Minutes from OCLUG Board Meeting Jan 24, 2022

Board:

• Bruce Davis ()
• Brett Delmage ()
• Ian Gorman (X)
• Marc Moleman ()
• Scott Murphy (X)
• John Nash (X)
• Tug Wiliams (X)

Called to order at 19:00 via jitsi (https://six.linux-ottawa.org/Jan2022BoardMeet)

Both sets of minutes were approved:

Moved and seconded by John and Tug

• Distro project - We discussed a few options.
  • antix
  • alpine
  • bunsen on older systems?

• Scott has submitted his expenses and the cheque is visible
• John can take the rest of this item.

• No update

• Hosting/new server
  • Scott will get the wiki mirrored over
  • Webserver needs to be identified based on what Brett will be using for the mailing list.
    • NGINX (current)
    • Apache
• Mail server & mailing list
  • The new hosting account is available and those who wished access have it.
  • We will cutover whenever it is ready. We have a deadline of April 1, so that is the latest we can do this.

• No action here

• Speaker: Ian Gorman
  • Topic: New2Linux: Accessible Linux
• Speaker: John Nash
  • Topic: Efficient writing by choosing and personalizing open-source tools

• Speaker: Unknown
  • Topic: New2Linux: TBD
• Speaker: Scott Murphy
  • Topic: Converting a chrome book to run a full distribution

• AGM
  • President’s Report
  • Treasurer’s Report
  • Election
• Speaker: Unknown
  • Topic: New2Linux: TBD
• Speaker: Unknown
  • Topic: TBD

• This is just here so we do not forget it.
  • 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, which have been recovered from storage.
      • Testing has not yet happened.

• Ian mentioned lite websites as an accessible thing

9:00 - Tug & John