SL LUG 6th May - 3 Prim Building Event

The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place on Saturday 6th May, 12pm SLT (8pm GMT, 9pm CET) at Maryport (182,150). As usual you can find the location using the find (Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux')

Up for discussion will be ideas for the long term funding of the LUG, all ideas and suggestions welcome!

3 Prim Building Event

Going to try something a little different this week and have a live build event. During the meeting you will have 30 mins to build anything you like with 3 Prims, no more, no less. Prizes will be awarded to the first, second and third place winners who will take away L$500, L$300 & L$200 respectively.

Competition Rules

1. 3 Prims, no more, no less.
   
2. Your entry must be no larger than 10M x 10M x 10M
   
3. No limits on what you do with your prims or how you texture them.
   
4. Your entry must be created at the meeting within the allowed 30 minutes.
   
5. No Scripts.
   
6. The group will vote on the winners. Prize money will be awarded at the meeting.
   

Textures could prove a problem for alpha client users.. Do uploads have to be done during the competition?

There is nothing stopping you from working out your build in a sandbox between now and the meeting and uploading any texture magic you might need.

Just remember - its a competition judged by your peers

I'll be out of town (if anyone cares). Hope the meeting goes well.

What have these competitions todo with Linux? I don't get it.


Vinci

But you don't come to the meetings either, so don't worry about it.

Sorry to hear that - Hope you have fun

Ever been to a real-life LUG? Since when does half the stuff there have anything to do with Linux? Outside of the formal, organized topics and such, it's about Linux users hanging out together. Our local LUG holds a LAN party every month where we come together and play games, write code, etc., mostly under Linux, but Mac and PC users come as well. I mean, we do install fests and information booths as well, but it's the informal events that I make a point to *never* miss (I've missed several SL LUG meetings because of them, actually!)

IMO, the purpose of a LUG is threefold (could be more, but these come to mind):

getting Linux to The People (spreading the word)
helping The People with Linux (tech support / installfests / etc.)
developing a stronger sense of community within the community (hanging out)

So, yeah. That reply got a lot longer than I anticipated. It would seem I feel very strongly about this

And exactly that is in EVERY announcement of the LUG meetings

Yay, my first LUG! Anyone try out the new kororra xgl live cd?

http://kororaa.org/index.php

Get it if you haven't seen it yet ... instant orgasm. Although SL ran slow for me after I installed to a new partition, so I'm running SL off mepis till I figure out why it's running so slow on kororra.

Search this forum for xgl and you'll have your answer. XGL / Composite stuff and OpenGL games don't play very nice yet, because XGL is still so alpha.

I did not really notice any slow down when running XGL + SL, the main issues was all the fonts would start corrupting. It also appears XGL won't report 32bit or something - trying to wine the Windows client fails - although I still need to try the old gfx patch.