[wplug-board] Board minutes of August 30, 2011

[Vance Kochenderfer]

The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Western
Pennsylvania Linux Users Group was held on Tuesday, August 30, 2011,
at 6:26 PM, at Crazy Mocha in Squirrel Hill, the regular presiding
officer being in the chair and the Secretary being present.  The
minutes of the June 7, 2011 and June 28, 2011 meetings were approved
as read.

The Chair reported that she is relocating and will be able to have
only limited involvement in WPLUG activities for the remainder of
this term.  She also reported that the presentation that was
scheduled for August 31 has been cancelled.

The Vice-Chair reported that he is working on finalizing job
descriptions for the chairmen of the Internet Committee and Wilkins
School Networking Committee.  Jim Harris volunteered to help with
this effort.  The Vice-Chair also reported that he has printed WPLUG
business cards and distributed them at the meeting.  In addition, he
noted that curtains have been installed in the auditorium of the
Wilkins School Community Center which may help the acoustics of the
room.

The Secretary reported that there are currently 26 members.

The Treasurer reported that the balance in the checking account was
$685.67.  The refreshment fund contains $35.12.  Checks have been
purchased for the First Commonwealth account.

The Program Committee reported that no response has been received
from Steve Kondik for a CyanogenMod presentation.  Jon "maddog" Hall
will be speaking at an event in Fairmont, West Virginia on September
22.  Nicholas Schembri has been lined up to talk about MySQL
replication at the October General User Meeting, and Don Vosburg to
talk about SUSE in November.  It was suggested that it may be
possible to arrange an on-site visit at ASPstation's data center in
late October.  The committee reported that Pittsburgh Public Market
in the Strip District has been secured as a venue for Software
Freedom Day.

The Wilkins School Networking Committee reported that there has been
no recent activity to complete the wired installation; Terry
Golightly will attempt to arrange a date with David Kraus to finish
off the remaining work.

Terry Golightly stated that a company called Skybot is interested in
presenting on their software.  It was suggested that this might be a
suitable subject for the January or February General User Meetings,
and additionally that we may wish to have SNAPgh co-host the
presentation.

The meeting adjourned at 7:34 PM.

[Approved on October 4, 2011 - VK]

Vance Kochenderfer
Secretary, Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group