Sounds like you had an excellent, productive meeting. Is this a first? Regards, Dustin
At 12:34 PM 4/3/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Just wanted to let everyone know what happened at the >last BRLUG meeting. > >We meet at 7pm at Coffee Star near Denham springs. >Very nice little place, conducive to tech geek >conversation. The coffee was _excellent_. If you are >looking for a non-chain type of neighborhood coffee >shop, try it out. > >There was about a dozen BRLUGers there. We started the >meeting by swapping a few anecdotes of triumphs and >setbacks with our various Linux setups. Then we >started speaking about the Consumer Broadband >Protection and Television Promotion Act. The latest >news is that Sen. Patrick Leahy, head of the Senate >Judiciary Committee, basically killed the bill in its >current form during a recent committee meeting. This >is good news for geeks. More info: >http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51425,00.html > >So, we all agreed that we have a little breathing >room. We then discussed ways of contacting our elected >representatives and how to effect change. > >This led into my description of what is happening at >the Cajun Clickers Computer Club. A few of us in BRLUG >and the CCCC have started a Linux SIG. It will be >aimed primarily at newbies and in fact will be aimed >at helping Microsoft user realize that Linux is not >what Microsoft says it is ("un-American"). I briefly >described my plans for the CCCC Linux SIG, which I >will be providing in HTML form soon. Basically, we are >combining the BRLUG Newbies meetings with the Linux >SIG, as the CCCC has a permanent location with >Internet connectivity, AV equipment, lots of old >computer hardware, and chairs. Very nice setup. > >I also described my vision of a Linux Lab there built >with old PCs deemed "junk" as they are not suitable >for running M$ operating systems. I have been given 4 >machines from the CCCC, which will become a server or >two, and two workstations. Eventually, I hope to have >a few more servers and about a dozen workstations. >This may not happen until the CCCC moves to its new >location in July, at which time we will have lots of >space. > >I also described a couple more projects that I've been >working on: > >Introducing Linux to the Computers for Louisiana Kids >project (http://www.cacrc.com/CLK.htm), which is >basically a program that receives old PCs from the >Corporate Recycling Council, teaches school kids to >fix them up, and then donates them to Louisiana >Schools. Now, think about the possibilities if we >helped them learn about Linux and helped them to >develop Linux networks. > >Related to that idea is starting a project using the >resources of the CCCC Linux SIG to acquire old PCs >from cacrc.com, fix them up, install various Linux >software configurations on them, and donate them to LA >schools, along with training and support. This will of >course be a much bigger project, and I am writing up >the project plans now. The CCCC Linux SIG will be >directing this project. > >And another idea I had: A project that organizes LUGs >everywhere to burn Linux distributions and other >free|open source software to CD, slaps a pre-defined >label on them, and then donates the CDs to public >libraries. I see the mission of free|open source >software to be in parallel with that of public >libraries: intellectual freedom. Again, the CCCC Linux >SIG will be directing that project. > >We closed the meeting by agreeing that having BRLUG >meetings in various places around the Baton Rouge area >is a good thing to do. Shannon Roddy offered to have >the next meeting at LIGO, which is being discussed in >[EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe it was suggested that >when we do meet at LIGO that we should invite all >other Linux groups and SIGS in the area to that >meeting as well. Could someone please volunteer to >organize that? Contact me for more details. > >If you have any feedback, please be sure to reply to >either [EMAIL PROTECTED], >[EMAIL PROTECTED], or the newly created >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. And don't >forget, there are usually BRLUG geeks hanging out in >#brlug on irc.openprojects.net. > >John Hebert > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax >http://taxes.yahoo.com/ >================================================ >BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group >Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. >Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change >your subscription information. >================================================ --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIX and Network Consultant http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear PGP Key available at http://www.us.pgp.net In the beginning the Universe was created. 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