LILUG General Meeting - Tuesday, 12 September, 2000
From Lilug
Meeting Summary
Speakers
- Tom Rothamel - GPG Part 3
- Tom Rothamel concluded his multi-part series on Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG). Tom discussed the concept of trust and validity. He also iterated some front-ends to gpg (such as using it in an email program like mutt) and discussed keyservers. Further information about gpg can be found on the GPG Website.
- Dan Deutsche - CTTC
- Dan Deutsche of the CTTC center spoke briefly about hosting a LILUG seminar night, which evolved into the idea of a Distribution Faceoff at the 14 November meeting.
Discussions/Announcements
EFF DVD Case
- LILUG President Matt Newhall mentioned that the DVD case discussed at the last meeting was lost by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, but that it will likely be appealed to the Supreme Court.
Linux Advocacy
- Some ideas were discussed for how we can promote Linux in the near future. We will strive to get persons involved in business who have connections to Linux to speak at our meetings. Group members volunteered for the following jobs: Newsday contact, News12 contact, Linux Weekly News contact, Handout for newbies at each meeting, general sign creation and November meeting sign creation.
Meetings Improvement
- On the subject of meetings improvement, we discussed using name tags to help identify each other,a nd also to vary the level of speakers/topics so the newbies don't get lost and the veterans don't get bored.
Group Business
Future Meetings
- Future meeting topics (planning for the next six meetings) were discussed. A "LAN party" was planned for the next meeting in October, where group members will bring in their NIC-enabled machines and a private LAN will be set up to demonstrate various uses for Linux on the LAN. Nominations for officers will take place in November for the December elections. The Sunday before the December meeting (10 December 2000) will likely be another Install Day. This will be discussed further at a future meeting.
- The focus of the November meeting will be a Distribution Faceoff. Representatives from major Linux distributions will be invited to sit on a panel as the group members ask questions and engage in discussions. The group voted on what topics we would like to present as major ones for which panelists would be expected to prepare answers. The top 3 topics (along with the votes received) were:
- Upgrade path (16)
- File system arrangement (14)
- Installation Tools (13)
- Other topics suggested were
- Post-install configuration (11)
- Licensing/core packaging (10)
- Security & exploit policy (10)
- Package management (9)
- Window managers/desktops (8).
(Meeting summary taken from Minutes published on original LILUG website from 29 September 2000)
Msurico 11:37, 28 May 2006 (EDT)
Contributed Notes on Meeting From Others
- none