===== OCLUG Board Meeting September 24, 2018 =====

==== Attendees: ====

=== Board: ===

  * Bruce Davis (x)
  * Ian Gorman ()
  * Ed Hong (x)
  * Kelly Kendrick (x)
  * Scott Murphy (x)
  * John Nash (x)
  * Tug Wiliams (x)

=== Guests: ===

None

==== Start time: ====

  * 19:11 
  * Call to order: Scott 
  * Second: Kelly

==== Location: ====

Slack Board channel

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

Approval of previous minutes.

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

==== Committee Reports ====

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

We had a couple of people who occasionally attend the meeting. Rick Leir was there with a Sun Blade 2000 and was wondering about alternatives to install Debian as the current Debian no longer supports fibre channel. It is also possible that the disks are dead. I offered a wide SCSI external disk for him to try it with. I'm supposed to bring it to the next meeting.

=== L3GO (Low Level Linux Group) ===

Ian:

  * We have five including RGB at L3GO. Interesting discussion, only about half on computers.

=== OCLUG Customized Bunsen Labs Distro Project Update ===

John:

  * I did start up the new Helium and actually looked at Crunchmaster, but there's been a lot of work to do on histoRicalg.
  * I'm going to Dalhousie for Oct 12 and will give talk I'm giving to OCLUG (6 decades of personal computers)
  * Also have a tutorial document created today on Double Commander that I can contribute to the tutorials section of wiki.
  * Scott: There is a slight gotcha with the Q&D solution I gave you for the sshfs… The process is effectively left running all the time, so you might want to have an additional script that hunts it down and kills it
  * John: I already have one, but before next meeting will make sure it really does the kill.

=== Treasurer's Report ===

Ian: Balance - $5,099.19 (is it still?) 

* Reimbursement to Scott for the room rentals and the drinks for LITW 2018 as per the email that was sent to the board members.

=== Mailing List ===

I have not managed to get the logo I created to appear on the web page yet, but I have not expended much time at it either.

=== Meeting Rooms ===

We are in Centerpointe for October and November. I have not chased down a room for December yet. I suppose I could ask Richard how the whole cost recovery is going at Algonquin.

  * Suggestion made for using a restaurant and having a Soltace/Christmas gathering
  * Vote in favour for presenting it to the membership at next meeting. (5 of 6, one abstention)

=== The list of repeating sessions ===

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

  * Scott will make up a list of potential Quarterly sessions before next meeting to be voted on.

==== Planned Regular Meetings ====

=== October ===

  * Speaker: John Nash 
  * Topic: 

  * Speaker: Ed Hong 
  * Topic: Tales of the Wild Net from a retired Oracle Gunslinger

Hot topic: WiFi Flaw

=== November ===

  * Speaker: Scott 
  * Topic: Asterix 

  * Speaker: Tug 
  * Topic: Gentoo

==== List of future topics ====

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

Potential add-ons: *

==== New business: ====

==== Adjournment: ====

  * 20:38 
  * Motion: John 
  * Seconded: Bruce