===== OCLUG Board Meeting Jul 26, 2021 =====

==== Attendees: ====

=== Board: ===

  * Bruce Davis (x)
  * Brett Delmage (x)
  * Ian Gorman (x)
  * Marc Moleman () - Will attempt to attend, in Winnipeg
  * Scott Murphy (x)
  * John Nash ()
  * Tug Wiliams (x)

=== Guests: ===

None as of yet

=== Start time: ===

19:33

=== Location: ===

Jitsi

The URL will be: https://six.linux-ottawa.org/Jul2021BoardMeet

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

Approval of previous minutes.

  * Minutes approved
  * https://wiki.linux-ottawa.org/doku.php?id=boardminutesjune-2021

===== Regular Agenda Items =====

==== Committee Reports ====

=== New to Linux (New Users) ===

On hiatus since we are using the first talk for this purpose.

=== Linux-Ottawa Distro Project ===

Nothing new here yet. Marc has been getting a couple of systems together for the purposes of doing some installs and documentation.

=== Treasurer’s Report ===

  * Scott has logged in again, no change from the previous balance, no added notation.
  * John was going to check his access
  * We need to get Ian some GPG keys and a method of using it with Gmail. Mutt works :), along with Thunderbird. There may be a browser plugin, but I am not sure.

=== Mailing List ===

  * Based on the recent mailing list activity and the breaking of signing, we will be moving back to Mailman.
  * Brett has volunteered to take on the work.
  * We have had some back and forth and given a number of other deficiencies, we are considering doing a clean install of the linux-ottawa server in order to remove the old cruft and make sure we have no useless software installed.
  * We have not set a date for this yet, but we have a plan outlined
  * Proposal for getting a new server for the Mail Server for the purpose of building a new server and cutting over rather than trying to rebuild the existing one on the existing server. Estimated cost being less than $10 per month for the duration of the migration. 
    *  Vote on Do we spend the money to get an additional server to install the mail software on a current OS and migrate the existing content over: 
      *  5 yays 
      * 0 nays

=== Calendar ===

Any commentary on it? I’m not sure who has tried it out yet, but it looks promising to me

  * Scott will give every member of the board accounts.

=== The list of repeating sessions ===

This is still a thing to review. Has anyone We should review our repeating sessions list and see if we want to continue them all.

https://wiki.linux-ottawa.org/doku.php?id=bdstuff:repeating_meeting_sessions

==== Upcoming Regular Meetings ====

I know we discussed a few things, but I have not reviewed the list yet. Bring ideas!

=== August ===

  * Speaker:John 
    * Topic: New2Linux: To be named, but almost ready. Just needs some clean up.
  * Speaker: Scott Murphy 
    * Topic: Digital Signage for the home (tentative) - I have not installed it yet, but that should happen Tuesday.

=== September ===

  * Speaker: 
    * Topic: New2Linux:
  * Speaker: Scott Murphy 
    * Topic: Balena “cloud service” results

=== Saturday Event - Leavitt Memorial ===

  * Date: Unknown - post Covid-19
  * Location: Undecided - library?
  * Summary: How to do an install on your “recent” computer
  * Laptop give-away (assuming we have a few) 
    * Scott has a few, but they need to be recovered from storage and tested

==== New Business ====

  * Scott will be contacting Ian in reference to GPG
  * Ian will be looking into Visual Accessibility solutions for Linux

==== Adjournment: ====

  * Tug proposed adjournment 20:08
  * Seconded by Bruce