flag days.
Adjourn 8:30

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: March 2, 2006
Location: Walnut Creek

Carl Perry participated in a wide ranging discussion.
LINUX desktop flaws. Carl rediscovers the advantages of emacs.
Eclipse is too slow.
Java problems “write once run everywhere” really is “write once debug everywhere”.

ALG Nominations 1st thru 17th march. Election on 19th end 5pm 23rd Thursday.
April 1 new positions. Website now supports membership subscriptions.
Treasurer email not working.

Things we hate: Open office copies MS office too much.

LATEX is good. nvu good for web pages. S

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: February 23, 2006
Location: Walnut Creek

Discussion of Ubuntu test
Newton Hammet presentation concerning password management.
John the ripper. 9 people attending.
Dell advertising Linux series.
http://www.io.com/~treeflyr/PasswordPresentation/

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: February 16, 2006
Location: Walnut Creek

Carl Perry participated in a wide ranging discussion.
ACPI, ECP. Graphics, Intel bad. ATI Radeon Graphics. NVIDIA good.
SuSE 10 experimental X server. EVMS Enterprise. Volume management.
Extraneous discussion of solar panels.
list of sources for aptget.
adjourned 9pm.

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: February 9, 2006
Location: Walnut Creek

Newton Hammett Presiding.

Discussion of SMB.
Nslookup depredicated.
dig is used now.
Installfest at TLU is in limbo at seguin side. Information from Robert Parkhurst.
Discussion of fonts.

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: February 2, 2006
Location: Walnut Creek

Paul Elliott
Jim Parkhurst showed up. Adjourned 7:45 pm.

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: January 26, 2006
Location: Walnut Creek

7:20 informal talk on diffusion theory by Jon Roland.
diffusion of Innovations. Broadcast advertising not always effective.
pyrimid: early addpoters, secondary, terinary, quadary.

Innotech nov 16, Installfest.
Riverside drive traffic still congested.

Guest: Michael Way. Ham. Centos.

Adjorned 9:00pm

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: January 19, 2006
Location: Walnut Creek

Called to order 7:30 Newton Hammet presiding.
Secretary requests special section of Web page for minutes.
Discussion of state of Alg's web page and software to run same.
Dropple prospect for software. Election to be middle of March.
Thumbs down on unsolicited solicitation to make a comercial
presentation.
Discussion:
Laptop install.

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: January 12, 2006
Location: Walnut Creek

Newton Hammet presiding.

All meetings from now on will be at Walnut Creek.
discussion of certifications and training.
Patent system is insane.
Microsoft emulation.