Sorry I couldnt make it. Sounds like the presentations went well and drinks afterward is always a great idea! Hopefully I can make it to the next meeting and participate in the KSP. Chris
On 1/22/06, Josh Sled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The January VAGUE meeting on Thursday January 19th was a nice event, > thanks to all who attended. > > We started off with a nice presentation from Nada O'Neal about basic > [7]SQL query syntax in the context of MySQL. Nada had prepared paper > copies of the presentation, and in the absence of a projector a crisis > was averted. The presentation covered basic selects and the details of > left and multi-way joins, the union operator, text and numeric > functions and tricks about sorting result-sets > > [8]Anthony Carrico then presented an overview of a [9]OpenPGP > key-signing party, to occur as the primary event of the February VAGUE > meeting. Participation is wide-open and strongly encouraged. > Interested participants should review [10]the instructions. There is > an addition over what was presented at the meeting, in that > participants MUST bring a hard copy of their OWN key fingerprint with > them to the meeting. This is in order to verify that the key available > on the keyserver, to be signed by the group, is the same as the one > the user actually generated. Anthony is quite happy to help resolve > and questions you may have before the event. I've volunteered to > present a quick overview of application-level software and extensions > that supports message signature and encryption, particularly email and > IM software. > > [11]Rion D'Luz proposed a larger installfest than the previous ones > this group has undertaken, specifically a weekend, multi-hour event at > a location like Radio Bean. Leveraging the open wifi, and hopefully > having some pre-tested machines available to demonstrate the wide > variety of application-level software that awaits potential users. A > take-away from this event should be a post-card sized sheet detailing > an already-scheduled follow-on install-fest, providing an opportunity > for parties who's interest is piqued by the first event to come to the > second. The utility of live-cds and installing into a VMWare instance > was also discussed. Rion will start the coordination of this in the > second half of the February meeting... > > A tentative next-meeting date of February 16th, being the 3rd Thursday > of the month, was proposed. > > Afterwards, most of the group trekked down to Vermont Pub and Brewery > for some extended discussion and excellent beer. We ate and drank over > talk of compensation models for open-source software, the utter > screwed-ness of SCO, and the trials and tribulations of hardware > support under free operating systems. It seemed like a good time was > had by all, though unfortunately we seemed to lose a couple of people > in the UVM -> VPB transition. > > 7. http://www.snarky.us/mysql/ > 8. http://giftfile.org/ > 9. http://giftfile.org/events/2006-02-16-ksp.html > 10. http://giftfile.org/events/2006-02-16-ksp.html > 11. http://dluz.tzo.com:8080/Rion/ > > -- > ...jsled > http://asynchronous.org/ - `a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > -- Chris www.chrisadams.org www.linuxchris.com AOL and Yahoo IM - fan0of0as MSN Messenger - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
