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-===== Meeting of: November 28, 2017 =====+===== Meeting of: November 26, 2017 =====
  
-==== Location: ==== 
- 
-  * Skype Board Member channel 
  
-==== Participants: ====+==== Attendees: ====
  
 === 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 to start - Scott +  * Call to order: Scott 
-  * 2nded - John+  * Second: Ed 
 + 
 +==== Location: ==== 
 + 
 +  * Slack Board channel
  
 ===== Review of any outstanding minutes ===== ===== Review of any outstanding minutes =====
  
-  * October minutes on website approved. 
-  * September's still needs to be converted to the dokuwiki format from the Slack channel records. This will have to wait until next meeting. 
-  * 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) ===
- +
-  * No new people at the last meeting. It was a fairly small group. +
-  * Alex was there and there was some lively discussion +
- +
-==== L3GO (Low Level Linux Group) ==== +
- +
-  * 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. +
- +
-==== OCLUG Distro Project Update ==== +
- +
-  * 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. +
- +
-==== Treasurer's Report ==== +
- +
-  * 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's licence to the counter and they will tell him the balance. +
-  * 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. +
- +
-==== Room Allocation ==== +
- +
-==== Old Data Recovery ==== +
- +
-  * This will be taken off the agenda as the task has been completed. +
- +
-==== Tux “Maintenance”: ==== +
- +
-==== Online Activities ==== +
- +
-  * 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. +
- +
-==== Board Meetings and Openness ==== +
- +
-  * There does not appear to be much traction on this topic in spite of the meeting being in the calendar available to everyone +
- +
-===== Future Meetings =====+
  
 +  * Just a few people showed up for the meeting.
  
-----+=== L3GO (Low Level Linux Group) ===
  
-==== Month - December ====+  * Ian not present
  
-=== Speaker: ===+=== OCLUG Customized Bunsen Labs Distro Project Update ===
  
-  * Scott +  * Not much progress this month.
-  * John+
  
-=== Topic: ===+=== Treasurer's Report ===
  
-  * Open discussion about scripting 
-  * A brief contrast between DOS and *nix for accepting console input would be interesting 
  
-Suggestion for making every December a panel/lightning talk session+=== Mailing List ===
  
 +=== Meeting Rooms ===
  
-----+  * Next meeting taking place at Bell's Corners Library, finishing at 8:30 not 9:00. 
 +  * If the room is good we'll try to get more sessions there.
  
-==== Month - January ====+=== The list of repeating sessions ===
  
-  * SpeakerRenato (confirmed) +https://wiki.linux-ottawa.org/doku.php?id=bdstuff:repeating_meeting_sessions
-  * Topic: Flash vsSpinning disk drives+
  
-Need to start mentioning the Annual General Meeting / Election+==== Planned Regular Meetings ====
  
-### Month - February+=== Dec ===
  
-  * Speaker: - Scott    +  * Speaker: Everyone 
-  * Topic: - Pirate box +  * Topic: scripting 
-          +  * Speaker: Scott 
 +  * Topic: Show accessing an IoT device from a system that doesn’t have an interface for the unit and two scripts. One in bash and the other in python.
  
 +Hot topic: 
 +  * IBM acquiring Red Hat 
 +  * Using WiFi to see through walls
  
 +==== List of future topics ====
  
-===== List of possible topics for future meetings =====+https://wiki.linux-ottawa.org/doku.php?id=bdstuff:list_of_potential_meeting_topics
  
-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 as officers.
-  * 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't my program work on my computer? [X] +
-  * 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+  * SecondedScott
  
  
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