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!!Notes from Minutes of WLUG "AGM #2", |
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!!Sahil's Basement, 25/02/02 |
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!Regarding the WLUG group itself |
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Group has no formality - we could ask for gold coin donations at radio club |
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Use this money to buy box of stuff for WLUG to keep at radio club - power boards, network gear etc |
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Appoint a hierarchy - group president? |
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Traditionally we have meetings only, need to do something to get new people, start doing installs, bringing boxes, start presentations etc. |
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Momentum will eventually gather. |
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Group needs to develop a purpose |
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* have 2 groups of people - large group of people that don't particularly want help with anything (know what they're doing) that can all sort themselves out |
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* group of newbies that are starting to arrive... |
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!Regarding Linux and advocacy |
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The mission of the group needs to be to "Promote Linux use" and NOT to discourage Windows use - as such, people considering public advocacy |
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should read the [LinuxAdvocacy] how-to document. |
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Daniel refers to a pro-Microsoft story on "Breakfast" TV program. A guy wrote a letter to the show explain alternatives (crossposted to NZLUG |
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list.) While a great idea, it was filled with "Micro$haft" etc - bad advocate. This from the head of a reputable firm in Auck. Profanities, |
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allegorical stuff, "Evil Empire" etc. Not the right way to go about it. |
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There is a resources for advocacy link on WLUG page. |
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Question asked of how did everyone get to know about Linux: |
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* newspaper articles are becoming more prevalent |
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* Lots of press in the business market (Linux can do things that other solutions can't) |
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(story of backing up to can't back up to SQL database) |
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St John school administrator impressed with install of Redhat |
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Hamilton school has [Citrix] webterms in labs, 2 boxes, |
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! Regarding future meeting plans |
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Can we get bandwidth. talking to GoLive. Daniel follow up GoLive connection. |
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People are being thrown into 2nd year Linux labs - grads at at Uni will be teaching tutorials on Linux. offer people WLUG as a point of contact. |
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Format of meetings - presentation or hands on. 20 mins, little presentations. |
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things Bruce is doing: simple floppy disk insatller. Fax server on samba. aaron: dynamic DNS |
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ACM chapter - uni thing - can invite people from there. |
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get a rhythm. see presentations - worth going to. everyone would like to get something out of it |
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Meetings need to have an audience. Not going to put a couple of hours into preparing anything Good turnout to Daniel's samba thing. |
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Aaron wants to learn about Advanced Samba something like setting up services WANd (james) |
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Aim to have a definite goal with talks - show how to do something specific? |
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* Daniel: LDAP talk |
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* Craig: package management |
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* Aaron: something on DynDNS and bind |
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differences between easy stuff and hard stuff. Simpler talks. Have to interest everyone, including those who know a lot though. Perhaps have |
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more depth |
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Linux in business - presented by a man in a suit (Greig :) proprietry standards and vendor locking |
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!Plan an INSTALLFEST |
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* Prepare leaflet |
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* Have CDs for people to take home |
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* Should we focus on a single distribution? |
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* Obtaining Linux |
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* Getting PPP working |
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* Session on the command prompt |
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Ads in community newspapers - especially the Loot |
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Provide people a good introduction to Linux - a good way of doing this is showing it doing "something it can do that windows can't" |
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Firewall box etc |