CLUG 02-27 Meeting Minutes

1. Administrative & Housekeeping announcements:  There were six attendees.

a. Upcoming events:

(1). 09 March CLUG meeting, 1700-1800 hours, University of Arizona South, classroom B159. May be cancelled.  More information to follow.

(2). 24 March Ubuntu Hour 1800-1900 hours Schlotzsky's Cafe (hosted by Rex)

(3). 26 March CLUG meeting 1400-1545, Sierra Vista public library, conference room

b. Those present were asked to come up with a list of presentation subjects that they would like to hear.

c. To date there are no presentations scheduled for the month of March.

d. Down the road – AZLOCO & PLUG co-sponsor an install-fest on the first & third Saturdays of each month. We are welcome to attend. Louie and I attended one and I would like to get together another group to car pool up to Tempe

e. Any thoughts on the proposed community projects. Perhaps we need to re-think community projects because there appears to be little interest.

(1). Re-furbishing computers with Linux OS and donating them. (Leo)

(2). A presentation for high/middle school computer clubs. (Janet). Since the school year has progressed this might well be looked at for the next term.

(3). Attendance at local events in the way of a booth. (West End Fair and Festival of the Southwest)

(4). David thought that perhaps if we could get a larger room for a longer time period and we could convince the folks in Phoenix to provide assistance we could run our own install-fest.

f. There is a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) release party scheduled for 14 May from 1500 until ? in Chandler. The release date is 21 April. I plan on driving up there so we can probably get together a car pool list for that. It is more of a social event and the intent is to meet and greet although wifi will be available to install the new release should anyone want to do that.

g. I have talked to a financial planner who is willing to give us a short FREE talk on financial planning. While it does some of us old guys a little good, it could really benefit you younger folks. As a minimum it could provide you with information that will enable you to make decisions more intelligently. I will schedule her for 26 March.

2. Recent Linux/FOSS News Items Discussion:

a. Mint 17.3 Cinnamon (both 32 and 64 bit) hacked on 20 Feb 16. If you downloaded the ISO on that date and didn't use a torrent, it is bogus. Check the MD5Sum and you will see that the hashes do not match. The mirror was taken down. http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994. See also https://lwn.net/Articles/676664 and www.pcworld.com/article/3035682/security/hackers-planted-a-backdoor-inside-compromised-version-of-linux-mint.html.

3. We adjourned the meeting to the Pizza Hut where we enjoyed some food and some excellent conversation.
Rex Bouwense