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--- boardminutesoctober2016 [2016/10/26 00:58] – bdavis
+++ boardminutesoctober2016 [2016/10/29 16:10] (current) – bdavis
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 ====== 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 =====
-  *
+  * 14:28
 ===== 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 =====
-  * Approval of August minutes
+  * Approval of August minutes (approved)
 ===== Review of any outstanding business =====
     * 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?
+      * 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 =====
     * 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 =====
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   * Start promoting the Board Elections when?
-    * Who wishes to stay on
+    * January
-    * How many board members will we need to solicit
+  * Who wishes to stay on?
-    * How do we acquire board members under 50?
+    * Scott (willing)
+    * 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 ====
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     * 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 ====
-  * __October__
+  * __November__
     * Tiny Clusters //(Working Title)//
       * Speaker: Scott Murphy
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       * Speaker: John Nash
-  * __November__
+  * __December__
     * Festival Speech Synthesizer
       * Speaker: Scott Murphy
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       * Speaker:
-  *__December__
+==== 2017 Meetings ====
+  *__January__
     * PDP8 emulator & PiDP8 Hardware Panel
       * Speaker: Scott Murphy
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       * Speaker:
       *
-==== 2017 Meetings ====
-  *__January__
-    * Topic
-      * Speaker:
   *__February__
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 ===== 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 =====
-  *
+  * 16:03