The North Bay Linux® Users' Group is a computer users group serving the
San Francisco North Bay and surrounding areas. We are dedicated to
Linux,
Open Source and other related
topics. We strive to promote Linux,
Free Software, open standards and to
generally have a good time by hosting social events that educate, allow
members to share ideas and knowledge and to build friendships.
We hold regular meetings on the second Tuesday of each month with a
selected topic presented by a guest speaker. We also hold other meetings
and events on a regular or semi-regular basis. Meetings and membership are
free and open to the public. Please sign up for the announce email list to receive notifications of upcoming events. Or the talk list to get help with Linux.
Board Meeting Minutes
Meeting attendees: Frank, Bob, Kyle & Dave.
Not much on the Agenda this month, just upcoming meeting topics:
December: Panel discussion on various Virtualization methods, such as vmWare, OpenVZ, Xen and more. Panel participants will include Kyle, Frank, Aaron, and a co-worker of Aaron's whose name escapes me.
January: Paul Stagnoli and Brian Davidson have volunteered to talk about a net-bootable device that they hacked at his work.
Board Meeting Minutes
The board meeting was attended by Paul (VP), Aaron (Treas.), Dave (Scribe), Bob (Dir. @ Large) and Frank (Dir @ Large).
I forgot to post the last minutes, so I'll congratulate Frank now for stepping up and accepting the 2nd Director at Large position (hooray!).
Our upcoming General Meeting Topics:
- October: Tom Haddon of Canonical will talk about Ubuntu.
- November: Our own Bob Blick will give a talk: 'Storage, Sharing and Backup: Samba, Rsync, and the MyBook World NAS'
- December: This one is still undecided, but could be a new Knoppix talk by Kyle, Paul might give a talk about linux servers, or perhaps a lively panel discussion.
We selected a date for the next Installfest - Sat. October 20th. I am awaiting confirmation from O'Reilly that the conference room is available before I announce the 'fest officially.
We also reaffirmed that we want to make this an Installfest-Plus. This just means opening up the event to help with configuring hardware or applications in addtion to the traditional OS installs.
Board Meeting Minutes
- Roll call: Kyle (pres.), Paul (v. pres), Aaron (treas.), Dave (scribe), Bob (dir @ large)
- Results of the Board Election, held at the previous General Meeting:
- President: Kyle Rankin
- Vice President: Paul Peterson
- Treasurer: Aaron Grattafiori
- Scribe: Dave Sisley
- Director at Large: Bob Blick
...not a major shake-up this year. Mostly the same personnel, but some at new positions (Paul & Aaron), and one new face: Bob Blick (welcome!).
Please note that the second Director at Large position is still open. Anyone interested in the position can nominate themselves (or someone else) on the mailing list or at the next General Meeting.
- Upcoming Topics:
- August: Speaker will give a talk on Amazon, specifics to follow.
- September: Kyle will talk about DNS. This is a general talk about how DNS works, as a follow-up to Augie's recent PowerDNS presentation.
- October/November: Augie has offered to do another presentation (topic tba) and Paul is planning a discussion of LAMP. The order of these presentations has yet to be determined.
- Installfest: it was briefly discussed that we should schedule one soon... Stay tuned.
- There was agreement among the board that the Wii is pretty cool.
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