here are the minutes - sorry for the delay, fell asleep last night
-sdg-
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Minutes of the monthly meeting of iLUG-Cal
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* Meeting Date and Time: 7th December, 2002 from 14:00 hours (IST)
on wards.
* Meeting Venue: Ontrack Systems Limited - Lake Gardens
* Minutes Tux: Sayamindu Dasgupta aka SDG ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* Penguin_Count: (Lemme know if I have missed out anyone - there was way
to much confusion at the end :-)
Sandip Ghosh
Anirban Roy
Arun Sreelalan Iyer
Amit Khan
Tathagata Banerjee
Sandip Banerjee
Sharminder Singh
Anindya Chakroborty
Pradip Kr Sharma
Anirban Biswas
Partha Chakroborty
Raja Guha
Sayan Chakraborti
Sayamindu Dasgupta
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Minutes
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Well, we had a meeting (that should be obvious by now ;-). The boot up
was as scheduled (14:00), and I tried to setup Bangla support in a SuSE
box. However, since the things were a bit outdated and since SuSE has
this wonderful habit of being different (don't flame me - ok?), I was
not successful.However I managed to show the layout of the InScript
keyboard, which is the "official" standard, and gave a brief idea about
it's merits and demerits. Then we took a look at Knoppix, and went gaga
over it.
After that, the meeting formally started with members taking their
seats, and off we went with COMPASS.The timings (final??) are as
follows:
Date: 23rd to 26th January
Timings: 10:00-14:00 - Business hours
14:00-18:00 - General hours
This may create some problems (depending on how pessimistic your outlook
is ;-), since 23rd, 25th and 26th are going to be full fledged holidays,
and hence, the crowds may become a little unmanageable ;-). The stall of
OnTrack will be either at Sangam Hall (near Park Hotel) or at Netaji
Indoor Stadium.
The dimensions of the stall that OnTrack will get is 2 m deep and 3 m
wide.
It was decided that we can concentrate on the following things
Techy
1. Linux Embedded (someone volunteered to give presentations on
that)
2. Linux kernel Hacking (someone volunteered to give
presentations
on that)
Home Users
1. Linux4gamez - Tathagata-da has suggested Q3A, UT, UT2003,
Mindrover, Return to Castle Wolfenstein
2. Linux4office - OpenOffice - what else ??
3. Installinux - Specific sessions on installations
General
1. Linux4bangla - (If someone is familiar with the Jabber
thingy,
we can live demo IM in Bangla)
2. Q/A sessions
It was decided that we can give out CDs (..burn them on the spot). We
would recommend Knoppix to new users and for those who want it, we can
give MDK 9.0/RH 8.0. Debian will not be given out, and those who want it
will be told to contact some of the burner tuxes.
Regarding pamphlets, it was decided that we should stick to the plan
proposed earlier - we would arrange for A4 sized sheets, on one side we
would have a generic installation FAQ sort of thing, and on the othe
other we can have the general FLOSS propoganda and LUG info.
Regarding volunteers, Mr Raja Guha (the volunteer coordinator) told that
we would be needing on the minimum at least six volunteers. Also,
Tathagata-da suggested that instead of GNU/Linux T-Shirts for the
volunteers (he was not very hopeful about getting a T-shirt of his size
:), we can have nice Tux-Caps. It was also decided that the volunteers
coordination will be done on list if possible to achieve maximum
transparency and accountability.
Regarding the resources needed, we will need the following
configurations (the number within brackets denote quantity)
1. Gaming Machine (1)
At least 128M, at least a P3, and *at least* a NVIDIA Riva TnT2
graphics card, decent snd_card, network card, 4-6 GB hdd.
2. Burning and backup machine (1)
At least 128M, fast burner (highest possible speed preferred), network
card (this need not have monitors since we will
be operating it from another box remotely), 20GB hdd.
3. Normal general purpose machine (2)
At least 64M, supported graphics card, 4 GB hdd.
4. Network hardware for connecting these boxes together.
However, it was still not clear (at least to me) who is supplying the
reqd hardware. Someone, please enlighten ;-).
The meeting finally broke off with the members forming smaller groups
and discussing things ranging from running virii under
Wine to QT programming, from Playstation emulators for Linux to setting
up and configuring Apache 2x.
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.... Towards World Liberation ....
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