..tuxies and gentlepenguins, let me present before you, the minutes of the meeting
held on the 26th day of May, in the year 2002.
The LUG meeting started at the stipulated time (11:00 hrs, IST, Antarctica Standard
time not known), at the PDSIT, Bengal Engineering College (DU), Shibpur with a lot of
confused penguins losing their
bearings, and turning up a little late (however, no umbrella chasing scenes occurred -
so no case of wounded penguins;).
Attendance:
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This meeting saw the largest turnout the LUG has ever witnessed, and as far as my
"Attendance Record" ..."Present Please, Sir!".. sez, there were an all together of 26
Tuxes:-
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1. R. Kankaria
2. P.K. Sharma (Our beloved PK:)
3. Saurabh Kumar Das (The enthusiastic newbie)
4. Ritwik Mondal
5. Sumanta Karmakar
6. Deepesh Basu
7. Saugata Ghosh
8. Tathagata Banerjee (The gaming-Tux)
9. Siddharta Basu (The download-Tux)
10. Kaushik Saha
11. Rakhi Choudhury
12. Anupam Pattanayak
13. Alok Dugar (our previous meeting-Tux)
14. Pinaki Ranjan Sarkar
15. Amit Saha
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16. Sayamindu Dasgupta
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17. Sutanu K. Ghosh
18. Sanjay Bhatacharya
19. Soumi Roy
20. Sunny Ghosh
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21. Anagha Saha
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22. Arindam Chakraborty
23. Indranil Das Gupta (The benevolent dict-Tux..Indra-da, u sed this thing urself :)
24. JP Mathew (Mr. Mathew..our thanx again, and do u mind if we call you our present
"meeting-Tux"??)
25. Sumitabha Das
26. Pabitra Pal Choudhury
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NOTE: I'm not giving out the mail addresses due to spam problem
Minutes
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The meeting started with addresses from Mr. Sumitabha Das, and Mr. JP Mathew. Mr
Mathew gave the basic information regarding the new server at the PDSIT:
Hostname: ilugcal.becdu.ac.in
IP: 203.197.107.24
OS: Mandrake 8.2 (with apache, qmail, blah, blah)
Then Indranil Das Gupta - Indra da gave a brief idea regarding ILUG-CAL, it's history,
the general membership policies, and mailing list subscription procedures.
After that, we had a very very interesting and informative lecture from Prof. Pabitra
Pal Choudhury (from Indian Statistical Institute) on the fundamental concepts behind
an Operating System. This continued for around 2 hours, and as the lecture continued,
coffee and biscuits were served to all. The lecture was very helpful to newbies like
myself to grasp the basic concepts behind the the OS. All of us at ILUG-CAL would like
to thank Prof. Pal Choudhury for this lucid and informative lecture.
The next thing that came up was an introduction round, where each of the meeting
attendees introduced her/himself. It seems that we have quite an interesting mix of
members....from many walks of life:)
We had a brief history of ILUG-CAL from Indra-da when he was introducing himself.
During this Mr. Sutanu K. Ghosh pointed out that ilug-cal can try to interact with
people like assemblers,
hardware dealers, and try to make them sell at least some PCs pre-installed with
Linux. Nice idea, Sutanu-babu.
Then we had a general discussion round, where naturally, the topic on the new web
server and stuffs came up. It was decided that we would make full use of both setups
at Canada and BE College, with one setup acting as the mirror of the main (as
www1.ilug-cal.org), so that when one server goes down, the other one can immediately
take up the job. However, which setup will be the main one, and which will be the
mirror was *not* decided and we have decided to debate that out on the list.
Moreover, there was a decision to hold some kind of regular workshops
for the hard core techies and wannabe techies where things like kernel structure,
embedded systems, PVM, etc can be discussed, and people can try out their hands at
devices, boxes, etc. Mr. Saurabh K. Das also suggested that these workshops can be
alternated with workshops on lighter topics like those on gaming in Linux, multimedia
apps, etc. Mr. Mathew also added that as the PDSIT facilities can be used on Sundays,
every alternate Sundays these workshops can be held, with the hardcore ones
alternating with the lighter ones.
Apart from this, we also had some debates on why Linux is not being adopted in a large
scale in the corporate and normal Jo-user level, and how to propagate this, whether to
refer to the OS as free or not, whether the "freeness" (not according the free
software definition) creates a negative image of Linux in the mind of the non-academic
user, etc.
The meeting ended at around 15:00 hrs, IST, with Mr. Mathew showing a sample of the
famous Simputer to us, and after that, all the tuxes went back home, eager to have
their afternoon herrings
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