1. Call to order and roll call
2. Approval of previous minutes
3. Status of General Meeting Videos -Kyle (Dan?)
4. Podcasting meetings? -Kyle
5. NBLUG Member idea: Post Linux questions to panel at meetings -Kyle
6. General Meetings:
1. Nov. Meeting - WRT54G
2. Dec. Meeting - ?
3. Jan. Meeting - ?
7. Next Installfest?
8. Splunk Sponsorship of a Meeting? -Augie
9. Status of previous action items:
   1. robble as new O'Reilly liason - some of the board will discuss it with him at or after the next general meeting on Tuesday and then we'll make the switch totally official, as long as he's agreeable

Matthew Smith will be giving a talk about advanced usage of Linux on the WRT54G.

Short description of talk:

Topic 1: Using the WRT54G to make a cheap network bridge.

Topic 2: Using the WRT54G to monitor and control the physical world. I'll
talk about how you can monitor input pins and turn on/off output pins. With
a simple circuit (which I'll show) you can control anything you want.

Extra Links

Openwrt site:

http://www.openwrt.org

WRT54G compatibility information:

http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware

DD-WRT:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/

Doing the serial mod (includes where to buy the pcboard):

http://www.rwhitby.net/wrt54gs/serial.html

Speakers TBD, but the presentation will be a round table discussion of some of the current popular Linux distributions.

If you're interested in talking about your favorite distribution for a few minutes, please contact speakers@nblug.org.

Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration."

Rob will demonstrate the creation of a simple database driven web application using the Rails framework. He'll also talk about some of the best practices that Rails brings to the web programming table and how it, and projects like it, are making programming more fun.