[wplug] [wplug-announce] February GUM followup

[Justin Smith]

Good evening, everyone. I've posted the minutes for last Saturday's GUM 
and board meeting:

*GUM*: http://www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20130209#Meeting_Minutes
*Board Meeting*: http://www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20130209

If you weren't able to come, you sure missed out! Pat gave an excellent 
demonstration of a program called XCA that would have saved me a /lot/ 
of time in setting up my home server. I gave an abbreviated account of 
the rise and fall of the webOS operating system, which was created in 
2009 and essentially "died" in 2012 after the HP TouchPad's botched 
launch. Did you know that many of Android's UI improvements, like the 
recent tasks button, were taken from webOS? That's because Google's top 
UI designer, Matias Duarte, was part of the original webOS team. Google 
snagged him in 2010, and Matias has been implementing his ideas in 
Android ever since.

But the true main event, even though we didn't have time to finish it, 
was the license debate panel. Terry was randomly selected to defend the 
Apache License, and Pat was randomly selected to defend the LGPL. It's 
easy to prepare for a simple discussion, but what if you don't know 
which side you'll be defending? It was funny watching everyone 
improvise. We've still got four licenses left to defend, so we'll 
continue this at a future event.

If you'd like to learn more about software licenses, I produced a 
handout that gives a plain English, one-page summary for each of the six 
in our debate panel (MIT, Apache, Mozilla Public, Microsoft Reciprocal, 
LGPL, GPL). It also includes an "inheritance chart" that shows how the 
licenses get progressively more complex. If you'd like a copy, here's 
the link:

http://www.js-wordsmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/software-license-notes-final.odt

And finally, we voted to send two bylaws changes to the members for 
final approval via absentee ballot. I'll send yinz all a copy of the 
ballot as soon as I get a chance.

Later! May the source be with you.

-- 
*Justin S. Smith*
WPLUG vice chair/secretary
http://www.wplug.org
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