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====== OCLUG Board Meeting ======

**Date:** October 29, 2016

//Meeting was postponed to the 29th from the 26th due to a lack of quorum.//

===== Meeting convened =====
  * 14:28

===== Attendees =====

  * Ian Gorman [absent]
  * Scott Murphy [present]
  * John Nash [present]
  * Bruce Davis [present]
  * Kelly Kendrick [absent]

===== Review of any outstanding minutes =====

  * Approval of August minutes (approved)

===== Review of any outstanding business =====

    * Corporate Filings: Status report (Bruce)
      * The first mail in came back with the need for 2 corrections and has been sent back again. Haven't heard from them since.
    * Financials - what do we do about a treasurer?
      * Need one according to the Charter
      * First step - ask at the next meeting
      * If no one else volunteers, Ian is willing to take the responsibility or treasurer.

===== Committee Reports =====

    * New to Linux (New Users)
      * target audience: people who have sort of had it for a while but don't get much use out of it.
    * L3GO (Low Level Linux Group)
      * Ian not here to talk about it and Richard is in India.

===== This month's Agenda Items =====

==== Board Elections ====

  * Start promoting the Board Elections when?
    * January
  * Who wishes to stay on?
    * Scott (willing)
    * Ian (willing)
    * Bruce (willing)
  * How many board members will we need to solicit
    * We should start soliciting a treasurer
  * How do we acquire board members under age 50?
    * no ideas presented

==== Meeting Setting ====

  * Feedback on our current room at Algonquin
    * Could we provide a map? It is someone hard to find if not coming from the west door.
    * Action item: include tips to find the room and parking for upcoming mail-outs.

==== Raspberry Pi Day ====

  * seems to not be in the cards

==== Proposal by John ====

    * John has a proposal for the board and if we accept it, it should have an owner/committee assigned.
      * Live USB toolkit
      * Arch Linux based, proposed for team project
      * Bruce proposed as head of committee because he doesn't know Linux and will have beginner questions, where others might assume knowledge.
      * set up a GitHub account for OCLUG for collaboration [Scott]

===== Planned future meetings =====
==== 2016 Meetings ====

  * __November__
    * Tiny Clusters //(Working Title)//
      * Speaker: Scott Murphy
    * Group Project
      * Speaker: John Nash

  * __December__
    * Festival Speech Synthesizer
      * Speaker: Scott Murphy
    * Second Topic
      * Speaker: 

==== 2017 Meetings ====

  *__January__
    * PDP8 emulator & PiDP8 Hardware Panel
      * Speaker: Scott Murphy
    * Second Topic
      * Speaker: 
      * 

  *__February__
    * Topic
      * Speaker: 

  *__March__
    * Topic
      * Speaker: 

  *__April__
    * AGM
    * Election
    * Topic
      * Speaker: 

===== Ideas for future meetings =====
  * MicroVAX will be a topic after Scott gets it all working.
    * HW seems OK now that motherboard has been replaced
    * Issue getting the console working properly

===== New Business =====

  * LPR500, power it up to see if old presentations from the wiki are still there. Or pull the disk and read the disk directly.



===== Adjournment =====

  * 16:03