[wplug-members] Draft Minutes for Special Board Meeting, 11/9/2005

[David Ostroske]

Here are the draft minutes for the special Board meeting held on
Wednesday. All the details are down below.

Here are the new officers, big round of applause!
BILL MORAN, Chair
BETH LYNN EICHER, Vice-Chair
DAVID OSTROSKE, Secretary
PATRICK WAGSTROM, Treasurer
CHRIS TEODORSKI, Director-at-Large

I'll be sending word to the committee members in separate emails.

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WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA LINUX USERS GROUP
Special Board Meeting, November 9, 2005, 6:30 PM
Original Hot Dog Shoppe, Carnegie Mellon University

CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order at 7:02 PM. Beth Lynn Eicher presided
as former Chair. David Ostroske was nominated and selected to serve as
Secretary Pro Tem.

All 5 Directors were present at the meeting:
* Beth Lynn Eicher
* Chris Teodorski
* Bill Moran
* Patrick Wagstrom
* David Ostroske

MINUTES
The minutes for November 2nd, 2005 were adopted as read.

AGENDA
The agenda for the meeting was adopted.

OFFICERS
Beth Lynn Eicher, the departing Chair of WPLUG, gave an opening
statement. According to Beth, the old board is in full support of the
new board, and the future looks bright.

The following slate of officers was adopted:
* Chair: Bill Moran
* Vice Chair: Beth Lynn Eicher
* Secretary: David Ostroske
* Treasurer: Patrick Wagstrom
* Director At Large: Chris Teodorski

COMMITTEES
* Internet Committee
The following people were appointed to the Internet Committee:
Mark Dalrymple, Beth Lynn Eicher, Duncan Hutty, Scott Kriebel, Bill
Moran, Mike Semcheski.

James O'Kane and Jonathan Billings might serve. Beth Lynn said that
she would see if they would continue monitoring the IRC channel.
Without objection, James and Jonathan were provisionally appointed.
When they accept the position, they will join the committee.

* Program Committee
The following people were appointed to the Program Committee:
Beth Lynn Eicher, Scott Kriebel, Patrick Wagstrom.

The Board agreed to establish a mailing list, <events at wplug.org>, on
which events can be suggested to the Program Committee and to the
Board.

* Investigating Committee
The following people were appointed to the Investigating Committee:
Mike Hansell, Vance Kochenderfer.

* Newsletter Committee
The following people were appointed to the Newsletter Committee:
Vance Kochenderfer, Bill Moran.

Elwin Green has not been appointed to the committee at this time. Beth
Lynn will consult with Vance, who had reasons to keep Elwin's name on
the newsletter.

* ErieLUG Revival Committee
As per a prior special rule of order, the following people were
appointed by the Chair to the ErieLUG Revival Committee:
Beth Lynn Eicher, Chris Teodorski.

Bill Bukowski of ErieLUG will provisionally be a member of the
committee upon his acceptance of the position.

NEXT AND FUTURE MEETINGS
The next regular Board meeting will be on December 3rd, 2005 at
1:30pm, which coincides with the GUM. The Board will meet after the
scheduled time for the Membership meeting, around 1pm.

We agreed to schedule regular board meetings on the 2nd Wednesday of
each month at 6:30pm, with meeting places to be announced. The first
such meeting will be held on December 14th, 2005.

ADJOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 8:09pm.

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David Ostroske <eksortso at gmail.com>