2000.12.18 Meeting Notes

News

• DVD Zoning Enforced in Law in France
• Atari 800XL used for heart diagnostics in Czech Republic
• 3Dfx purchased by NVidia
• British Telecom sues(!) Prodigy over hyperlink patent
• GPL V3 preview available!
• RedHat wins US Army Contract for embeded Linux devices
• Gimp 1.2 coming soon - 1.3 branch (for 1.4 stable) and 1.9 branch (for 2.0 remake) to be worked on simultaneously

Committee Reports

• Demo - The last demo was on December 16th at the Co-Op. The demo machine still needs some more tweaking, but it now has a Voodoo 5 video card.

• DCN - No news.

• Other LUGs
  
  • 12/19 - BALUG: Curtis Brune, VP of Engineering at Workspot
  • 1/4 - SVBUG: rlogin, rsh, etc., and SSH
  • 1/9 - NBLUG: Topic TBA
  • 1/15 - LUGOD: Jeremy Allison on Samba
  • 1/21 - LUGOD Installfest
  • 2/1 - SVBUG: Ernest Prabhakar - Apple Open Source Product Mgr.
  • 2/6 - LUGOD: Matt Bishop of UCD
  • 3/1 - SVBUG: Jef Raskin - The Humane Interface.

• Installfests - The next IF will be January 21st. As usual, EUII Room 1131 at UC Davis. RSVP online. http://www.lugod.org/if/

• LERT - No activity.

Other Business

• Financial Report - $19.00 in voluntary dues were collected.

• LUGOD T-Shirts - We've decided on "medium blue" shirts. Design Works wants us to go to their shop to pick exactly which blue.

• Yolo Library Donation Update - O'Reilly has finally gotten back to us. If they recall correctly, they have sent the following titles to the library directly: POSIX Programming Guide, POSIX.4, Porting UNIX Software, SCO Unix in a Nutshell, UNIX Power Tools, and When You Can't Find Your UNIX SysAdmin.

• Book Wishlist - Pete has mentioned that it'd be nice if we could get TCP/IP Illustrated (Vols. 1-3) and The Standard C Library donated into the library.

• GNUJobs.com - Bill will be looking at GNUJobs.com and seeing if they would be good to work with.

Presentation

• Pete Salzman demonstrating using Xine and Xmovie to play DVDs.

  Presentation notes available (external link)

Attendance

• Joel Baumert
• Pete Salzman
• Bill Kendrick
• Henry House
• Rick O'Shagnessy
• Jan Wynholds
• Ralph Bruckschen
• Jeff DeFay
• Rhonda Bailey
• Steven Helms
• Mark Kim
• Casey Bralla
• Mike Simons
• Gabe Rosa
• Marianne Waage
• Rusty Minden
• Jeff Herteg
• George
• ...and 1 other

Photos of this meeting

Quote of the Meeting

• "I don't use Windows, so I don't need WINE except to play Half-Life." - Ralph Bruckschen