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9/14/05
Meeting (Second Floor ERC)
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OIT conference thingy – go to it
What do we want out of the group
- Support
- Free stuff
- Software
- Learn more about mac’s
- presentations on programs and cool mac
stuff (like quicksilver)
- Meet other people who are into mac’s
Watch keynote presentation again
Gaming: Halo?
Meeting Time: Jay will send out an email – let him know when
is the best time
Goal to get recognized by Apple – we need 20 people.
- more free stuff?
- Bug venders for mac-related stuff |
| 2/6/05 |
draft of constitution:
addition of code of ethics
still
hasn't been submitted to
CUSA for Clarkson's approval
All additions are hand written, and should be formally added tonight
meeting times this semester:
biweekly sunday afternoons at two p.m..
Off-track, Jay has a small ibook in his room.... very useful, but very
smelly
yes... smelly the LaCe HDD is very loud,
too, but the
machine... oh does it smell (of B.O. and plastic). the
machine
isn't his, but he's borrowing it. how to stop it from
smelling?
On-track, If the ERC is unresponsive to our meeting needs (for any
given meeting),
the Internet Teaching Lab. may provide what we need. Some are
partial to Snell rooms because of their setup (snell 121,
214).
for future meetings, we probably need to improve attendance
Many vendors support user groups.... we need to designate someone to
'bug' vendors for freebies. Software, books, etc,
They want
us, why not solicit their goods. Does anyone want to be in
charge
of that?
Also, such a person could be helpful in recruiting new members
Ideas for fund-raising :
sell discs of shareware and compiled free software for other mac
users. (vendors would want to know before we do such a
thing) Maybe even include OIT
Member Dues:
CUSA loves Dues... it'd be easier to collect nominal dues and make it
easy to get around them then to argue for elimination of dues from the
stock constitution.
If they help us get recognition, dues are ok. Membership is
open
to anyone associated with Clarkson.
Other things to work on:
User Reviews: small presentations (on the MUG site)
<http://digitalsoup.bounceme.net/mug/index.html>
These notes will be available on said site
Survey: List any areas you (mug member) has
specialty in
1. education in teaching mac use
2. cad and 3d graphics
3. cd, dvd, music, garage band,
multimedia
4. desktop publishing and
reports and excel
5. programming (matlab is the crack
whore of
programming languages)
6. hardware and specific peripherals
7. networking
Any experience could be valuable to other members and macusers
worldwide
Where does our organization's skill lie.
What is your favorite shareware, freeware, commercial, and what one
thing would you want ported?
Be original, and useful:
also, reasons why iChat sucks:
1. poor support for groups
2. needs key commands for away messages
3. needs to time-stamp incoming messages
4. needs to play nice with all file
transfers
5. needs to display away
messages long enough
to read (and maybe view
gifs in
profiles)
6. needs to support profiles
7. needs to have an option to not log out
during fast
user switching
surveys will also be used for attendance purposes
Next Meeting: (two weeks)
review on QuickSilver
Question: seemless connection between mac
and pc to
mount one's HDD on the other's desktop (all encrypted personal file
sharing).
<http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn_server.htm>
<-- tutorial
on making a vpn on XP (evil but necessary)
<http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12740>
you're just
gonna have to open it to see what it is. |
| 11/14/04 |
Jay, Sarah, Rob, Tim, Neil, Joe, Jeremy
Old Business:
Discussion on email list and v-cards. Everyone has all
others'
addresses, but not in v-cards
Prof. Wick offered to introduce us Prof.Ben-avraham as our faculty
advisor.
New
Regarding constitution, we can make an Aqua GUI'd form, letting each
member choose all of the results, highlighting points of
contention.
Jay sent an email to OIT regarding their "crappie" policies.
He
made such suggestions as a student IT oversight board, and IT freedoms
for students. We're still working on getting a Pro-Mac
policies
in place.
Jeremy is elected to send Gard an email asking for Prosoft Novell
Program, and all other equal rights with PC users.
Discussion on Brian's ability to get UT and CS running on his
mac.
Other Business:
Discussion on Anti-Microsoft Flash game... Steve Balmer came
up.
Question : What Mac site do you visit
weekly?
Jeremy - Theregister.co.uk
Tim - macosxhits.com
Neil - ???????????
Joe - lowendmac.com
yourmaclife.com
Rob - Maccenteral.com
Jay - Appleturns.com , Macaddict.com
Discussion turns to Macaddict and how it's better than Macworld
less PORK in Macworld
has better descriptions and discussions than Macworld
is just freakin' awesome.
conclusion is that Macaddict is a great magazine
The other day, Jay got his 14" ibook's hdd up to only having 124K of
HDD space left. Discussion turns to RAM discs' usefulness and
how
they beat out floppy discs any day. Norton was especially
useful
thereon.
Jay questions Neil's orientation
Neil counters with PlanetMac by Gamespy.
all other webcommics now come up
Escape Pod can be used to reset parts of your GUI usint Ctrl Alt
Del.
Free From Ambrosia's Site Also avalable
there :
WireTap
great for
making ichat sounds
Richard Bannister Bannister.org - holds up the mac
emulator
trade. may wish to register emulator enhancer.
We should kill off Blackboard. it doesn't
work well
on anything, and it sucks.
Discussion turns to Ssh'ing, cron jobs, and Linux
May also want to talk to Ken Visser about our leadership needs.. Jay
will email him.
Why do Apple CD drives all stop at 24x?
end of official meeting |
| 11/7/04 |
Discussion on constitution (for CUSA
recognition) commences.
Outline of aspects thereof which require review:
When writing by-laws, we need a proper
membership
procedure
must
include membership
fees. (can/should they be $ zero?)
must
include eligibility
requirements.
(AD)
create by-law for document
storage (membership contact, minutes...)
AD = addendum |
| 10/31/04 |
Started at 2 pm
meetings: biweekly
free ipod socks? still a question
still need to talk to OIT
Need to organize behind bugging CUSA for our club-hood (at least 1/2
hour)
week one is just a show... week two they
vote
answer about club's business
do we want $ and why
they vote
Jeremy is elected sec.
old stuff
Jay
Jeremy
Rob
Tim
Josh
Neil (kid who yelled at me for not
knowing his name)
Chris
Joe
Jay reads bible
new stuff
went through email list prep. work
Bought sign
need 10 more members
Peter Sholts
prof.Bolt
Averum
Jay gets violent
off on mac tactics games tangent
Jeremy to get and give out Mac emulator (Internet based) links
Jay puts out hit on whoever took his os10.3 install disks
jay puts out hit on whoever wrote Finder
jay instructs on how to cheat at online chess
on to real new stuff
New mac games
Splinter Cell for Pandora (tomorrow
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Pressure Sensitive kbd????
Final Fantasy Flash
File sharing
XFactor
got Thick as a brick
iSwipe
Sound files:
Dead Du MIDI converts MIDI to AVI (for use in
G-Band)
jay also has 300+ loops
Future issues will be discussed next week's (exclusive... yea right)
meeting
Unofficial:
DCC
10$ for 10.4
ends at 3:05 pm |
| 10/25/04 |
motion to elect webmaster
nomination of Tim Cortesi
no other nominations
votes for tim - 5 yay 1 abstention
meetings Sunday at 2 (all votes yay)
look into apple memorabilia (perhaps once sanctioned)
talk to OIT about proper support (at least to send them to us) |
| 10/9/04 |
1:35 meeting began
1.) traded contact information
2.) went over some group goals
3.) mac user experiences
4.) meeting time discussed
5.) meeting closed at 2:15
addendum to minutes
Josh's wiki address
macdaddy.price.clarkson.edu/wiki
site for MPlayer
mplayerosx.sourceforge.net
set up meeting times via email (send me what's good (or not good) for
you in an email)
set up a public website to post (anyone with suggestions as to good
public websites until we get official status at clarkson, send them
back)
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