August 27, 2018

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

• None

• Slack Board channel

• 19:11
• Call to order - Tug
• Seconded - Ian

• Move to approve: John
• Seconded: Ian
• Previous minutes approved.

• approx 3 new users ** Shawn was interested in open source BIOS ** another person showed an appreciation for Gentoo
• there was a person the month before asking about printers. Maybe they are just single issue people without an interest in joining.

• 6 people attended the last meeting

• Not much progress this month
• there is now a Bunsenlans Helium version
• Will try to get Helium to work with Crunchmaster remastering. But after Sept 12.

Balance - $5,099.19 - no transactions July and August

• Little evidence that there is still an issue. No investigation done this month.

• Next 3 meetings at the Centerpointe Library
• Have room from 6 to 9:30
• approx $60.00 per night
• We don’t have a location for December and the Library is booked for all of next year
• Need to bring check
• We will need to pass the hat for the September meeting and then determine future strategy at the meeting.

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

• Topic: OpenSCAD
• Speaker: Tug

• Topic: Ansible - Why you might want to use it
• Speaker: Scott Murphy

• Topic: John
• Speaker: History of Computers - https://gitlab.com/nashjc/histoRicalg/blob/master/60years.odp

• Topic: The ramblings of a recovering Oracle gunslinger
• Speaker: Ed

• Topic: Care and Maintenance of you Gentoo
• Speaker: Tug

• Topic: VOIP
• Speaker: Scott

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

• Perhaps we should start future meetings with a “hot topic” to trigger some active participation before following an agenda… it seems that there are concerns about winning over first time attendees to become regulars?
• Where/who to generate the hot topic list? ** Mailing lists | newsletters | LinkedIn News ** Suggestions on the Sign up sheet.
• Somehow we get a topic by the end of the meeting and use it as the hot topic for the next meeting so people have time to prepare.

Example of hot topic idea: Microsoft buying Github

Motioned: Ian Seconded: Tug Time: 20:45