Agenda

• Determine meeting locations
• Choose webmaster - maintainer of wiki/minutes

• Should we publish our meeting schedule on MeetUp or Google Calendar or someplace?

• What do we do with the 40 free Gutsy CDs?

• Discuss goals of AustinTeam for 2008

Attendance

• DanielRoesler

• DavidStidolph

• DeanChandler

• JohnWohn

Minutes

• Introduced ourselves
• Goals of the club:
  • Advocacy
    • Tabling
    • Free CDs
    • Establishing a presence
  • Philanthropy
    • Distribution of computers to people who can't afford them
      • Possibly coordinate with other Austin LUGs who might have more resources
  • Community support
    • Orientations
    • Switchfests
    • Installfests
    • Development
    • Extensive documentation on a website
• Reasons why you should switch:
  • Your old hardware is still useful, you don't have to buy something new
  • Vista isn't stepping up, but there are actually alternatives
  • From a casual user standpoint, it's a lot more fun with the eyecandy
  • Local intimate human support and community (might drive attendance)
  • No viruses or spyware
  • Package manager is awesome
  • Fast turnaround time for updates/fixes, and it monitors everything
• Problems with Ubuntu:
  • Backup features
  • Outlook to Evolution
  • Partition smoothness
  • Vista grub problems
• Persona of the club:
  • Family friendly
  • New
  • Fun
  • Easy
• Meeting places for next month:
  • Same place, same time
  • Daniel for Minutes maintainer

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