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<center><b>Topic</b></center>
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<li class="row0">Attendance
<ul>
<li class="row1">Chair
<ul>
<li class="row0">James O'Kane</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row1">Vice-Chair
<ul>
<li class="row0">Zach Paine</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row1">Treasurer
<ul>
<li class="row0">Beth Lynn Lauris</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row1">Executive Committee
<ul>
<li class="row0">Jonathan Billings</li>
<li class="row1">Evan DiBiase</li>
<li class="row0">Jeremy Dinsel
<ul>
<li class="row1">Via phone</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row0">Witness</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row1">Last Year's Goals
<ul>
<li class="row0">Improved presence in Western PA</li>
<li class="row1">Improve membership</li>
<li class="row0">Improve active participation</li>
<li class="row1">Improve quality of meetings
<ul>
<li class="row0">Summer patio party</li>
<li class="row1">Trouble having valid topics for meetings</li>
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</li>
<li class="row0">Improve diversity of members
<ul>
<li class="row1">Met
<ul>
<li class="row0">More members showing up</li>
<li class="row1">Some new members sticking around</li>
</ul>
</li>
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</li>
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</li>
<li class="row0">New goals
<ul>
<li class="row1">Web site
<ul>
<li class="row0">Web committee formed
<ul>
<li class="row1">Zach Paine</li>
<li class="row0">Evan DiBiase</li>
<li class="row1">Mark Dalrymple</li>
<li class="row0">James O'Kane</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row1">OpenACS/AOLServer/PostgreSQL</li>
<li class="row0">"Clearinghouse" for RSS feeds
<ul>
<li class="row1">Provide</li>
<li class="row0">Aggregate</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row1">Improved attendance at meetings
<ul>
<li class="row0">Two dozen people per meeting desired</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row1">Improved presence in Western Pennsylvania
<ul>
<li class="row0">Better advertising</li>
<li class="row1">Radio advertising
<ul>
<li class="row0">Pitt radio</li>
<li class="row1">CMU radio</li>
</ul>
</li>
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</li>
<li class="row0">Improve quality of meetings
<ul>
<li class="row1">10 GUMs with topics</li>
<li class="row0">5 tutorials
<ul>
<li class="row1">2 newbie tutorials</li>
<li class="row0">2 expert tutorials</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row1">Increase membership diversity of skill level</li>
<li class="row0">Change the definition of a "member"
<ul>
<li class="row1">Integration of the mailing list with the web site
<ul>
<li class="row0">308 people on the wplug mailing list
<ul>
<li class="row1">Some duplicates</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row0">New definition
<ul>
<li class="row1">One natural person with a WPLUG account</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row0">Voting procedure should be re-examined</li>
<li class="row1">More committees
<ul>
<li class="row0">Delegate tasks</li>
<li class="row1">More member involvement</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row0">More board members where roles are needed
<ul>
<li class="row1">Mark Dalrymple
<ul>
<li class="row0">All agree that he should be asked</li>
</ul>
</li>
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</li>
<li class="row1">Recognize Brian Sammon for opening and closing the doors</li>
<li class="row0">Membership guidance committee</li>
<li class="row1">More frequent board meetings
<ul>
<li class="row0">Once per quarter</li>
<li class="row1">Re-evaluate the goals each meeting</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row0">Make install-fests more useful for the membership
<ul>
<li class="row1">More organized</li>
<li class="row0">Focus on general help</li>
<li class="row1">Delegated to the install-fest committee</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row0">Open the group officially to users of other UNIX variants
<ul>
<li class="row1">Encourage the users of these operating systems to join</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row0">Establish a WPLUG community experience
<ul>
<li class="row1">Pulling RSS feeds together with internal meeting feeds exported as RSS</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row0">Placement of the WPLUG server
<ul>
<li class="row1">Beth and Jonathan believe that free placement is possible at CMU
<ul>
<li class="row0">On their office UPS</li>
<li class="row1">Formal notice of planned power outages</li>
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</li>
<li class="row0">Backups
<ul>
<li class="row1">rsync every night to an offsite machine</li>
<li class="row0">Tape drive and tapes</li>
</ul>
</li>
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</li>
<li class="row1">Creation of a committee to research t-shirt creation and sales
<ul>
<li class="row0">Beth Lynn</li>
<li class="row1">James O'Kane</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row0">Community outreach
<ul>
<li class="row1">Evangelism to libraries that are fairly far from CMU</li>
<li class="row0">Contact with the nascent Erie LUG
<ul>
<li class="row1">Possibility for a relationship
<ul>
<li class="row0">Sibling</li>
<li class="row1">Part of WPLUG</li>
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</li>
<li class="row0">Driving up for first few meetings for a knowledge transfer</li>
<li class="row1">Potential for sharing of computing resources</li>
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</li>
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</li>
<li class="row0">Handle the 30 donated computers
<ul>
<li class="row1">Creation of a task force led by Jonathan Billings
<ul>
<li class="row0">Give them out for people to do projects and report back to the LUG</li>
<li class="row1">Set aside 15 to auction for a LUG benefit</li>
<li class="row0">Install some for community outreach</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row1">Jon</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row0">Treasury
<ul>
<li class="row1">$227 cash</li>
<li class="row0">$60 in the bank</li>
<li class="row1">Fund growth
<ul>
<li class="row0">May 2002
<ul>
<li class="row1">$97</li>
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</li>
<li class="row0">December 2002
<ul>
<li class="row1">$186</li>
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</li>
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</li>
<li class="row0">Costs per install-fest
<ul>
<li class="row1">$10/donuts
<ul>
<li class="row0">$5 goes towards Beth's pizza money</li>
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</li>
<li class="row1">Additional money for snacks</li>
<li class="row0">$15-$25 total
<ul>
<li class="row1">Entirely recovered
<ul>
<li class="row0">Occasionally lose $5
<ul>
<li class="row1">Always recovered in the next meeting</li>
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</li>
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<li class="row0">Props
<ul>
<li class="row1">Digital Mission
<ul>
<li class="row0">Years of support</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row1">Presenters
<ul>
<li class="row0">Except for the spam talk</li>
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</li>
<li class="row1">Beth Lynn
<ul>
<li class="row0">Hosting the board meeting</li>
<li class="row1">Bringing food and getting install-fests together</li>
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</li>
<li class="row0">Brian Sammon
<ul>
<li class="row1">For opening doors and placing signs</li>
<li class="row0">For having random parts and cords</li>
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</li>
<li class="row1">Jeremy Dinsel
<ul>
<li class="row0">For being the board member in Seattle and participation</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row1">Robert Dale
<ul>
<li class="row0">Years of service to WPLUG</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="row1">Linus
<ul>
<li class="row0">For giving us a reason to meet</li>
<li class="row1">For being our best friend</li>
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</li>
<li class="row0">Monkeybot
<ul>
<li class="row1">Witty aphorisms</li>
<li class="row0">Gems of advice</li>
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</li>
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<li class="row1">Meeting closed at 6:54 PM on January 12, 2003</li>
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