Secretary called meeting to order @ 7:40

Treasure Introduces speaker "Jim Hogg"

Jim gives his presentation on his experiences of teaching Computer Programing, specifically C++ in the Round Rock School System. Some Points of interest from his discussion were:

* He teaches students to code and compile remotely in a server he maintains in his class room.
* He encourages his students to use a live cd version of Linux.
* He encourages his students to use a Debian distribution so they can easily load and try different software packages
* His favorite distribution in Mepis Linux.
* He has received commendations from various educational organization for his efforts
* His presentation was filmed and the JPEG will be made available.

President call the meeting to order at 1830 hours.

The club celebrated Ubuntu 8.10 release program. The club provided
pizza for 23 attendees. These attendees included members of the GW
Linux Users Group and the Central Texas Users Group Linux SIG.

John Deardorf gave a presentation of the new features of *.10 Including
the new ffsf files system and encriptable mounts.

Our own President Stephen gave a presentation on "ubootem", a program to
make bootalbe CD's and pen drives from you favorite distribution.

The meeting adjourned at 2100.

Meeting brought to order at 7:30pm

Web Admin Paul Elliott explained how to enter content in the Druple content
management.

Paul also gave a presentation on the Gimp on perspective
transformation.

Meeting adjourned at 9:00 pm

This was a coordination meeting. Events discussed were:

* planning an install fest. President Steve wanted to table this
discussion for further input;

* Plans to do a technical presentation at interval to be discussed;

* Plans for a newbe night at interval to be discussed.

Meeting adjourned at 8:50.

New president (Steve) did presentation on the rack server he made a couple
of years ago with Supper Micro micro components.

Coordinate change of signature.

Created a plan to get new officers on mailing BOD mailing list.

President put forth his plans for presentations and some significant
news at each meeting.

The group had a discussion on the new Ubunto release.

Next Weeks Agenda discuss next install fest.

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: April 17, 2008
Location: Waller Creek

Discussion of backup programs. Opportunity for further nominations. Clio Dunn nominated for Treasurer. Carl for system as well as mailing list. Stephen Gutknecht. for President. Denis Oxford for Secretary. Paul Elliott withdraws for Secretary. Denis Oxford withdraws for President.

Therefore this is the nominations.

Stephen Gutknecht for President.
Secretary Denis Oxford.
Treasurer Clio Dunn.
System Administrator Carl Perry
Mailing List Carl Perry
Web Administrator Paul Elliott
Program Coordinator Newton Hammet

Slate passed by acclimation.

Discussion of virtual booting Linux under OSX.

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: April 10, 2008
Location: Waller Creek

Denis Oxford tells us about Slackware, slapget, ect. Discussion of databases under Linux. Virtualization.

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: April 3, 2008
Location: Waller Creek

Tested directional wireless card belonging to Eric. Module loaded under OpenSuse 10.3. Got it working under OpenBSD. But it is too slow.

Paul Elliott nominates:

President Dennis Oxford.
Secretary Paul Elliott
System Administrator Carl Perry
Mailing List Carl Perry
Web administrator Paul Elliott
Program Coordinator Newton Hammet

more nomination on 10th, election on 17th.

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: March 27, 2008
Location: Waller Creek

Open Office sound does not work.

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: March 20, 2008
Location: Waller Creek

Sean and Martha are visitors. SuSEfirewall2, a firewall for Joe Sixpack.

ssh security discussed.