Meeting minutes 4/27/99

["Bill Katsma" <bkatsma@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The KLUG chairmen Bob Brown opened up the meeting with a few announcements:

We are currently looking at other KLUG meeting places, to help out on nights
where WMU campus may be a little busy with Miller auditorium.  A local ISP
has a agreed to allow us some space periodically.

A few projects getting of the ground:

*some HTML projects including:
 Web work for Michigan Polio Network (if interested, Please contact a KLUG
officer)
 Redesign of KLUG web page.

*Continue Liberating Boogies, Starting the install of the LAN.

*Community out reach and use video to get to production video out to 50,000
family viewers

*New email groups are being created for various topics (to be posted on the
web soon)

*Saved the best for last.  Help support KLUG by becoming an extended member
$25 year.  With new enhancements coming soon.


Mike List, spoke to use on Stupid Linux tricks.

spoke on 4 dot files .bashrc (runs at start up of new shell), .bashprofile
(runs at login), .bashistory, .logout

Mike pointed out:
    That if there something you don't like, it most likely can be changed.
ex command prompt.
    The more you play/configure the more comfortable you will be with the os
    Backup before playing

Some resources mention can be found at:
    howto.linuxberg.com
    dotfiles.com

Mike has also put up webpage to help people buy, sell, trade Linux based
hardware. As KLUG in progress of getting "non-profit" status it can not
allow this kind of activity allowed on the KLUG email group.  Contact Mike
List or an KLUG officer for more info.

Attendance was whopping 22 people.

Next week May 4th

Putting Databases on the Web using PHP

Bruce will start this presentation with a brief introduction to standard
HTML web pages and ordinary CGI programming for those people who are not
familiar with web design. Then we will move into the main presentation,
"Professional Home Pages", known as PHP or PHP3 (version 3).

PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language that
lets you create dynamic web pages. PHP-enabled web pages are treated just
like regular HTML pages and you can create and edit them the same way you
normally create regular HTML pages.

Perhaps the strongest and most significant feature in PHP3 is its database
integration layer. Writing a database-enabled web page is incredibly simple.
PHP3 currently supports over a dozen different databases. Bruce will discuss
a complete database application that was recently developed on the KLUG web
server to keep track of membership status. We will cover what is needed to
run PHP, and go over the entire source code of the database application.

Bruce will finish this presentation with a short overview of the other non-
database features in PHP, which makes PHP a very robust and powerful package
for web page design.

Bruce Smith:
Bruce Smith is a Systems Administrator and Software Developer for Armstrong
International Inc. where he is responsible for a HP-UX network of Servers,
Workstations, printers and X-Terminals spanning five buildings in
ThreeRivers. Bruce has a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from
Central Michigan University. (go Chips! :) Bruce runs Linux, almost
exclusively, on all his PC's at work and home, and runs some of
Armstrong'snetworking services on Linux.



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