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Meeting Minutes

By Ryan Kopf - Mar. 13, 2009

The most recent meeting of our OSUM was held on March 11th, 2009, focusing on a demonstration of Ruby on Rails using the Netbeans IDE. Discussion included the election of a few new officers of the organization, and more. Full minutes will be posted when the become available.

Our next meeting will be held on March 25th, 2009 at 5pm in 30SH.



Attendance: Ryan L. Kopf, Michael Vitale, Sachet Chitrakar, Ashlee Wilson, Derek Henscheid, Nikki Dudley, Ben Pratt, Elsie Carroll,
  • We went over what the group is about and what the group has done thus far.
  • New members learned about free java training and about open source software in general.
  • Group officers went over what they are doing.
  • Membership numbers have grown, and the group has received some money from the UISG.
  • New members introduced themselves and discussed their knowledge of computer programming and open source software.
  • Then there was a discussion on different topics people would like to see from the group, and it was decided on the topic of the Linux operating system for the next meeting.
  • Then we had a demo by the group's president, discussing Ruby on Rails and MySQL, both open source software.
    • Showed how Ruby on Rails can be used to create websites.
    • Then we discussed questions and the meeting was adjourned.

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