Central Iowa Linux User's Group

Officer Elections

• President – Dave Weis
• Vice President – Kevin Smith
• Treasurer – Barry Von Ahsen
• Sgt. At Arms – Ken Ristau
• Secretary – Tim Wilson

Second Life Demonstration

What is Second Life? It is a 3-D interactive environment in which you can interact with other "Second Lifers". Membership is free, but they require validation that it is you, a single user. The environment is in Alpha test currently. You can “buy” land within the environment, and build structures on the land. Bryan built a virtual garage, for his virtual garage band. Some people are making incomes off of their “second life” at Second Life. It is an adults only site, but there is a teen version of Second Life. There is a Linux client available. Download at http://www.secondlife.com. It has its own scripting language. Look through the Second Life wiki for more information on it.

Favorite Firefox Extensions

• SpellBound (has issues for some) – Spell Checker.
• Adblock Plus – Ties into Adblock Filterset G, so the blocked ads get updated.
• Tabbrowser Preferences.
• IE Tab
• Web Developer
• ColorZilla
• MeasureIt
• Diggler – Gives you the ability to find the page in Google cache, and Archive.org.
• Flashgot

Software Freedom Day

A date of September 16th, 2006 has been set for Software Freedom Day.