He did vary a little in volume... Maybe we need to look at sound re-enforcement for future speakers..
With a hall that size, with 30-50 people in it the sound is never going to carry very well, and anyone who isn't used to public speaking is going to wind up with a sore throat if they shout for an hour.. :-). I've got a small amp and speakers I use for training courses here, plugged into my laptop with a wee lapel mike.. Very cute. -----Original Message----- From: Johnno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 31 October 2001 21:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; CLUG Subject: Re: CLUG Meeting Notes 30th October 2001 Thanks nick for those mins... I was at the back and found it hard to hear carl... which was a bit of a shame... Johnno ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Elder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2001 08:21 Subject: CLUG Meeting Notes 30th October 2001 > > CLUG Meeting Notes 30th October 2001 > > contents: > Minutes (unofficial) of the meeting > Door takings balance > Notes I took of Carl Klitsher's talk > > Meeting started on time at 7:30 chaired by Nick Rout > present approximately 50 > > The following was agreed by consensus at the meeting: > > 1/ That we have a meeting every second month with a speaker and a get > together most probably at a "pub" the month in between this organized meeting. > > 2/ That we book a venue for the bi-monthly meeting at a hall on different > nights of the week through the year. So as to make it fair on those that > can't attend on a certain night of the week. > > 3/That we postpone having a committee structure for as long as we can and > organize meetings over our CLUG mailing list. However the finer details > should be organized amongst the volunteers (who ever they may be at the time) > via off list email's. > > ( I think that the general consensus was that the Sydenham community centre > hall was a good meeting place. However I think this should be confirmed at > the next meeting when we see how many turn up for that meeting. As the hall > was filled almost to capacity for this meeting) > > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& > > Supper followed, then our presentation from our guest speaker. > > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& > > Door takings (counted by Barry and I ) $72-25 > Supper expenses - $16-00 > Hall hire - $15-00 > = $41.75 balance > 1/We have some provisions left over from supper for the next meeting > > 2/ I intend to put the expenses "bucket" at the door for gold coin collecting > at the next meeting/s as I think any surplus we may accumulate could come in > handy for future activities that may require further expenses. > > (Such as Hall hire for daytime install fests or public demonstrations, > advertising and/or perhaps donations of linux distributions to public > libraries (such as the Wellington LUG appear to be doing at the moment)) > > > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& > > Our Guest speaker was Carl Klitsher from IBM to do a talk on IBMs involvement > over this past year with LINUX > > (The key points that I noted that he mentioned are taken from what I heard. > I can't be held responsible for any errors that I may have made. You can > correct me if you must). > > 1/ IBM has invested $1 billion US toward the development of LINUX this past > year. > > Carl used various charts and diagrams to show where the money is being > distributed to. > > 2/ That they are going to sell LINUX installed hardware. Using various > distributions, as ordered by the customer > > 3/ They are going to remain selling "Windows" installed hardware. > > 4/ Concentrating on the corporate market and supplying the server market and > main frame market. > > 4/ That they aim to make all IBM hardware linux compatible if it isn't > already, from IBM wrist watch computers right through to main frames. > > 5/ That they are going to sell software support with the hardware > > 6/ They have no intention at the moment to supply linux installed desktop > computers. If MS office or Lotus office was on the LINUX desktop then it may > be a different story. > > 7/ That according to IDC surveys of which IBM has carefully scrutinized they > predict that by 2004 the server growth of Linux computers will be 28.4% LINUX > to 21.4% NT (or win 2000). > > 8/ Half of IBM main frames sold this year are using LINUX. > -------------------------------------------------------- > And in General Carl mentioned the following: > > That 40% of all Internet servers are currently running linux. > > That 65% of web servers are running APACHE > > Canterbury District Health are running linux servers for their image capture > intra-net. > > NY stock exchange have recently changed to using LINUX supported by IBM > > Shell Oil Exploration are using linux. (and use a cluster of 1200 machines) > > Google search engine use a linux cluster of 5000 machines. > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Carls presentation was applauded. > > Links of interest: > > www.ibm.com/linux > www.ibm.com/nz > > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& > > Nick Elder > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ###################################################################### The contents of this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author, and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Selwyn District Council ######################################################################
