OCLUG Board Meeting

Date: October 29, 2016

Meeting was postponed to the 29th from the 26th due to a lack of quorum.

• 14:28

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

• Approval of August minutes (approved)

• Corporate Filings: Status report (Bruce)
  • The first mail in came back with the need for 2 corrections and has been sent back again. Haven't heard from them since.
• Financials - what do we do about a treasurer?
  • Need one according to the Charter
  • First step - ask at the next meeting
  • If no one else volunteers, Ian is willing to take the responsibility or treasurer.

• New to Linux (New Users)
  • target audience: people who have sort of had it for a while but don't get much use out of it.
• L3GO (Low Level Linux Group)
  • Ian not here to talk about it and Richard is in India.

• Start promoting the Board Elections when?
  • January
• Who wishes to stay on?
  • Scott (willing)
  • Ian (willing)
  • Bruce (willing)
• How many board members will we need to solicit
  • We should start soliciting a treasurer
• How do we acquire board members under age 50?
  • no ideas presented

• Feedback on our current room at Algonquin
  • Could we provide a map? It is someone hard to find if not coming from the west door.
  • Action item: include tips to find the room and parking for upcoming mail-outs.

• seems to not be in the cards

• John has a proposal for the board and if we accept it, it should have an owner/committee assigned.
  • Live USB toolkit
  • Arch Linux based, proposed for team project
  • Bruce proposed as head of committee because he doesn't know Linux and will have beginner questions, where others might assume knowledge.
  • set up a GitHub account for OCLUG for collaboration [Scott]

• November
  • Tiny Clusters (Working Title)
    • Speaker: Scott Murphy
  • Group Project
    • Speaker: John Nash

• December
  • Festival Speech Synthesizer
    • Speaker: Scott Murphy
  • Second Topic
    • Speaker:

• January
  • PDP8 emulator & PiDP8 Hardware Panel
    • Speaker: Scott Murphy
  • Second Topic
    • Speaker:

• February
  • Topic
    • Speaker:

• March
  • Topic
    • Speaker:

• April
  • AGM
  • Election
  • Topic
    • Speaker:

• 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

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

• 16:03