[wplug-board] Board minutes of May 5, 2009

[Vance Kochenderfer]

The regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Western
Pennsylvania Linux Users Group was held on Tuesday, May 5, 2009, at
7:37 PM, at Smallman Street Deli in Squirrel Hill, the regular
presiding officer being in the chair and the Secretary being present.
The minutes of the March 31, 2009 meeting were approved as read.

The Chair reported that he will not be in attendance at the May 9
General User Meeting.

The Secretary reported that WPLUG currently has 25 members.

The Treasurer reported that there is currently $133 cash on hand and
$551.12 in the checking account.

The Internet Committee reported that because of robots posting spam
to the wiki, anonymous users will now be required to solve a CAPTCHA
to make edits.  It also reported that goals are to upgrade to the
latest version of Mediawiki and get the Planet blog aggregation
software working.

The Program Committee reported that the June installfest has been
booked for the Brookline branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

The Homewood Lab Committee reported that a wiki page has been set up
for the committee, and that Jim Harris has been added as a committee
member.

The Wilkins School Networking Committee reported that Comcast has
visited the Wilkins School Community Center and can provide service
there.  The committee chair will be reporting to the WSCC board on the
Comcast proposal and plan for the internal network at their May 11
meeting.

David Kraus, Michael Semcheski, and Mathieu Dube agreed to take
responsibility for recruiting speakers for the July, September, and
October General User Meetings.

The meeting adjourned at 8:40 PM.

[Approved on June 2, 2009 - VK]

Vance Kochenderfer
Secretary, Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group