Group Restructure

[Ryan]

Since school began, I have noticed that the group has had somewhat of a resurgence of people interested in the site and the group. It seems that they were interested not for the original intended purpose of the group, but more for, and community with other Linux users. Last semester we created the group to possibly customize a live version of Ubuntu to pass out to the school for those willing to take the plunge. This was a rather ambitious project to undertake, and I feel that our responsibilities elsewhere cut into any progression the group might have made.

The outcome from the group for me at least, was a better understanding and wider view of my new operating system. From this realization I came to think that maybe the group needs to stand for just a small community of Linux users at BSU to talk and share information we alone have not run across. Right now, I believe that the group could still exist, but in a rather relaxed form.

I am very interested in who would like to attempt this, we can either meet at our previous times (2pm Saturdays) or changing the time to fit schedules.

Thanks,

Ryan Hanson

[Ashok Gelal]

I'm in. "...our responsibilities elsewhere cut into any progression the group might have made." That's true and was expected. Roger was also asking about the next club meeting and he is interested about BroncOS. I think if we all contribute a little bit of time and efforts, we can make the dream of BroncOS come true. We had just started and summer came in between. We have 9 months before next summer, and this is a lot of time to do something. But before anything, we need to be reorganized, and restructured. Why not make some clear milestones which will guide us through? Let's discuss everything in our next meeting. See you there.

[Trent Cutler]

I can't dedicate the time that I had last semester to the group, but I would love to contribute as much as I can-when I can.

BTW, customizing your own version of Ubuntu is now even easier. I just read an article on it.

Won't be able to join this Saturday, but I made Ryan an Admin for the calendar, and the group. I hope things go well!

[Ryan]

Alright, this may not happen this weekend (cause it is Saturday morning as I am posting this) but I think next weekend we will get together. I am guessing Saturday afternoons are a pretty solid time to have the meetings and the ILC is a great place to have them. So, unless we really need to, I don't see a reason to change anything along those lines.

I was also considering that we may want to put up fliers to attract a whole new generation of linux users at the school. If I get bored I may mess with Open Office Draw and see if I can make something up. I am probably going to focus mainly on being a linux catch all club.

If no one objects, 2pm Saturdays fine with everyone?

[Ashok Gelal]

2pm Saturday is the perfect time for me. I hope you will come up with an attractive flier. If you need any help let me know. A side note, on our last meeting Trent and me were talking about setting up a new web site with a new domain name. Trent had told me that he is pretty good at setting up a site with Drupal. If before we want to make it happen then we need to do it before calling for more members to avoid data migration headaches later on. I have enough space to host a web site, we just need a domain name and some hours of Trent. Domain name just costs $5 for a year so shouldn't be a big problem. What do you think?

[Ryan]

I love that idea, but I would love to be sure we get a bit more popular before we attempt to do that. If we start having a lot more members attend, or get involved at least. I would be overjoyed to create our own website.

I have been throwing together a few things for a flier, nothing I have liked to much yet. but as I fail, I seem to get closer.

We shall see....

[Phil]

If you want any help, I'd be glad to do whatever I can. I'm pretty handy with image manipulation, although if I get frustrated with the Gimp I have been known to go back to a Windows box to use Photoshop.

Saturday sounds great. I won't make it the following weekend, but I really am going to try to make it to at least one meeting this semester.

[Ashok Gelal]

R u guys getting together today? I'm waiting for Ryan to inform whether we are coming or not.

[Ryan]

T_T

Sorry, I thought I sent a broadcast email to everyone associated with the group for a meeting, it ended up being me sitting in the ILC for a while. I would LOVE to get people together this week (of October the 4th), and beyond. So, I really hope to see people there this week. I'll try again with the broadcast email, see if that helps. I am unsure if I did it correctly the first time. You will have to forgive my communication lags, I am trying to handle most of this while in class or between them.

In other news (mostly a reply to Phil!) ,I recently found a LOVELY vector graphics app called Inkscape, and have been totally enthralled with it for creating a poster. I just found it last night while browsing the repositories and wondered if it would be better than Open Office Draw (which is really really is). If any of you know of Corel (or Koral, or something) Draw, I think this is similar to that. i have only begun to use it, but it's so damn easy to use, I just picked it up and started having ideas for a group poster. When I get it all together I'll have to post preliminary pics of it.

I would like to ask which Linux flavors to add to it. I have been mainly targeting ones I know of: CentOS, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, and I think I grabbed a Red Hat logo for good measure. Any help would be lovely.