Time to start talkin about what we're doing this semester. Here's my thoughts on it

Realm Linux - Dr. Warren Jasper.  This needs to be later in the semester so Dr. Jasper can reserve a room in CoT (they need adequate warning).  This is where its been tested and developed and means no demo failure! come out and see the future of ncsu-flavored linux.

Not a presentation but related:

FOSS Fair - Dunno if Jack Neely's doing this again this year, but we should *probably* show up and do something to support it this year.  Personally I'd be all for volunteering/helping if it got me outta class for the day (which means i can see *all* the talks i want to, instead of the ones i could make like last year).

Possibly related to the above:

ANTI-E115/ Linux101/ whatever: Freshmen enter the college of engineering forced to learn a kludgy, text-based interface to old legacy infrastructure that generally leaves the impression that Linux is for the intensely masochistic. while this may or may not be the case, we could at the very least put some kind of presentation/demo/learning experience together to show people what Linux *really* is.  This could be in conjunction with a talk, with an installfest, with the FOSS Fair, or completely standalone.  Regardless of how it's done, my vote is that we need this, at the very least to get more exposure to the broader campus.

Not a talk (but maybe a possibility):

Whether you like or dislike RHEL and/or Fedora, you have to admit Red Hat is one of the most well-known and successful Linux-based companies.  And their global HQ is right next to us!  *They* have an interest in getting Linux more widely accepted in the community. *We* have an interest in getting Linux more widely accepted in the community.  Maybe we should work together.  (I know we have more than a few LUGgers and Alumni who worked/work for RedHat, maybe they can help).

ADVERTISING!

we need moar ads.  personally i wouldnt mind carrying chaulk with me and chaulking upcoming LUG meetings around where I go to class.  Better than that are pretty print ads we can post, and pretty HTML ads we can email.  Most colleges/departments have some kind of 'announce' mailing lists, and we can take advantage of these for big talks (like LaTeX last semester ... heh... ).  Break out of that nerdy shell, and get us some newbs!

Projects!

New idea (sorta): LUG Projects.  A lot of us work on random little things anyways (checkout all the bots in our IRC room), so why not make them lug events?  "Get together and hack on project X". yes/no/maybe? Maybe this would be better titled Hackfests. this (to me) is more of 'we shall see' for the coming semester.

TALKS- what i remember getting bumped, or just talked about:

Encryption&Linux - Mark (_ohm)

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~AlexR