1999.06.14 Meeting Notes

We met at Round Table Pizza in Davis. Our guest speaker was Sam Lantinga of Loki Entertainment Software, Irvine, CA.

Committee Reports

• UCD RESNET-HOWTO - We are still waiting for approval or denial from UCD IT.
• Tax Exempt Club Status - Still in progress, nothing to report.
• LUGOD Logo - A web-based voting script is being developed. Once it is online, it will be announced onthe VOX mailing list and at the next meeting.
• Ambassador to Other LUGs - Linus Torvalds is speaking at BALUG tomorrow.

Other Business:

• Financial Report - ???
• Elections - With no office receiving more than one nomination, voting was unnecessary. The offices remain the same:
  • root - Pete Salzman
  • sys - Bill Kendrick
  • /dev/null - Zach Johnson
  • typescript - Melissa Hardenbrook
• Donation - Joseph Arruda donated copies of FreeBSD 3.2, NetBSD 1.4 and two copies of Caldera OpenLinux 2.2.
• Linux Demo Day - We are signed up. More will be revealed as something happens with the project.
• MicroSoft Store - Joe pointed out that an MS store (!?) will be opening up in San Francisco in the next month or so. We may wish to, shall we say, be a presence?
• Riot? - Jennifer Rutherford, Jessica Luedtke and Melissa Hardenbrook chanted "riot" for a few moments. Wierdos.

Speakers

• Sam Lantinga of Loki Entertainment Software, Irvine California, came up to demonstrate his powerful multiplatform game development library, Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL), which he happened to use when porting Activision's game "Civilization: Call To Power" from Windows to Linux. He, of course, also demoed the game itself.

  Thanks to Bill Kendrick, Marianne Waage and Josh Cohen for bringing a monitor, speakers and power cable, respectively.

Attendance

• (No attendance sheet was passed out <:^(... about 28-30 people attended)

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