Location: 1996 Classroom Building Room 113 University of Victoria

Those who signed their name as willing to indicate their presence:

CaroLyn Schneider
Steven Bradshaw
David Lee
Louis Oliveira
Jeremy Nicolet
Alex Stewart
Doug Bakewell
Jim Rawling
Thomas G. McVeigh
Norman Jordan
Tanya Huang
Steven Baker
Andrew Willard
Chris Halsall
Mike Thorpe
Pee Wee
Hans-Peter Oeite
Mark Elrod
John Foxgard
Will Balantine
Jim Hall
Mike Foltinek
Gerald Crimp

Bylaws

• Our bylaws were sent to the Registrar and were rejected because did not have Society or Association in our name - let Chris Halsall know if you have an opinion - and needed a list of first directors (thus need to have our first Annual General Meeting, hereafter and forever and ever refered to as AGM), and we are not allowed to use email as official notice of our meetings, and the notes on what Open Source software is should be in a paragraph in our bylaws.
• We will be having our AGM at the September meeting and doing whatever preparation is necessary for it at the August meeting, as CH has already mentioned on the list. At that point we will be electing Directors so start thinking about running for a position.
• We thought end of September would be a good time for the AGM so we can be very official at the Computer Show (especially with those amazing t-shirts that Andrew made happen).

VLUG CDs

• Andrew explained what they are for the new people and told everyone to buy one.
• There are still good and duds - $10 and $3 respectively (duds one can't install from but could patch from)
• cds@vlug.org

Polo Shirts

• We are placing an order.
• At the time, Andrew said people could still order a shirt but given the delay in getting the minutes out, this is likely no longer the case...

Meeting Format

• Breaking out into Newbie/Advanced SIGs after meeting general stuff is over was discussed - idea was nayed because it might isolate the Gods from the little people, not helping out our new users.
• Newbie and Advanced presentations were also discussed and nayed as we have enough difficulty digging up one presentation per meeting.
• The way we did things at the BB&C clubhouse was brought up, where after the general meeting business was done, sending the experienced Linux users into specified areas where the newbies could ask them questions for a period of time. This was generally agreed to be a good thing and we will give this another try at our next meeting - no reason being given for why we stopped doing it when we moved to UVic (perhaps something in the atmosphere made us feel more formal and restrained?
• Presentation topics:
  Dual booting - Mike Thorpe offered to do a presentation
  I was asked to dig up the past suggestions for meeting topics and post them - here they are:
  1998.02.24
  Samba - Gord McCague
  Networking of two machines - ?
  Demo of Linux as development platform - Chris Halsall
  Graphics programming - ?
  X86 config - Chris Halsall
  Compiling - ?
  Security - Chris MacLean
  Cable Modem Routering - suggested Tom Brown might be able to demo
  *********
  I think I had notes on this from a meeting in the fall of 97 but I seem to remember giving them to someone - perhaps our Captain Meeting? I can't remember.

Gossip

• There was much happy gossip. I didn't take notes, it's all on http://slashdot.org.

Install Fest

• Reviewed what we do at IFs
• Set dates for them, which have since been changed

Raffle and Raffle Break

• Raffled off a shrink-wrapped Red Hat 5.1 cd which Gerald gleefully won and raised for us $40.

Questions

• A question came up about the difference between Samba and IPX, which Thorpe and a few other folks answered.
• Another question came up about what folks might suggest as a low resource utilizing window manager. This got answered, I think.

Next meeting will be on the fourth Tuesday of August, which is going to be August 25, 1998. Will likely not be in the same location at UVic - Gord will let us know if he's been able to book a room.

---

Comments welcome as I can't write everything down. Email 'em to CaroLyn Schneider