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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