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5 people attended helped try to boot a bricked laptop.

Election occurred. Elected:

System Administrator Carl Perry
Mailing List Carl Perry
President Carl Perry
Treasurer Denis Oxford
Web Administrator Paul Elliott
Secretary Paul Elliott

We are again planning to have the alg election July 1 at the regular alg meeting.

Presently nominated

System Administrator Carl Perry
Mailing List Carl Perry
President Carl Perry

Treasurer Denis Oxford

Web Administrator Paul Elliott
Secretary Paul Elliott

People can make additional nominations.

Election will happen July 1 7:30pm at Austin Linux Group's regular meeting place at the City of Austin Waller Creek Complex at 625 East 10th Street in downtown Austin.

We will see the interview "If You Want Freedom, Don’t Use Proprietary Software" featuring Richard Stallman.
We will show the clip at the ALG regular meeting May 20 8:00pm at Austin Linux Group's regular meeting place at the City of Austin Waller Creek Complex at 625 East 10th Street in downtown Austin.

We will accept nominations for BOD.
Nominations will happen May 20 7:30pm at Austin Linux Group's regular meeting place at the City of Austin Waller Creek Complex at 625 East 10th Street in downtown Austin.

Jason Schonberg will discuss the installation and use of several linux distributions on Sun's Virtualbox. Configuring virtual machines and using physical devices (eg. usb) within the virtual machine.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

On September 17, 2009 we will be discussing the configuration of the Apache Web server. Bob Carnaghi of the Austin Linux Meetup Group has agreed to join us in reviewing the configurations that he typically uses.

The following have been elected to the Board of directors:

President Paul Elliott
Secretary Denis Oxford.
Treasurer Clio Dunn.
System Administrator Carl Perry
Mailing List Carl Perry
Web Administrator Jason Schonberg
Program Coordinator Clio Dunn

Christian Einfeld, the producer of the film The Digital Tipping Point, put the Jim Hogg video on the film's archive site.

Tom King

• http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv998_oa_ALGHogg_001.ogg (segment 01)
• http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv998_oa_ALGHogg_002.ogg (segment 02)
• http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv998_oa_ALGHogg_003.ogg (segment 03)
• http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv998_oa_ALGHogg_004.ogg (segment 04)

Meetings Not Scheduled.

Meeting called to order by the President at 1930 hours.

Stephen then proceeds to give a presentation on the various version of embedded Linux for consumer routers. This is mostly WRT for the broadcom chip set, but he does also cover WRT for Atheros. This discussion included:

* the history of WRT54G, the original linksys;
* other compatible routers:
* how to hard wire and access a router through a serial port;
* how to recover a brick;
* Actual examples of a flashed Linksys, Trendnet and Netgear routers.

Meeting was adjourned at 2100 hours.