- FSLC History 1999-2000
President - Roberto Mello(aka rbm) Vice-President - Joe Grover Secretary - Jerrad Public Relations - Installfest - Sysadmin - Ray Rallison(aka rjr) Webmaster - FSLC was required to have at least three official student members, and one faculty advisor in order to be officially sanctioned by USU as a club. We pitched the idea to Steve Allen, and he agreed to be our advisor so Roberto filled out the application form, and with Roberto, myself, and Jerrad Pullum the FLSC was born.
- That year, Roberto was President, Joe Grover was VP, and Jerrad was Secretary. Or was it Jerrad was VP and Joe GRover was secretary, my memory fails me. We drafted the first constitution, and tried to recruit what was left of the disbanded Logan Unix Users group (although I forget their official name) as members of the new FSLC. Among those members were Doran, Ray, Jon, and John Hanks, all of whom were great assets to the club. I believe we also recruited a few non-UUG members like Nathan Tenney, and Travis Hartwell, who also were eager to learn, share, and help out. I recall we also participated in the open house on the quad thing where clubs get to showcase themselves. We had a laptop demonstration of linux, and wound up with over 300 names and email addresses on our sign-up sheets. We met in the Sci-Tech library conference room just behind the reference desk. Our first club server was actually a spare that Jerrad had loaned us since his kids weren't using it. Roberto was big on AOLserver and since he also served as webmaster our first website was based on it after much discussion among the members. Roberto also negotiated the donation of a new server by the company behind ACS (and openACS) and Jerrad's single proc p133 was returned. Not long after, Jerrad graduated, left, and pretty much hasn't been heard from since.
contributed by Joe Grover Cach Valley Unix Users Group, IIRC. Jon H. had led it I think. I posted flyers for the first meeting around campus, including the construction fence surrounding what was to become the current Eccles Science Learning Center.
- I remember that I expected maybe 2 or 3 people to show up to our first meeting, but we had at least 15, I believe. It was exciting and interesting to meet and be around people who shared similar interests with respect to free software, linux and programming. Sci-Tech room 120. We held meetings there for about a year, then we moved to the engineering room because it was easier to schedule, and because something made the sci-tech harder to schedule (we had to get the club advisor to call and get it reserved for us).
Around Spring/Summer 2000 we had very successful demo days at the TSC and InstallFests at the TSC Sunburst Lounge. We also had lan parties in the TSC and later on in the Engineering lab, where we played Quake 3. Lots of fun.
The server ArsDigita (which has been since acquired by Red Hat) donated was a Pentium 3 700, still the club's server. Roberto Mellos did a PostgreSQL workshop, and later on an OpenACS workshop.
contribute by Roberto Mello