Re: Linux at Boogies

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

>Well, first of all I really enjoyed the lively debate about first
>programming languages.
Enjoyed? Is it over yet?

>The minutes describing the Boogies project was well done and informative
>for those of us who can't attend the weekly KLUG meetings.
<SERMON>
I agree, and feel that minutes are a VERY important channel for demonstrating
to people what goes on at our meetings. I cannot preside at meetings, do the
other things that a chair does AND take minutes AND enter them for distribut-
ion, it is simply too much, and I want to give others a chance to contribute.

So before I go further, I want to say: THANKS, TONY GETTING for bringing the
meeting notes on-line so fast, and THANKS to ADAM WILLIAMS for review and 
distribution!!!

Many weeks we have not had notes published, and I feel this has not helped
the group at all. There have been a few weeks when one thing or another has
prevented the minutes from getting on-line in a timely way, and I understand
that they add up. All I can do in this area is continue to ask for help, and
trust that the group as a whole will see this as valuable, which encourages
more poeple to step forward and help.
</SERMON>

>I think this is a worthy project and perhaps it could be a model for other 
>"Cyber Cafe's".
I agree, especially afte rlooking at the Cyber-cafe business during the year.
We can go into this in more detail if anyone cares, but it's safe to say that
there's a lot of people with a lot of computers doing a lot of fairly silly 
things out there. :)

>Here are some questions regarding the Boogies Linux Lan installation:

>Could another programming language (ie. Python or Perl) been substituted
>for the C/C++ scripts?
I can't see why not. I picked C++ more or less out of habit, and took it as an
opportunity to examine some of the more recently developed libraries and tool-
kits for GUI construction. Taken one at a time, these are not complex programs,
so there was a chance to explore different aspects of the tools and libraries.

>If another cafe wanted a similar configuration would a copy of the
>Boogies set up work aside from some adjustments or would it still
>require a great deal of effort?
We'll tell you after the install! :)

In principle, no, I don't see any big adjustments to be made. If you have
more computers, or more different kinds of rates, it's all table driven.
Whoever was doing the work would want to change the name of the place :),

There are several things we already have in mind for Boogies that will prompt
various database extensions, which naturally generate code revisions.

For those of you who think you've somehow "missed out" on this project, please
understand that we're NOT installing this thing and walking away. We expect to
support it, maintain it, and grow it over time. If anyone wants to join the
team that's going to make this happen, please let Matt <revicon@net-link.net>
know waht you can do, what you WANT to do, and how much of it you have time
to do.

>The Boogies set up and configuration seems to have all the aspects of a
>great Linux/Unix learning experience.
This has been one of our goals. I freely admit that I learned a lot from this,
and think other particiopants did as well.

>Would a "how to" document or meeting topic covering the more gritty details
>of how the Boogies project was assembled be a future possibility??
Yes, I expect we'll be writing about it in the future. I think we can work
with others to see it done again, somewhere.

                                                            Regards,
                                                             ---> RGB <---