1st meeting

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Date: November 9th, 2004
Time: 7-9pm
Location: Monroe County Public Library room 1C

Attendance: 7
Presenter: Mark Krenz

NOTE: Even though this is called the "1st meeting", there were actually several previous formal and informal meetings of BLUG under different organizers in the past.

Summary

This was a good return to regular BLUG meetings. Mark and Marina setup a computer to demonstrate Gentoo Linux and programs like Audacity. Interestingly enough, Shane Mueller was in attendance, who wrote part of Audacity, including the pause button and the toolbar code.

There was pizza and drinks and we gave out some Gentoo distributions.

Original Outline

What follows is the outline that Mark made for the meeting. The actual meeting loosely followed this:

 I. Welcome and Intro

   a. Food and talking
   b. Sign-in / pass out surveys
   c. About BLUG
   d. Linux in and around Bloomington
   e. Other groups
      1. IU ACM Linux SIG
      2. IU Unix Users Group
   f. Meet everybody
   g. Frequency of meetings (every 2nd Tuesday?)
   h. Format of meetings

      Intro/Meet new people
      Presentation or main topic
      Demonstrations (fun time)
      Development meetings
      

 II. Organization 

   a. Who wants to help?

     People needed for:
      1. Organizing events
      2. Website development
      3. Giving presentations
      4. Getting the word out
      5. Making free distribution CDs
      6. Any other kind of help

   b. Potential events

      1. LAN party with IU ACM and IU Lan party group.
      2. LinuxFest 2005 in Indy
      3. Future meeting presentation topics
        a. Linux security
        b. Bash shell tutorial
        c. SSH tricks and tips
        d. Gnome or KDE
        e. History of Linux/OSS
        f. Virtual Linux servers
        g. Bandwidth rate limiting through kernel
        h. Accellerated 3d in X windows
        i. Video editing
        j. Audio production
        k. Odd hardware (Linux on Xbox?)
        l. Open source software on Mac OS X
        m. Linux for Sysadmins
        n. Linux that my mother could use
        o. Linux gaming

p. Embeded Linux

   c. OSS Projects (at least 2 on a team)
      1. Ideas:
        a. Gentoo installer (ncurses or GUI)
        b. Gimp plugin
        c. Raytracer written in PHP (would be first of its kind)
        d. View header plugin for Firefox
        e. Game
        f. Waka (new HTTP) protocol decoder
        g. Screensaver for xscreensaver
        h. Visuallization plugin for XMMS
        i. Web dashboard
        j. Making our own Linux distribution with IU ACM
        k. Better CLI bittorrent client
        l. Better gentoo config update file merger


      2. Team assignments
    

-2nd Hour- (5 min break)

 III. Demos

   a. Gentoo

      1. Origins
      2. emerge
      3. USE variable
      4. Installation

   b. Audio editing in Audacity
      1. Opening files
      2. mp3 file support
      3. Shaping audio
      4. Combining tracks
      5. Making fades and dynamics
      6. Plugins
      7. Saving files/exporting

   c. x.org
      1. Differences between x.org and XFree86.
      2. alpha transparency
      3. drop shadows

   d. Latest desktop environments

      1. Gnome 2.8 (http://www.gnome.org/start/2.8/notes/rnwhatsnew.html)
         a. New MIME system/file type handler

b. Network shares c. Handling of multisession CDs

         d. Glider theme
         e. Better keyboard layout control from CC
         f. Better panel applet selection
         g. Calendar integration in the clock applet  (with task support)
         h. Wireless network properties
         i. Battery monitor
         j. More weather locations for weather applet and improved forecasts
         k. More integrated and improved Evolution 2.0

* Support for Novell Groupwise and Microsoft Exchange. * Support for S/MIME, for authentication and encryption. * View multiple sets of appointments on one calendar. * Support for online calendars, in the Webcal format. * Improved offline support for IMAP accounts. * Support for Usenet newsgroups (NNTP). * Junk mail filtering, via SpamAssassin. * Many user interface improvements.

         l. Improved epiphany web browser
         m. Integrated VNC client
         n. Integrated "Network tools client"
         o. Configuration editor (like registry)
         p. GNOME 2.8 now includes official Python bindings to the API

      2. KDE 3.3.1
      3. XFCE
      4. FVWM

   e. Linux games

      1. Legends
      2. Flight Gear Flight Simulator
      3. Supertux
      4. Frozen Bubble
      5. America's Army

 IV. Closing

    a. After hours talk and hang out.