[ubuntu-arizona] Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #75

[Craig A. Eddy]

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #75 for the week
December 8, December 14.

 * Arizona Loco Newsletter
 * Seventy Fifth Edition
 * Powered by Ubuntu
 * Wednesday-December 17, 2008
 * Arizona Loco Team Wiki: ["ArizonaTeam"]

 * Next meeting: Sunday December 21, 2008  9:00PM
 * Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-arizona

== Newsletter ==

=== Summary of the December 14, 2008 meeting ===

johnc4510 called the meeting to order at 9:04 PM

Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Meetings/08December14

johnc4510 told the team that he'd had news back from Shawn Nock at U of
A.  There is a computer lab (quite large, lots of power available) in
the Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (30-40 people). This
room is not under his direct control, we'd have to be very careful to
leave it as we found it (or I'd never hear the end of it!). The lab is
also open for general use at this time (no classes, but students in the
department can use the lab).  There are also a couple of conference
rooms that are 'his' that would be more convenient to book, but would
only provide power / room for around 15 people.  It was determined that
we need to find out if the conference rooms have internet access.  The
lab would, but might also have equipment in it that would conflict with
our being able to set up installs.  Also, with the conference rooms, we
could set one up for installs and the other up for demos.

johnc4510 will be sending Ubuntu 8.10 disks to Phoenix by USPS, probably
after the holidays so they won't get lost.  He is still waiting for
information from zach at ASU, as he didn't get an email off to him until
Friday.  As soon as information is finalized, the fliers will be
completed for distribution.  A short discussion was also held as to how
to keep tyche out of trouble.

johnc4510 mentioned that the Team meeting for December 28th would be
casual, and not a formal meeting, because of it being right after
Christmas.  

xHans then added announcements:

 * Both Stammtische this week: Tuesday in Tempe, Wednesday in Avondale. 
http://www.LuftHans.com/Free_Software_Stammtisch
 * It looks like the online Hackfest got lots of participation, hope
everyone enjoyed it.
 * The OpenOffice.org class will be running again in the Spring.
 * Class information for GNU/Linux and other Free Software classes at
the Maricopa Community Colleges should be going up on my site soon. 
http://www.LuftHans.com/Classes
 * If anyone knows about classes on Free Software topics anywhere in the
state, please let me know.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:44 PM.

== Credits ==
 * Craig A Eddy
 * John Crawford