Forum Topics
Floppy disks, for floppy fun.
Fortrash - wants to buy floppy disks for the old zeniths downstairs.
New Filter
b-$ - wants to buy a new filter for the water pitcher.
Hack Potsdam
jsh ++ Cooper - Hack Potsdam is now pushed to 2020. all together more money will be given by us and put towards it by SUNY Potsdam.
feet and sleep.
jrd - feet are gross, wear your shoes. Also campus safety has outlawed sleeping in the labs or lounge or anywhere in the academic buildings.
##Laptops for Carrel
grm - so far none of the laptops are functional to the degree of being able to give Carrel.
Lightning Talk
Elgato StreamDeck Shenanigans
Benjamin Lannon - so you can use an Elgato StreamDeck to open and run .sh shell scripts.
.dev domains and lannonbr.dev
Benjamin Lannon - .dev domains are available, and for pretty cheap. so lannonbr.dev is available and its a good place to learn javascript and other things the Ben Lannon way. also check out emacs.dev is great. BTW ssl and HTTPS is required for .dev We bought lowquality.dev
X-Monad
b-$ - X-Monad is a tiling window manager written in Haskell. It has a contrib extention to get pluggins made by users, some of them are really good. If you want to learn how to use it and get some good defaults talk to b-$. ALSO it’s all open source!
Sway
Anthony R - So sway works on wayland, its another tiling window manager that replaces X. it does this by writing to and reading from a media buffer.
i3
Jsh and grm - i3 is a tiling window manager (I’m seeing a theme). i3 blocks are things that show up on the bottom status bar. Similar to sway in config. BUT it has modes, you can use keypresses to put it into different modes.
COSI Subreddit
cmr - reddit.com/r/cosi is our subreddit. plz post.
X on Windows (kinda)
Cooper - cygwin-Xserver, you can install different window servers, according to cooper Mate works, kde blue screens, gnome works sorta.
Project Updates
Presidents Challenge Submission
jsh - looking for casting people in the video submission, if you want to play a part in the video talk to jsh.
MP *
Jeanna - reminder that if your doing MP* you should have a directory and should be linked of the semester page. and would like all MP* people to have a page (no matter how simple).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ak_eA5a2_y7YJQl9tQlI2mFpP22Fy_B5SsKwLlGF_Gs/edit?usp=sharing
Reece - on this link is all the info and pictures for the webservices overhaul.
MP* CSS
Benjamin Lannon - So he graduated but he’s still making good CSS for us.
Dubsdot-cfg
jrd - about 72% through converting Apache to Nginx.
Announcements
Aho-Corasick Day
G. Bagel - Pick a day to put a random input through the Aho-Corasick algorithm.
mirror stuff
jrd - mirror will now support IPv6!
Professor Kavanagh needs help to teach Scratch again Wed 3/13 3:30-5pm
Abby - Kavanaugh has another teach scratch to students thing and needs help.
Crowne Plaza Lake Placid is hiring!
cmr - looking to higher IT/webdev people. talk to CMR for more info.
Hack Upstate in a month: https://hackupstate.com/home
Benjamin Lannon - one month from today 4/6/19 is Hack Upstate. Which is also Open house and relay for life and another hackathon.
After Meeting Slot
Contributing to Open Source with Gatsby (Thunder Talk)
Benjamin Lannon - having fun with lowquality.dev
PGP keysigning? (probs after ben)
jrd,grm,cmr - PGP key signing with jrd,cmr,and grm.
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