Haha nice one Kelsey!
Close, but you're off by a year -- seriously though, looking back I feel pretty
old :-)
I was able to dig up the old minutes ;-) I was at the 2nd ever (monthly, kuno)
meeting, Jeff couldn't make it. (see below).
And yes, for those of you who are looking, what you post on the internet, stays
on the internet! BTW, if you check, looks like PLUG only has 31 years more
left on its 'lease'.
2pm meeting at McDo Katipunan. Doc M arrived first. You and I arrived next,
Eric shortly behind us. Doc M was the only one who ordered food, since
everyone else had just eaten. We had a quick chat about how email routing was
broken through the DLSU-ADMU-UP + Aliens' Alcove FIDO net loop due to a bad
header in the payload (Eric had figured it out and fixed the previous night).
Doc M talked about different ways he was using Linux in his research as well as
consulting -- then we got into talking about incorporating PLUG into a
non-profit, non-stock SEC registered corporation :-)
I remember when we used to install SLS linux -- we had over 40 1.44 floppy
disks, X windows came as an add on of 6 disks.
First box we ever installed at DLSU (circa 1993) was a 486DX2/66Mhz with 8MB
RAM, and 128MB hard disk!
We had borrowed the disk set from Eric -- nobody had the time to kick it around
so it was farmed out into our advance OS class.
What was funny back then, was the documentation literally said that there were
Linux boxes that went "UP TO 4 DAYS WITHOUT REBOOTING!" -- and that was saying
something.
Second install we ever did was Slackware.
Later when we started going to RedHat, Eric remained faithful to Debian. :-)
Upgrading RedHat was tricky -- when a new release came out, we would talk
between ourselves and decide which disks each university would be responsible
for downloading. It would take us 2 weeks, but we'd get all the disks
downloaded -- and then that's when the fun starts.
RedHat 3.x had a Novell Netware simulator called Mars NWE. When we had figured
out how to use those as 'primary auth nodes', we suddenly found ourselves
running 5 of these babies as file servers for the entire campus. Those were
the days, we saved the campus millions by going open source! Soon we had print
servers (cups), dial-up servers (taccacs/radius), routers, gateways, even
kiosks -- all free, installed via Linux.
Mind you -- this was a time when Digital Pilipinas was charging P5M for a VAX
that was about as powerful as a 386DX!
Starting up PLUG was a huge help to the Phippine community. I remember how the
list was a mainstay for everything and everyone into Linux. (Note that at that
time most peeps still pronounced it 'lie-nux' -- haha) -- Everytime there was a
'new problem' someone would "page" Doc M, Jeff, you or me on the lists :-)
The PLUG list brought all sorts of people together -- Academia, Private sector
and government. Lots of funny banter, mostly very cerebral discussion -- but
most fun of all was when someone would go ape-sh*t and start flaming on the
list. Its cool that everyone left campus politics out of the picture -- we
were all just happy nerds helping each other out!
It was truly ground breaking as all the movers and shakers of Philippine
Internet were on the list.
We had so much momentum that when we sponsored APRICOT a few years later, we
even had Evi Nemeth, Barbara Fraser and Eric Alman as presenters! During the
conference, Evi Nemeth said that Van Jacobson could not make the talk because
he was at the right brink of building a new protocol that would make POTS
modems 10 times faster! (The fastest dial speed was 56K at that time) - A year
later DSL modems became the hottest thing in the US. That was also the first
time we talked about multicasting as a means for internet video!
By 1998 there was an effort to spin up PH-CERT and FIRST, and 1999 an effort to
build OpenSource Philippines.
I remember you calling me one cold day in 1996 to help troubleshoot a network
problem at Malacanang :-) So cool! (It was a DNS issue, on the palace's
side). That was right about the time President Ramos showed off his website to
Prime Minister Mahathir.
We've come a long way in (almost) 20 years -- we should put together a list of
major milestones for PLUG and Philippine Internet!
JayJay
Anthony Florendo
(formerly [email protected])
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Author: eric pareja
Date: 1994-07-22 00:40 -700
To: plug
Subject: minutes of the meeting, for approval
Minutes of the 2nd PLUG meeting
===============================
Date: 16 July 1994 14:00 GMT+0800
Attendance: Kelsey Hartigan Go Anthony Florendo(or was it Jefferson Tan?) Pablo
Manalastas Eric Pareja
Minutes:
1. Review of proposed Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws of PLUG.
a) Name of Corp - Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG), Inc.
b) Purposes of the Organization
1) To provide the members of the organization with channels for the exchange of
information, ideas and software related to the Linux Operating System and
associated utilities,
2) To advocate the use of the Linux Operating System and promote its
distribution,
3) To encourage research in the field of operating systems and their
application,
4) To disseminate research information through education
-or-
To engage in education and training on the usage and system administration of
Linux systems.
note: item 4) is to be refined further.
2. Principal Office - 941 Gonzales Street, Unit 304 Ermita, Manila 1000
3. Lifespan of Organization - 50 years
4. Incorporators - Pablo R. Manalastas Kelsey Hartigan Y. Go Eric Manuel N.
Pareja Samuel Mallare Rommel P. Feria
5. Trustees - same as above
6. Officers of the organization
President - Pablo R. Manalastas Vice-President - Kelsey Hartigan Y. Go
Secretary - Eric Manuel N. Pareja Treasurer - Samuel Mallare
Public Relations - Rommel P. Feria
7. List of Members
(to be furnished)
8. Date of Annual Meetings - First saturday of December
9. Requirements for Trustees
a) Must be a Linux user, b) Must have a bonafide interest in the activities of
PLUG, c) Must not have any unsettled accounts with PLUG.
10. Action points.
a) DTI registration of PLUG, Inc. name b) SEC Express Lane Form #1-NS c) Next
meeting to be announced.
11. Meeting was adjourned at 17:00 GMT+0800
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From: Kelsey Hartigan Go <[email protected]>
To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List
<[email protected]>
Cc: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 5:33 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] Linux distro in Filipino
Speaking of which, does Eric remember when we started Plug? 1993? It'll be 20
years next year.
--
Kelsey Hartigan Go
On Dec 5, 2012, at 3:59 PM, Michael Janapin <[email protected]> wrote:
Yep. Those were the days my friend.
>
>
>
>On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Paolo Falcone <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Twelve years ago there was no Ubuntu, and the Debian-Tagalog project
>>was not yet in existence. I still recall the efforts of Eric Pareja,
>>Sacha Chua et.al. in doing the initial localization of the Debian
>>installer, which eventually propagated to Ubuntu a few years after.
>>--
>
>Rev. Michael R. Janapin, Th.D.
>Academic Dean
>PBTS Baguio City, Philippines
>http://mulingsilang.wordpress.com
>http://www.pbts.net.ph
>
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