Meeting.2006.04.29

Posted by Maieve Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:29:00 GMT

Less than one year later, here are the minutes for the last Linux meeting the group held. Why am I doing this you ask? I'm a bad, bad, BAD, secretary.
  • The intellectual property conference at the AUB. Funny thing, it was Microsoft-sponsored.
  • Netfilter's limitation(s) in handling thousands of concurrent connections.
  • Chady's experience with a particular web application. Yes, I have no clue what it is.
  • We took a stroll down memory lane and discussed the history of the group (for the 1,000,000th time)
  • How come groups don't survive here? How can we adjust our present form? How can we make things more permanent?
  • A detailed guide for traffic shaping should be written. Any volunteers?
  • How are big companies building profitable businesses from the open source theory?
  • Rani's Linux-teaching experience.
  • Application streaming and what methods currently exist to centralize it and control it on Linux / Unix.
  • Extending the C language to allow reflection and the impact this would have on both speed and memory usage.
  • Moving an application from using RAM as its data layer to a memory bound database that allows for fail-over and better data persistence across the application's lifetime.

Cheers!