KLUG Meeting Minutes and Agenda (#13)

The 13th meeting of the Kingston Linux User Group was held Mon, Nov. 3, 1999 at 7PM at RMC. 
The meeting lasted until about 10:00 PM.

The attendees were:

   Bekhit, Hersiana <hersiana@hotmail.com>
   Conrad-Avarmaa, Brigitte <brica@king.igs.net> 
   Drummond, Mark <mdrmmond@kos.net>
   Healy, Art <art@cybertap.com>
   Jezak, Edward <jezak-e@rmc.ca>
   MacIntosh, Bob <ve3rhm@cybertap.com>
   MacPherson, Alex <macpherson-a@rmc.ca>
   Mitton, Douglas <dmitton@cybertap.com>
   Moulton, Mike <s22061@rmc.ca>
   Postill, Rob <postill@cgocable.net>
   Shoucri, Rachad <shoucri-r@rmc.ca>
   Williams, Steve <stephen.williams@sympatico.ca>

Meeting Schedule: (Monthly, alternating between first Mon and Wed evenings at 7PM.  Locations to be determined.)
    14 - Wed, Dec. 1 at RMC??        Social Night!
    15 - Wed, Jan. 5 at RMC.         Mini InstallFest!  Bring in your Machine! (*** KLUG 1st Anniversary!)
    16 - Mon, Feb. 7 at RMC.         (???)
    17 - Wed, Mar. 1 at RMC.         (???)
                                                               
Summary Of Activities:
   - Web page host and domain name - klug.on.ca has been registered(not yet in use).
   - Internet presence - Temporary web page at http://signals.rmc.ca/klug.
   - Mailing list - klug-subscribe@lists.rmc.ca.

Ideas For Future Meetings:
   - Implement CD-RW burner in Linux. 
   - Setting up Apache Web Servers under Linux.
   - KDE KPackage (GUI) software installation demo.

Agenda/Minutes:
1) Roll Call and Introductions (if required) - See attendees above.  We may have to be more careful about doing this.
    Especially if there are new people there.
2) This Meeting:

There were 12 attendees to our 6th presentation ... "Software Management (RPM's, source code)" by Mark Drummond 
and Rob Postill.  Rob "donated" his computer to the cause, thanks!  Mark then went off to demo some windows managers
on his computer for the "Managing Window Managers (KDE, GNOME, WindowMaker, etc)" presentation.

The demo involved installing Mandrake 6.1 and getting LILO set up in a multi-boot configuration with several other 
Linux distributions using the projector so all could follow along.  They then provided a demonstration of 
installing then removing packages with the command line rpm.  The installation syntax was `rpm -ivh file.rpm`,
an upgrade was `rpm -uvh file.rpm` and to remove (erase) was `rpm -ev package`.  The joe editor was the 
experimental package.  They then completed a source code installation of the XCDRoast package using the 
`./configure` and then the `make && make install` commands.

While Mark was providing the Window Managers demo, Rob and I finished getting the CD-RW burner configured under 
his Slackware 7 installation.  The installation is almost identical under both Mandrake 6.1 and Slackware 7 and
is very straight forward.  Both come pre-compiled for this function so Kernel recompiling is not required as the
How-To instructions insist.

If anyone has ideas for future presentationsd or some favorite personal topic they would like to demo let Mark or myself 
know and we'll help set it up. 

3) Next Meeting:
   - Wed, Dec. 1 at a To-Be-Determined location for a social meeting.

4) Socialize / Adjourn     (Set location and agenda for the next meeting.)