WPLUG Board 2008 Goals
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* <s>LUGRadio Live USA</s> - ~~~~ * '''Establish secret Antarctic command post''' - ~~~~ * Meeting schedule defined and published <s>2-3 months</s> '''6 months''' out - resolve meeting places - ~~~~
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LUGRadio Live USA- Vance 12:45, 20 November 2007 (EST)- Establish secret Antarctic command post - Vance 12:45, 20 November 2007 (EST)
- Meeting schedule defined and published
2-3 months6 months out - resolve meeting places - Vance 12:45, 20 November 2007 (EST)
Five Year Goals
- Tangible benefits for members
- Medium/Large scale Pittsburgh based Linux conference
- Training to the point of formal certification (see what's going on with the FreeBSD community)
- Strong SIGs that meet monthly
- Better WPLUG reputation -- local, national level -- with other lugs, FOSS in general, governments
- File for 501(c)(3) status
- Grow membership by 50% each year
Three Year Goals
- Regional conference on a yearly basis
- OS Desktop training sessions -- PrePrint workflow, photo workflow, etc. More of a classroom instruction session see about working with ProTech or something
- Tiered membership program
- associate, student, professional, etc
- provides infrastructure for tangible benefits
- Incorporate with the state
- Crossover membership with other PGH technology organizations
- In a regional sense -- connect with other Linux/BSD/Free Software Groups
- Ohio, WVULug, CPlug, BPLUG, PSLUG
- regional alliances
- (aka getting in touch with other organizations that serve a similar purpose)
One Year Goals
- getting committees functioning
- start with individual people
- put people on the committee that are active and willing to do the tasks within the scope
- make them feel empowered
- have committees go through the same exercise we're doing here
- 1 year, 6 mon, 3 mon plans
- board member on each committee to oversee, but not do the work
- reduce barrier to entry on committees
- Tax ID number
- Meeting schedule defined and published 2-3 months out - resolve meeting places
- LUGRadio Live USA
- Fix the online community
- retire penguin
- install a real CMS
- openACS is not a long term solution
- maybe just stick with MediaWiki
- redirect wplug.org to wplug.ece.cmu.edu
- install jabber server for wplug (wildfire is a good option)
- find some network admins
- set specific times on IRC for questions/help rather than idlefest
- select a software platform
- contest for new WPLUG logo or layout