2001.06.05 Meeting Notes

News

• AT&T sues Microsoft over sound compression codec patent infringment.
• Four websites get 50% of all surfing time in the world: AOL, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Napster
• The remaining works of Douglas Adams (creator of "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy," who passed away recently) will be published later this year.

Project Reports

• Demo - The next demo will be July 21st at the Davis Food Co-Op.

• Installfests - The next installfest will be held at Z-World in the 3rd week of June.

Other Business

• Ice Cream FUNdraiser for EFF - LUGOD will be holding an ice cream "FUNdraiser" to help raise money for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It will be held at Ben & Jerry's in Davis on Wed. June 13th. Robin Gross, an EFF Attorney will be there.

• Financial Report - $94.50 in voluntary dues were collected.

• Raffle - Bill Alexander won a copy of Borland's "Kylix" development software!

Presentation

• Anders Ohlsson of Borland Software Corporation demonstrated "Kylix," a Rapid Application Development tool for Linux, similar to Delphi and C++ Builder for Windows. It combines a visual design environment, editor, compiler, debugger, database connectivity, web development capabilites, and more.

Attendance

• Jim Riffel
• Joel Baumert
• John Radcliff
• Pete Salzman
• Bill Kendrick
• Toni
• Anders Ohlsson
• Jeff
• Brad
• Sneakers
• Rhonda Bailey
• Ed Glass
• Edwin Groot
• Tim
• Rick Mansker
• Dan Dorsey
• Larry Ozeran
• Bryce
• Doub Barbieri
• Wasyl Malyj
• Bruce Wolk
• Donald Dunn
• Mark Hasburg
• Erim Mullinix
• Bruce H
• Paul
• John
• Scott S.
• Jeff R
• Jeff Newmiller
• Dan Webster
• Bill Alexander
• William Andrews
• Brian M
• Jeff DeFay
• Brennon
• Mark O'Shaughnessy
• Jan
• Harry Sauders
• Henry House
• Brian Lavender
• Mike Simons
• Ed O'Niel
• Jason LIn
• Foo Lim
• ... and two others

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