boardminutesnovember2013
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OCLUG Board meeting
Date: 2013-11-20, 19:00 EST(-5:00) Location: irc://irc.oftc.net/#oclug-board
Agenda
- Approval of agenda
- Approve Last Month's Board Meeting Minutes BoardMinutesAugust2013
- Committees and events
- User Group Connect
- Volunteers
- L3GO
- Finance Report
- Membership list
- Government of Ontario “compliance? letter
- Other Government of Ontario items?
- Speaker pool/etc. (this is an issue with a lot of groups)
- Other Business
- Review OclugBoardForwardAgenda
- Update on action items from last Board meeting
- Upcoming meetings
- Business arising from the Board meeting
Attendance
- Richard Guy Briggs
- Scott Murphy
- Aaron Wilcox
- Ian Gorman
AWOL
- Cody Somerville
Approval of agenda
- All in favour
Approve Last meeting's minutes
- All in favour
Committees
- User Group Connect
- The web site updates are still pending. Scott will take care of that with tutorial assistance from Brenda. Scott has started learning some of what he needs to support it.
- Renew the domain? Consensus is yes. $12/year.
- Considering a next event: 3 months publicity lead time would be good. March? Late spring or early fall? Late spring is exam time. Early fall is good.
- Shopify? Accessibility issues. No elevator. Will re-check.
- Scott will get info and contacts for rest of committee from Rob.
- Volunteers
- Past 3 meetings, Aaron can't get there before 19:00
- Ian can get there at 18:00. Has made a couple of contacts before meetings, nothing this last time.
- It needs to be reliable before it will catch on.
- Next meeting 18:00 on Thursday December 5th, @Shopify
- Scott added sidebar to web site.
- L3GO
- The last meetings happened Monday Sept 9 (6?), Oct 14 (1), Nov 11 (2). We had a good conversation.
- The next meeting is December 9th at Red Pepper Thai-Viet (434 Bank@Gladstone) for 18:30.
- Web site? mailing list? More meeting notice? l3go.ca? l3go.org?
- 7 days notice of reminder.
- content: ?
Finance
- 2013-07-09: $6193.08
- Meeting at Alterna Bank Thursday August 29th @9:45, 112 Kent@Albert, Place de Ville, tower B, unit 106
- Signatories were updated.
- Aaron will contact bank about online access
- Motion to cut cheque to RGB for hosting services for Tux for Feb 2013 and Feb 2014 at $200 each. All in favour.
- Request from Aaron for domain registration items.
Membership list
- No one remembers why this item was still on the agenda.
Government of Ontario "compliance? letter
- RGB will fill out form and send in.
Other Government of Ontario items?
- None known.
Speaker pool/etc. (this is an issue with a lot of groups)
- Should have 3 lined up in case someone bails
- Adrian said he's got a few things he could give some short talks on.
- Adrian has been asked if Shopify has anyone to give a talk on their dashing tool.
- alan dekok on freeradius?
- Jamal Hadi Salim on FoRCES implementations in Linux?
- Should still consider two levels of talks.
- Photo SIG and tools are currently dormant.
- Scott could do an overview of slide tools.
- IanG might do regex presentation.
- Ask MCR about local randomness people.
Review OclugBoardForwardAgenda
- panic books
- hosting fee
Update on action items from last Board meeting
- Where's Cody? RGB sent LinkedIn request.
- Scott: UGC updates
- RGB didn't need to bring a lapel mic since Shopify now has one.
- Solicit a new board member (to replace Mike/Rob).
Meeting adjourned at 21:55.
Action items
- Scott will update UGC web site once he learns tools
- Scott will renew UGC domain.
- Scott/Ian will re-check accessibility with Shopify.
- Scott will get UGC info and contacts for rest of committee from Rob.
- Ian will get to monthly meetings at 18:00 to present a consistent presence.
- RGB will send a L3GO notice out 7 days before meeting.
- Aaron will contact bank about online access
- Aaron will cut two cheques for RGB for hosting, sign and deliver at next regular meeting.
- All: Give Aaron domain registration invoices.
- RGB will fill out form and send in government compliance form.
- RGB will contact A. deKok and Jamal about talks, MCR about randomness people.
- Scott will look at slide tools and an Asterix update.
- IanG: regex talk
- Scott will contact Cody.
- Mention board and elections at next meeting, including filling vacancy.
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