Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: December 20, 2007
Location: Waller Creek

Board meeting called to order by Denis Oxford at 7:15 pm.

Reading of previous meetings meeting minutes be dispensed with.

Old business none.

Denis Oxford will take steps to insure we have a room in January!

Need to renew agreement for meeting place.

Treasurer report Jim Parkhurst:
balance in bank is $677.62.

Discussion of mailing list rules.

Motion for once weekly (for 60 days; then monthly) post of mailing list rules. Seconded. Passed.

Note member ship dues due next week.

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: December 13, 2007
Location: Waller Creek

Board meeting scheduled for 20 December.

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: December 6, 2007
Location: Waller Creek

Discussion of the aborted plans to use ALG's name in connection with a CD give-away in Wheatsville.

1) Monthly, alg discussion list reminder to be changed to note the limitations of the discussion list.

2)community participation, installfest in planning stage. Computer show participations. Installfest date maybe Jan 19.

3) unofficially support for Wheatsville efforts.

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: November 29, 2007
Location: Waller Creek

Booting freeBSD using grub for dos using GEM. Abiword, emacs under free BSD. Meeting canceled for DEC 27.

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: November 15, 2007
Location: Waller Creek

Denis Oxford tried to install Hurd and recite some poetry. Installed latest freedos with Jemfive. Worked better than the poetry. Show location of Comet Holmes with Kstars.

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: November 8, 2007
Location: Waller Creek

We are going to have a BOD meeting. Pete Collins Director of communications and technology or City of Austin spoke with our President Denis Oxford. Pete may speak to our group.

Joe Barr presentation on ToorCon hackers convention in San Diego. Videos from the convention. Met Eric Bloodaxe in HoHOCon. Joe Barr writes about hackers. HoHOcon t-shirt is entry pass. Good music in videos. The echo chamber of the blogo-sphere! Beatle gave the keynote. That's not a moon thats a Web browser.

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: November 1, 2007
Location: Waller Creek

Joe Barr videos about government monitoring of Internet, phones. Discussion of spooks and security issues! Some spook ghost stories on the day after holloween!

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: October 25, 2007
Location: Waller Creek

Discussion of python, lisp. Demonstration of python.

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: October 18, 2007
Location: Waller Creek

Discussion of results of InnoTech. Contact with CO, Ed, of city of Austin. Denis Oxford, Carlos Garcia, Jim Parkhurst, Bill Eastman from ALG attending. Handed out Ubuntu CDs Puppy Linux. Handed 85 fliers.

Carl Perry's Linux system attacked all files wiped. Carl is attempting to determine how this happened.

Alg's Web page down due to hardisk failure at Rackspace. Carl says security updates need to be applied to our drupal site. Carl is working to get our Site backup.

Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: October 4, 2007
Location: Waller Creek

Discussion of alg general mailing list. General discussion about development. Four visitors. Problem booting BSD. Getting ubuntu to play a movie. Success. Discussion of free BSD.