Election for MUG board of directors in February!

It's time once again for the election of the members of the board of directors of the Michigan!/usr/group. Nominations are now being accepted and the election will be held at the February 13th regular MUG meeting.

The current board members are:

• Jim McQuillan
• Dick Williams
• Duane Brown
• David Satwicz
• Jorge Castro
• Jim Glutting

There are 6 positions on the board, and every year, we hold the election to choose who the members will be for the coming year.

Board members are expected to be available for a monthly face-to-face board meeting and also to participate in email discussions to help facilitate upcoming MUG meetings and handle MUG business.

If you'd like to really help out, or you know someone who you think would make a great board member, speak up and nominate that person.

Main Topic: Collaborative Development

Our moderator is: Jim McQuillan

Many of us have been in the position of needing to work on a document or program with other people either locally or geographically dispersed. This month we'll be having a discussion about the various tools and technologies to make collaborative development easier. This could be One-on-One, or there may be many people involved in the collaboration. For this meeting, we'll be primarily focused on the small team of 2 people collaborating over the internet.

• communications
  • Voip
  • IRC
  • Instant Messaging
  • group meeting tools (FOSS tools to work with or replace netmeeting)

• sharing
  • screen
  • vnc
  • Gobby

• editors
  • vim
  • ACE is a platform-independent, collaborative text editor. It is a real-time cooperative editing system
  • DocSynch is a collaborative editing system on top of IRC
  • Gobby - A free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat
  • MoonEdit is a multi-platform collaborative text editor

• document/code management
  • cvs
  • subversion
  • Bazaar

We won't have the time to go into depth in every item in the above list, but we'll cover whatever we can. We expect this to be a highly interactive meeting, so if you have ideas of your own, for how to deal with collaboration, show up and tell us about it.

Secondary Topic: GIMP

Gibson Nichols will be talking about GIMP.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks. Such as a small presentation on one of our Office Infrastructure topics, like mail or ldap.

Maybe someone whom we didn't get to or who wanted to tell us more.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment