[wplug-board] WPLUG Board meeting February 1

[Vance Kochenderfer]

The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Western
Pennsylvania Linux Users Group will be held on Tuesday, February 1,
2011 at 6:00 PM at Smallman Street Deli at 1912 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-20110201>.

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 January 4, 2011

The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Western
Pennsylvania Linux Users Group was held on Tuesday, January 4, 2011,
at 6:22 PM, at Te Cafe in Squirrel Hill, the regular presiding
officer being in the chair and the Secretary being present. The
minutes of the December 7, 2010 meeting were approved as read.

The Chair reported that she considered @wplug.org addresses to
be necessary for members of the Board when communicating with
others and that these should be role-based (e.g., chair at wplug.org
for the Chair).  These would be updated to forward to the correct
person after each election.  Beth Lynn Eicher moved that role-based
aliases be created for the Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, Treasurer,
and Director-at-Large.  After debate, the motion was adopted.
The Chair also noted that aliases have already been established
for several committees and they should be made aware of this.

The Vice-Chair reported that he has received minimal response so far
in his effort to identify those willing to serve on WPLUG committees.
He stated that he would provide a more detailed status update to
the Board via e-mail.

The Secretary reported that there are currently 24 members.
Two ballots for the bylaws amendment vote have been received so far.
There has been no word yet from the Internal Revenue Service on
obtaining an EIN.

The Treasurer reported that balance in the checking account is
$692.42 and the refreshment fund has $79.12 in cash.  He also
reported that the post office box will be due for renewal soon,
but he has not yet received a renewal notice.  Beth Lynn Eicher
moved to authorize the Treasurer to spend up to $100 to renew the
P.O. box for one year.  The motion was adopted.

The Director-at-Large reported that he had forwarded information on
the Dropbox service to the Internet Committee.  He also reported
that he was assembling a list of contacts in local educational
institutions to see who is using Linux.

The Internet Committee reported that it was discussing the merits
of possible backup solutions including Dropbox.  It was noted that
the topic on the IRC channel is very out of date.  It is unclear who
has operator status on the channel to be able to change the topic.
It was also noted that having a trusted person as operator would be
useful to permit moderation of any negative behavior on the channel.

The Program Committee reported that it would ask Judi Galardi to join
as a committee member.  Current members Mathieu Dube and Nicholas
Schembri have not responded to inquiries of whether they are still
interested in serving.  It also reported that it is working on
setting up a tour of the Red Hat computer laboratories at Carnegie
Mellon University sometime in February or March.  The attendee list
will need to be assembled in advance.  Jim Harris volunteered to
handle RSVPs for the event.

The Public Relations Committee reported that Brian Seklecki will
be remaining as a committee member and David Ostroske leaving.
It will invite Michael Loomis to join.  It also reported trying to
organize a survey to see how and to what extent Linux is used in
area businesses.

The Wilkins School Networking Committee reported that Beth Lynn
Eicher has resigned as a committee member.  Remaining members are
David Kraus and Nicholas Schembri.

Vance Kochenderfer moved that General User Meetings be scheduled at
the Wilkins School Community Center for April 9 and October 8, 2011.
The motion was adopted.

Vance Kochenderfer volunteered to contact libraries to serve as
venues for the March and June installfests.

Beth Lynn Eicher moved to schedule board meetings for 2011 on
February 1, March 1, April 5, May 3, June 7, June 28, August 2,
August 30, October 4, November 1, and December 6 at 6:00 PM at the
Smallman Street Deli in Squirrel Hill.  The motion was adopted.

The meeting adjourned at 8:21 PM.

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Vance Kochenderfer
Secretary, Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group