2005.04.05 Meeting Notes

News

• Google satellite tours.

Project Reports

• Demo - No report.

• Installfests - About 8 people who needed Linux help showed up. (They mainly just needed Linux help, as opposed to full installations.)

• LERT - No news. Send email to lert@lugod.org if you need emergency Linux help.

• Library - No news. (See below).

Other Business

• Officer Nominations - Nominations for LUGOD Officers open today, and close at our next meeting (April 18th):
  • Emily isn't running for root
  • Dimitry isn't running for sys
  • Ken can't run for typescript
  • Hans Uhlig was nominated for root, by Ken Bloom
  • Bill Kendrick was nominated for root, by Dimitry Ivanov
  • Ryan Castalluci was nominated for sys, by Dimitry Ivanov; when asked at Crepeville, Ryan accepted.
  • Emily Stumpf nominated herself for typescript

  To nominate someone (you may nominate yourself), send an email to typescript@lugod.org.

• Book Raffle - O'Reilly sent us a collection of books. Since the Lending Library usage has been so low lately, we decided to raffle them away: Tom won PC Hacks, Richard Harke won IPv6, Matthew Helms and Jeff each won a copy of Knoppix Hacks, and Dimitry Ivanov won Agressive Network Self-Defense.

• Financial Report - $16.20 in voluntary dues were collected.

Presentation

• Ted Deppner discussed IP Video and Multicast Streaming using Linux.

  Presentation notes and slides

Attendance

• Ted Deppner
• Ken Bloom
• Seth Nagano
• Henry House
• Matthew Helms
• Richard Harke
• Jeff DeFay
• Chris McKenzie
• Tim Schafer
• Foo Lim
• Ben Timmons
• Tom Corbett
• Emily Stumpf
• Dimitry Ivanov