05-2009
From TWUUG
May 2009
- Discussion about Oracle buying Sun and what it means for FOSS projects.
- Mark Davis showed some key changes in the new OpenOffice 3.1.0. Also talked about distro packaging vs. "plain vanilla" packaging.
- Ethan O'Toole gave a presentaton on Arduino, tiny controller-board computers that can be easily programmed under Linux and other OS's with a Java based IDE.
The meeting was NOT audio recorded. Lots of discs were available.
Attendance: 17 members +5 new +1 returning +1 visitor = 24 attendees, minimum.
Membership: 88 members +5 new members (Talmazov, Schleigh, Stovall, Bailey, Sanchez) +1 returning (Logan) -6 expired members (Lung, Montandon, C. Peters, K. Peters, Skipper, Tyler) = 88 TWUUG members.