Location: Renaud Residence Time : 19:22

Present: 
   maggi   Margaret Tidman
   tylert  Tyler Tidman
   EricB1  Eric Brackenbury
   wardi   Ian Ward
   rj_ren  Roland Renaud
   nashjc  John Nash

• Approval of Agenda OclugBoardAgenda

Approved.

• Approve Last Month's Board Meeting Minutes BoardMinutesFebruary2010

Approved.

• Review OclugBoardForwardAgenda

Approved.

• Donations from March 2010 meeting

Cheque for March donations was given to Treasurer 

 
* Potential upcoming meetings

May: NetNeutrality, MCR - *confirmed*
June: GPS in Linux - tangogps
July: Linux in the Wild - *confirmed*
IPv6, MCR
supercomputers from PC clusters, MatthewB

• Open requests for new Board Members to start the 2010 term in April

ACTION: Ian to send out email to Linux and oclug-announce mailing list to solicit new board members.

• Finalize AGM details.

ACTION: Bring paper in case we need to do up ballots. Roland will bring ballot box. John to write up a Presidents report. Margaret to write up a Financial report. Richard to give his financial review comments.

• Finding someone to “financial review” of the financial statements

RESULT: Richard H offered to "audit" the books again this year.
ACTION: Margaret to meet with Richard between March 17 and March 31.

• Sys Admin matters,

ACTION: Cleaning up old root access.
RESULT: Decision was to keep people with root access as is, for now.

Other

• Changing corporate address.

RESULT: MCR agreed to use his home address as OCLUG's corporate address.
ACTION: paperwork will be completed and submitted once the new board members are serving... hopefully by mid April

• Book offer from Brian Barber

ACTION: John to follow up with him.

• Upgrading SQL Ledger to LedgerSMB?

ACTION: Margaret to review LedgerSMB, make sure it works and that it is a good replacement for SQL Ledger, data transfer from from SQL Ledger, user friendly... etc.

• Looking for locations for doing tutorials

ACTION: John may be able to get space at University of Ottawa, will look into this.

• Replacement for Programming Olympics

Look into doing some sort of student contest at the Science and Technology Museum.
ACTION: John to follow up with contact at museum.

• Suggestion from a member regarding investing in a GIC.

RESULT: At current interest rates it is not worth the locking the money in.

• Potential hardware upgrade for TUX (new machine)

Looking at a budget around $800 - $1000 for new machine
ACTION: John to speak to RGB regarding space/size requirements, will copy sysadmin group to get feedback.

• Margaret moved to adjourn @ 21:14