[wplug-board] WPLUG Board meeting Jan 4

[Vance Kochenderfer]

The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Western
Pennsylvania Linux Users Group will be held on Tuesday, January 4,
2011 at 6:00 PM at Te Cafe on the corner of Murray and Beacon in
Squirrel Hill.

For more details or to add your own topics for discussion, see the
wiki page at <http://www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20110104>.

A draft of last month's minutes to be read and approved at this
meeting is provided below for your reference.

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DRAFT minutes for December 7, 2010

The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Western
Pennsylvania Linux Users Group was held on Tuesday, December 7, 2010,
at 6:22 PM, at the Eat 'n Park Restaurant in Squirrel Hill, the
regular presiding officer being in the chair and the Secretary being
present.  The minutes of the October 1, 2010 meeting were approved as
read.

The Chair reported on her proposal for the meeting schedule for the
upcoming year, which was discussed later.

The Vice-Chair reported that since taking over answering the
info at wplug.org address, only one legitimate message has been received
so far.  This message reported on the death of member Bob Turley.

The Secretary reported that there are currently 24 members.

The Treasurer reported that as of the end of October, the balance in
the checking account was $797.42.  The November statement had not yet
been received.

The Director-at-Large suggested using the Dropbox service for storing
WPLUG records.

The Program Committee reported on possible speakers.  Johnny Q works
for Goodwill performing refurbishment of and installation of Ubuntu on
donated computers.  Jim Harris volunteered to follow up and contact
him.  Ed Hart works for data center and network operator ASPstation.
In education, Greg Kesden at Carnegie Mellon University and Chris
Belcher at Community College of Allegheny County are involved in
Linux-related courses.

Beth Lynn Eicher moved to reduce the number of General User Meetings
and Installfests and add a new type of event called a "table topics"
discussion.  This would be a weeknight meeting with open discussion on
a pre-announced subject, led by a facilitator.  The proposed schedule
for 2011 is:
  January 8th - General User Meeting
  February - Table Topics
  March - Installfest
  April - General User Meeting
  May - Table Topics
  June - Installfest
  July - General User Meeting
  August - Picnic
  September - Software Freedom Day
  October - General User Meeting (nominations)
  November - General User Meeting (election)
  December - Installfest
After debate and amendment, the motion was adopted.

Beth Lynn Eicher moved to schedule the next board meeting for January
4, 2011 at 6:00 PM at the Te Cafe in Squirrel Hill.  The motion was
adopted.

The meeting adjourned at 8:22 PM.

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Vance Kochenderfer
Secretary, Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group