[wplug-board] Draft Minutes for WPLUG Board Meeting, 1/18/2006

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Thu Jan 19 08:06:43 EST 2006


Thanks for getting these put together so quickly, Dave.  They look good 
to me.

David Ostroske wrote:
> I'm going to do things a little differently here with the draft
> minutes. Let me post them now, and let you guys pore over them before
> I post them to the membership. If I don't hear from anyone in 24
> hours, I'll assume that nobody has any complaints.
>
> So without further ado... Here are the draft minutes for the WPLUG
> Board meeting that was held on January 18, 2006.
>
> ---
> WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA LINUX USERS GROUP
> Scheduled Board Meeting, January 18, 2005, 7:00pm
> 8220 Wean Hall, Carnegie Mellon University
>
> CALL TO ORDER
> The meeting was called to order at 7:16pm.
>
> All 5 Directors were present at the meeting:
> * Bill Moran, Chair
> * Chris Teodorski, Director-at-Large
> * David Ostroske, Secretary
> * Patrick Wagstrom, Treasurer
> * Beth Lynn Eicher, Vice-Chair
>
> MINUTES
> The minutes for December 6th, 2005 were adopted as corrected.
>
> BOARD AND COMMITTEE REPORTS
> * Officers
> Beth Lynn has discovered more treasury funds, collected from an
> attendee from a few years back who had expressed interest in becoming
> a member. Dave said that he would contact this person and either add
> him to the rolls or return his money, depending on whether or not he
> wants to join.
>
> Beth Lynn also reported that the Board still needs to meet certain
> bank requirements, involving IDs and signatures.
>
> Dave said that he needs to coordinate meeting announcements with the
> Program Committee. We decided that the Vice Chair (Beth Lynn), or any
> member of the Program Committee, can post event announcements, and
> that the Secretary can post the official announcements, though any of
> these people should be able to post to the wplug-members list.
>
> Patrick provided a WPLUG Meeting Report to handle expenses, kitty and
> pizza income, and membership changes. We can use this form at any of
> our meetings, and provide a link to a PDF of the form for future
> meetings. We'll have a formal treasurer's report at the next meeting.
>
> * Internet Committee
> There hasn't been a meeting yet of the entire Internet Committee. Bill
> suggested having an IRC meeting.
>
> Beth discussed the transition server, which will be upgraded and moved
> to the general CMU campus machine room.
>
> James O'Kane has moved to the West Coast, so will not be on the
> Internet Committee. He has said that he is willing to share his
> expertise with anyone who will take up his old duties.
>
> Beth Lynn, Jonathan Billings, Scott Kriebel, and Duncan Hutty are
> authorized to be channel ops on the IRC channel. #wplug is not an
> official channel on FreeNode, which has not responded to our
> application. We considered moving to another IRC network, perhaps the
> one that the Ohio LUGs use. Patrick will also contact Rob Levin, who
> is one of the founders of FreeNode, about making #wplug official.
>
> * Program Committee
> The committee will meet on Saturday the 21st. They need to come up
> with a plan for scheduling future events, such as the public key
> encryption talk that was recently discussed on the WPLUG mailing list.
>
> Beth Lynn created the events at wplug.org address, which will forward any
> event suggestions to the Board and the Program Committee. The address
> was being tested at the end of the meeting.
>
> * Investigating Committee: nothing to report.
>
> * Newsletter Committee
> They had a meeting at the InstallFest on January 7th. Elwin Green
> still wants to be active, and Mike O'Connor expressed interest in
> joining the committee. Without objection, both were added to the
> committee.
>
> The committee had also discussed getting wider distribution, expanding
> the newsletter to four pages, and finding more authors to write
> articles. The committee's report was placed on file.
>
> * ErieLUG Revival Committee
> Chris spoke with Brint, who didn't want to transfer ownership of the
> domain. We will to pick up the domain when it expires in October 2006.
>
> They are still considering an event in Erie sometime in February.
> Discussions are currently on hold, but will resume following Bill
> Bukowski's wedding.
>
> NEXT AND FUTURE MEETINGS
> We meet on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7:00pm (which we changed
> from 6:30pm), with meeting places to be announced. The next regular
> board meeting will be held on February 8th, 2005 at 7pm, somewhere on
> CMU campus.
>
> UNFINISHED BUSINESS
> * Funding Policy
> Patrick proposed a Funding Policy to provide allocations and
> reimbursements to programs authorized by the membership. After some
> revision, Patrick will post the official policy.
>
> NEW BUSINESS
> * PR Committee recommendation
> Some debate and enlightenment on the wplug-plan list led to a
> suggestion by Vance Kochenderfer that the Vice-Chair be made an
> ex-officio member of the PR Committee. This can be taken up at this
> Saturday's membership meeting, when the original recommendation will
> be offered for debate.
>
> * BusinessCalendar.org
> Dave will research using this site and mailing list, for Pittsburgh
> businesses and organizations, to advertise WPLUG events. He will
> report at the next meeting.
>
> * Linux Demo Day
> Beth discussed having a Linux Demo Day on February 4th, and
> advertising it on each of the Pitt and CMU campuses. Bill agreed to be
> project manager for this project. Beth plans to present her Linux
> essentials talk, and Dave will give a demo on some day-to-day
> applications that can be run on a Linux desktop machine.
>
> ADJOURNMENT
> The meeting adjourned at 8:27pm.
> --
> David Ostroske <eksortso at gmail.com>
>
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