The presentation went first this month with Raymond Day giving an excellent rpesentation on his 
home built server. He built it from the sheetmetal up utilizing a Zapstation Motherboard.

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The first ever Installfest Put on by MUG (Michigan Users Group) was announced.

First MUG Install Fest
Linux Install Fest - Saturday, April 16th
Oakland University
200 Dodge Hall
Rochester, MI 48326
    PARK IN LOT #36

When:

    10:00am until 2:00pm 

We'll have:

    * Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora, Debian, Slackware, Mandrake, Knoppix, LTSP and more available. 
      You pick what you want installed.
    * No need to bring a heavy monitor, mouse or keyboard. Just bring your box, 
      we'll provide everything else.
    * Free wireless access for the duration of the installfest.
    * Bathroom faciliites and soda machines available. Conveniently located close to many restaurants 
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The next meeting of the DCG was announced and a plea for attendees was made.

The DCG Computer Club meets every first and third Wednesday of the month at the Taylor Public Library at 
12301 Pardee Rd.  In Taylor Michigan, USA. Meeting time is 7:00 pm and meetings run 2 hours.

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There was discussion about the O'REILLY offer of books for a review.  If you would like an O'REILLY 
book to do a review of please contact Ray McLaughlin MDLUG President.  Also if you decide to take
O'REILLY up on there offer you shpould plan on hving a review ready in about 3 months. There was also
some discussion about the discount available to LUG members there was some discussion of the access code
for this discount howver noone could remember for sure Ray was going to check it out. There was also
some discussion of the O'REILLY Safari program (which is a pay service allowing access to the content
of many books online) and the placing of a link to this service on our website as a possible means of 
revenue generation as we would be paid a certain percentage of the fee to jion from anyone jioning
from the link on our page.  Ray was also looking into this.
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Ther was some discussion about membership dues.  Ray and Dr. Bob expressed the historical reasons 
we do not charge a membership fee and discussion died there.

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We have presenters and presentations for May Mat Enders - An Overview on the use of SUSE's YaST and 
June Ray McLaughlin and DR  Bob - The Filesystem Hierarchy