[wplug-board] WPLUG Board meeting May 3

[Vance Kochenderfer]

The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Western
Pennsylvania Linux Users Group will be held on Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at
6:00 PM at Crazy Mocha at 2100 Murray Avenue 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-20110503>.

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 April 5, 2011

The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Western
Pennsylvania Linux Users Group was held on Tuesday, April 5, 2011, at
6:02 PM, at Smallman Street Deli in Squirrel Hill, the regular
presiding officer being in the chair and the Secretary being present.
Beth Lynn Eicher moved that the meeting adjourn to Crazy Mocha in
Squirrel Hill.  The motion was adopted.

The Chair called the meeting to order at Crazy Mocha at 6:34 PM.

Beth Lynn Eicher moved that the motion previously adopted
establishing the Board's meeting schedule through December be amended
to change the meeting location to Crazy Mocha at 2100 Murray Avenue
in Squirrel Hill.  The motion was adopted.

The minutes of the March 3, 2011 meeting were approved as previously
distributed.

The Chair reported that she will not be in attendance at the April 9
General User Meeting and will be generally unavailable from April
15-30, except on a very limited basis.  She also reported that some
WPLUG members have been helping with Computerreach's efforts to
refurbish and ship Macintosh computers to the needy overseas.

The Vice-Chair reported that Michael Semcheski will be moving out of
town and has resigned from his position on any committees.

The Secretary reported that there are currently 26 members.

The Treasurer reported that the balance in the checking account was
$630.42.  The refreshment fund contains approximately $113 in cash,
and he will deposit all but $50 into checking.  Checks for the new
account have been ordered.

The Internet Committee reported that Michael Semcheski has resigned
from the committee.  It was suggested that the committee consider
asking Jim Harris to join and oversee investigating a new format and
software for the WPLUG web site.  It was also suggested that this
could include re-establishing "planet" software to aggregate weblogs
of WPLUG-involved individuals.

The Program Committee reported on the possible topics for the May
meeting: 1) having a recruiter present on careers in Free Software;
2) a site visit at data center ASPstation; or 3) a site visit to the
Google offices in Pittsburgh.  Vance Kochenderfer moved to authorize
the Treasurer to pay $50.00 to the Wilkins School Community Center
for the April 9 General User Meeting.  The motion was adopted.  Vance
Kochenderfer moved to authorize the Treasurer to pay $30.00 to the
Brookline Library for the June 11 installfest.  The motion was
adopted.

The Public Relations Committee reported that the event hosted by
Novell/OpenSUSE at a Penguins game was very well presented but
lightly attended.  Additionally, it was noted that the stock of WPLUG
business cards appears to have been exhausted and that reordering may
be desirable.

The Wilkins School Networking Committee reported that there has been
minimal recent activity.  Terry Golightly stated that he would work
with the existing committee chair, David Kraus, to recruit
participants who can complete the project.

The meeting adjourned at 8:21 PM.

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Vance Kochenderfer
Secretary, Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group