• Bruce Davis (x)
• Ian Gorman ()
• Ed Hong (x)
• Kelly Kendrick ()
• Scott Murphy (x)
• John Nash (x)
• Tug Wiliams (x)

• None

• 19:00
• Call to order - Tug
• Seconded - Ed

• Slack Board channel

Approval of previous minutes: May minutes not available

Suggestion to get new users

• Social networking ** Start using Twitter ** start a hashtag like linuxottawa ** Scott set up the twitter account linux-ottawa
• Show and tell at Senior's Expo or Canada Computers
• Setting up a booth at some point of the year at a University or college
• Promote the mailing list ** Caveat - it could mean a lot of email to be answered ** We could set up queries
• Television spot
• team up with something like TrashNothing to show how older machines can be given new life.
• a page for real life uses for your old laptop/pc

• meeting next week

John:

Balance: $5099.19

We appear to have a slight issue in the mail system. Tug is having issues getting the system to accept posts as far as I can yell, it is an oddball postfix interaction.

Issue fixed during meeting.

Scott needs to perform some extra work to the back end that creates the archive, as my logo has not worked yet.

Here are the rooms for the next few meetings: * Thursday, July 5th: Room P210 * Thursday, Aug 2nd: Room P216A

RE: We may not be able to get rooms in the future… Scott: I have not done much yet, going to try the library at Centerpointe tomorrow and see what our options are. I'll also try Loblaws in College Square

We have a short for repeating sessions:

• Outreach - to introduce more people to Linux ** Work arounds ** Equivalencies ** Who are the target audiences? *** People who want server/websites *** People who want home/office based servers *** People who want to run a family/community server *** People who want alternatives to Facebook ** Workshops for the public?
• explicit “reviving old hardware” discussions
• Distro talk
• Scripting
• Lighting Talk night - Ignite format

I’m thinking we should do a Linux Beginner session on a weekend, something along the lines of:

• Bring a recent vintage laptop that can boot from USB
• We will provide a linux distro on USB
• Boot into live mode
• Show that most cloud services are available
• Talk about other things we can do with it
• Talk about next steps

Maybe we should build a large list of these, shuffle them up and offer them on alternate months to the fixed topics? of course we could always punt a session if something really good comes along

the fixed topics are every three months in between, we are usually scrambling for topics so we could use this as topic material and offer a talk about one of them as a main or secondary topic and possibly have an additional talk or two of these.

It would be nice to set up the topics in advance and then have the entire year scheduled with an option to replace if we get someone with an idea or a guest speaker. It would help advertising the sessions as well.

Tug: I think we should aim for a more distant planning, so people can actually get excited about a topic… instead of just plan on turning up assuming it will be exciting

• Speaker:
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Possible ignite talks:

• How about 101 uses for an LED?
• Ye Olde PDP Shoppe
• Running RSTS for fun and Profit
• COBOL on the RaspberryPI
• building better business applications

Same as last year I would think. Location: Strathcona Park Date: Second Sunday on July @ 13:00 Same format as well. I’ll bring the cooler of drinks and the green one Aaron was hanging on to. People are encouraged to bring something to share.

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See List of potential meeting topics page

• 20:56
• Motion to close: Tug
• Seconded: Ed