Meeting Notes Sept 2007

I noticed that some robots are coming to the Kennedy Center. http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/festivals/07-08/japan/events.cfm?genre_pick=MIS

I would like to find a new place to meet in Annapolis. More specifically, although Barnes and Nobles is an easy site for people to find us, we are limited in what we can do. In the future, I would like the LUG to have the option of more formal presentations. Moreover, I think we…

About 8 people showed up for this meeting. We had to fight for chairs with the Annapolis Linux knitters who seem to be getting really big. Subjects Discussed: Amanda Tape backup system. Dustin, a new guy from Zamanada , gave a basic description of the Amanda backup system. In summary, Amanda does backups as if…

We met at Barnes and nobles. We had about 10 people show up for this meeting. There were two talks going on at the same time at this meeting. On one corner of the table Tim Cash brought some hardware that was being troubleshot. We also had a talk about software. On software there was…

This is a list of known companies that hire Linux people. Yes, A number of companies in the Annapolis area hire Linux people. ARINC Defence Contractor and Airline Service Company. Use: C++, C, Oracle, Perl, Python and Zope. USi The world’s largest ASP. Use Linux in some capacity, but mostly uses Solaris and FreeBSD. Covesoft…

About 6 people showed up for this meeting. We had an open meeting. New Linux issues: 1. Nick was having some issues setting up Subversion 1.6 and in dependency hell. 2. Demitri was setting up Ubuntu 10 on this new System76 laptop. He had some questions about cron and anacron, which put us in a…