VLUG Meeting Minutes 2000.08.08
Sadly inaccurate attendance figures
| Total | 35
| | VLUG members | 26
| | First-timers | 2
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Announcements
Carl "Captain Meeting" Constantine welcomed everyone everyone to the
August VLUG meeting and immediate introduced Andrew "El Presidente" Willard,
who did his usual commercial moment, announcing VLUG memberships available
at $20/year (only 6 cents a day!), T-shirts in all sizes except large for
$20 each, and Linux CD-ROMs for $10 each. Next, Matthew "Sadly Inaccurate"
Skala did a count of how many people had attended, results above.
Les Benson spoke thanking Matthew on behalf of BB&C, Victoria's PC
user group, for having taught their Perl course, and announced that the
notes from the course were available free online for anyone who wanted to
get the book and study it independently. (The URL he announced seems to be
no longer active, but the notes are still at
https://bbs.bbc.org/~mskala/perl/).
Carl announced some news items of interest:
- Sir Alec Guinness, noted for Obi-Wan Kenobi and other roles, passed on
and will be missed.
- The Napster suit continues to progress; as of this meeting it was "in a
holding pattern until it gets to the appeals court".
- Caldera has bought part of SCO.
- Lots of kernel changes coming for 2.5
- Debian 2.2 due for final release this week
- Alan Irwin contributed that Mozilla M17 and Netscape preview 2 were
released, at the same time.
- Sun has announce they'll be open-sourcing StarOffice 6.
A short discussion ensued on Framemaker and other technical writing
environments. Then Carl introduced Stacey Falconer with a brief
biography.
Presentation
Stacey Falconer, on GIMP.
BREAK
Further Presentation
More GIMP, with Stacey.
Quiz
After Stacey finished answering audience questions, Carl and Andrew
turned the tables by asking the audience questions about GIMP and other
topics and awarding free stuff for correct or amusing answers.
Immediately before the end of the meeting, the team announced that the
next Installfest would be held in the David Strong Building at UVic
(formerly the 1996 Classroom Building) on August 20th, and we hoped to see
more people signing up for it than last time.
Adjourned
To Boston Pizza for beer, pizza, etc.
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