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- | November # OCLUG Board Meeting | + | ===== Meeting |
- | ===== Meeting of: November 28, 2017 ===== | ||
- | ==== Location: ==== | + | ==== Attendees: ==== |
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- | * Skype Board Member channel | + | |
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- | ==== Participants: ==== | + | |
=== Board: === | === Board: === | ||
- | * Kelly Kendrick [x] | + | * Bruce Davis (x) |
- | * Scott Murphy [x] | + | * Ian Gorman ( ) |
- | * Bruce Davis [x] | + | * Ed Hong (x) |
- | * Ian Gorman [x] | + | * Kelly Kendrick (x) |
- | * John Nash [x] | + | * Scott Murphy (x) |
+ | * John Nash (x) | ||
+ | * Tug Wiliams (x) | ||
=== Guests: === | === Guests: === | ||
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* None | * None | ||
- | ==== Start Time: ==== | + | ==== Start time: ==== |
- | * 20:00 | + | * 19:06 |
- | * Motion | + | * Call to order: |
- | * 2nded - John | + | * Second: Ed |
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+ | ==== Location: ==== | ||
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+ | * Slack Board channel | ||
===== Review of any outstanding minutes ===== | ===== Review of any outstanding minutes ===== | ||
- | * October minutes on website approved. | ||
- | * September' | ||
- | * Going forward it is agreed to include the relevant portions of the agenda as part of the minutes. | ||
===== Regular Agenda Items ===== | ===== Regular Agenda Items ===== | ||
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==== Committee Reports ==== | ==== Committee Reports ==== | ||
- | ==== New to Linux (New Users) ==== | + | === New to Linux (New Users) === |
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- | * No new people at the last meeting. It was a fairly small group. | + | |
- | * Alex was there and there was some lively discussion | + | |
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- | ==== L3GO (Low Level Linux Group) ==== | + | |
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- | * Question raised as whether or not to continue the meetings as Ian will likely be missing a number in the near future and others may not have the bandwidth to attend on a regular basis. | + | |
- | * Ian wants to keep it as a regular agenda item and will try to free up some time to attend. | + | |
- | * Better to show it as more than a mailing list. It is a small group, but closely related to OCLUG, being a specialized subgroup. | + | |
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- | ==== OCLUG Distro Project Update ==== | + | |
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- | * some minor progress | + | |
- | * May need to review the status with others in the organization to clarify the problems | + | |
- | * I've got EFI and legacy versions, but not a dual that works, even though recipes seem to indicate they should work. | + | |
- | * Scott may be able to provide some feedback this coming Sunday. | + | |
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- | ==== Treasurer' | + | |
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- | * Bank balance 5,099.19 today. | + | |
- | * The card won't allow us to check at the machine, but the treasurer can take the card and driver' | + | |
- | * We really need to get set up with online access | + | |
- | * Scott will get receipts for the stickers and new site hosting to Ian for reimbursement. | + | |
- | * We need to get a cheque book for reimbursements | + | |
- | * We need to make some changes to the cheques, to account for current circumstances. | + | |
- | * Once we have decided on an address etc. for the cheques, we will communicate the financial institution to get things changed. | + | |
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- | ==== Room Allocation ==== | + | |
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- | ==== Old Data Recovery ==== | + | |
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- | * This will be taken off the agenda as the task has been completed. | + | |
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- | ==== Tux “Maintenance”: | + | |
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- | ==== Online Activities ==== | + | |
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- | * Clean up the wiki landing pages and archive the content that is out of date and unused. | + | |
- | * Need to add something on the landing page to direct to L3GO activities and content. | + | |
- | * Add a stub (at least) for the mailing list. | + | |
- | * John to transfer content from the old site to the new site (wiki). | + | |
- | * Suggestion made by Scott, to keep both the static and the wiki sites | + | |
- | * Scott is looking for feedback on theme suggestions for the static site. | + | |
- | * The basic premise is that the wiki will be for dynamic content and the static site for stuff that does not change much. | + | |
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- | ==== Board Meetings and Openness ==== | + | |
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- | * There does not appear to be much traction on this topic in spite of the meeting being in the calendar available to everyone | + | |
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- | ===== Future Meetings ===== | + | |
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- | ==== Month - December ==== | + | |
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- | === Speaker: === | + | |
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- | * Scott | + | |
- | * John | + | |
- | === Topic: === | + | * Just a few people showed up for the meeting. |
- | * Open discussion about scripting | + | === L3GO (Low Level Linux Group) === |
- | * A brief contrast between DOS and *nix for accepting console input would be interesting | + | |
- | Suggestion for making every December a panel/ | + | * Ian not present |
+ | === OCLUG Customized Bunsen Labs Distro Project Update === | ||
- | ---- | + | * Not much progress this month. |
- | ==== Month - January ==== | + | === Treasurer' |
- | * Speaker: Renato (confirmed) | ||
- | * Topic: Flash vs. Spinning disk drives | ||
- | Need to start mentioning the Annual General Meeting / Election | + | === Mailing List === |
- | ### Month - February | + | === Meeting Rooms === |
- | * Speaker: - Scott | + | * Next meeting taking place at Bell's Corners Library, finishing at 8:30 not 9:00. |
- | * Topic: - Pirate box | + | * If the room is good we'll try to get more sessions there. |
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- | ==== Month ==== | + | === The list of repeating sessions |
- | === Speaker: === | + | https:// |
- | === Topic: | + | ==== Planned Regular Meetings ==== |
- | === Speaker: | + | === Dec === |
- | === Topic: | + | * Speaker: Everyone |
+ | * Topic: scripting | ||
+ | * Speaker: Scott | ||
+ | * Topic: | ||
+ | Hot topic: | ||
+ | * IBM acquiring Red Hat | ||
+ | * Using WiFi to see through walls | ||
- | ---- | + | ==== List of future topics ==== |
- | ===== List of possible topics for future meetings ===== | + | https:// |
- | This is a live wish list. It should grow and shrink with the topics we come up with. It is good to have a reference so we don't lose possible topics. Feel free to add to the list. [X] indicates we did this one. | + | ==== New business: ==== |
- | * Use the update of the wiki as fodder for discussion? [X] | + | * Have to make adjustment to the Corporate registration. It turns out that we can only have 5 names listed |
- | * Blogging | + | |
- | * Tools for making graphics in a productive fashion | + | |
- | * Ditaa as a possible options | + | |
- | * Mermaid as a possible options | + | |
- | * GraphViz | + | |
- | * Dia | + | |
- | * E- ven raw SVG production might be of interest. | + | |
- | * Node.js | + | |
- | * MongoDB | + | |
- | * Arduino Talk (Peter S) | + | |
- | * AngularJS & VScode | + | |
- | * Platform independency for application users: Why doesn' | + | |
- | * MicroVAX (will be a topic after Scott gets it all working) -- HW seems OK now that motherboard has been replaced -- Procuring an additional one that might allow me to figure out the remaining issues Issue getting the console working properly | + | |
- | * PDP8 emulator & PiDP8 Hardware Panel -- Scott Murphy (when completed) -- Obsolete telephone reuse | + | |
- | * Virtual Box and Docker integration | + | |
- | * Scott working on a PirateBox talk ## New business: | + | |
- | * none | + | |
- | ===== Adjournment: | + | ==== Adjournment: |
- | * Motion to adjourn - John | + | * 19:54 |
- | * Seconded - Ian | + | * Motion: John |
- | * Time: 9:48 | + | * Seconded: Scott |
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