VLUG Meeting Notes 2003.08.12

TOPIC: Open Office DB Interface

Presenter: Carl Constantine

NEWS

• 2.6 Kernal available
  http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html
• Red Hat Open Development Model proposed
  http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/newss/4913/1/
• Mandrake 9.2 released
• Newbie SIG Venue: contact Maxwell Int'l Bahai School c/o Nasim Bahbahani
  nasim@maxwell.bc.ca
• Big Blue files counterclaims against SCO
  http://news.com.com/2100-1016-5060965.html
• City of Toronto Childrens' Services Dept. converts 450 pcs to Linux.
  http://www.itworldcanada.com/index.cfm/ci_id/46194.htm
• Open Palmtop Integrated Environment (OPIE)
  http://opie.handhelds.org/
  A completely Open Source based graphical user environment for
  PDA's and other devices running Linux. Fork of TrollTech's Qtopia.
• Novell Purchases Ximian
  http://news.com.com/2100-1016-5059400.html?tag=nl


• VLUG Install Fest:
  Went well. About 15 machines serviced. Thanks to Rick Morris,
  Brent Sirna, Scott Petersen for helping out.


• Yves Bajard donated a box of Linux Books for distribution to
  VLUG members. Thank you Yves!

Presentation: Database utilization and support in Open Office.

• A variety of ODBC drivers are available, eg for MySQL,
  PostgreSQL, etc.
• The presentation went thru the downloading, compiling
  and configuring of elements required to let Open Office
  communicate with a MySQL DB to extract record sets. We then
  constructed templates and populated them with the records of
  interest.
• Resources:
  • www.openoffice.org
  • www.dba.openoffice.org

Meeting Adjourned  to (mostly) Boston Pizza.

Next Meeting

Where: University of Victoria, Cornett Room B-108
When: Sept. 9th, 2003
Topic: Grokking the Gimp by Stacey Falconer

Notes by stand-in secretary M. McLaughlin
Edited by Mike Pfleger - VLUG Secretary.
secretary@vlug.org