OCLUG Board Meeting March 21, 2017

• Kelly Kendrick (present)
• Scott Murphy (present)
• Bruce Davis (present)
• Ian Gorman (present)
• John Nash (present)

19:16

• Approval of unapproved minutes - Approved

• Financials
  • No Change
  • We will appoint a treasurer at the first meeting after the AGM

• We did have some questions at the last meeting

• Richard has gone back to India until May

• John
  • to be given as a report later
• Scott
  • to be given as a report later

• Scott
  • Got the old hardware
  • barely booted, but the contents were tarred
  • We appear to have all of the old data

• New version and fixes
• adjusted presentations
• Add comment plugin
• ACL implementation
• Style Guide

• Presented by Scott
• Questions regarding the logo
  • What are the colours?
  • Have an SVG file from an Adobe file
• Mock up for an OCLUG sticker
  • hexagonal shape to match a current trend
• Branding Guide
  • “Official documents” concept
  • Logo usage
• Could we lose our brand such as it is and do we care enough to do something like the above items?

• President's Report
• Treasurer's Report
  • We don't have one so someone will have to take the position.

• Speaker: Scott
  • Topic: Static sites revisited

• Speaker: John
  • Topic: File systems

• Speaker: Scott
  • Topic: Rotary Phone project part 2

• Speaker: Bruce Davis (nervous)
  • Topic: What I learned at HTML 150 (tentative)

• July 16, 13:00 at Strathcona Park
• We should have a demo of something

• Speaker: Scott Murphy
  • Pi Night
    • Using a Raspberry Pi as a Software Defined Radio (assuming I can get me advanced classification by then)
    • Raspberry Pi FM transmitter

• Use the update of the wiki as fodder for discussion?
• Blogging
• tools for making graphics in a productive fashion
  • Ditaa as a possible options
• Node.js

This is the current wish list. It should grow and shrink as we add and remove items.

• MongoDB
• Arduino Talk (Peter S)
• 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)
• Virtual Box and Docker integration

• Should we open up the meetings to a wider audience?

20:24