David A. Harding
Saturday, 05 Apr 2008
We started introductions at 19:05; there were six of us there. We had three—three!—questions to answer during introductions: what are you currently doing with GNU+Linux, what are you doing with your music, and what's your favourite pizza toping(s)?
The answers were as varied as playing with the OLPC
to Sting
to margherita.
From about 19:30 to about 20:10, John Tarng talked about the
Firefly
media server.
Firefly, formerly known as mt-daap, lets you share
music over a local
area network (LAN) with minimal configuration. Jerry Neale browsed
and played music from John's collection during the meeting.
Around 20:15, I began talking about the New Jersey Ubuntu Local Community LAN party which will be held in Cherry Hill on Saturday, May 12th. In particular, I described two games which we'll play at the party, Frozen Bubble and Armagetron Advanced. I said that both games are easy to learn and fun to play in multiplayer mode, and I demonstrated the games while talking, which must have been very distracting.
Around 20:40, Jerry began demonstrating GnuMP3d. We had some projector problems, so we all huddled around his laptop and watched as streamed music to his laptop from his home server. Jerry also showed us how to simply install GnuMP3d on Ubuntu.
At 21:00, five of us moved to the pizza parlour next door to continue discussion and create those pizzas we talked about during introductions. Bryan Quigley and I told the story of our OpenOffice.org class and we all discussed plans for the next class, which will probably be about Mozilla Firefox. We also talked about Google and several other subjects.
We left around 22:15. I think everyone had a good time. I know I did.