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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
  1. President's Report
  2. Treasurer's Report
    1. - We don't have one so someone will have to take the position.
Election
Talk
  1. Speaker: Scott
    1. - Topic: Static sites revisited
  1. Speaker: John
    1. - Topic: File systems

May

  1. Speaker: Scott
    1. - Topic: Rotary Phone project part 2

June

  1. Speaker: Bruce Davis (nervous)
    1. - 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

  1. Speaker: Scott Murphy
    1. - Pi Night
      1. – Using a Raspberry Pi as a Software Defined Radio (assuming I can get me advanced classification by then)
      2. – 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
  1. 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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