[CLUE-Admin] Fwd: PLEASE SEND ONFwd: [CLUE-North-Admin] Results of CLUE-North at DeVry meeting :-)

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> From: CineEngineer at cs.com
> Date: Sat Jan 17, 2004  10:58:44 America/Denver
> To: wft at frii.com
> Cc: jy at cinternational.com
> Subject: PLEASE SEND ONFwd: [CLUE-North-Admin] Results of CLUE-North 
> at DeVry meeting :-)
>
>
>
> From: CineEngineer at cs.com
> Date: Sat Jan 17, 2004  05:43:30 America/Denver
> To: clue-north-admin at clue.denver.co.us
> Cc: jy at cinternational.com
> Subject: Re: [CLUE-North-Admin] Results of CLUE-North at DeVry meeting 
> :-)
>
>
> Linux meetings at DeVry will have to be on Monday's --  that will help 
> to
> avoid the sorts of confusions that we met on Thursday night.  At the 
> next meeting
> the IT person will be there to ensure internet connectivity (should 
> work if
> everybody's laptop is set for DHCP).  Working on the room assignment 
> now.
> Joanne
>
> In a message dated 1/16/04 11:49:06 AM Mountain Standard Time,
> crawford.rainwater at linux-etc.net writes:
>
> << I wanted to thank all who helped put this together, though I forgot
>  where I put my kernel bz2 files during the presentation portion.
>
>  A few items:
>  - Membership:
>  Lynn, have three folks as new members, will send you an email with 
> their
>  contact information.  Also picked up the tickets at $6.15 total.
>
>  - Internet connectivity:
>  Dave tried to get onto the WiFi.  Per one or two students there, the
>  WiFi is centered around a commons area on the other side of the
>  building.  We have the SMC WAP, so perhaps plugging it into one of 
> those
>  ports in the desks will help out (though I am not sure if we will 
> have a
>  plug issue or not, have to look).  This can be done hopefully before 
> the
>  next meeting there.
>
>  The DHCP issue on my new laptop is that I do not have the Debian DHCP
>  tools installed (yet) like pump and dhcp-client.  I will add those
>  probably today after I get the WiFi working as well.
>
>  - Rooms:
>  As Joanne emailed me and as I even asked at the Admissions office, we
>  were scheduled for Room #335.  However, there was some entry level
>  physics class in there (though it looked more like a study hall 
> session
>  when I accidentally interrupted them at 6:30PM).  If we can work on
>  getting one room set for the year for consistency, that would make 
> life
>  easier for all I think.
>
>  - Schedule:
>  Joanne, when do you think we can get an idea of DeVry's Room schedule
>  for the rest of the quarter/semester/year to plan things?
>
>  - Presentations:
>> From Dave making inquiries while I was looking for my kernel bz2 files
>  and talking with John/BOF, it seems we have a majority of Linux 
> newbies
>  present and attending.  I would like to try and focus the 
> presentations
>  to this for the most part, say 2 per quarter, with 1 being "something
>  different".
>
>  At this point, I am trying to get Dennis Perkins who did the Linux 
> From
>  Scratch ("LFS") presentation to come up for February.  March is open.
>  April is tentatively the Oracle folks coming in.
>
>  Talking with a few folks at CB Potts afterwards, it seems anything 
> that
>  is perhaps "basic" and intro to Linux oriented would be good.
>
>  Anything else?  I thanked the gent (forgot his name again) who brought
>  in all the old Linux software which I believe was all snagged up (we 
> did
>  an "everyone" drawing this time due to the amount of stuff he brought 
> in
>  for Lynn and Jeff's sake).  I still have another box of books, the
>  shirts, and some Oracle swag.  John/BOF mentioned talking to the 
> SoftPro
>  in Boulder folks for a few coupons since they seem to hit the Boulder
>  LUG, but are still looking/hurting for business as a thought.
>
>  --- Crawford >>
>
>