2001.08.07 Meeting Notes

News

• Microsoft appealing monopoly ruling, all the way to the Supreme Court.
• Rosetta and Adobe now selling 'timed' e-books. $11 buys you 10hrs before the book 'self-destructs.'
• 6 years ago this week, Red Hat announced version 1.0
• Dmitry Sklyrov released on $50,000 bail. Adobe dropped charges, government still fighting. Contact EFF.org to help!

Project Reports

• Demo - The last demo was on July 21st at the Davis Food Co-Op. Bill Kendrick, Doug Barbieri, Melissa Hardenbrook and Eric Mullinix staffed the event, which went non-stop!

• Installfests - LUGOD, SacLUG and RoseLUG will be holding a join Installfest in Sacramento on Sept. 16th. Visit LUGOD's Installfest page for info. and to RSVP.

• LERT - No news.

• Library - No report.

Other Business

• Financial Report - $44.00 in voluntary dues were collected.

Presentation

• Michael Egan of Sonoma State University talked about how Linux is being used to control robotic book-retreiving cranes ("Automated Retreival System") at SSU's new library, and breifly showed wireless, network-booted, Linux-based laptops which students can check out and use for research at the library.

• Pete Salzman did a mini-talk on using the "ellipses" ("...") in C programming to create functions which can accept an arbitrary number of arguments.

Presentation notes are available.

Attendance

• Bill Kendrick
• Melissa Hardenbrook
• Pete Salzman
• Joel Baumert
• Sarah Baumert
• Mark Kim
• Eric Engelhard
• Jeff Newmiller
• Steve Nguyen
• Brad Benedict
• Marc
• Marianne Waage
• Gabe Rosa
• Mike Egan
• Doug Barbieri
• Rick O'Shaughnessy
• Seth Nagao
• Jim
• Mike
• Lee Welters
• John
• Foo Lim
• John
• Mike Simons
• Christine Scobee
• ... and 5 others

Quotes of the Meeting

• "I use Linux cuz chicks dig Linux" - Gabe Rosa
• "I use Linux cuz guys dig Linux" - Marianne Waage