LILUG General Meeting - Tuesday, 12 December, 2000
From Lilug
Meeting Summary
Speakers
- John Pomeroy - Apache
- John Pomeroy discussed web concepts and showed how to configure the apache server.
- Matt Surico - Jserv
- LILUG Secretary Matt Surico followed up with a discussion of how to install Jserv on top of apache. The notes from his talk can be found in PDF format for downloading.
- Dan Deutsche - CTTC
- Dan Deutsche of the CTTC center spoke briefly to get users to write to representatives at Caldera and RedHat and encourage them to come down to the meeting for a discussion that has previously fallen through. Dan provided these two addresses:
- becky@redhat.com
- swright@calderasystems.com
Discussions/Announcements
Free CDs
- Matt N. mentioned that he has some Linux and other CDs (FreeBSD 4.2, RedHat 6.2, StormLinux).
LinuxWorld
- Our group has a booth at LinuxWorld. Volunteers are needed to work the booth. You can get a 20% discount on your admission if you do.
Next Install Day
- We will be having our next Install Day in Lufton 163 at SUNY Farmingdale on Sunday, 7 January, 2001, at 1 PM. Matt N. hopes we can arrange the Install Day come once every 6 months (i.e., in January and in July).
Hard Drive Tuning
- If you are into Linux performance tuning, take a look at the O'Reilly Web Site, including something called hdparm, which can help you tune your hard drive.
Mozilla 0.6
- Mozilla 0.6 is out, and doesn't crash much more than once per day!
Group Business
Elections
- The following persons were elected with no opposition:
- Matt Newhall, President
- Ari Shaer, Vice-President
- Peter Capazzi, Treasurer
- Matt Surico, Secretary
Event Coordinator Position
- Matt Newhall proposed, and the group approved, the recommendation that we not attempt to change our group's constitution on the matter of a newly-created position called Event Coordinator. Instead, the group decided to make this an appointed position.
(Meeting summary taken from Minutes published on original LILUG website from 18 December 2000)
Msurico 18:15, 28 May 2006 (EDT)
Contributed Notes on Meeting From Others
- none