Location: Margaret and Tyler's house.

Present: 
   maggi   Margaret Tidman
   rj_ren  Roland Renaud
   ttidman Tyler Tidman
   mcr     Michael Richardson
   nashjc  John Nash
   wardi   Ian Ward

• approval of agenda

passed unanimously

• Approve Last Month's Board Meeting Minutes BoardMinutesJune2008

passed unanimously

• Review OclugBoardForwardAgenda

items added for 2009.

• Still to do: Review/followup Suggestions from ticket tracking

Outreach to universities: John Nash has been trying to contact CS departments.
Could we co-sponsor an event with Carleton CS/Ottawa U CS.
"Back to school with Linux". 

• Ubuntu CDs received

Ubuntu CDs are not yet on library shelves. Likely waiting for vacations to return.
Tyler will prod to make sure that they are available.

• status of speakers
  • meeting room arrangements

    Karen Ballard <ballark@algonquincollege.com>
    Support Services Officer  (web site says she's "budget officer")
    Computer Studies Department
    Algonquin College
    T307b - Woodroffe Campus
    (613)727-4723 ext. 5948
    http://algonquincollege.com/sat/cs/contact.htm

• need speakers for September

   Two speakers for September.
   The room is T117. The dates are: September 2. October 7. November 4. December 2.

   Need speakers for Oct/Nov/Dec.   

Let's present a list on Tuesday of ListOfApplications.

• get new cards new cards, #13

June 2008: get pamphlets printed up

We got some quotes for brochures, Ian's were the best, but we need to find the list again.
ACTION: Ian will look this up again. 

• June 2008: determine how many business card are left, order more.

ACTION: order more business cards.

• June 2008: look at tux backups

We need to organize another work-party.
TUX is at Richard's house.
Spare-TUX still needs ram.
ACTION: MCR will organize a work-party.

• New Business

• onlinux.

  Anyone planning to go to Onlinux.ca?  End of October.
  JCNASH: maybe.
  MCR: maybe.
  Tyler/Maggi: maybe.

• moderation of oclug-announce list (spam issue)

  oclug-announce was letting spam through.
  who are the moderators?  Ian can moderate, and Brenda can.
  DaveEdwards (dle) needs someone else to moderate the linux-novice list.

• programming olympics page. AlgonquinProgrammingOlympics

  The programming olympics page is still 2007.  We need to post the 2008 results.
ACTION: Need to ask Bill Case to update the page, or move it to the wiki.
  Need to get pictures.

• bank choices

  Discussion about changing away from Alterna Bank.
  Is it worth changing banks? we'd have to make a trip to branch as a group.
ACTION: MCR will ask PCFinancial. 

• power bars for TheCodeFactory power bars: #39

We will look at purchasing about $200 of these, and ask the members if they want to order some as well.

• A THANK YOU TO MARGARET and TYLER for organizing LitW.

Adjourned at 21:02.