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OCLUG Board Meeting September 24, 2018
Attendees:
Board:
- Bruce Davis (x)
- Ian Gorman ()
- Ed Hong (x)
- Kelly Kendrick (x)
- Scott Murphy (x)
- John Nash (x)
- Tug Wiliams (x)
Guests:
None
Start time:
- 19:11
- Call to order: Scott
- Second: Kelly
Location:
Slack Board channel
Review of any outstanding minutes
Approval of previous minutes.
Regular Agenda Items
Committee Reports
New to Linux (New Users)
We had a couple of people who occasionally attend the meeting. Rick Leir was there with a Sun Blade 2000 and was wondering about alternatives to install Debian as the current Debian no longer supports fibre channel. It is also possible that the disks are dead. I offered a wide SCSI external disk for him to try it with. I'm supposed to bring it to the next meeting.
L3GO (Low Level Linux Group)
Ian:
- We have five including RGB at L3GO. Interesting discussion, only about half on computers.
OCLUG Customized Bunsen Labs Distro Project Update
John:
- I did start up the new Helium and actually looked at Crunchmaster, but there's been a lot of work to do on histoRicalg.
- I'm going to Dalhousie for Oct 12 and will give talk I'm giving to OCLUG (6 decades of personal computers)
- Also have a tutorial document created today on Double Commander that I can contribute to the tutorials section of wiki.
- Scott: There is a slight gotcha with the Q&D solution I gave you for the sshfs… The process is effectively left running all the time, so you might want to have an additional script that hunts it down and kills it
- John: I already have one, but before next meeting will make sure it really does the kill.
Treasurer's Report
Ian: Balance - $5,099.19 (is it still?)
* Reimbursement to Scott for the room rentals and the drinks for LITW 2018 as per the email that was sent to the board members.
Mailing List
I have not managed to get the logo I created to appear on the web page yet, but I have not expended much time at it either.
Meeting Rooms
We are in Centerpointe for October and November. I have not chased down a room for December yet. I suppose I could ask Richard how the whole cost recovery is going at Algonquin.
- Suggestion made for using a restaurant and having a Soltace/Christmas gathering
- Vote in favour for presenting it to the membership at next meeting. (5 of 6, one abstention)
The list of repeating sessions
https://wiki.linux-ottawa.org/doku.php?id=bdstuff:repeating_meeting_sessions
- Scott will make up a list of potential Quarterly sessions before next meeting to be voted on.
Planned Regular Meetings
October
- Speaker: John Nash
- Topic:
- Speaker: Ed Hong
- Topic: Tales of the Wild Net from a retired Oracle Gunslinger
Hot topic: WiFi Flaw
November
- Speaker: Scott
- Topic: Asterix
- Speaker: Tug
- Topic: Gentoo
List of future topics
https://wiki.linux-ottawa.org/doku.php?id=bdstuff:list_of_potential_meeting_topics
Potential add-ons: *
New business:
Adjournment:
- 20:38
- Motion: John
- Seconded: Bruce