Today's Rough Notes

[Christopher Schmidt]

After driving about 150 miles today, combined with 1.5 hours of formal
tech discussion, 1.5 hours of presentation, and 2 hours of high level
geekery, I'm way too tired to do any of the things that I'm supposed to
be doing.

However, I was able to dump the notes that I took today from both the
HB1197 meeting[1], and Tim Burke's presentation on productizing the FC
community project into the RHEL product.

Feel free to edit: When they're more cleaned up/readable (made that way
by me or others) I'll dump them to the main GNHLUG wiki.

Short short summaries:

HB1197 had an additional amendment added at last executive council
meeting. The amendment was declared non-germane and stricken.
Additionally, it was determined that the 5 person committee does not
have the resources to adequately evaluate open source on their own. As a
result, the committee will be amending HB1197 in order to make it a
mandate to the state IT department(s?) to provide information about
using open source in the state infrastructure. This amendment will be
voted upon by the full executive council, probably in the next 3-4
weeks.

Tim Burke gave an excellent presentation, with about 40 in
attendance, some being students required to be there by professors. A
number of special prizes were given out, including fancy Red Fedoras.
One of these was given to our wonderfully color coordinated Bill Sconce,
which I'll upload a picture of to flickr later.

Post Quarterly Meeting we gathered first at pappy's (11 people) and
retreated to Dunkin Donuts 30 minutes after they closed (5 people).

Now, sleep.

[1] http://crschmidt.net/projects/gnhlug/HB1197
[2] http://crschmidt.net/projects/gnhlug/redhat
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer