[Cialug] February Meeting Notes

[cialug@cialug.org]

February 16, 2005

The trailer for the upcoming “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” movie is
available on Amazon.com.  The movie release date is currently April 29th.  It
was moved up so it would not conflict with "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of
the Sith".

Elections
Unopposed Officers Re-elected:
Dave Champion – President
Dave Weis – Vice President
Barry Von Ahsen – Treasurer
Tim Wilson – Secretary

Sgt. At Arms Election:
Kevin Smith
Ken Ristau
Kevin Smith won the election

Old business
There was some discussion of an Installfest, but no firm plans as of yet.


Upcoming events
Iowatrainingdays.com is holding a seminar on April 14th.  Looking for PHP and
MySQL speakers.

Vatterott College is looking for speakers to talk to classes about Linux.


Other user-group notes
The PHP user’s group is gearing up.  The first meeting is planned for March 2nd,
and the first Wednesday of the month thereafter.  Go to ciapug.org for more info.

The Mac user’s group meets the 4th Tuesday of the month.


Demonstrations
Dave C. showed Quanta – A Web Development IDE tool that allows you to do PHP
code and see the output via a debugger.
http://quanta.sourceforge.net/

Kevin showed opengroupware.org.  Written in Objective C, uses Apache as the web
server.  Its features include schedule/calendar, contacts, e-mail, projects, and
it syncs with Palm.  It allows you to see other people’s calendars, but can be
configured to keep the details of the calendar private.  For example, a person
from a different group can see when you have meetings, but not necessarily who
with.  The Project area allows you to share files, but no version control.  The
e-mail portion can be configured to do only text-based e-mail, or HTML;
Configurable individually with a checkbox.  OpenGroupware is currently working
on integrating with Sunbird, the Mozilla calendar.


--
Tim W.