Meeting 2007-10-10
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- Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2007
- Time: 8:30PM
- Place: Squires Yorktown
Attendence
Plan on coming:
Goodies
Game
OK, Here's the deal. Next time I ask for your favorite sandwich, it is not meant to be a deep question. You do not need to think for several minutes about it, as though your life depended on getting the right answer. --Conley 23:24, 4 October 2007 (JST)
The next game will be how you feel about net neutrality and why ANTHONYANTHONYANTHONY 15:18, 9 October 2007 (JST)
News
Verdict in on capitol V thomas
Thomas found liable, $222,000 in damages
Assholes. Matt 08:48, 9 October 2007 (JST)
I don't think she can pull it off. --Conley 08:50, 9 October 2007 (JST)
She had a pretty crappy lawyer ANTHONYANTHONYANTHONY 15:18, 9 October 2007 (JST)
OpenSUSE 10.3 Released
Project Darkstar releases alpha python client
UK's Preforming Rights Society sues business for radio playing
Article in the BBC. Of course, the UK might have a different licensing scheme for radio than the US, much like their over-the-air TV licensing is different. Matt 10:22, 9 October 2007 (JST)
Fluxbox 1.0 released
Yahoo says no to more DRM
NY Times has an article about fc.o
Incredibly misleading. Elizabeth Stark, the Harvard chapter head is going to be writing a letter to the editor. --Conley 06:20, 11 October 2007 (JST)
IBM open sources Lotus Symphony
AT&T buys 12MHz of spectrum
Radiohead announces Rainbows to be released 10/10
SGA stuff
Did anyone go?
Mapping party
Let's see what Chris has to tell us about what is involved.
Amping the advertising
Press release
Let's see what Bethany has.
OR: Let's see if anyone wants to help/pressure Bethany. What is a good length for things like this? Bethany 03:06, 4 October 2007 (JST)
Flyers and cards
How did flyering go?
Cards are posted on my filebox.
Two designs, I would suggest printing double sided cards with one design on each side.
http://filebox.vt.edu/~asnel/FreeCulture/
TableCards.png and TableCardsManifesto.png Yashton 04:24, 10 October 2007 (JST)
Public service announcements on WUVT/VTTV
Let's see if Ashton has any more info.
PSA turned in. All Mid-2 slots are filled. If we want a 2-4 AM slot, we can have one, but I don't know if we want to stay up that late. We can always wait till next semester and get a day slot.--Yashton 04:24, 10 October 2007 (JST)
Next semester sounds good. --Conley 05:52, 10 October 2007 (JST)
A-frame
Did Conley, Ashton, and Sarah do this?
Radio show
Did this happen on Tuesday?
Nope
Halloween public domain movie night
Halloween public domain movie night
We have received the small grant ($57) we requested, so this event will not cost us anything.
Both movies are on archive.org in high quality (~2 GB MPEG-2 with AC-3). Remuxing crapped out on me for Night of the Living Dead so I'm going to re-download that and see if I just had a bad download. Comcasters should probably forgo this task due to draconian bandwidth policies. Matt 09:08, 9 October 2007 (JST)
Incidentally, could everybody else making DVDs for this post their MD5 hashes if they get a flawless download? My problematic night_of_the_living_dead.mpeg was 627f5a428f9e454ccfcb29d31b87169a. Matt 09:26, 9 October 2007 (JST)
My second download produced the same hash. I guess I'll have to re-encode it. Hopefully that won't butcher the quality too much. :( Matt 06:36, 11 October 2007 (JST)
Free the Collegiate Times
What's the status?
JCOTS Meeting
Conley is going to give a summary of the meeting.
4 minute film competition
Fighting the tablet PC requirement
I suggest we try to partner with the vtmug, vtluug, the student engineering counsel (or whatever it is called), and any other interested parties and kill the requirement. Does anyone else agree? Or perhaps disagree? --Conley 14:25, 5 October 2007 (JST)
Forgive me for not understanding, but what exactly does this have to do with Free Culture? Besides, it's not like the department can actually enforce the requirement beyond issuing assignments that effectively require tablet functionality. Matt 08:58, 9 October 2007 (JST)
Unless I'm mistaken, most free operating systems (linux included) have sucky driver support for tablets at the moment, and requiring tablets curbs free OS usage. --Conley 09:03, 9 October 2007 (JST)
True. I met a guy at the InstallFest who got Ubuntu working with his tablet, but I can't imagine that he didn't have to jump through some nasty hoops to get the touchscreen working. Matt 09:18, 9 October 2007 (JST)
Show and tell
RMS dancing
FC @ MIT got RMS to do the "Soulja Boy" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C6r6fG4k40 Who thinks we can get him here and swing dancing? --Conley 05:43, 9 October 2007 (JST)
I would have to be pretty convinced to travel all the way here from MIT, especially on RMS' salary/lifestyle. Matt 08:50, 9 October 2007 (JST)
I was told by an MIT FC guy that he may be up for it, so I am definitely going to email him when there is a big dance and my ankle is better. BTW, who said his salary was bad? --Conley 09:03, 9 October 2007 (JST)
Well, not bad necessarily. Just not as fixed/dependable as most jobs. Depends on how much he gets paid for speeches I guess. Matt 09:15, 9 October 2007 (JST)
I'm sure he makes more than just money from speeches. Sadly, from wikipedia: "As a young adult, Stallman counted folk dance among his passions,[64] and though he had to give it up in 1975 due to knee injury,[65] he was able to resume around 1979. In 1998 a foot injury forced him to abandon folk dancing permanently, but he still performs small dance steps as a matter of spontaneous habit.[5] --Conley 09:37, 9 October 2007 (JST)
Well we all know that Wikipedia has a tendency to not tell the truth at times. ;) Matt 09:43, 9 October 2007 (JST)
I'm on crutches again...so I cannot dance anymore either for a while. :( --Conley 09:53, 9 October 2007 (JST)
Windows XP SP3 to get new features
The Slashdot article suggests that the supposed DRM from Vista might be backported as well. Probably FUD, but certainly something to keep an eye on. (I posted this here because it isn't really news per se.) Matt 09:43, 9 October 2007 (JST)
Open floor
Wiki stuff
Does someone want to make a nice comment module/macro/whatever the term is? I don't like having to throw all these line breaks in. --Conley 06:48, 5 October 2007 (JST)
Duff got me something...I'll work it in when I have time. --Conley 05:44, 9 October 2007 (JST)
Can't you just edit the source code? If you're really so terrified of bringing the entire site down you could just download MediaWiki to your own computer and go through it yourself. It can't be that hard to set up a temporary webserver within a LAN or something to test it out, can it? I have neither the patience, skill, nor amount of computers to do this myself, so I wouldn't know. Matt 08:54, 9 October 2007 (JST)
Duff got me stuff the code to fix the css...I will do it when I have time. Changing the source code is not an option considering all the FC wikis run off the same source code. --Conley 09:03, 9 October 2007 (JST)
Bummer. You might want to consider asking the MediaWiki developers about this bug too. Matt 09:16, 9 October 2007 (JST)
In a related matter, any chance you can set the default displayed time zone to EDT/EST? It's rather annoying to change that in the preferences and not logged in people always see UTC. Matt 09:19, 9 October 2007 (JST)
Maybe later, and not logged in people should see UTC. UTC is awesome... I have been using it as my primary way of telling time since 10th grade. I perfer to be 4 hours ahead of all my friends. --Conley 09:37, 9 October 2007 (JST)
Well, not everyone thinks like that Conley. If I had it my way, we'd all be on decimal time now. Matt 09:55, 9 October 2007 (JST)
Conley has friends?? ANTHONYANTHONYANTHONY 15:10, 9 October 2007 (JST)
