====== OCLUG Board Meeting March 21, 2017 ======

===== Attendees: =====
 
  * Kelly Kendrick (present)
  * Scott Murphy (present)
  * Bruce Davis (present)
  * Ian Gorman (present)
  * John Nash (present)

===== Start time: =====

19:16

===== Review of any outstanding minutes =====
  * Approval of unapproved minutes - Approved

===== Review of any outstanding business =====
  * Financials
    * No Change
    * We will appoint a treasurer at the first meeting after the AGM

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

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

  * We did have some questions at the last meeting

==== L3GO (Low Level Linux Group) ====
  * Richard has gone back to India until May

===== This month's Agenda Items =====
==== OCLUG Distro Project Update====

  * John
    * to be given as a report later
  * Scott
    * to be given as a report later

==== Old Data Recovery====
  * Scott
    * Got the old hardware
    * barely booted, but the contents were tarred
    * We appear to have all of the old data

==== Wiki Updates====
  * New version and fixes
  * adjusted presentations
  * Add comment plugin
  * ACL implementation
  * Style Guide

==== Branding====
  * Presented by Scott
  * Questions regarding the logo
    * What are the colours?
    * Have an SVG file from an Adobe file
  * Mock up for an OCLUG sticker
    * hexagonal shape to match a current trend
  * Branding Guide
    * “Official documents” concept
    * Logo usage
  * Could we lose our brand such as it is and do we care enough to do something like the above items?

==== Planned future meetings====

=== April ===
 
==  AGM ==

  * President's Report
  * Treasurer's Report
    * We don't have one so someone will have to take the position.
== Election ==

== Talk ==

  * Speaker: Scott
    * Topic: Static sites revisited

  * Speaker: John
    * Topic: File systems

=== May ===

  * Speaker: Scott
    * Topic: Rotary Phone project part 2


=== June ===
  * Speaker: Bruce Davis (nervous)
    * Topic: What I learned at HTML 150 (tentative)


=== Linux in the Wild 2017 ===
  * July 16, 13:00 at Strathcona Park
  * We should have a demo of something

=== July ===
  * Speaker: Scott Murphy
    * Pi Night
      * Using a Raspberry Pi as a Software Defined Radio (assuming I can get me advanced classification by then)
      * Raspberry Pi FM transmitter


==== Ideas for future meetings ====
  * Use the update of the wiki as fodder for discussion?
  * Blogging
  * tools for making graphics in a productive fashion
    * Ditaa as a possible options
  * Node.js

== these will remain so we do not lose them ==

This is the current wish list. It should grow and shrink as we add and remove items.

  * MongoDB
  * Arduino Talk (Peter S)
  * 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)
  * Virtual Box and Docker integration

==== New business====

  * Should we open up the meetings to a wider audience?


===== Adjournment:=====
20:24