[Cialug] January Meeting Notes

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Here are the meeting notes from the January meeting.  Sorry they're late, had
laptop problems.

January 19, 2005

LUG Officer Nominations
Dave C nominated Barry Von Ahsen – Treasurer

Barry nominated the Status Quo party.
Current officers:
Dave Champion – President
Dave Weis – Vice President
Barry Von Ahsen – Treasurer
Kevin Smith – Sgt. At Arms
Tim Wilson – Secretary

Ken Ristau nominated for Sgt. At Arms

Plans for 2005
Have an installfest, including advertising.  Barry has *volunteered* (he was
quoted as saying "crap")
Plan to attend trade shows, conventions, etc that are free or low cost.

Meeting Topics
Interest in SPAM filtering setup for Linux; including white listing.
Transcoding using Linux

Other “news”
Monty Python’s Spamalot is scheduled to come to Des Moines Civic Center.  Check
out http://www.montypythonsspamalot.com

Discussions
Ken Ristau mentioned CentralICQ.  It is a text-based Linux instant messenger
that supports many IM services.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/centericq/

Dave Champion mentioned he uses Pork, another text-based instant messenger.
http://dev.ojnk.net/

Nice web developer toolbar for Firefox (oddly enough) WebDeveloper.  Go to
http://updates.extensions.mozilla.org/


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Tim W.