2004.03.15 Meeting Notes

News

• Books for Iraq event will take place in Mountain View next Friday.
• OpenOffice.org talk at RoseLUG on Monday, March 29th.
• The deadline to turn in claim forms for the California Microsoft class action settlement has been extended to April 28th. $1.1Bn is available, and people can claim up to $100.
• Microsoft asked Baystar venture capital to invest in SCO!
• Rumor has it someone in New Zealand spoke with a Microsoft representative about Linux and was told that there will be "legal challenges" with MSOffice interoperability.
• The Computer Science Club at UC Davis is interested in having tables at the Memorial Union (where other clubs sometimes exhibit) to give out information and Knoppix discs.

Project Reports

• Demo - The next hands-on Linux demo will be on Saturday, March 20th from 2pm to 7pm at the Davis Food Co-Op. No updates to the recently-purchased new demo machine.

• Installfests - The next Installfest will be on March 20th. It is confirmed that we have the room at UC Davis for the March and April events.

• LERT - No news.

• Library - We're hoping to donate some books from our Lending Library to the Iraqi LUG at next week's event in Mountain View.

Other Business

• Whole Earth Festival - The form and payment should be in the hands of WEF by now!

• Government Technology Conference - No news regarding GTC. We should get back to them soon.

• Financial Report - $30.11 in voluntary dues were collected.

Presentation

• Gabe Rosa talked about network traffic shaping under Linux using netfilter and iproute2. (Special thanks to Jeff Duncan for supplying the projector with literally no notice!)

  Presentation notes and examples

Photos

• Photos of this meeting

Attendance

• Bill Kendrick
• Mike Simons
• Hans Uhlig
• Ryan Castellucci
• Ken Bloom
• Paul Miller
• Gabe Rosa
• Mikal Saltveit
• Richard Harke
• Marc Hasbrouck
• Dave Nelson
• Karsten Self
• Jeff Rousch
• Karsten McCoy
• Dmitriy Ivanov
• Seth Nagao
• Chris
• Edmun Mendez
• Jonathan
• Chris
• Joseph
• Chris McKenzie
• Tim Schaeffer
• Doug Barbieri

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