Time: 6:30PM - 7:40PM Location: VH1220 2.6 kernel on kronos? - Dr. Bindner: not unless I have time
Ant War - Code competition game - Can be written in any language Membership - Way down on membership and attendance - Same with ACM -- all-time low - Need to organize activities to increase membership - At least 20 people voted on name, but they don't attend - Is the meeting time bad/wrong? - Need attendance more than mailing list emails - Caleb: TSLUG used to be smaller 2 years ago - InstallFest might increase membership - People asking for help, and never coming to the meetings Unite FSCK with ACM - Formally unite on paper? - Much more likely to advance student involvement together - Other universities use ACM as a front for groups like FSCK - Dr. Bindner: don't necessarily need to merge to gain membership Advertising - Dr. Bindner: chalking works, posters - Promote ethical software solutions - "Tired of SPAM" posters from ITS are catchy - Firefox poster Faculty Training - TLTR Chad Mohler contact - Bindner: FSCK can sponsor free software introduction - Teach OpenOffice.org and it's parts - *They* can do this, easily Free Software CD - PDF Creator - OpenOffice.org - Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird - The Gimp - Need to update old versions - Grab the desk by small business office in VH - Use a document (instead of a CD) with how to download? - Conversion chart from non-free to free software Presentations - Work well to bring people to meetings - Need planned topics - Gimp planned soon (next week?) InstallFest - Oct 9 - Caleb, Chris, Peter can't go - Ad already in paper - Need quality experienced people (Ross?) Versioning Systems - cvs/subversion/arch/opencm - Now darcs - David's Advanced Revision Control System - darcs allows read-only access via http - download entire repository, not a sandbox - Dr. Bindner's free software is listed in darcs - ftp/http: get - ssh - get/push - mail - push - Can use gpg key to authorize writing ~Mike ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
