Meeting January 5 - The Year 2000 Situation

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The "Year 2000 bug", or "The Millennium Problem", AKA "The Y2K problem" has
been the cause of much worry, concern, and expense for software developers and
users.

For our first meeting of the year before all of the digits change on our 
calendar, we'll take a look at the problem, some of the solutions, and 
relate all of this (and time permitting, so to speak) to Linux development, 
and perhaps other time (and data-related) problems. With the total bill for
this approaching $400 Billion, and a brain-drain of several years, it might
be important to recognize these kinds of problems in the future.

Robert Kiesling is an invited guest panelist has been writing with
and about computers for over 15 years. He has been using Linux since 1991.
The maintainer of the Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (FAQ)
list(posted monthly on comp.os.linux.annouce),
and editor of Dr. Linux 6th Ed. and Linux Systems Labs' Linux Installation
and Getting Started. This is Robert's third appearance as a guest speaker,
since he will have, by the time of this meeting, spoken to us twice, the 
first time on the Panel in Linux distributions in November, the second time 
in December, on samples of commercial software for Linux.

Robert Brown is a founding member and current chairman of KLUG, and has over
20 years experience in software development in numerous environments,
disciplines, and industries. Having written his first Y2K-compliant application
in 1977, Bob has been keenly aware of this problem for some time, and has now
managed or worked on 4 different Y2K-related projects.  When he's not bouncing 
between network nodes, or clients, he can be seen cycling on the Kal-Haven 
trail, hiking the countryside in search of nature photographs, or helping 
to organize volunteer activities around computing, for KLUG and the ACM 
(Association for Computing Machinery).

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SPECIAL NOTE:
Meeting attendence is important! Coming to three meetings will qualify you
as a full member of KLUG, meaning that you can participate in the process of
making formal decisions, including voting for officers.

During the last week in January, KLUG decided (by vote) to define a voting
KLUG member as one who has attended three KLUG meetings:

   "In order to make any group wide decisions during a meeting, at least
    7 people must be in attendance, and each of these 7 people must have
    been to at least 3 meetings before."

As there are people who are examing how to better organize KLUG to serve a
growing list of people interested in Linux, it's important to be aware of
this so you can be assured of participating in any group decisions.

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Our meeting place, THIS TUESDAY at 6 PM is:

    Boogies Cyber Cafe
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	Boogies is located at the corner of Academy and Stadium in downtown
	Kalamazoo, across the street from Burger King.

	A map is available at the following URL:

		http://klug.armintl.com/meetings/maps.html

All are welcome.

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The KLUG web site is:

    http://klug.armintl.com/