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boardminutesoctober2016 [2016/10/26 00:45] – created bdavisboardminutesoctober2016 [2016/10/29 16:10] – [OCLUG Board Meeting] bdavis
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 ====== OCLUG Board Meeting ====== ====== OCLUG Board Meeting ======
 +//Following text is proposed agenda for meeting//
  
-**Date:** October 26, 2016+**Date:** October 29, 2016 
 + 
 +//Meeting was postponed to the 29th from the 26th due to a lack of quorum.//
  
 ===== Meeting convened ===== ===== Meeting convened =====
-  * +  * 14:28
  
 ===== Attendees ===== ===== Attendees =====
  
-  * Ian Gorman [present|absent] +  * Ian Gorman [absent] 
-  * Scott Murphy [present|absent+  * Scott Murphy [present] 
-  * John Nash [present|absent+  * John Nash [present] 
-  * Bruce Davis [present|absent+  * Bruce Davis [present] 
-  * Kelly Kendrick [present|absent]+  * Kelly Kendrick [absent]
  
 ===== Review of any outstanding minutes ===== ===== Review of any outstanding minutes =====
  
-  * Approval of August minutes+  * Approval of August minutes (approved)
  
 ===== Review of any outstanding business ===== ===== Review of any outstanding business =====
  
     * Corporate Filings: Status report (Bruce)     * Corporate Filings: Status report (Bruce)
 +      * The first mail in came back with the need for 2 corrections and has been sent back again. Haven't heard from them since.
     * Financials - what do we do about a treasurer?     * Financials - what do we do about a treasurer?
 +      * Need one according to the Charter
 +      * First step - ask at the next meeting
 +      * If no one else volunteers, Ian is willing to take the responsibility or treasurer.
  
 ===== Committee Reports ===== ===== Committee Reports =====
  
     * New to Linux (New Users)     * New to Linux (New Users)
-    * L3GO+      * target audience: people who have sort of had it for a while but don't get much use out of it. 
 +    * L3GO (Low Level Linux Group) 
 +      * Ian not here to talk about it and Richard is in India.
  
 +===== This month's Agenda Items =====
  
-===== Planned future meetings =====+==== Board Elections ====
  
-  * __October__ +  * Start promoting the Board Elections when? 
-    * Micro VAX //(Tentative)// +    * January 
-      Speaker: Scott Murphy +  * Who wishes to stay on? 
-    * Clusters //(Tentative)// +    * Scott (willing
-      * Speaker: Scott Murphy+    Ian (willing) 
 +    * Bruce (willing) 
 +  * How many board members will we need to solicit 
 +    * We should start soliciting a treasurer 
 +  * How do we acquire board members under age 50? 
 +    * no ideas presented 
 + 
 +==== Meeting Setting ==== 
 + 
 +  * Feedback on our current room at Algonquin 
 +    * Could we provide a map? It is someone hard to find if not coming from the west door. 
 +    * Action item: include tips to find the room and parking for upcoming mail-outs. 
 + 
 +==== Raspberry Pi Day ==== 
 + 
 +  * seems to not be in the cards 
 + 
 +==== Proposal by John ==== 
 + 
 +    * John has a proposal for the board and if we accept it, it should have an owner/committee assigned. 
 +      * Live USB toolkit 
 +      * Arch Linux based, proposed for team project 
 +      * Bruce proposed as head of committee because he doesn't know Linux and will have beginner questions, where others might assume knowledge. 
 +      * set up a GitHub account for OCLUG for collaboration [Scott
 + 
 +===== Planned future meetings ===== 
 +==== 2016 Meetings ====
  
   * __November__   * __November__
-    * Docker //(Tentative)//+    * Tiny Clusters //(Working Title)//
       * Speaker: Scott Murphy       * Speaker: Scott Murphy
-    * Rocker //(Tentative)//+    * Group Project
       * Speaker: John Nash       * Speaker: John Nash
  
-  *__December__ +  * __December__ 
-    * Festival Speech Synthesizer //(Tentative)//+    * Festival Speech Synthesizer
       * Speaker: Scott Murphy       * Speaker: Scott Murphy
 +    * Second Topic
 +      * Speaker: 
 +
 +==== 2017 Meetings ====
  
   *__January__   *__January__
-    * Topic+    * PDP8 emulator & PiDP8 Hardware Panel 
 +      * Speaker: Scott Murphy 
 +    * Second Topic
       * Speaker:        * Speaker: 
 +      * 
  
   *__February__   *__February__
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 ===== Ideas for future meetings ===== ===== Ideas for future meetings =====
-    Package Management +  MicroVAX will be a topic after Scott gets it all working. 
-      R package Management +    HW seems OK now that motherboard has been replaced 
-      * Speaker: John Nash +    * Issue getting the console working properly
- +
-    * Zombies/botnets +
-      * Speaker: +
  
 ===== New Business ===== ===== New Business =====
  
-  *+  * LPR500, power it up to see if old presentations from the wiki are still there. Or pull the disk and read the disk directly.
  
  
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 ===== Adjournment ===== ===== Adjournment =====
  
-  * 20:16+  * 16:03
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