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| DATE | 2004-08-15 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Board Meeting and NYLXS Map for the next Month
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Report of results of the NYLXS Board Meeting of last Monday
Present
Mike Richardson
Evan Inker
Pasha Akbar
Steven Milo
Paul Robert Marino
Ellen Safir
Ruben Safir
Free Software Day - Friday Before Pasha and Ruben are putting up flyers prior to the Saturday
event on Monroe Street in Brooklyn Heights
Mike, Paul Steve and others to perpare material and to give out CD's
Evan created flyers and CD templates for distribution
Speaking Schedule includes Ruben
Video CD's are being burned this week by Evan
Freedom-IT event - Next Meeting will be scheduled right after the Republican National Convention
Peter reported before that venues are still being looked at.
Usability Study - We discussed several different venues for running a GNU/Linux desktop usability
study. Steve will look at getting Brooklyn College Students to help run the study. Ruben is looking
at getting a group together through a contact for the study, as well is Evan. Qualified participants
must have as limited computing expereince as possible. We will be meeting this week to outline the
study.
The Free Software Chamber of Commerce reports that it has an opening for up to 3 programmers for a hack of SQL
Ledger. The Group of three programmers are meeting the week starting the 15th of August (this week).
FSI Classes will be scheduled for October and a staff meeting will be help the last week of August to discuss
specific scheduling
Summer Fund Raising Event - Vote needs to be taken on several suggestions:
a: Hudson River Trip to Bear Mountain
b: Boat Ride out of Sheepshead Bay
c: Party in Brooklyn
d: Charity Softball Game in Central Park
A New Python study group is being formed by Akbar Pasha
Programming Project: A Free Software Clinical Pharmacuetics program in C and GTK is being developed
starting this week with Pasha and Ruben for Drug Level Estimations and other criticle medical determinations
based on Biological information.
Web Site Redesign - Pasha Akbar will fix several parts of the NYLXS site including the NYLXS Journal Section.
Pasha and Aksay Arora will get together to fix the general NYLXS site
The Next NYLXS Journal is to be published in September and a call for papers is being called. We have
commitments for articles from Noel Humphreys (recieved), Robert Marino on his inservice of LDAP and Authentication,
Free Software as a social movement from Ruben Safir adjunct to the speach made in Princeton, NJ, Crossfire, the
kings of games by Dovid Safir, Ripping video by Micheal Richardson. We had a discussion about formating the Journal
and we decided to continue with PS, HTML, PAPER and now add PDF formats.
Hardware Recycling - We are getting a contribution of systems from Evan Inker and GAM, Inc as well as we are picking
up about 15 PC's from Westchester. Ellen Safir will pick these up after arriving back in New York from her visit
to Milwuakee, Wisconcin.
Ruben
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