[wplug-board] WPLUG Board meeting Dec 16

[Vance Kochenderfer]

The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Western
Pennsylvania Linux Users Group will be held on Tuesday, December 16,
2014 at 7:30pm at the IBM Squirrel Hill office, located on the third
floor of 1710 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-20141216>.

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 November 25, 2014

The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Western
Pennsylvania Linux Users Group was held on Tuesday, November 25,
2014, at 7:42 PM, at the IBM offices in Squirrel Hill, the regular
presiding officer being in the chair and the Secretary being present.

All current members of the Board, as well as those newly elected
at the November 15 General User Meeting, were present.

The Chair reported that that he delivered $20 in dues for Dave
Sevick's membership to the Treasurer.

The Treasurer reported that the First Commonwealth checking account
balance is $306.00 in the WPLUG bank account, with $90 having
been recently deposited. The $20 dues for Dave Sevick are yet to
be deposited.

Newly-elected Board member John Lewis mentioned he is currently
a member of Hack Pittsburgh and that they are open to doing group
activities with WPLUG, as well as hosting future meetings.

Justin Smith stated that although he is leaving the Board, he
is still interested in serving on committees and that we should
try to get others involved with committees as well. He explicitly
mentioned that he would like to be on the Marketing & Communications
Committee, as well as the Technology Committee. Vance Kochenderfer
mentioned that there should be an attempt to use mailing lists such
as wplug-internet and wplug-plan so that there is less discussion
happening at board meetings.

Regarding the Technology Committee, Pat Barron stated that the EFF is
going to launch a free Certificate Authority next year. WPLUG should
consider going this direction for SSL next year, assuming that these
certificates are well supported by the various web browser vendors.

The newly-elected Board members then discussed the offices each would
occupy for the upcoming term, and decided on the following slate:

Chair: Joseph Prostko
Vice-Chair: John Lewis
Secretary: Vance Kochenderfer
Treasurer: Pat Barron
Director-at-Large: Stanley Slomberg

The meeting was adjourned at 8:04 PM, and notification sent to the
membership of the new officers.

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The meeting of the new Board of Directors was then called to order
at 8:05 PM, with all members present.

It was moved that the following committee appointments be made.

Technology Committee: Pat Barron (committee chair), Vance
Kochenderfer, Justin Smith, Terry Golightly, Joe Prostko, and
John Lewis.

Event Committee: Stanley Slomberg (committee chair), Terry Golightly,
Vance Kochenderfer, Charles Butler, and Pat Barron. As committee
chair, Stanley will try to organize, as well as make arrangements
for meeting space.

Investigating Committee: Justin Smith and Terry Golightly.

Marketing & Communications Committee: John Lewis (committee chair,
ex officio as WPLUG Vice-Chair), Justin Smith, Pat Barron, and
Stanley Slomberg.

The motion was adopted, provided that those individuals not present
accept their appointments.

It was moved that the Board of Directors set its meeting schedule
for the year to be the third Tuesday of each month, unless holidays
interfere. The start time will remain at 7:30 PM. The motion was
adopted, setting the following meeting dates:

    * December 16, 2014
    * January 20, 2015
    * February 17, 2015
    * March 17, 2015
    * April 21, 2015
    * May 19, 2015
    * June 16, 2015
    * July 21, 2015
    * August 18, 2015
    * September 15, 2015
    * October 20, 2015
    * November 17, 2015

The General User Meeting schedule was discussed, with the
second Saturday of every month being preferred unless holidays
interfere. John Lewis stated that he would try to reserve space at
Hack Pittsburgh. Other venues such as the Wilkins School Community
Center and various Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh branches could
be explored. In addition, the Carnegie Mellon University computer
club may be able to obtain space on our behalf on campus.

A schedule for the next few months was moved and adopted as follows:

    * December 13, 2014 (Social gathering)
    * January 10, 2015 (Potential talk by Pat Barron about two-factor
    authentication)
    * February 21, 2015 (Social gathering)

Other dates will be determined early in 2015.

Vance Kochenderfer stated he would ask Justin Smith to hand over
his key to the post office box. In addition, he will contact Terry
Golightly to see if the key he once possessed and lost has ever
been located.

Pat Barron stated he would hand over his backup of the old
wplug.org server to the Secretary, with it to be maintained with
the organization's files. It was noted that this should be destroyed
after a suitable retention time, probably two years.

Pat Barron noted that he as Treasurer and Joe Prostko as Chair
should be on the signature card at the bank, with Justin Smith to
be removed. He and Joe will make arrangements to visit the bank.

John Lewis mentioned that people on WPLUG committees should be
able to come to board meetings. Nothing in bylaws prevents it,
so that is fine.

John Lewis moved to adjourn the meeting, which was seconded by Pat
Barron. The motion was adopted and the meeting adjourned at 9:01 PM.

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Vance Kochenderfer
Secretary, Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group