Sat, 22-Mar-2008

Steve opened the meeting at 11:05 AM

17 people attending, 3 new faces

Question of the day was: If you were to attend a class of Linux for beginners what would you teach
- general desktop use, don't start with cmd line to scare beginners
- hardware compatibility - sound (ALSA) issues
- shell scripting
Most people said they would like to see weekly frequency

Brett Birdsall showed a presentation on encryption. General concepts in asymmetric key encryption were discussed as well as how to generate keys, and how to encrypt/decrypt files.

Meeting was adjourned at 12:30 PM