Date: August 25, 2016

• 19:13

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

• Minutes for June approved. No board meeting in July.

• Topic review for rest of year
  • Speaker assignment
• New speaking topics to add?
• Topics for Jan, Feb, March, April
• Feedback on how well Algonquin as a location is working out
• Room booking for the rest of the year
• Do we want to do the Raspberry Pi Day this fall?
• Other business

• No outstanding business

• September
  • Ransomware (if we can get a room booked)
    • Speaker: Patrick Malcolm
    • May be postponed to another month

• October
  • Micro VAX (Tentative)
    • Speaker: Scott Murphy
  • Clusters (Tentative)
    • Speaker: Scott Murphy

• November
  • Docker (Tentative)
    • Speaker: Scott Murphy
  • Rocker (Tentative)
    • Speaker: John Nash

• December
  • Festival - Speech Synthesizer (Tentative)
    • Speaker: Scott Murphy

• January
  • Topic
    • Speaker:

• February
  • Topic
    • Speaker:

• March
  • Topic
    • Speaker:

• April
  • AGM
  • Election
  • Topic
    • Speaker:

• Package Management
  • R package Management
  • Speaker: John Nash

• Zombies/botnets
  • Speaker:

• Overall consensus seems to be positive
  • There is Parking
  • Access by bus
  • Minor inconvenience with projector
  • Minor inconvenience with room changes
  • Possibility of getting students to show up
  • Free is better than not, as with the Library
• Result: Keep Algonquin as a location for the foreseeable future.

• In limbo due to waiting for Richard Hagemyer to get back to us about the September 1 booking before the actual meeting. Otherwise, we may have to postpone the meeting.

• Agreement to have one
• Need to find a venue
• Saturday preferred to get a whole day
• get info from Richard as to what events worked at previous Raspberry Pi days
• Advertise event through Buy a Pi (?)
• Late October
• Perhaps find some Halloween related projects

• Let membership know that we are looking for topics and speakers
• Kelly handed off corporate registration documents to Bruce

• 20:16