OCLUG Board Meeting

Date: January, 2017

• 19:07

• Ian Gorman [present]
• Scott Murphy [present]
• John Nash [absent]
• Bruce Davis [present]
• Kelly Kendrick [present]

• Approval of last meeting's minutes (approved)

• Corporate Filings: Status report (Bruce)
  • They haven't gotten back to us so we are considering everything is O.K.

  * Financials: What do we do about a treasurer?

• Should find out where the statements are going - Scott to find out.

    * Nothing was done at the recent meetings regarding this     * If no one else volunteers, Ian is willing to take the responsibility or treasurer. We should check to see on Feb

• Stickers similar to the previous version but with a frame - Scott will look into it but he suspects in the $50 to $100 range

• New to Linux (New Users)
  • Not much in the way of new users or at least questions from any

  * L3GO (Low Level Linux Group)

• Still in play but not highly active recently

• Start promoting the Board Elections

• Slate
  • Scott - willing to stay on
  • Ian -  - willing to stay on
  • Bruce - willing to stay on
  • John - ask if he willing to stay on?
  • Kelly  - willing to stay on

• How many board members will we need to solicit
  • We need 5 board members total
  • Looks like one or more

• How do we acquire board members under age 50?
  • Schedule topics month in advance?

• We have yet another room at Algonquin. This time it is really easy to get to. I’ll have it added to the site before the end of the week.

• Maybe next year?

• Discussion on introductory session
  • John not here to discuss

• February
  • Topic: Static Websites Update
    • Speaker:  Scott
  • Topic: Discussion for future topic of cross-platform computing
    • Speaker:  Ian

• March
  • Topic
    • Speaker: 

• April
  • AGM
  • Election
  • Topic
    • Speaker: 

• MongoDB
• AngularJS & Vscode
• Platform independency for application users: Why doesn't my program work on my computer?
• MicroVAX will be a topic after Scott gets it all working.
  • HW seems OK now that motherboard has been replaced
  • Issue getting the console working properly
• PDP8 emulator & PiDP8 Hardware Panel
  • Scott Murphy (when completed)
• Obsolete telephone reuse
  • Scott Murphy (has a project in the works)

  * LPR500, power it up to see if old presentations from the wiki are still there. Or pull the disk and read the disk directly.

• 20:45