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

**Date:** January, 2017

===== Meeting convened =====
  * 19:07

===== Attendees =====

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

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

  * Approval of last meeting's minutes (approved)

===== Review of any outstanding business =====
  * Corporate Filings: Status report (Bruce)
    * They haven't gotten back to us so we are considering everything is O.K.

  * Financials: What do we do about a treasurer?
    * Should find out where the statements are going - Scott to find out.
    * Nothing was done at the recent meetings regarding this
    * If no one else volunteers, Ian is willing to take the responsibility or treasurer. We should check to see on Feb
===== Promotion ======
  * Stickers similar to the previous version but with a frame - Scott will look into it but he suspects in the $50 to $100 range


===== Committee Reports =====
  * New to Linux (New Users)
    * Not much in the way of new users or at least questions from any
  * L3GO (Low Level Linux Group)
    * Still in play but not highly active recently

===== This month's Agenda Items =====
==== Board Elections ====

  * Start promoting the Board Elections

  * Slate
    * Scott - willing to stay on
    * Ian -  - willing to stay on
    * Bruce - willing to stay on
    * John - ask if he willing to stay on?
    * Kelly  - willing to stay on
 
  * How many board members will we need to solicit
    * We need 5 board members total
    * Looks like one or more

  * How do we acquire board members under age 50?
    *Schedule topics month in advance?
==== Meeting Setting ====
  * We have yet another room at Algonquin. This time it is really easy to get to. I’ll have it added to the site before the end of the week.

==== Raspberry Pi Day ====
  * Maybe next year?

==== OCLUG Distro Project Update ====

  * Discussion on introductory session
    * John not here to discuss

===== Planned future meetings =====

  *__February__
    * Topic: Static Websites Update
      * Speaker:  Scott
    * Topic: Discussion for future topic of cross-platform computing
      * Speaker:  Ian

  *__March__
    * Topic
      * Speaker: 

  *__April__
    * AGM
    * Election
    * Topic
      * Speaker: 


===== Ideas for future meetings =====

  * MongoDB
  * AngularJS & Vscode
  * Platform independency for  application users: Why doesn't my program work on my computer?
  * 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
  * PDP8 emulator & PiDP8 Hardware Panel
    * Scott Murphy (when completed)
  * Obsolete telephone reuse
    * Scott Murphy (has a project in the works)

===== Old data recovery =====
  * 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 =====
  * 20:45