Well, we met for the first time today! :)
We had 8 people show up, with many others interested who couldn't come. It
didn't help that for some reason no one but myself received my reminder e-mail.
We discussed lots of organizational details, such as getting official KSC
organization status (which would funnel some money to us), coming up with a
constitution, getting donation machines, swinging course credit for involvement,
etc.
Wendy and I have been talking about having "chairman" count as a 400 level
"field experience" (new name for independent study) and "vice chairman"
counting as a 200 level field experience. This will help the department keep
some sort of Linux experience offered, as well as ensure the continuation of
the LUG.
We have 2 leads into a few 486 machines, which will help emmensely! YAY!
KSC has traditionally had a Linux server that held student accounts for mail
and web pages. "Junior Sys Admin" was an independent study for running this
box. This summer it was used by a couple of people to break into places such as
Bell Atlantic. The college administration has in absolutely no uncertain terms
decreed that we may only have a Linux box if it is NOT attached to the outside
world. This is unfortunately not up for any debate. Linux in a vacum makes
very little practical sense, but that's what we have to work with. Because
this makes the "Junior Sys Admin" role almost entirely moot, it will be
WONDERFUL to keep Linux possibilities here through the LUG.
We had a fair mix of people. A few newbies, a few middle-ish (like myself) and
a few who have spent a lot of time running it, though not professionally.
Here are some of the topics people expressed interest in on the sheet I passed
out:
Apache esp writing modules
Security
Relational DBs
Scripting languages, i.e. TCL
DHCP
Programming in Linux C/Java/etc
Sniffers
I'm sure there will be a lot more. Any ideas invited.
Anyway, getting rather long here. I often feel like I spend my entire life
with the -v switch on.
Our next meeting is 2 weeks from now, Tuesday October 17th at 1:30 pm in
Science 119 at Keene State. The agenda is to vote on our constitution, elect a
couple officers, install some distro or other on a machine we can get our hands
on. Shiloh, our ex-linux admin/current NT admin is setting up an e-mail list
for us.
Any and all advice/help very, very welcome!
-Marthajo McCarthy
KSCLUG Chairman
P.S. I just bought a palm pilot- if anyone has any astounding tips on how to
get it working in Linux, feel free to e-mail me!
--
Martha Jo McCarthy
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