Meeting-20071208

WPLUG will have a general users meeting and presentation on Saturday, December 8th, starting at 10am on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University, Newell Simon Hall 3002.

Schedule for the Day

9:30am - Setup
10:00am - Doors Open
10:30am - Business Meeting Starts
10:45am - Business Meeting Ends
11:00am - Featured Presentation
12:30pm - Break for Lunch
2:00pm - Finish clean up, everyone out

Speaker/Presentation

Neal Sofge of RAND

In 2003, the Pittsburgh-based web development team for the RAND Corporation embarked on a 27-month project to modernize their online bookstore. To manage the 20,000+ pages of content involved, they selected the Perl-based open-source Bricolage system. Join former RAND Web Technology Manager Neal Sofge for an in-depth exploration of how Bricolage works, its strengths and weaknesses, and its performance in real-life enterprise-class usage.

Neal's slides are now posted on his .Mac account, which hopefully won't get clobbered by all the traffic from here...

Business Meeting

1. Reading and approval of minutes from October meeting
2. Reports of officers
   1. Chair
   2. Vice-Chair
   3. Secretary
   4. Treasurer
   5. Member-at-Large
3. Reports of committees
   1. Program
   2. Public Relations
   3. Internet
   4. Investigating
   5. Newsletter
   6. ErieLUG
4. Unfinished business
5. New business

Minutes

The regular monthly meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group was held on Saturday, December 8, 2007 at 11:02 AM in 3002 Newell-Simon Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, the regular presiding officer being in the chair and the Secretary being present.

[I don't have any notes as to whether the November minutes were read and approved. If they were available, I presume they were.]

The Secretary reported that there were 37 people currently on the membership rolls.

No other significant officer or committee reports.

The meeting adjourned at 11:12 AM.

Meeting Staff

If you would like to volunteer to assist with this meeting, please add your name to one or more of the categories below.

• Host: Your Name Here
• Co-Host: Your Name Here
• Donuts: Patrick Wagstrom
• Setup: Vance Kochenderfer, Patrick Wagstrom
• Clean Up: Vance Kochenderfer, David Ostroske