1998/09/10

Updated the meetings page with the agenda, including reminder to bring $20 membership fee in order to vote at AGM.

Updated the InstallFest page with a link to the brochure.

The Vancouver Linux Users Group (VanLUG) are hosting the www.linux.bc.ca domain with pointers to the LUGs within BC.

The Canadian Linux Users' Exchange (CLUE) are hosting the www.linux.ca domain, with the plan being each city's LUG can have a sub-domain.

Our August general meeting took place on the 25th. Amoung other things, nominations for our first AGM were put forward. Please see the minutes for more details.

Our VLUG Polo-shirts were delivered. Our thanks to Andrew for an excellent job!

Our July general meeting took place on the 28th. Amoung other things, the date for our first AGM was set. Please see the minutes for more details.

Our June general meeting took place on the 23rd. Excellent turnout. Our proposed bylaws were reviewed and adopted. Ten or so members signed the document, which was then submitted to the registrar's office for name search and registration as a society.

The Vancouver Linux group are beginning monthly meetings at UBC, on the third Monday of each month. The next meeting is June 15th, from 7 - 9 pm. Location is Brock Hall Annex, Room 351.

Removed the May meeting notice from the top-level page, replaced with a list of places someone might be looking to go within the site.

Have linked in the page with the revised pricing structure for the VLUG Polo Shirt and Crests, and have updated the shopping cart with the new pricing.

Our general meeting was a special format intended for the general public, consisting of a series of presentations explaining the "Linux and Open Source Movement," and how it can benefit someone in business and educational settings.

Mike Thorpe and Deid Reimer, Matthew Skala and Chris Halsall all made separate presentations, and then hands-on activities with several computers began.

Quite successful, we had a total turn-out of 40 people, at least a half dozen of which were newcomers. We will be using this as a basis for additional presentations in the future.

Deid Reimer, Ron Randall and Chris Halsall were all speakers on a panel at 12th Annual Canadian Internet Conference (Net '98) dealing with NT vs. Linux in the ISP setting.

While the three of us were quite civil, the audience were very unkind to Microsoft!

CaroLyn Schneider and Chris Halsall were guests on CFAX's "Online - The Computer Information Show" today promoting the VLUG Install-Fest. Thanks to Al Thain.

We now have an official VLUG Product Order Page to help keep track of CD-ROM and shirt orders.

Andrew has produced the first set of images for a VLUG shirt.

We now mirror the Linux Documentation Project on LadyBug.

Created a small page with pictures from the 1997 VIEX show. Can point potential sponsors to this page to show quality of presence.

1998/03/07

The Promotions Committee had a good meeting down at Cyberstation this morning. As part of the meeting, brochure distribution was a topic. Now online is a brochure distribution support system to help with the co-ordination of this work.

Please have a look at the public view of current brochure locations, and be sure to let us know if you have any further suggestions.

Also, Chris Maclean has put together a page about our new server. Check out the Ladybug Server Page.

1998/03/02

The VLUG Web Committee have taken the new VLUG site live. Please let us know what you think, and if you have any suggestions for new areas or content.

1998/02/24

Had our monthly general meeting, the first up at our new location, UVic. As usual, we had a strong turnout. We're going to locate a larger room for next months meeting. Minutes should be online soon; they have been posted to the list already.

We have a bylaws committee underway. If you're interested in helping please join the list.

VLUG now owns VLUG.ORG The Web committee found typing "linux.victoria.bc.ca" to be too much to do too often...