boardminutesmarch2017
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OCLUG Board Meeting March 21, 2017
Attendees:
- Kelly Kendrick (present)
 - Scott Murphy (present)
 - Bruce Davis (present)
 - Ian Gorman (present)
 - John Nash (present)
 
Start time:
19:16
Review of any outstanding minutes
- Approval of unapproved minutes - Approved
 
Review of any outstanding business
- Financials
- No Change
 - We will appoint a treasurer at the first meeting after the AGM
 
 
Committee Reports
New to Linux (New Users)
- We did have some questions at the last meeting
 
L3GO (Low Level Linux Group)
- Richard has gone back to India until May
 
This month's Agenda Items
OCLUG Distro Project Update
- John
- to be given as a report later
 
 - Scott
- to be given as a report later
 
 
Old Data Recovery
- Scott
- Got the old hardware
 - barely booted, but the contents were tarred
 - We appear to have all of the old data
 
 
Wiki Updates
- New version and fixes
 - adjusted presentations
 - Add comment plugin
 - ACL implementation
 - Style Guide
 
Branding
- 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?
 
Planned future meetings
April
AGM
- President's Report
 - Treasurer's Report
- We don't have one so someone will have to take the position.
 
 
Election
Talk
- Speaker: Scott
- Topic: Static sites revisited
 
 
- Speaker: John
- Topic: File systems
 
 
May
- Speaker: Scott
- Topic: Rotary Phone project part 2
 
 
June
- Speaker: Bruce Davis (nervous)
- Topic: What I learned at HTML 150 (tentative)
 
 
Linux in the Wild 2017
- July 16, 13:00 at Strathcona Park
 - We should have a demo of something
 
July
- 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
 
 
 
Ideas for future meetings
- 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
 
these will remain so we do not lose them
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
 
New business
- Should we open up the meetings to a wider audience?
 
Adjournment:
20:24
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