[KLUG Members] KLUG Meeting Notes for 01/14/2003
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KLUG Meeting Notes: Tuesday - January 14, 2003 7:00PM
I. PRESENTATION RECAP
II. NEXT WEEK'S MEETING INFO <=== A Look At Lindows!!!
III. KLUG MAILING LISTS
IV. KLUG NEWS FLASHES
V. KLUG CONTACT & MEETING INFO
Tonight's Meeting Moderators: Dirk Bartley & Todd Pillars
I. PRESENTATION RECAP
THIS WEEK'S KLUG PRESENTATION: (17 active KLUG participants)
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Elections & Open Source GNU/Linux Advocacy
presented by KLUG & Robert G. Brown
- KLUG MEETING PART 1:
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All KLUG members could nominate candidates and those present
at the meeting could vote in this annual election of officers!
E L E C T I O N R E S U L T S ! ! !
ELECTED KLUG OFFICERS:
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Chairperson Todd Pillars <=== Welcome Todd!
Vice-Chairperson Stu Gillis
Treasurer Matthew Tisch
Recording Secretary Ralph Worick
- for more info -
http://kalamazoolinux.org/organize
- KLUG MEETING PART 2:
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After the election process was completed we had a presentation
concerning Open Source GNU/Linux advocacy.
PRESENTATION SUMMARY
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Robert G. Brown gave us an update on Open Source GNU Linux
advocacy tonight which brought us up to date since his initial
presentation from February 15, 2000. This was encouraging info.
http://kalamazoolinux.org/presentations/history.php?year=2000#MEETING45
Robert G. Brown is certainly an inspiring and talented Linux advocate
and Open Source community representative, locally and worldwide.
I. What is new with Open Source GNU Linux since 1999?
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* SMP and related scalability features have been enhanced
* Journalized file systems have now become the standard
* Better principles and applications
* Continued technical excellence
* Marketplace survival
* Better installation procedures
II. Advocacy - Advocate but don't have it become your identity!
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Advocacy Presentation Guidelines
A. Listen to expectations & ideas
B. Needs of the audience have top priority
C. Don't be intrusive
1. Remain dignified
2. Be professional
3. "Flame bait" is best ignored
D. Remain calm
E. Think out your case in advance
F. Know you competition
G. Be honest
H. Let time & events make their contribution
III. Points to remember
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A. You represent the Linux community
1. Think of yourself as an employee of Linux, Inc.
a. Linus Torvalds is your corporate CEO
2. Give credit to the entire Open Source community
3. Be tolerant & recognize there are multiple solutions
IV. Vendors & media
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A. We need to make them allies - contact them often
V. The press
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A. Make contact with the newspapers regarding Linux activities
VI. Public advocacy
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A. Support your local LUG
B. Volunteer for Open Source & LUG activities
C. Showcase Linux when ever and where ever you can
D. Promote Linux success stories
VII. Visit advocacy URL's
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http://www.datasync.com/~rogerspl/advocacy-HOWTO.html#toc5
http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html
http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/organize
II. NEXT KLUG MEETING - TUESDAY 01/21/2003
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A Look At Lindows
by Bruce Smith
Bruce will be providing/presenting one of those fabled Walmart
Lindows machines for inspection, testing, and insulting. How
does the Lindows distribution and desktop shape up? Come and
see for yourself.
Bruce Smith is a Systems Administrator and Software Developer
for Armstrong International Inc. where he is responsible for
a HP-UX network of Servers, Workstations, printers and
X-Terminals spanning five buildings in Three Rivers. Bruce has
a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Central Michigan
University. (go Chips! :) Bruce runs Linux, almost exclusively,
on all his PC's at work and home, and runs a lot of Armstrong's
networking services on Linux!
III. K L U G M A I L I N G L I S T S
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Diversified mailing lists can be found on the KLUG web site.
http://kalamazoolinux.org/listserv/
Facilitated by - John Bridleman listmaster@kalamazoolinux.org
Sign up and participate to serve the Open Source community!!!
IV. K L U G N E W S F L A S H E S ! ! !
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SIGNIFICANT KLUG HARDWARE DONATIONS GIVEN TO KLUG RECENTLY!
Another contribution of PC hardware was accepted this week.
Quantum Optics Service Company in Portage, owned by Dan Gage,
has contributed a Hewlett Packard 5 Gb external tape backup
drive with cables and 2 storage tapes. They also donated a
LS120 IDE storage drive and one 120 Mb storage cartridge.
Thanks to Quantum Optics for their generous contributions.
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THE OPEN SOURCE: LET THE BATTLE BEGIN NOW THAT OPEN SOURCE IS
clearly at the center of Microsoft's radar, things are going to
get ugly. Read Russell Pavlicek's Article...
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/03/01/13/030113opsource.xml
Discussion Forum -
http://forums.infoworld.com/webx?13@@.ee7507c
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INTEL UNVEILS LINUX DEVELOPER TOOL
Intel says tool will help developers get the most out of Linux
apps using its Pentium 4 and Xeon chips.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,830533,00.asp
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LINUX LOOMS FOR MICROSOFT BY PETER GALLI, 1/6/2003
Enterprise users want vendor to cooperate with developers.
Microsoft Corp. must learn to cooperate with Linux and
open-source developers
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,808990,00.asp
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MANDRAKESOFT FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION & REORGANIZATION
Paris-based Linux distributor says it's still on track for an
April release of Mandrake Linux version 9.1.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,831037,00.asp
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/01/15/1727240.shtml?tid=147
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/briefs?n=/mandrakesoft/news/2405
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DISNEY WINS, ELDRED (AND EVERYONE ELSE) LOSES IN SUPREME COURT
The upshot is that no works produced in the United States after
the 1920's will ever go out of copyright. Unconstitutional?
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/01/15/1528253.shtml?tid=123
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MICROSOFT OPENS CODE JUST SLIGHTLY MORE
This story on Bloomberg.com details Microsoft's new program to open
the source to parts of Windows in order to compete with Linux.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/030217&mode=thread&tid=109
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V. K L U G C O N T A C T & M E E T I N G I N F O
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KLUG WEB SITE http://kalamazoolinux.org
MEMBERS AND GUESTS - COME JOIN US FOR A MEETING!!!
http://kalamazoolinux.org/meetings
WE MEET WEEKLY, EACH TUESDAY AT 7:00PM.
Our meeting site is the Kalamazoo Chamber
of Commerce office building downtown.
346 W. Michigan Ave. - Kalamazoo, MI 49007
http://kazoolug.org/meetings/maps.php3 <=== MAP!
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Kalamazoo Linux Users Group, Inc.
6749 South Westnedge Avenue
Suite K-288
Portage MI 49002
e-mail address: chairman@kalamazoolinux.org
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