OCLUG Board of Directors Meeting August 10, 2011 19:00 to 20:50

Present: Rob Echlin Mike Kenzie Rob Day JS Taylor

Guests Aaron Wilcox John Nash

Membership updates

• MK - secretary's responsibility (JS Taylor)

Paypal for donations?

• Do we have an account? yes, Ian Ward has access information - this should be in “panic book”
  • Should be an offline version of the panic book
• Paypal charges for small transactions!
• Is there any point to having a “donate” button, there's plenty of money in the bank

Adding Aaron Wilcox to BoD

• Motion to appoint → passed

Status of Past President

• John Nash is willing to come to Board meetings when able
• Mike Kenzie noted that previous Board members had similarly

helped out to provide continuity and extra help

September Meeting

• see below for later resolution
• Possibly CodeFactory → would need to pay
• In future, run LitW in September to boost attendance?
• Library doesn't have internet or projector, kick us out at 9PM
• UofO & Algonquin

FOSSLC

• Cost of tickets → full access $119
• RMS is opening keynote speaker
• Asking for $500 sponsorship → a few free tickets
  • Who decides who gets the tickets?
  • Limited exposure for this amount
• Only asked yesterday!!
  • Too short notice to make an informed decision
  • Event doesn't exactly meet OCLUG's objectives
• Motion to inform FOSSLC that their request was received too late, contact us earlier next year with more detailed information → passed
  • R Echlin to respond to their email

Meeting Themes

• Need to find speakers
• Embedded Linux
  • Wind River? → we know several people there
• Common thread → by the end of the evening someone should go home saying “I can't wait to try this”
  • More hands-on demo sessions
• Drop-in Help sessions?

R Day had to leave at 8PM

Membership increase

• Better to keep the entire group together
  • Not splitting out into subgroups (beginners, experts etc)
• Many experienced Linux users don't know about OCLUG
• Lack of advanced notice of meeting topics/speakers

Talk subjects

• head to head timing tests (Windows vs #! vs Ubuntu vs ???)
  • Get a bunch of the cheap 2nd hand DTs (TTE?), would be good if they're all the same
    • Someone with a referee's shirt & whistle?
    • Invite media?
• Advertise the meetings as a good practice run for people giving talks at conferences
  • J Nash is giving a talk in Santa Barbara
• Linux gaming night?
  • Gav from Cedega gave a talks a few years ago
  • Stick to OSS games
    • Interactive games
  • THis will need to be heavily tested beforehand
    • Have things running by September 1st
  • Saturday gaming meeting as the September meeting
    • Reoccurring meeting, like LitW
  • Continue discussion online
  • Concentrate on games that can be run on a laptop
  • Need to set up server(s) to link user's computers together
  • GCompris → kids games from OLPC
  • Could get a room at UofO on a Saturday → may cost $50
    • Saturday could be easier at Algonquin, could get lots of Algonquin students

NOTE: Since Board meeting, this has been arranged for Sat Sept 17

• Series of related talks
  • J Nash → scientific computing
  • Contact Carleton U group
• Haskell talk (Andrew Clunis?)
• NumPy, Euler, PyGame