WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070312
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Agenda
- Minutes from Previous Meeting
- Officer Reports
- Chair - Patrick Wagstrom
- Vice Chair - Vance Kochenderfer
- Secretary - Bill Moran
- Treasurer - David Ostroske
- Member at Large - Beth Lynn Eicher
- Committee Reports
- Program
- Public Relations
- Internet
- Investigating
- Newsletter
- Unfinished Business
- Beth Lynn is to empty the Paypal account and close it.
- Bill to investigate a captcha plugin for Wiki PGedia to be used for the creation of new accounts and anonymous edits.
- The current Paypal links on the WPLUG site will be replaced with a recommendation that payment be sent to the PO box.
- LugRadio Live. Patrick to research possibility of partnering with Google.
- Patrick to research the possibility of WPLUG hosting a barcamp.
- The WPLUG survey: SWAG?
- New Business
Minutes
- CTO: all members present: 7:44
- Jan and Feb minutes approved (change quited to quieted)
- PO box was renewed for $31 in Feb and Patrick was reimbursed
- officer reports
- Chair: been busy, stuff seems to be running "OK"
- Aplogize for the meeting problem on the 20th 90% of the people couldn't make it: need RSVP for next time to ensure good attendance
- There is a Mac UG in Monroeville
- Vice Chair
- Quiet: some newbie questions on the info@ list, but not many serious bites.
- Vance does not have a LightScribe burner
- Does not anticipate need for WPLUG funds
- Brochures: no pricing yet: Scribus can generate CMYK
- Secretary
- Still getting caught up
- Treas
- $295.34 in cash box
- Paypal amounts did show up in the account
- Account balance on Feb 16: $467.89
- Refreshment fund: $73.24
- Have not gotten in contact with Tolven Health Care yet
- Director at Large
- Interested in organizing 1 day for "women in OSS" to see who shows up: expect it to take a significant amount of planning/recruitment. Ladies only event. Seems to be a comfort problem keeping women away in general. Potential for yearly event. BL is requesting the support of the board.
- A little slower getting back in to the groove than expected
- committee reports
- Program
- Ted R. been doing great job so far
- It'd be nice to redo the Team 1 – need a month's planning and RSVP
- Potential for someone to talk about qemu and kvm
- Should probably move the picnic to May because rooms are nearly impossible to get in May. Sunday is generally better than Saturday for the picnic.
- I think we do a better job of lining up stuff in advance if we line stuff up in advance.
- Michael Skowvron may do a talk on kernel scheduling.
- Patrick to talk to Tom Jones about Tolven
- Patrick to research company that uses Vista
- PR
- LiveCD is "doing their own thing"
- Cert study group: not much going on really
- Survey: no progress
- TiE Pgh: trying to get some kind of joint happy hour event – possibly coordinate with geek night, but geek night is sometimes "beyond capacity". Will propose June's geek night.
- Dave provided Vance fliers from TiE summit
- Internet
- BL: Penguin: welcome worn out at SCS. Could relocate to ECE. IC to research new locations and possible costs.
- Formal tie would be better than informal tie with SCS
- Investigating
- Still don't know if Mike H. is on IC or not. BL will see him soon.
- Newsletter
- Been in touch with 3 publishers getting book reviews. 5 book reviews outstanding. 1 draft review already in.
- business as usual
- Program
- Unfinished businesses
- Paypal is empty/confirmed.
- Have not research CAPTCHA plugin
- Membership page has been has had paypal link removed
- LUGRadio Live. Still waiting on Chris and Google. BL will attempt to follow up with Chris.
- WPLUG hosting barcamp. (Pittsburgh hosting barcamp, not WPLUG) will be on discussion for next user group powwow. We want this to be a team effort with other groups (dorkbot). Dru Sealy on mailing list is associated with dorkbot. Need lots of small rooms. Patrick to find date for next UG meeting.
- Suggestions for SWAG for WPLUG survey.
- Patrick moves spending up to $100 on prizes for wplug survey, Dave seconded. Passed with no opposition. ###On your honor, please only take the survey once – part of document rules.
- New businesses
- More ideas on women in open source: May be a local chapter of society of women engineers. WPLUG may provide funding. BL will post on WPLUG-announce@.
- Dave O. resigning. Motion to accept Dave O.s resignation from the board and as treasurer with thanks for his service to WPLUG. Carried
- Move that we call a special election to fill the treasurers position with noms in May and election in June. No objection.
- Move that BL serve as treasurer in interim until replacement is found. No objection.
- Move to amend previous adopted motion: Noms in April, election in May. No objection.
- Chair: been busy, stuff seems to be running "OK"
- Moved to adjourn: Adjourned at 10:17.