[wplug-board] WPLUG Board Meeting October 2

[Joseph Prostko]

The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Western
Pennsylvania Linux Users Group will be held this evening, Tuesday,
October 2, 2012 at 6:00 PM at The Coffee Tree Roasters at 5524 Walnut
Street in Shadyside.

For more details or to add your own topics for discussion, see the
wiki page at <http://www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20121002>.

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 September 4, 2012

The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Western
Pennsylvania Linux Users Group was held on Tuesday, September 4, 2012,
at 6:05 PM, at Coffee Tree Roasters in Shadyside. The regular
presiding officer was in the Chair and the Secretary was present. The
minutes of the August 7, 2012 meeting were deferred for approval until
the next meeting.

The Chair reports that Software Freedom Day will occur later in the
month on September 15th, and that WPLUG elections will occur on
October 13th.  The Chair has nothing else to report, but that he would
like to discuss online payment on the WPLUG site later in the meeting.
 He would like to check with the Treasurer if the check to Patty Doody
for room use at Wilkins School has cleared as well.

The Vice Chair reported that there are no new developments about
WPLUG's involvement with Software Freedom Day, and that if there is
anything that WPLUG will be doing, action will need to happen quite
soon.

The Secretary reported that currently there are 18 members.

The Treasurer reported that the current balance is around 600 dollars.
 He will discuss more about Stripe during talk about the Internet
Committee.

The Event Committee reported that if WPLUG is to participate in
Software Freedom Day, the venue will likely need to be at the
Pittsburgh Public Market, like last year.  People will be needed to
burn DVDs and CDs for distribution for people that visit the WPLUG
table.  Having two Linux distributions available would be great, and
it would also be nice to get other swag as well.  Ubuntu is not an
option, as they now charge for their media.  The Treasurer will check
about Fedora, and other distributions such as openSUSE will be
explored.

It would also be nice to have WPLUG signs, and maybe maybe a banner if
somebody could do that.  The Vice Chair mentioned that he'd be
interested in taking on that task.  Stickers of some kind would be
great as well if that can be done quickly and cheaply.  It would also
be good to have some sort of demo software or a movie playing to help
draw in people to the WPLUG table.  It won't be doable to have the
WPLUG Software Freedom Day event on September 15th, so it will be
pushed until September 22nd.

Last year at Software Freedom Day, WPLUG gave out 45 CDs/DVDs.  The
turnout was quite good, and it would be great to see that kind of
attendance/interest once again.  Burned copies of the OpenDisc will be
provided as well, and the artwork on the Software Freedom Day website
can be used to help make promotional fliers and/or posters.

In addition to Software Freedom Day, in October, WPLUG will be holding
a general user meeting that will have a focus on nominations for
elections that will occur at the November meeting.  Word about the
October meeting will have to go out soon.  Thus far there is no
confirmed solitary speaker for the October meeting, so perhaps having
a series of lightning talks should be explored.  The Treasurer
mentioned he'd be interested in giving a lightning talk about CouchDB,
but several others will need to participate to make this successful.

Lastly, there was some talk about being sure to promote other groups
on the WPLUG site, such as SNAPGH, and Perl and Ruby groups in the
area.

The Investigation Committee has nothing to report.

The Wilkins School Network Committee has nothing to report.

The Internet Committee reported that there hasn't been any moving
forward with using Stripe yet, but it will definitely happen.  Having
this in place will be great for getting new members, as well as making
membership renewals quite easy.  Having this will enable people to
sign up online, which is definitely much easier than the current
paper-only alternative.  The cost is 2.5% + 30 cents per transaction,
but having an online membership sign-up will likely cover this cost
due to additional people becoming members.  To make this all happen,
various people in the Internet Committee will have to do the
programming and the integration with MediaWiki.

The renewal for Linode hosting has been completed as well, and WPLUG
actually received a credit for renewing before the term was finished.
There was also 20 dollar of credit applied to the WPLUG account due to
a referral credit.

Other than Stripe, the Internet Committee reported that the switch to
IPV6 has not yet happened, but could likely happen this year.

The Newsletter Committee has nothing to report.

The Public Relations Committee has nothing to report.

There are no Special Orders.

There is no Unfinished Business to discuss.

There is no New Business to discuss.

The meeting adjourned at 7:02 PM.

Joseph Prostko
Secretary, Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group

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