Meeting 2007-11-07

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Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Time: 8:30PM
Place: Squires Yorktown

Attendance

Plan on coming:

Conley

Plan on skipping:

Spuddy

Goodies

Game

News

The Tracy Fragments footage released under CC by-nc-sa

The Tracy Fragments.

It's a real shame the movie isn't freely licensed as well. I hope someone makes a cut that is better than the director's. --Conley 09:31, 31 October 2007 (JST)

Josh Woodward's Week of Rock

7 songs in 7 days, CC by-nc-sa 3.0.

Josh Woodward's website

Hopefully this means that we will be seeing a new album out of him soon. --Conley 02:51, 31 October 2007 (JST)

The week of rock was pretty much awesome! --Spuddy 10:01, 7 November 2007 (JST)

Settlement reached in the BusyBox-Monsoon case

Announcement on SoftwareFreedom.org

Monsoon Multimedia has agreed to appoint an Open Source Compliance Officer within its organization to monitor and ensure GPL compliance, to publish the source code for the version of BusyBox it previously distributed on its Web site, and to undertake substantial efforts to notify previous recipients of BusyBox from Monsoon Multimedia of their rights to the software under the GPL. The settlement also includes an undisclosed amount of financial consideration paid by Monsoon Multimedia to the plaintiffs.

gOS released

Google derivative of Ubuntu.

gOS website

Wasn't Google for a long time denying that they were making a derivative of Ubuntu? --Conley 09:23, 5 November 2007 (JST)

They acknowledged it, but they said that they weren't planning on distributing it outside of Google HQ. -Matt 09:43, 5 November 2007 (JST)

Linux at Walmart

$200 Everex PCs being sold at Walmart with gOS, a derivative of Ubuntu.

Article.

Won't help. Since no smart person shops for their tech stuff at Wal-Mart, only the dumb people will purchase it. If anything this will hurt the community as the support people will be bombarded with n00b requests and eventually the illiterates will ditch said computer for a Windows one after being repeatedly told to "RTFM." Matt 19:36, 2 November 2007 (JST)

...I think getting the average person to use Linux is the idea. Considering the average people are the same people that don't need to do anything other than write a document, listen to music, and check email, I seriously doubt the support people will be bombarded with n00b requests. If they are, I'd consider it a good thing anyway. --Conley 20:43, 2 November 2007 (JST)

The reason they're doing this is not to get people to use Linux, but so the company doesn't have to pay Windows licensing fees and then pass on the profit from selling dirt-cheap, crap computer into their own pocket. --Yashton 10:48, 7 November 2007 (JST)

Of course, but will it bring increased Linux usage as a side effect? I certainly hope so. --Conley 13:17, 7 November 2007 (JST)

FCC ends exclusive contracts between telecoms and apartment complexes

CT Article.

Does anyone have a better source? --Conley 22:51, 1 November 2007 (JST)

Once again the CT has proven themselves to be abhorrently slow in their reporting of non-Blacksburg news. Here's Slashdot's link to the New York Times. Matt 19:39, 2 November 2007 (JST)

CT Article fix.

Haha, the CT has no idea what they are talking about. Can someone who knows what's going on with this tell us about it at the meeting? --Conley 23:13, 3 November 2007 (JST)

CT is the worst piece of badly written drivel. I don't even bother looking at it, it makes me want to gouge my eyes out. I am glad, now I can get another ISP besides NTC.--Yashton 10:53, 7 November 2007 (JST)

I think we should stop worrying about trying to get the CT to change their licensing policies, and get straight to the nitty-gritty of burning the place down. ~Sarah

Blender announces apricot project

Announcement.

Jars of Clay using CC

All the individual tracks of "Love Came Down at Christmas Time" are under a CC by-nc-sa 2.5 license.

Jamglue.

Rudy Rucker frees Postsingular

The book is under a CC by-nc-sa 3.0 license.

Postsingular.

You singulatarians should be thrilled. --Conley 23:07, 3 November 2007 (JST)

Hey, I just realized I've read a Rudy Rucker book before, Spaceland. --Conley 08:11, 7 November 2007 (JST)

It's Singularitarian btw :-P --Yashton 10:45, 7 November 2007 (JST)

Sorry --Conley 00:20, 8 November 2007 (JST)

Isn't there an exception in the DMCA about allowing circumvention if the DRM isn't supported anymore? I don't remember. -Matt 09:37, 8 November 2007 (JST)

Mapping party

Amping the advertising

Table cards

How did this go?

A-frame

Did Conley, Ashton, and Sarah do this?

--Or, more accurately: will we ever?

No. Matt 19:39, 2 November 2007 (JST)

Halloween public domain movie night

How did it go?

Free the Collegiate Times

What's the status?

Fighting the tablet PC requirement

Killing the tablet requirement

FC Assassin?

Show and tell

Several people: Free film from two weeks ago

We watched BloodSpell. What did those who watched think?

I can't lie...I enjoyed it. Given the genre, I thought the production quality was pretty amazing. The plot itself may not have been the best, but the story-telling was great --Conley 21:47, 25 October 2007 (JST)

I LOL'd Matt 17:56, 29 October 2007 (JST)

Soooo bad. The machima was cheesy, but tolerable. The plot was just stupid.--Yashton 10:58, 7 November 2007 (JST)

LOL'd: not quite a word. ~go ahead and guess.

Nonsense. Every noun doubles as a verb on the Internet. --Matt 09:39, 8 November 2007 (JST)

Appropriate though for a bad intarweb movie... --Yashton 10:58, 7 November 2007 (JST)

Conley: My review of Bloodspell made the Bloodspell blog

Bloodspell blog.

Conley: I bought a Ruined Machines t-shirt

Ruined Machines

Ruined Machines on Jamendo

Conley and Sarah: read Flatland

It's under the public domain.

A Square is visited by a Sphere; geometry ensues.

My favorites from the public domain have to be the old Edgar Rice Burroughs novels, like Tarzan and the John Carter of Mars series. I read all of these back in high school off of gutenberg. Flatland is pretty awesome; I read it a while back. --Yashton 11:01, 7 November 2007 (JST)

Cool. You are lucky to have discovered Gutenberg so long ago. I only discovered it recently. --Conley 13:13, 7 November 2007 (JST)

Conley, Anthony, and Knighton

Went to the Project Darkstar Tech talk

2.5 hours of video game talk, .5 hours of Project Darkstar talk. --Conley 13:13, 7 November 2007 (JST)

Open floor

Free Film

Suggestions:

Conley
- Cactuses

Yashton (and the girls)
- chick flicks (His Girl Friday)

Sarah
- Concurs with both of the above