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+ | Board minutes | ||
+ | * approval of agenda | ||
+ | ** finances added | ||
+ | ** stickers | ||
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+ | * Approve Last Month' | ||
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+ | </ | ||
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+ | * Review OclugBoardForwardAgenda | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | removed fall meeting reminder. | ||
+ | monitor remind item: wardi was doing it, but didn't do it this month, as we missed deadline. | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | * review open action items. | ||
+ | * [[: | ||
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+ | done | ||
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+ | * [[: | ||
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+ | CLO has not responded yet. | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | * [[: | ||
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+ | done | ||
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+ | * [[: | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | done | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | * [[: | ||
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+ | DONE. agreed to make phpwiki read-only for now, and point people at trac for new content. | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | * [[: | ||
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+ | not done. | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | * [[: | ||
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+ | As part of the announcement (on the django web page), we can include an amount | ||
+ | of donations for each meeting. We will not be displaying this publically. | ||
+ | (How do we enter the info? | ||
+ | DONE. | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | * address new items. | ||
+ | * Report on Ontario Linux Festival. | ||
+ | * John Nash | ||
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+ | nashjc: OK. I found it fairly interesting and useful. But I think I was focussing on technical matters rather than organizational ones. | ||
+ | nashjc: I had plenty of folk at my forecast talk, which almost mirrored Ted Tso's slides (he promised to send them but hasn' | ||
+ | nashjc: I went to OLPC and OOo and Jody's OOXML/ODF talks | ||
+ | nashjc: Jody pointed out that OOXML doc, while far from satisfactory, | ||
+ | bjb: Is that Jody, former OCLUG member and president? | ||
+ | nashjc: Jody Goldberg, | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | * Michael Richardson | ||
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+ | mcr: I talked to a guy that seemed to be interested in setting up some kind of VC people meet open source people in Ottawa. | ||
+ | mcr: I didn't get his card. | ||
+ | bjb: Isn't that what barcamp is about? | ||
+ | mcr: I saw the OOo talk. they are going to do 3.xx much sooner/ | ||
+ | mcr: barcamp isn't really that, AFAIK. | ||
+ | mcr: I didn't find the talks really that interesting. I talked to the exhibitors. | ||
+ | mcr: I talked to people in the halls. I never expect to find the talks interesting. | ||
+ | mcr: The Advocacy roundtable was too short, didn't get around the circle, and was in too noisy a place. | ||
+ | mcr: the real meat occured in the hour afterwards, chatting with various people. | ||
+ | mcr: I had mentioned what I thought CLUE should be doing, and the idea of an exec. meeting for ontario LUGs emerged. | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | * What is CLUE doing | ||
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+ | minor discussion about pages | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | * Possible province-wide executive meeting | ||
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+ | MCR asked if there was a half-day meeting, how many would go. | ||
+ | Maggi: maybe, John: if in Ottawa, Roland: maybe, Ian: no. | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | * Adopt an NGO | ||
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+ | (RussellMcOrmond joins IRC) | ||
+ | mcr: Russell: who started Adopt an NGO? What is the contact email/ | ||
+ | RussellMcOrmond: | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | * Moderation of oclug-announce | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | mcr: are there any objections to having emergency moderation turned on, and having board members who need to post quickly, have moderation priv? | ||
+ | wardi: no (objection) | ||
+ | maggi: no (objection) | ||
+ | rj_re1: that's how I think it should work | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | * Should we demo the new wiki and trac ticket interface in a meeting? | ||
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+ | YES. maybe december. | ||
+ | mcr: Will January be lightning talks? | ||
+ | wardi: nothing planned yet | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | * Monthly deposits | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | maggi: picked up deposit book, is there agreement that I should use this going forward to keep better record of deposits? | ||
+ | wardi: maggi: sounds good | ||
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+ | bjb: I asked at the bank, and they said if we got a card we could arrange to allow deposits but not withdrawals | ||
+ | Discussion that Bells Corner and/or Kanata Branches may be open on Saturdays. | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | * In trac wiki, make page version number visible without having to click on last change, then page history | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | wardi: I know if you hover on the Last Change link you can see it | ||
+ | wardi: so there might be a way to add it to the template | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | * finances | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | sql-ledger URL seems to have failed. [[: | ||
+ | maggi: lastly, do you record gst in the ledger or fully expense them? | ||
+ | mcr: we don't make $50K, so we have a choice about whether to process GST or not. | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | * stickers | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | confused. no real item. | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | * status of speakers | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | november booked. | ||
+ | December half booked. | ||
+ | January will be lightning talks. | ||
+ | December trac talk... Brenda? | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | * adjournment. | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | (21:07:56) mcr: ADJOURN! | ||
+ | (21:08:06) wardi: second | ||
+ | </ | ||
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