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QC LUG Meeting Minutes
[Wednesday 4/8/15 6:30 PM]
[Location: Icons - Rock Island, IL]

WELCOME:
The Quad Cities Linux Users Group (QC-LUG) is a group of Linux hobbyists, professionals, and enthusiasts near the Quad Cities (Rock Island and Moline on the Illinois side; Davenport and Bettendorf on the Iowa side) where the Mississippi River runs East to West and Iowa is North of Illiois. Our members share interests in Linux and free or low-cost implementations of Unix, as well as other open software. The group was created to provide support, education, and lively discussions regarding useful applications Linux, alternatives to main-stream operating systems, and technology.

Membership is free and there are various tiers of sponsorship available to perpetuate the cause. To quote the Linux Foundation: "By supporting these... events, your company stands to gain inside knowledge that will help you get the most out of your investment in open source and also gain credibility and mindshare with this opportunity community. Visibility within the open source community is one of the best ways to recruit high level software talent which is essential for competition."

FACEBOOK REQUESTS:
If you'd like something to be posted n Facebook/Twitter please send your request to marketing@qclug.com and it will get posted. 

Brian will be working on enhancing that experience - if you don't see results keep bugging him. 

INTRODUCTIONS:
Let's go around the room and get to know one another – At the very least, we ask that you introduce yourself with a first name so we can avoid the whole stranger danger scenario. If you've been here a while, tell us how long you've been attending and why you keep coming back. If you're new – do what feels natural.

Today we have 11 fellas in attendance of varying experience levels and etiquette / hygiene practices. Some are first timers and others re regulars (to the bar and the meeting). There was some discussion of Aaron's great OpenShift (container based) presentation and his prospects of being hired to promote the topic professionally around the world. There was some general rumblings about life in general. Aaron, Mark, Brad, Travis, Chad, Dan, Ryan, Alex, Chucky, Tom, and Nathan. 

JOBS:
Alex has a contractor position open writing shell scripts - get a hold of him if you are interested.

OLD BUSINESS:
Officer Positions have been filled!
-Web Master - Tom
Officer Positions that are open:
-PR Assistant

PRESENTATION:
Brad gave a riveting presentation on KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) Hardware Passthrough:
-Gaming on KVM!
-Block device pass-through to FreeNAS (ZFS)

He discussed some of his challenges and work-arounds, reasons for pursuing this project, and why it is the most awesome thing we could learn about between 7:14 PM and 8:19 PM on this particular day. There was discussion of ESXi, XEN, and his interactions with others in forums. You have to find a processor that supports virtualization (VT-D) with direct IO. Gives you the ability to run hardware instructions outside of the privileged ring. 

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