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====== Board Minutes March 2010 ======

**Location**: Renaud Residence
**Time** : 19:22

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Present: 
   maggi   Margaret Tidman
   tylert  Tyler Tidman
   EricB1  Eric Brackenbury
   wardi   Ian Ward
   rj_ren  Roland Renaud
   nashjc  John Nash
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====== Agenda ======

  * Approval of Agenda [[:OclugBoardAgenda]]
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Approved.
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  * Approve Last Month's Board Meeting Minutes [[:BoardMinutesFebruary2010]]
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Approved.
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  * Review OclugBoardForwardAgenda
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Approved.
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  * Donations from March 2010 meeting 
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Cheque for March donations was given to Treasurer 
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  * Potential upcoming meetings
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May: NetNeutrality, MCR - *confirmed*
June: GPS in Linux - tangogps
July: Linux in the Wild - *confirmed*
IPv6, MCR
supercomputers from PC clusters, MatthewB
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  * Open requests for new Board Members to start the 2010 term in April
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ACTION: Ian to send out email to Linux and oclug-announce mailing list to solicit new board members.
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  * Finalize AGM details.
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ACTION: Bring paper in case we need to do up ballots. Roland will bring ballot box. John to write up a Presidents report. Margaret to write up a Financial report. Richard to give his financial review comments.
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  * Finding someone to "financial review" of the financial statements
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RESULT: Richard H offered to "audit" the books again this year.
ACTION: Margaret to meet with Richard between March 17 and March 31.
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  * Sys Admin matters, 
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ACTION: Cleaning up old root access.
RESULT: Decision was to keep people with root access as is, for now.
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**Other**

  * Changing corporate address.  
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RESULT: MCR agreed to use his home address as OCLUG's corporate address.
ACTION: paperwork will be completed and submitted once the new board members are serving... hopefully by mid April
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  * Book offer from Brian Barber
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ACTION: John to follow up with him.
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  * Upgrading SQL Ledger to LedgerSMB?
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ACTION: Margaret to review LedgerSMB, make sure it works and that it is a good replacement for SQL Ledger, data transfer from from SQL Ledger, user friendly... etc.
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  * Looking for locations for doing tutorials
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ACTION: John may be able to get space at University of Ottawa, will look into this.
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  * Replacement for Programming Olympics
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Look into doing some sort of student contest at the Science and Technology Museum.
ACTION: John to follow up with contact at museum.
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  * Suggestion from a member regarding investing in a GIC.
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RESULT: At current interest rates it is not worth the locking the money in.
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  * Potential hardware upgrade for TUX (new machine)
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Looking at a budget around $800 - $1000 for new machine
ACTION: John to speak to RGB regarding space/size requirements, will copy sysadmin group to get feedback.
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  * Margaret moved to adjourn @ 21:14