From jsimpson@stny.rr.com Sun May 16 01:50:54 1999
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 23:32:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jeremy Impson (Not Simpson)" <jsimpson@stny.rr.com>
Newsgroups: stny.roadrunner.linux
Subject: MINUTES from the April 13, 1999 STNY LUG meeting 


The April 13, 1999 meeting was held at Krisotofer's on Main St. in
Endicott.  It commenced promptly at 7pm.  Your faithful recorder had to
leave at 9 pm (he had 6 more hours of work ahead of him, and didn't get
home until after 3am).  

I did not take notes.  My sincerest apolgies.

We joked quite a bit at this meeting--some of us were on a role,
especially Mongo with the one-line zingers.

We enjoyed the food, drink, and ambiance of Kristofor's non-smoking
session.  We also talked about the future of the group.  Two takes on a
very good idea were mentioned:  we should perhaps arrange a certain time
(say, an hour) where novice Linux users could come and ask questions of
the experts.  It would be nice to have a portable laptop to use in such a
situation.  Similarly, a more technical session would be nice, including
perhaps some actual code hacking.  Perhaps a group project?  (I think Joel
mentioned this some time ago.)

It was also requested by myself that someone take notes (and type them up)
from various lectures presented, so that we can place them on the web
site.  In this way, the web site can serve as the record of the grouth of
the group.  We can ascert that, as a LUG, we "know" these things, and can
point to them as reference.  Rich Weber has some ideas about the future of
the web site, and I'm sure we will discuss them in the future.

It was suggested that we appoint a note-taker for the formal sessions.
Perhaps this is a good idea, on a round-robin basis.

Present at this joyous occasion were:

	Jeremy D. Impson (I get to be first this time)
	Clayton Duffek
	Clayton's friend, whose name escapes me (many apologies)
	Stephen Paine
	Michael W. Lurie
	Joel Tleon
	Mongo
	Paul M. Bucalo
	Paul's Associate, whose name also escapes me (Rick DuBrava is so
			good about taking attendance, but sadly he was
			not present)


The next meeting will held April 27, 1999.  Stay tuned here for the
announcement, or contact me directly.

The topics for the next meeting will: bash vs ksh vs csh vs tcsh (this
time I mean it) and a lecture from Perfesser Jeremy D. Impson on how to
find the answers to technical questions on the Internet.  Jeremy has
almost 5 years experience in such matters and knows quite a lot of stuff.  
If you listen to him long enough, you'll be able to tell that he truly is
full of it.  Also, time allowing, we will discuss the use of that
wonderful network tool, netcat.  Otherwise, we will talk about it and nmap
at the following formal meeting.

Submitted semi-respectfully,

--Jeremy Impson

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Jeremy Impson                              Linux, Perl, and Network geek
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