The first meeting of the Puppy Linux Foundation and other volunteers in 2006 - Lobster is calling it Puppy School New Puppys welcome

Time: The meeting was held on Saturday, 14 January 2006 at 22:00 UTC

A full transcript of the meeting is available.

Location: our IRC channel for Foundation meetings - #puppylinux-foundation

Puppy School

• school demo developments∞
• based around Puppy 1.0.7 / 1.0.8?
• development of http://rhinoweb.us/∞
• more videos - more auditory tutorials and podcasts
• is ordinary text (?) the best for the Puppy manual?
• developing IRC into more of a schooling /helping paw channel . . .
• seting up Gaim automatically for #puppylinux

Official Crustacean publicity report

New Puppys

• Hacao and Grafpup
• Supporting Pizzapup and Meanpup
• EmptyCrust and Pizzasgood report

Costs incurred by the Foundation

• $91 for new server
• payment to John Murga for forum hosting costs (do not let Barry pay for anything)
• aquisition of Google for a few billion $ (Lobster mistakenly aquired Google∞ - even Google are unaware of this)
• gift sending to Barry (Barry Kauler, P.O. Box 359, Perenjori, WA 6620, Australia)
• Barry's financial statement∞ of his Puppy Linux related income and expenses

The rise of the .pup

• Package management
• Where to now?

Incredible experiments

• KDE, networking, games

Spreading the load

• At the moment we have a pyramid structure?
• Do we need to spread the load more?
• Organisation - eh what organisation . . .
• Where are our dotpups to be kept? We need to have all available packages (mostly dotpups) catalogued. Many are on the forum practically unknown.
• Puppy Singer (Puppy 1.0.8)? Will it have ALSA? Do developers OTHER than Barry need to create 1.0.9? OR will 2 still be runnable in a way familiar to the Puppy 1 series?
• Recruiting new volunteers/enthusiasts (I18N/translation, graphic designers for icons/wallpaper/puppy themes, documentation, etc.)

Puppy 2 Update and Progress Report

Messages from Puppys unable to make it

Chairs report

• Puppy in hardware news? school demo developments∞

Treasurers report (if sober - or even if not)

• Any progress?

Developers report

• Any news on thoughtjourney?