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<div>This page is to collect information about our current configuration and options for switching to a new server going forward, since CentOS 7 goes end-of-life at 2024-06-30. Please feel free to edit to add missing information or correct errors.<br />
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== Server selection ==<br />
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[https://www.linode.com/pricing?r=30335eb136f2c5f7fa3429dce9f15bea836f81d3 Linode] has been acquired by Akamai and raised their prices. Could potentially downgrade from the $12/mo (2GB RAM) plan to the $5 (1GB RAM "Nanode") plan depending on distro system requirements. Could also consider dropping paid backup service or using something different.<br />
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Other VPS providers can be considered, not sure if they are any cheaper/better.<br />
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=== Cloud Plans ===<br />
Looking at 1GB and 2GB plans.<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Vendor !! Plan !! $/Mo !! Memory !! CPU !! Storage !! Transfer<br />
|-<br />
| Linode || Nanode 1GB || $5 || 1GB || 1 || 25GB || 1TB<br />
|-<br />
| Linode || Linode 2GB || $12 || 2GB || 1 || 50GB || 2TB<br />
|-<br />
| DigitalOcean || 1GiB || $6 || 1GiB || 1 || 25GiB || 1TB<br />
|-<br />
| DigitalOcean || 2GiB || $12 || 2GiB || 1 || 50GiB || 2TB<br />
|-<br />
| Hostwinds || || $4.99 || 1GB || 1 || 30GB || 1TB<br />
|-<br />
| Hostwinds || || $9.90 || 2GB || 1 || 50GB || 2TB<br />
|-<br />
| Vultr || || $5 || 1GB || 1 || 25GB || 1TB<br />
|-<br />
| Vultr || || $10 || 2GB || 1 || 55GB || 2TB<br />
|}<br />
All services seem to be similar, with price differences only by a dollar or two.<br />
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== OS selection ==<br />
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CentOS Linux is dead. CentOS Stream is only viable as long as Red Hat/IBM has a business case for it. Can consider other options like pure Debian or Ubuntu LTS.<br />
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=== Service enumeration ===<br />
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Services that are currently running on the WPLUG Linode server. These should include things that are user-facing only, not infrastructure.<br />
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* E-mail (Postfix)<br />
* Mailing lists (Mailman)<br />
* Wiki (MediaWiki)<br />
* Monkeybot IRC bot (infobot)<br />
** While one of the oldest WPLUG services, since [[IRC|freenode]] is essentially dead, there may not be good reason to keep it alive.<br />
* Ticketing system (Trac)<br />
** This is [https://trac.wplug.org/wplug-internet/report/6 virtually unused], likely not worth deploying.<br />
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Infrastructure software which supports the services above.<br />
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* Web server (Apache) - it would be possible to use Nginx instead, but I (Vance) am not familiar with setting it up<br />
* PHP (Apache mod_php) for MediaWiki - could be replaced with PHP-FPM<br />
* Let's Encrypt for TLS certificate (certbot)<br />
* Python for Mailman, Let's Encrypt, and Trac<br />
* Perl for Monkeybot<br />
* MariaDB for MediaWiki - may be [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Database possible] to use SQLite or PostgreSQL instead<br />
* Greylisting daemon (Postgrey)<br />
* Fail2ban<br />
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=== Support lifetime ===<br />
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* CentOS Stream 9 - [https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Life_Cycle_Dates 2027-05-31] (limited to RHEL Full Support lifetime)<br />
* Rocky Linux 9 - [https://wiki.rockylinux.org/rocky/version/ 2032-05-31]<br />
* AlmaLinux 9 - [https://wiki.almalinux.org/release-notes/#almalinux-9 2032-05-31]<br />
* Debian 12 "bookworm" - [https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610.en.html 2028-06-10 or later]<br />
* Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)#Releases 2027-04]<br />
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=== System requirements ===<br />
{| border="1"<br />
!<br />
!CPU<br />
!RAM<br />
!Disk<br />
|-<br />
|[https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html-single/performing_a_standard_rhel_9_installation/index#system-requirements-reference_installing-RHEL CentOS] / Rocky / Alma 9<br />
|amd64, arm64, ppc64el<br />
|1.5 GB<br />
|10 GB<br />
|-<br />
|[https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/ch03s04.en.html Debian 12]<br />
|amd64, arm64, i386 (686 or higher), ppc64el, mipsel, mips64el<br />
|512 MB<br />
|4 GB<br />
|-<br />
|[https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/installation Ubuntu 22.04]<br />
|1 GHz amd64, arm64, ppc64el<br />
|1 GB<br />
|2.5 GB<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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Currently we are using 22 GB of disk, as follows:<br />
594M /boot<br />
35M /etc<br />
11G /home - monkeybot.log is 7.3GB<br />
25M /opt<br />
2.2G /root<br />
4.0K /srv<br />
36K /tmp<br />
2.1G /usr<br />
6.3G /var<br />
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=== Software availability ===<br />
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This table is to track, for the different distros under consideration, whether the software we need is available within its repositories. We want to minimize the number of applications which have to be maintained manually.<br />
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Key:<br />
* B: in distro's base repository<br />
* A: in an additional repository provided by the distro<br />
* T: in a third-party repository<br />
* ~: not available in any known repository<br />
* ?: availability unknown<br />
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{| border="1"<br />
!<br />
!CentOS / Rocky / Alma 9<br />
!Debian 12<br />
!Ubuntu 22.04<br />
|-<br />
|postfix<br />
|B 3.5.9<br />
|B 3.7.5<br />
|B 3.6.4<br />
|-<br />
|mailman<br />
|~<br />
|B 3.3.8<br />
|A (3) 20200530<br />
|-<br />
|postgrey<br />
|T 1.37<sup>EPEL</sup><br />
|B 1.37<br />
|A 1.36<br />
|-<br />
|mediawiki<br />
|~<br />
|B 1.39<br />
|A 1.35<br />
|-<br />
|infobot<br />
|~<br />
|~<br />
|~<br />
|-<br />
|trac<br />
|~<br />
|[https://packages.debian.org/bookworm-backports/trac A 1.6] (backports)<br />
|A 1.5.3<br />
|-<br />
|apache<br />
|B 2.4.53<br />
|B 2.4.57<br />
|B 2.4.52<br />
|-<br />
|nginx<br />
|B 1.20.1 / 1.22.1<br />
|B 1.22.1<br />
|B 1.18.0<br />
|-<br />
|php<br />
|B 8.0 / 8.1<br />
|B 8.2<br />
|B 8.1<br />
|-<br />
|php-fpm<br />
|B 8.0 / 8.1<br />
|B 8.2<br />
|A 8.1<br />
|-<br />
|python2<br />
|~<br />
|[https://wiki.debian.org/Python/FAQ#Python_2_support ~]<br />
|A 2.7.18<br />
|-<br />
|python3<br />
|B 3.9.16<br />
|B 3.11.2<br />
|B 3.10.4<br />
|-<br />
|perl5<br />
|B 5.32<br />
|B 5.36<br />
|B 5.34<br />
|-<br />
|mariadb<br />
|B 10.5<br />
|B 10.11<br />
|A 10.6<br />
|-<br />
|mysql<br />
|B 8.0<br />
|~<br />
|B 8.0<br />
|-<br />
|sqlite<br />
|B 3.34<br />
|B 3.40<br />
|B 3.37<br />
|-<br />
|fail2ban<br />
|T 1.0.2<sup>EPEL</sup><br />
|B 1.0.2<br />
|A 0.11.2<br />
|-<br />
|certbot<br />
|T 2.6.0<sup>EPEL</sup><br />
|B 2.1.0<br />
|A 1.21.0<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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Third-party repositories:<br />
* EPEL - [https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/ Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux]<br />
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== Nice-to-haves ==<br />
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* We have an archive of static web pages from the pre-2007 server "penguin" - it would be nice to make this history available somehow.<br />
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
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Meeting to be held by telephone conference call at 7:30pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2018.<br />
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== Agenda ==<br />
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* Appointment of steward/custodian<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
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== Minutes ==<br />
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
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Meeting to be held by telephone conference call at 7:30pm on Tuesday, January 16, 2018.<br />
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== Agenda ==<br />
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* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
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== Minutes ==<br />
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'''DRAFT'''<br />
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The regular meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Linux Group Board of Directors was held on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 by telephone conference call. The meeting was called to order at 8:14pm.<br />
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The minutes of the August 22, 2017 meeting were approved as distributed.<br />
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=== Reports of Officers ===<br />
<br />
The Chair reported that he has taken possession of the totes containing power cables and Ethernet cables/equipment and will be removing the remaining totes containing WPLUG property from the Wilkins School Community Center over the coming weeks.<br />
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The Director at Large reported that he has received inquiries from recruiters and has made them aware of the wplug-jobs mailing list. However, they do not appear to have followed through and actually posted to the list.<br />
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=== Reports of Committees ===<br />
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The Technology Committee reported that our Linode instance was migrated to a new server to mitigate the Meltdown/Spectre vulnerabilities. Also, one deceased subscriber to our mailing lists was removed at the request of a relative.<br />
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=== New Business ===<br />
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The members present discussed a candidate for the steward position to take custodianship of WPLUG's assets. No specific action was taken.<br />
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It was moved to schedule the next Board of Directors meeting for February 27, 2018 at 7:30pm. The motion was adopted.<br />
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The meeting adjourned at 8:55pm.<br />
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Vance Kochenderfer<br><br />
Secretary pro tem<br />
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
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Meeting to be held by telephone conference call at 7:30pm on Tuesday, August 22, 2017.<br />
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== Agenda ==<br />
<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
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== Minutes ==<br />
<br />
The regular meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Linux Group Board of Directors was held on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 by telephone conference call. The meeting was called to order at 7:39pm.<br />
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The minutes of the April 25, 2017 meeting were approved as distributed.<br />
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=== Reports of Officers ===<br />
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The Chair reported that he needs to set up a meeting with the one individual who has expressed interest in taking on the steward role. He intends to send the job description to other venues that were discussed previously to get additional candidates.<br />
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=== New Business ===<br />
<br />
Justin Smith moved to authorize spending $54.00 to renew the post office box for six months. The motion was adopted.<br />
<br />
It was asked whether a WPLUG reunion previously mentioned was still being planned by Beth Lynn Eicher. No further news on this was available.<br />
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It was moved to schedule the next Board of Directors meeting for September 19, 2017 at 7:30pm. The motion was adopted.<br />
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The meeting adjourned at 8:01pm.<br />
<br />
Vance Kochenderfer<br><br />
Secretary pro tem<br />
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
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Meeting to be held at [[IBM Squirrel Hill]] at 7:30pm on Tuesday, April 18th, 2017.<br />
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== Agenda ==<br />
<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
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== Minutes ==<br />
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The regular meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Linux Group Board of Directors was held on Tuesday, April 18, 2017. The meeting was called to order at 7:30pm. In the absence of a quorum, it was moved to adjourn the meeting to April 25, 2017 at 7:30pm. The motion was adopted. The meeting adjourned at 7:31pm.<br />
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The adjourned regular meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group Board of directors was held on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 by telephone conference call. The meeting was called to order at 7:31pm.<br />
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The minutes of the March 21, 2017 were approved as drafted.<br />
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=== Reports of Officers ===<br />
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The Chair reported that he had distributed the job description seeking a steward for WPLUG on the WPLUG mailing lists. He intends to also send it to other venues that were discussed previously, but has not done so yet.<br />
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=== Reports of Committees ===<br />
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The Event Committee reported that no further update has been received from Ted Rodgers about presenting on PXE booting. Some members of the Board stated they would try to seek out presenters.<br />
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The Technology Committee reported that support for the version of MediaWiki in use is ending and it will need to be upgraded to a newer version soon. The intent is to accomplish this over the next few weeks.<br />
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=== New Business ===<br />
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One expression of interest in the steward position has been received. After discussion, Board members agreed it would be worthwhile to arrange a face-to-face meeting with the applicant, and the Chair stated he would work to schedule this.<br />
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The meeting adjourned at 7:54pm.<br />
<br />
Vance Kochenderfer<br><br />
Secretary pro tem<br />
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(approved on [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20170822 | August 22, 2017]] - VK)<br />
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
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Meeting to be held at [[IBM Squirrel Hill]] at 7:30pm on Tuesday, March 21st, 2017.<br />
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== Agenda ==<br />
<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
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== Minutes ==<br />
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The regular meeting of the WPLUG Board of Directors was held on March 21st, 2017, at 7:30pm, at IBM Squirrel Hill.<br />
<br />
Attending:<br />
<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer (Chair)<br />
* Joseph Prostko (Vice Chair - by phone)<br />
* Pat Barron (Secretary)<br />
* Justin Smith (Director at Large - by phone)<br />
<br />
Not attending:<br />
<br />
* Terry Golightly (Treasurer)<br />
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The meeting was called to order at 7:44pm<br />
<br />
<u>Approval of minutes:</u><br />
<br />
No one requested that the minutes of the previous meeting be read; the minutes were adopted as posted.<br />
<br />
<u>Reports of officers:</u><br />
<br />
''Chair:'' Nothing to report.<br />
<br />
''Vice chair:'' Nothing to report; did mention that he's been getting contacted by an individual requesting that a change be made to a posting in the wplug-erie mailing list archives to change a link in a posted message - the consensus is that no change will be made.<br />
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''Secretary:'' WPLUG currently has 10 members, one due to expire through the end of March, three due to expire in April.<br />
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''Treasurer:'' As of February 28th, the checking account balance is $325.47. There are no transactions pending or on the statement.<br />
<br />
''Director at large:'' Nothing to report.<br />
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<u>Reports of committees:</u><br />
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''Event committee:'' Ted Rodgers has been in contact with Vance to do a presentation on PXE booting, but is still fighting with some of the hardware he's dealing with, so there is no specific date yet. When a date is available, Vance will check with Pat to try to get space at IBM to hold the presentation, and have some time to promote it.<br />
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''Technology committee:'' Nothing to report.<br />
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''Investigating committee:'' Nothing to report.<br />
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''Marketing and Communications committee:'' Nothing to report.<br />
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<u>New business:</u><br />
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Pat offered a motion to remove the requirement that a director of WPLUG be a member of WPLUG (Justin seconded). After debate, the motion was adopted unanimously.<br />
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Vance discussed the finalized WPLUG steward job description, and the list of questions to ask potential candidates, asked if anyone had any further comments or changes. We want to get this published as soon as possible. Vance has a list of places to post the job description, and anyone else can post it elsewhere as well.<br />
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Joe asked if there has been any work to consolidate our physical assets. Vance indicated that no such work has been done to date, and this must occur before the handover to the steward.<br />
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<u>Old business:</u><br />
<br />
None<br />
<br />
The meeting was adjourned @ 8:08pm<br />
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(Minutes approved on [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20170418|April 25, 2017]] - VK)<br />
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
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Meeting to be held at [[IBM Squirrel Hill]] at 7:30pm on Tuesday, February 7th, 2017.<br />
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== Agenda ==<br />
<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
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== Minutes ==<br />
<br />
The regular meeting of the WPLUG Board of Directors was held on February 7th, 2017, at 7:30pm, at IBM Squirrel Hill.<br />
<br />
Attending:<br />
<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer (Chair)<br />
* Joseph Prostko (Vice Chair - by phone)<br />
* Pat Barron (Secretary)<br />
* Justin Smith (Director at Large - by phone)<br />
* Terry Golightly (Treasurer - by phone)<br />
<br />
Not attending:<br />
<br />
* None<br />
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The meeting was called to order at 7:40pm<br />
<br />
<u>Approval of minutes:</u><br />
<br />
The minutes of the previous board meeting were read, a correction was offered (typo was corrected), and the minutes were adopted as corrected.<br />
<br />
<u>Reports of officers:</u><br />
<br />
''Chair:'' Nothing to report.<br />
<br />
''Vice chair:'' Nothing to report.<br />
<br />
''Secretary:'' WPLUG currently has 12 members, 1 due to lapse in Feb, 2 due to lapse in March. As a sidebar, Vance raised the thought that we could let members drop and not accept renewals, or leave people on to keep contact with them. We can discuss later.<br />
<br />
''Treasurer:'' (The secretary reported this on behalf of the treasurer) As of 1/31/2017 WPLUG's checking account balance was $325.47 There was 1 debit of $12.50 from Linode on 1/3. The treasurer indicated that there are no deposits or transactions pending.<br />
<br />
''Director at large:'' Nothing to report.<br />
<br />
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<u>Reports of committees:</u><br />
<br />
''Event committee:'' Vance had a phone call with Beth Lynn earlier in the week, she is going to be here in a couple of weeks and is interested sometime between 21st and 24th in hosting an event at the PSC. The topic is likely to be Beth Lynn's history with free software and introduction to that. No more specifics than that, but this is something we can definitely announce when we get more details. Beth Lynn also did follow up on our discussion from last time on data center tours - this is possible, given some advance notice and planning, that could be something we look at in the future.<br />
<br />
''Technology committee:'' Nothing noteworthy to report.<br />
<br />
''Investigating committee:'' Nothing to report.<br />
<br />
''Marketing and Communications committee:'' No specific report, but Joe will make sure to promote the upcoming events when given further details.<br />
<br />
<u>New business:</u><br />
<br />
The major item is working on the job description for the steward (formerly custodian). The one question we really didn't resolve was the introductory text. It is long, and Vance could take either side related to removing it or not. If anyone has further ideas, please speak up. Justin indicates that executive-type people value brevity and we want to make sure we don't make it overly long. Vance thinks the information in the lead-in, for the type of person we're looking for, is not going to be news - on the other hand, it does serve as a sort of lead-in. Vance is still indecisive. Justin says the content of the lead-in would depend on who we wish to target. Vance's view is 1) we need to make sure that we cast a wide net and not necessarily just software developers - reach out to people who might be involved with free software projects in other ways / free culture projects / etc. Vance thinks that experience is definitely relevant. And, 2) do think we want to avoid the tendency of wanting to focus on just whatever is the new and hot technology without a lot of regard as to the principles of free and open source software. Vance isn't interested in having a group that gets very interested on running things on MS Azure / some other proprietary technologies, just because it happens to be popular / attracting a lot of attention. That, in his mind, is an argument for keeping that in, and the companies mentioned do cool stuff by is also tied into the ethos of FOSS. Justin suggests that regardless of the description, an interview process will reveal much more about the person that could otherwise be gleaned. This is from his experience with getting hired in his last job, and his experience as a sysadmin over the years. Vance may be been too focused on putting everything in the job description up front, when it will ultimately come out during the selection process. Pat doesn't think the intro paragraphs are necessary, but anyone who gets lost over the length in 2 paragraphs isn't a good fit, and it also seems like it's a story and written for the entertainment of the writer, rather than conveying something to the reader. Joe also thinks these paragraphs aren't necessary but don't hurt. Justin suggests these paragraphs could be reworked, and rephrased as a question to try to prompt an answer from the reader. Vance thinks we have more or less a consensus on axing the first 2 paragraphs and focusing on current day, leading into the questions.<br />
<br />
Some other specific edits to the job description were discussed.<br />
<br />
No other suggestions for edits, Vance will start getting to work this week on contacting the people we discussed last time, and will send this around. Might just come up with a final draft and circulate one last version to make sure there's nothing we happen to be forgetting. Otherwise, will start publicizing it through the channels we discussed. There is no need to establish a cutoff date. Probably would want to use "info@wplug.org" address for people to respond so that an address will be used that will be long-lasting. Justin suggests we should have some sort of internal timetable or cutoff date in mind, and if no success by then, discuss with Beth Lynn now to proceed. Vance's mental picture of the timeline is end of current board term (November). If not filled, try plan B. Pat thinks that might be an example of something we've been criticized for in the past, which is not moving with any sense of urgency, though it depends on who offers themselves up to talk to. Vance thinks we should continue trying to get together monthly as a board, to keep on top of where things stand, if we need to make some sort of adjustment or find other placed to publicized, or ocme up with some other approach, we can. Vance noted that we still do have a LinkedIn group which he could post a message in. But having that recurring event to touch base should help prevent stagnation. Vance will come up with the final draft and send out one last version for any additional comments, and sometime this weekend starting to distribute it. Vance would say he's more than happy to have it distributed elsewhere, but we need to make sure it's the right audience. Justin thinks we should start thinking about what sort of interview questions we might be asking candidates. Justin raised some issues of the logistics of doing these interviews - maybe just over e-mail? Vance thinks initially e-mail, but strongly prefers a face-to-face meeting at least at some stage of the process. He's OK with hanging on to the publication until we can get some questions together, but not want to make it too long. Maybe a week from Friday as a deadline. Justin thinks this would be fine. Vance can be available to meet to discuss.<br />
<br />
<br />
Joe asks if we should take down the membership page. Vance agrees we can make some edits to identify anything that might need to change. Maybe leave committees because these are people who could be useful to the steward.<br />
<br />
Terry asks for clarification on what happens to the board after the steward is appointed, and if the board will have authority over the steward. Vance clarifies that after the steward is appointed, and the few other housekeeping tasks specified are completed, the board is dissolved and the steward has complete authority without recourse.<br />
<br />
Vance asks Joe to come up with an edit to the membership page to indicate we are not currently accepting new members and things are changing.<br />
<br />
It was proposed to set the date of the next board meeting to March 21st. There was no objection.<br />
<br />
<u>Old business:</u><br />
<br />
None<br />
<br />
The meeting was adjourned @ 8:45pm<br />
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
<br />
Meeting to be held at [[IBM Squirrel Hill]] at 7:30pm on Tuesday, January 24th, 2017.<br />
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== Agenda ==<br />
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* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
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== Minutes ==<br />
<br />
The regular meeting of the WPLUG Board of Directors was held on January 24th, 2017, at 7:30pm, at IBM Squirrel Hill.<br />
<br />
Attending:<br />
<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer (Chair)<br />
* Joseph Prostko (Vice Chair - by phone)<br />
* Pat Barron (Secretary)<br />
* Justin Smith (Director at Large - by phone)<br />
* Beth Lynn Eicher (invited guest)<br />
<br />
Not attending:<br />
<br />
* Terry Golightly (Treasurer)<br />
<br />
The meeting was called to order at 7:46pm<br />
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<u>Approval of minutes:</u><br />
<br />
The minutes were read, a correction was offered, and the minutes were adopted as corrected.<br />
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<u>Reports of officers:</u><br />
<br />
''Chair:'' Nothing to report.<br />
<br />
''Vice chair:'' Nothing to report.<br />
<br />
''Secretary:'' WPLUG currently has 12 members, 1 is due to lapse through the end of February.<br />
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''Treasurer:'' Not present, left no report.<br />
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''Director at large:'' Nothing to report.<br />
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<u>Reports of committees:</u><br />
<br />
''Event committee:'' Nothing to report.<br />
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''Technology committee:'' Nothing to report.<br />
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''Investigating committee:'' Nothing to report.<br />
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''Marketing and Communications committee:'' Nothing to report.<br />
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<u>New business:</u><br />
<br />
The recently offered bylaws amendment passed at the last GUM, the board of directors in control of the organization at this time. Once we complete the tasks set out in the amendment, the custodian takes over. Todo list was mailed to the board members, and was reviewed. The consensus was that it is comprehensive.<br />
<br />
There was a discussion on refunding dues of members who joined or rejoined in the last 6 months. There seem to be 3 people in that category, all are on the board, none care about having dues refunded.<br />
<br />
A few things we require that will need some effort, in addition to recruiting custodian - we'll have to update PO box records (Terry), 1st Commonwealth Bank (Vance and Terry), figuring out what we do with the EIN (Vance will research) (Beth Lynn believes we could easily idle for 12 months given that we're under the $7000 postcard threshold).<br />
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On the job description - a draft was provided last night. Beth Lynn would like to discuss the fact that she is volunteering to own an event towards the end of September to celebrate 20 years of WPLUG, so whoever ends up being the custodian should be aware that she is available to plan this event. If they want to be hands-off because they want to pursue other directions in the transition, that is fine too. Vance believes it would ideal if whoever is doing that would want to continue to hold events or arrange for events to happen - not required, but would be good. Justin suggests we might be able to do online meetings of some sort (in addition to, not necessarily in replacement for, in person meetings) - we had discussed this several times previously but never quite made it work. Beth Lynn mentioned that the original founder wanted to fly in from Seattle to attend the 20th anniversary and it should be a reunion for all iterations of WPLUG - but she does not want to intrude on the authority of the custodian. Vance thinks anyone who would have a problem with something like that would not really fit the qualifications of the person we are seeking. Justin thinks this sounds perfectly reasonable.<br />
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Vance asks if anyone has had any contact with any of the other local organizations lately. Pat has had only casual contact with Code and Supply. Beth Lynn had dinner with Robert Blackwell recently, he has a vision independent of what happens to WPLUG, scheduling hackathons, well funded with corporate sponsors for each event. He was asked why not make this a SIG of Code and Supply - he didn't rule it out, but noted that he was seeking a more professional environment where everyone is welcome, but which is also about people who are serious about contributing.<br />
<br />
Hack Pittsburgh is another local tech group that we forgot to list. Beth Lynn is having dinner tomorrow with Bob Berger of Hack Pittsburgh, who should be able to advise who is the right person in Hack Pittsburgh to approach. Vance can get back in touch with Martin Gehrke of PghSNAP - they're inactive, but he may still have some connections to put us in touch with. Also the CPMuseum and Large Systems Museum might be good to reach out to. Beth Lynn suggests contacting the CMU Computer Club, and PACC still exists as far as she knows, as well as the CPUser group in Tarentum. Justin endorses contacting CMU CC. Pat is still in contact with PACC. Beth Lynn suggests to contact the Pittsburgh Tech Council - we can try, but Vance feels last few years they have no interest in user groups. Beth Lynn is currently under contract with CMU / PSC, and they are interested in growing their free software filesystem community. A potential problem is that the products they're trying to promote are for companies / institutions of a size to be able to generate enough data to be worth of this philosophy of filesysytems (not individuals), but they are interested in being invoked in the greater Pittsburgh area free software community. If the custodian was looking for a space to host an event and was interested to schedule an event there, Beth Lynn can help. Vance wonders if a data center tour could be possible - Beth Lynn will be doing such a tour next week and will know more about what this entails, but we've observed that there's a strange aversion to RSVPing to things, and people would have to present photo id, so if that scares you then this tour is not for you. It's possible if people are reasonable regarding RSVPing.<br />
<br />
Pat suggested formally adding the willingness to organize / hold events under the WPLUG name during this transition time, to the custodian job description.<br />
<br />
Beth Lynn asked what the job description specified about the potential custodian's interpretation of "freedom". Is there a bylaws / mission statement that will be passed on the the custodian now that he bylaws have been rescinded? Vance noted that the discussion of this in the former bylaws is minimal (in the PURPOSE section), and that the custodian must have reasonably good judgement, if they're going to be bringing in other people they have to know how much trust and authority to vest in these people and what to do if they get a disruptive individual on their hands and be able to handle that situation. Beth Lynn thinks we should preserve the existing PURPOSE as part of mission statement.<br />
<br />
It was asked if we want to try to publish this before the next board meeting, or wait until we've had time to consider it. Justin is concerned that the description we have is pretty comprehensive and doesn't know what could be added, and doesn't want to put in so much that people think we're asking too much. We want to convey that this is a fun group with good people in it. Vance requested that if anyone thinks of anything we can do to make the description sound more interesting and exciting please bring it up.<br />
<br />
If we want to move on this reasonably quickly, Vance thinks we could set the next meeting for February 7th - it was moved to hold the next board meeting on that date and at the same location as tonight's meeting; there was no objection, and the motion was adopted.. This gives a brief window to make these edits.<br />
<br />
<u>Old business:</u><br />
<br />
None<br />
<br />
The meeting was adjourned @ 8:47pm<br />
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<div>WPLUG will have a General User Meeting and presentation on Saturday, January 21, 2017 starting at 3:00pm at [[IBM Squirrel Hill]].<br />
<br />
== Schedule for the Day ==<br />
3:00pm - Doors open, set up<br/><br />
3:15pm - Business Meeting starts<br/><br />
3:30pm - Featured presentation<br/><br />
5:00pm - Meeting ends, everyone out.<br />
<br />
== Business Meeting ==<br />
At this meeting, we will vote on the bylaws amendment proposed at the November 19, 2016 meeting. This amendment will have the effect of rescinding the bylaws.<br />
<br />
Votes may be cast by mail or in person at the meeting. Your vote must be received before the polls close to be counted, so show up by 3:15pm to be sure you get to cast yours.<br />
<br />
The ballot for this election has been e-mailed to the membership and [[Media:2017_01_WPLUG_Ballot.pdf | is available as a PDF]] on the wiki. Blank ballots will also be available at the meeting.<br />
<br />
== Speaker/Presentation ==<br />
<br />
'''Speaker:''' Vance Kochenderfer<br />
<br />
'''Topic:''' What Time Is It?<br />
<br />
Timekeeping is often taken for granted on computers, but where does that time come from? This will be an overview of how international time is established and distributed around the world. Although NTP will be discussed, this presentation will be more of a high-level view and not a how-to walkthrough.<br />
<br />
'''Resources:'''<br />
* [[Media:2017-01-21-time-pres.pdf|Slide presentation]]<br />
* BIPM [http://www.bipm.org/en/bipm-services/timescales/time-ftp/Circular-T.html Circular T]<br />
* [http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time]<br />
* [http://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time-wisdom More Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time]<br />
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== Meeting Minutes ==<br />
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== Meeting Staff ==<br />
If you would like to volunteer to assist with this meeting, please add your name to one or more of the [[MeetingChecklist|categories]] below.<br />
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* Setup: Your name here, Your name here<br />
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== Carpooling ==<br />
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* [[User:Vance|Vance Kochenderfer]] - driving in from the South Hills - e-mail me if interested<br />
* Your name/location here<br />
* Your name/location here<br />
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
<br />
Meeting to be held at [[IBM Squirrel Hill]] at 7:30pm on Tuesday, December 13th, 2016.<br />
<br />
== Agenda ==<br />
<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/BoardTransitionChecklist|Transition]]<br />
** Office assignments<br />
** Committee appointments<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
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== Minutes ==<br />
<br />
Attending (all by conference call):<br />
<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer (Chair)<br />
* Joseph Prostko (Vice Chair)<br />
* Pat Barron (Secretary)<br />
* Justin Smith (Director at Large)<br />
<br />
Not attending:<br />
<br />
* Terry Golightly (Treasurer)<br />
<br />
The meeting was called to order at 7:41pm.<br />
<br />
The board members reviewed the minutes of the last board meeting on the wiki. The minutes were adopted as drafted.<br />
<br />
<u>Reports of officers</u><br />
<br />
''Chair'' - Nothing to report.<br />
<br />
''Vice chair'' - Nothing to report.<br />
<br />
''Secretary'' - WPLUG currently has 13 members, 2 memberships are due to lapse through the end of January. The lapsing members were not notified nor were their membership renewals solicited, in view of the pending proposal to rescind the bylaws that was approved at the November 19th GUM to be put to absentee ballot.<br />
<br />
''Treasurer'' - Not present, left no report.<br />
<br />
''Director at large'' - Nothing to report.<br />
<br />
<u>Officer assignments</u><br />
<br />
The newly elected board discussed officer assignments for the newly elected Board of Directors. After discussion, it was agreed that all Board members would hold the same offices they held during the 2015-2016 year.<br />
<br />
<u>Committee assignments</u><br />
<br />
It was moved to appoint the following individuals to the Technology Committee: Pat Barron as committee chair, Vance Kochenderfer, Justin Smith, Terry Golightly, Joseph Prostko. The motion was adopted.<br />
<br />
It was moved to appoint the following individuals to the Event Committee: Vance Kochenderfer as committee chair, Pat Barron, and Joseph Prostko. The motion was adopted.<br />
<br />
It was moved to appoint the following individuals to the Investigating Committee: Nick Schembri as committee chair and David Sevick. The motion was adopted.<br />
<br />
It was moved to appoint the following individual to the Marketing and Communications Committee: Pat Barron. The motion was adopted. (Joseph Prostko serves as committee chair ex officio.) <br />
<br />
<u>New Business</u><br />
<br />
It was moved to schedule the next GUM on January 21st; the motion was adopted. The motion was adopted. We will have to see if we can drum up a topic, if anyone has a suggestion or suggested speakers please bring up on mailing list. The training room at IBM Squirrel Hill was reserved to be used as the venue.<br />
<br />
It was moved to hold our next Board meeting January 24th, to take action based on the result of the bylaws amendment vote to be taken at the January 21st GUM. If the vote is affirmative, we will put together a job description for the custodian and solicit volunteers. If the proposal passes, we may want to consider refunding dues payments of anyone who has joined or renewed their membership recently (a timeframe of the previous 6 months was suggested in discussion).<br />
<br />
We will need to gather our physical equipment that belongs to WPLUG from the various places it is stored, to be transferred to the custodian, or donated, or sold for cash.<br />
<br />
There being no further business before the Board at this time, the meeting was adjourned at 8:18pm.<br />
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
<br />
Meeting to be held at [[IBM Squirrel Hill]] at 7:30pm on Tuesday, October 18th, 2016.<br />
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== Agenda ==<br />
<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
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== Minutes ==<br />
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'''DRAFT'''<br />
<br />
The regular meeting of the WPLUG Board of Directors was held at 7:30pm on September 20th, 2016 at IBM Squirrel Hill.<br />
<br />
In attendance were:<br />
<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer (Chair)<br />
* Justin Smith (Director at Large)<br />
* Pat Barron (Secretary)<br />
* Terry Golightly (Treasurer)<br />
<br />
Not attending:<br />
<br />
* Joe Prostko (Vice Chair)<br />
<br />
The meeting was called to order at 7:32pm.<br />
<br />
The minutes of the previous (September 20th) board meeting were read. Vance offered these corrections: "Program committee" is actually "events committee". Spelling for Martin Geherke's name was incorrect. In the technology committee report, "Pyzor" is spelled with a 'y'. The minutes were adopted as corrected.<br />
<br />
''Reports of officers:''<br />
<br />
Chair: As it was previously delegated to the Chair to determine the October/November GUM dates, the dates shall be October 29th 3-5 pm and November 19th 3-5pm.<br />
<br />
Vice chair: No report.<br />
<br />
Secretary: WPLUG currently has 16 members. 3 memberships due to lapse through the end of October, 1 has been renewed. Lapsing members were notified previously.<br />
<br />
Treasurer: Per the checking account statement, WPLUG's checking balance as of 9/30 is $355.47. One debit of $12.50 from Linode on 9/2. Deposit of $20 check for a membership renewal is still pending.<br />
<br />
Director at large: Nothing to report.<br />
<br />
''Reports of committees:''<br />
<br />
Events committee: Martin Geherke is confirmed as speaker for the 10/29 GUM, on the topic of Intro to CFEngine. Justin Smith is lined up to present on Nagios on November 19th. These are both on the wiki at this time. With 16 members, we need to have at least 4 members show up for each of those meetings to achieve quorum. As for December plans, Vance does not have anything currently in mind, we can make that decision at the October GUM.<br />
<br />
Technology Committee: As we discussed last month, Vance did enable the Spamhaus DNS blacklist - just recently, so there are no statistics gathered yet. It seems to be somewhat effective. Pat says his impression is things have gotten better in the last few days. Vance thinks Pat as wplug list moderator will see the most spam. Vance notes that Mailman might be configurable to send summaries once a day but not real time notifications. Vance notes that the events alias is being specifically targeted for spam, and he deactivated it entirely about 3 weeks ago, and he checks occasionally to see the volume of spam and will reactivate it when it falls off. The attempts mostly seem to be coming from the same netblock, a firewall rule has been created to block that specififc netblock, we don't know if it's a distributed activity right now. Pat installed an instance of Trac to test with. It is only an experiment right now, there is no commitment to continue to use. Justin asked about Trello, and there was a short discussion of what Trello is for. Pat notes that he was looking for something self-hosted rather than SaaS; Vance mentioned that Trello is there at their whim and is extensively data-mined. It was suggested to continue this discussion on the wplug-internet list. The main www.wplug.org page is still broken and Joe has been looking at it - Vance knows it is something to do with the redirects.<br />
<br />
Investigating Committee: No report.<br />
<br />
Marketing and Communications Committee: No report.<br />
<br />
<br />
''New business:''<br />
<br />
Vance followed up on a topic that was raised at the last meeting - OLF thanks WPLUG for letting them use the extension cords and power strips. Justin gave a general update on his network monitoring project; during the last board meeting it was mentioned that he did not have Nagios operational which was correct at that time. There was some miscommunication and it should be operational shortly, by the time the November GUM happens he should have about a month of operational experience with it.<br />
<br />
''Old business:''<br />
<br />
None<br />
<br />
There being no further business, it was moved to adjourn the meeting. The motion was adopted. The meeting was adjourned at 8:10pm.<br />
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<div>WPLUG will have a General User Meeting and presentation on Saturday, November 19, 2016 starting at 3:00pm at [[IBM Squirrel Hill]]. Elections for the Board of Directors will be held.<br />
<br />
== Schedule for the Day ==<br />
3:00pm - Doors open, set up<br/><br />
3:15pm - Business Meeting starts, election<br/><br />
3:30pm - Featured presentation<br/><br />
5:00pm - Meeting ends, everyone out.<br />
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== Election ==<br />
At this meeting, we will elect the WPLUG Board of Directors for 2016-2017.<br />
<br />
Votes may be cast by mail or in person at the meeting. Your vote must be received before the polls close to be counted, so show up by 3:00pm to be sure you get to cast yours.<br />
<br />
The ballot for this election has been e-mailed to the membership and [[Media:2016_11_WPLUG_Ballot.pdf | is available as a PDF]] on the wiki. Blank ballots will also be available at the meeting. Detailed instructions for voting are given at [[Election Instructions]].<br />
<br />
Those who were nominated at the October 29, 2016 nominations meeting and have agreed to be candidates are (in alphabetical order):<br />
* Patrick Barron<br />
* Terry Golightly<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer<br />
* Joseph Prostko<br />
* Justin Smith<br />
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=== Candidate Statements ===<br />
<br />
==== Patrick Barron ====<br />
<br />
To be added.<br />
<br />
==== Terry Golightly ====<br />
<br />
To be added.<br />
<br />
==== Vance Kochenderfer ====<br />
<br />
To be added.<br />
<br />
==== Joseph Prostko ====<br />
<br />
To be added.<br />
<br />
==== Justin Smith ====<br />
<br />
To be added.<br />
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== Speaker/Presentation ==<br />
<br />
'''Speaker:''' Justin Smith<br />
<br />
'''Topic:''' Monitoring with Nagios XI<br />
<br />
Every computing device should (A) run certain software and (B) be configured a certain way. For instance, a mail server should (A) run mail software such as Postfix and (B) have enough CPU power, RAM, and hard disk space to meet users' needs. A '''monitoring server''' watches remote devices to make sure that these conditions are met. <br />
<br />
''Nagios Core'' is an open source program that is widely considered an industry standard for monitoring software because of its age and straightforward design. ''Nagios XI'' is a commercially-supported version of Nagios Core that includes additional features intended for use in enterprise environments.<br />
<br />
This presentation will related experiences implementing Nagios XI in a small business infrastructure at MIM Software, Inc. and go over how you can use Nagios XI to monitor your personal infrastructure as well.<br />
<br />
== Meeting Minutes ==<br />
<br />
'''DRAFT'''<br />
<br />
WPLUG held a General User Meeting at IBM Squirrel Hill on November 19th, 2016. The meeting was called to order at 3:22pm.<br />
<br />
The minutes of the previous (October 29th) GUM were read, and were adopted as read.<br />
<br />
<u>Reports of Officers</u><br />
<br />
''Chair'' - Nothing to report.<br />
<br />
''Vice chair'' - Nothing to report.<br />
<br />
''Secretary'' - WPLUG currently has 13 members. One membership is due to lapse through the end of December - that member is the secretary, and he has notified himself.<br />
<br />
''Treasurer'' - WPLUG's checking account balance is $432.97. A debit from Linode was processed on 10/3, and there is an outstanding $20 check to deposit for a membership renewal.<br />
<br />
''Director at Large'' - Nothing to report<br />
<br />
<u>Committee Reports</u><br />
<br />
''Events Committee'' - Nothing to report<br />
<br />
''Technology Committee'' - Nothing to report<br />
<br />
''Investigating Committee'' - Nothing to report<br />
<br />
''Marketing and Communications Committee'' - Nothing to report<br />
<br />
<u>Board of Directors Election</u><br />
<br />
The meeting was recessed briefly to conduct the election. After the members' ballots were cast and counted, the meeting was reconvened at 3:49pm.<br />
<br />
The final tally of ballots showed the following results:<br />
<br />
Pat Barron - 18 points<br/><br />
Justin Smith - 18 points<br/><br />
Terry Golightly - 17 points<br/><br />
Joseph Prostko - 17 points<br/><br />
Vance Kochenderfer - 16 points<br/><br />
Dan Martin (write-in) - 3 points<br/><br />
Jared Jennings (write-in) - 1 point<br/><br />
<br />
There were no illegal ballots cast.<br />
<br />
After tallying the results, the following members were declared elected to the WPLUG Board of Directors for 2016-2017: Pat Barron, Justin Smith, Terry Golightly, Joseph Prostko, Vance Kochenderfer<br />
<br />
<u>New Business</u><br />
<br />
The Chair asked the Vice Chair to take over the meeting in order that the Chair could offer a motion.<br />
<br />
The Chair moved that the bylaws of the Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group be rescinded, and the organization's assets be placed into the care of a custodian appointed by the Board of Directors for safekeeping, until a potential future time when an individual or individuals may have interest in reconstituting the organization. After debate and amendment, the motion was adopted, and the [[Media:Bylaws-amendment-Nov2016.txt|amended proposal]] will be put to the membership via absentee ballot.<br />
<br />
Their being no further business before the assembly, the meeting was adjourned at 4:10pm.<br />
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'''DRAFT'''<br />
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== Meeting Staff ==<br />
If you would like to volunteer to assist with this meeting, please add your name to one or more of the [[MeetingChecklist|categories]] below.<br />
* Host: Your name here<br />
* Co-Host: Your name here<br />
* Setup: Your name here, Your name here<br />
* Clean Up: Your name here, Your name here<br />
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== Carpooling ==<br />
<br />
* [[User:Vance|Vance Kochenderfer]] - driving in from the South Hills - e-mail me if interested<br />
* Your name/location here<br />
* Your name/location here<br />
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<div>WPLUG will hold a General User Meeting and presentation on Saturday, October 29, 2016 starting at 3:00pm at [[IBM Squirrel Hill]].<br />
<br />
== Schedule for the Day ==<br />
<br />
3:00pm - Doors open, set up<br/><br />
3:15pm - Business Meeting starts<br/><br />
3:30pm - Featured presentation<br/><br />
5:00pm - Meeting ends, everyone out.<br />
<br />
== Nominations ==<br />
<br />
At the business meeting, we will take nominations for the five seats on the WPLUG [[WPLUGBoard|Board of Directors]]. Those meeting the qualifications in Section 6.4 of the [[ByLaws#6_OFFICERS|WPLUG bylaws]] are eligible for election. Members may nominate any eligible person, including themselves. You may nominate up to five people. '''Please show up promptly''' as the nominations will be one of the first items of business handled.<br />
<br />
== Speaker/Presentation ==<br />
<br />
'''Speaker:''' Martin Gehrke<br/><br />
'''Topic:''' Intro to CFEngine<br />
<br />
[[wikipedia:Configuration_management#Operating_System_configuration_management | Configuration management]] is a big deal these days, with names like Puppet, Salt, Ansible, and Chef generating plenty of buzz. [http://cfengine.com/ CFEngine] pre-dates all of these yet maintains a large set of capabilities and remains stable and speedy. Come see what new tricks this old dog can do!<br />
<br />
== Meeting Minutes ==<br />
<br />
A WPLUG member meeting was held on October 29th, 2016, at IBM Squirrel Hill. It was noted that a quorum (5 members) was present, and the meeting was called to order by the Chair at 3:20pm.<br />
<br />
<u>Reports of Officers</u><br />
<br />
''Chair'' - no report.<br />
<br />
''Vice Chair'' - no report.<br />
<br />
''Secretary'' - the organization currently has 15 members, two are due to lapse in November and have been notified.<br />
<br />
''Treasurer'' - not present, left no report.<br />
<br />
''Director at Large'' - not present, left no report.<br />
<br />
<u>Reports of Committees:</u><br />
<br />
''Events Committee'' - Next event 11/19 at IBM Squirrel Hill, Justin Smith will be presenting on Nagios. Next meeting will also be the Board of Director elections.<br />
<br />
''Technology Committee'' - We've set up a Trac instance to try to keep tabs on things that need to be done. If you need an account, contact Pat.<br />
<br />
''Investigating Committee'' - no report.<br />
<br />
''Marketing and Communications Committee'' - no report.<br />
<br />
<u>New business:</u><br />
<br />
Nominations to run in the November WPLUG Board of Directors election were conducted. The following individuals were nominated to appear on the ballot:<br />
<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer (by Pat Barron)<br />
* Pat Barron (by Dan Martin)<br />
* Joe Proskto (by Joe Prostko)<br />
* Terry Golightly (by Pat Barron)<br />
* Justin Smith (by Pat Barron)<br />
<br />
Nominations were closed with 5 nominees.<br />
<br />
It was moved to adjourn the meeting. The motion was adopted. The meeting was adjourned at 3:26pm<br />
<br />
== Meeting Staff ==<br />
If you would like to volunteer to assist with this meeting, please add your name to one or more of the [[MeetingChecklist|categories]] below.<br />
<br />
* Host: [[User:Patbarron|Pat Barron]]<br />
* Co-Host: Add your name here<br />
* Setup: Add your name here, Add your name here<br />
* Clean Up: [[User:Vance|Vance Kochenderfer]], Add your name here<br />
<br />
== Carpooling ==<br />
<br />
* [[User:Vance|Vance Kochenderfer]] - driving in from the South Hills - e-mail me if interested<br />
* Add your name/location here<br />
* Add your name/location here<br />
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
<br />
Meeting to be held at [[IBM Squirrel Hill]] at 7:30pm on Tuesday, September 20, 2016.<br />
<br />
== Agenda ==<br />
<br />
* Line up September and October GUM programs/scheduling<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
<br />
== Minutes ==<br />
<br />
'''DRAFT'''<br />
<br />
The regular meeting of the WPLUG Board of Directors was held at 7:30pm on September 20th, 2016 at IBM Squirrel Hill.<br />
<br />
In attendance were:<br />
<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer (Chair)<br />
* Justin Smith (Director at Large)<br />
* Pat Barron (Secretary)<br />
<br />
Not attending:<br />
<br />
* Terry Golightly (Treasurer)<br />
* Joe Prostko (Vice Chair)<br />
<br />
The meeting was called to order at 7:50pm.<br />
<br />
The minutes of the previous (August 16th) board meeting were read. The minutes were approved as read.<br />
<br />
''Reports of officers:''<br />
<br />
Chair: Nothing to report.<br />
<br />
Vice chair: Not present, left no report.<br />
<br />
Secretary: WPLUG currently has 16 members. 3 memberships are due to lapse through the end of October, these members have been notified.<br />
<br />
Treasurer: Not present, left no report.<br />
<br />
Director at large: Became aware that there may be a Cleveland Linux User Group still in existence, and is willing to get in touch with them to ask if they are willing to collaborate with WPLUG (if they exist and are active). There are groups in Canton and Akron that are active.<br />
<br />
''Reports of committees:''<br />
<br />
Event committee: The biggest item we have to tackle is setting up our program for the October nominations meeting and November elections meeting. Got in touch with Martin Geherke with SNAP/LOPSA, who is doing a presentation at OLF on CFEngine, he is more than willing to do that presentation for WPLUG - the only issue is getting on his schedule, Saturdays are generally difficult for him. He could do it possibly on October 29th or November 12th. Another possible option is to consider a weeknight. We will have to consider and come up with a date that works out for us. Another option might be Justin's proposed Nagios talk. This is gated on Justin's availability. Justin wanted this to be a success story, but there may be other Nagios services that his company wants to evaluate. So the best timeframe for Justin is probably the November election meeting. Justin was planning to be in Pittsburgh during the first weekend of November but may not have free time then, so the usual second weekend should be fine for him. We have to have a minimum of three weeks between the nomination and election meeting, so the October and November meetings must be scheduled to meet that requirement. For a weeknight, we need the exact date to check the availability of IBM Squirrel Hill. Vance moves to authorize the chair to set the date for the October and November GUMs (Justin seconded). The motion was adopted. Justin suggests perhaps trying to order some food to entice people to come at a less convenient time, and would be open to donating a small sum to the petty cash fund to facilitate this.<br />
<br />
Technology Committee: Pat reported that the volume of spam directed to the mailing lists is increasing substantially. Vance stated that our Postfix configuration should currently be set up with DNS blacklists that are currently only logging warnings. We should evaluate the logs to determine which of the blacklists seem to be helpful. Justin has been working with Zimbra admin software and knows there are some free and open source Zimbra-based spam management tools that we might look at. Pyzor and Razor2 are anti-spam services that calculate a checksum on messages to see if many people have received messages with the same checksums to help determine if the messages are spam. Vance thinks that historically this might not be a great option, but since we have additional memory on our VPS now, content-scanning may be more feasible than it was before. Vance mentioned that another thing we could try to do would be to put a call out on the WPLUG mailing list for mailing list volunteers to get additional help. Pat stated that many of the automated Mailman subscription reminders bounced last month due to bad addresses, and Terry has volunteered to help clean this up. Vance stated that the "Mailman" list on Mailman (where admin messages go) had previously been directed to a former member who asked to be removed, which is why we never saw these messages before, but now we get them.<br />
<br />
Investigating Committee: No report.<br />
<br />
Marketing and Communications Committee: Not aware of anything specific for that committee.<br />
<br />
<br />
''New business:''<br />
<br />
Vance asked that since Ohio Linuxfest is coming up again, they'd like to borrow the box of extension and power cords. No one expressed any objection. Pat asked if projectors would be needed, but we don't know at this time - will find out.<br />
<br />
Justin pointed out that Microcenter has Raspberry Pi Zero's on sale for $1 each and this might be a good giveaway to entice people to come to the October and/or November meetings. Raspberry Pi Zero is a Raspberry Pi One with twice the RAM and a faster processor. His employer also has a number of 4:3 LCD monitors available which might be available as giveaways. Justin also has 4 rack mount servers originally targeted for PITTmesh, which hasn't pursued interest in them lately. Vance thinks the Raspberry Pi Zero's would be most attractive as giveaways. Justin thinks there is a distro based on Raspian that has Nagios preinstalled, which could be a tie-in to his presentation.<br />
<br />
It was reported that we received a missed delivery notice from the Post Office in our box. Someone will need to visit the post office to retrieve the delivery. It would be best to call first and verify that it is still there, since the notice was received some time ago.<br />
<br />
''Old business:''<br />
<br />
None<br />
<br />
There being no further business, it was moved to adjourn the meeting. The motion was adopted. The meeting was adjourned at 8:32pm.<br />
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'''DRAFT'''<br />
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
<br />
Meeting to be held at [[IBM Squirrel Hill]] at 7:30pm, on Tuesday, August 16th, 2016.<br />
<br />
== Agenda ==<br />
<br />
* Renewal of USPS PO box.<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
<br />
== Minutes ==<br />
<br />
The regular meeting of the WPLUG Board of Directors was held at 7:30pm on August 16th, 2016 at IBM Squirrel Hill.<br />
<br />
In attendance were:<br />
<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer (Chair)<br />
* Terry Golightly (Treasurer)<br />
* Pat Barron (Secretary)<br />
<br />
Not attending:<br />
<br />
* Justin Smith (Director at Large)<br />
* Joe Prostko (Vice Chair)<br />
<br />
The meeting was called to order at 7:37pm.<br />
<br />
The minutes of the previous (July 19th) board meeting were read. A correction was offered to the date of the prior meeting reflected in the minutes. The corrected minutes were approved.<br />
<br />
''Reports of officers:''<br />
<br />
Chair: Nothing to report.<br />
<br />
Vice chair: Not present, left no report.<br />
<br />
Secretary: WPLUG currently has 16 members, no memberships due to lapse through the end of September.<br />
<br />
Treasurer: Checking account currently has a balance of $486.47. This includes one debit of $12.50 to Linode for VPS hosting. There is no other activity to report.<br />
<br />
Director at large: Not present, left no report.<br />
<br />
''Reports of committees:''<br />
<br />
Program committee: We need to get things straightened out for the picnic this weekend, there has been almost no activity on the wiki page, so please update it with whatever you're planning to bring. We already authorized $60 for food, we will give it a couple of days for people to update the wiki, and then we can figure out what we need. The chair reminds everyone to RSVP for the picnic. Treasurer will need to get the money out of the bank before Thursday to purchase picnic supplies. There was some discussion of what to buy - final plans will depend on how many attendees we're expecting. We haven't had any luck getting speakers, Vance has one other person to try to see if he's available, we'll see how that pans out. If you know of anyone, please encourage them to consider speaking for us. Maybe nudge some of the Code and Supply people.<br />
<br />
Technology Committee: No report.<br />
<br />
Investigating Committee: No report.<br />
<br />
Marketing and Communications Committee: Not available to report.<br />
<br />
<br />
''New business:''<br />
<br />
The Secretary moved to spend $106 to renew PO box for one year (the Chair seconded). There are multiple avenues available to pay.<br />
<br />
We discussed the PO box audit form and the requirements for how the form must be filled out.<br />
<br />
The question was called by the secretary (regarding the expenditure for renewal of the PO box), and the motion was adopted.<br />
<br />
Terry suggests we finding out how other local user groups promote. Could we get a story on NPR? There is a show on VICE network called "Cyberwar", they have an investigative reporter who does stories on security. They have a contact address listed on their web site. We will ask the vice chair to consider contacting them. Maybe suggest they attend OLF.<br />
<br />
<br />
''Old business:''<br />
<br />
None<br />
<br />
There being no further business, it was moved to adjourn the meeting. The motion was adopted. The meeting was adjourned at 8:21pm.</div>Patbarron//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20160716Meeting-201607162016-06-29T04:47:32Z<p>Vance: /* Schedule for the Day */</p>
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<div>For some reason, beer and geeks seem to go together. Celebrate this combination by joining WPLUG on a field trip to the [http://www.cpmuseum.com/ C/PMuseum of microcomputers] and [http://www.pennbrew.com/ Penn Brewery] in the Troy Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh starting at 2:00pm on Saturday, July 16, 2016!<br />
<br />
The museum is dedicated to home computers and other small machines from the 1970s on.<br />
<br />
== Schedule for the Day ==<br />
<br />
There are three parts to the day's schedule. The events at the brewery are '''optional''' - if you only want to visit the museum, that's fine - just meet us at 3:00.<br />
<br />
'''We ask that you RSVP''' via [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cpmuseum-tour-with-optional-penn-brewery-tour-and-post-event-dinner-tickets-26392326158 this Eventbrite page] so that we can have a count of how many people to expect.<br />
<br />
* 2:00pm - Penn Brewery tour - see what it takes to run a sizable craft brewing operation<br />
* 3:00pm - Museum tour - see some of the early machines that stimulated the computing boom<br />
* 5:00pm - Join us for dinner at Penn Brewery's restaurant and sample their fine German food and beverages<br />
<br />
At 2:00pm and 3:00pm, we will meet up outside the entrance to the Penn Brewery restaurant before heading to the respective tours.<br />
<br />
== Directions ==<br />
<br />
The Penn Brewery and C/PMuseum are at the corner of Troy Hill Road and Vinial Street. Parking is available in the garage off Troy Hill Road next to the brewery, or there are some on-street spaces.<br />
<br />
=== Transit ===<br />
<br />
The closest bus stop, at Troy Hill Road and Vinial Street, is on the '''4''' route. Nearby, the '''6''' and '''7''' buses can be caught at Chestnut and Phineas Streets or Chestnut and Suismon Streets. A pedestrian walkway leads to the Sarah Heinz House with a stop at East Ohio and Heinz Streets serviced by the '''1''' and '''2''' routes. A slightly longer walk provides access to the '''54''' bus at East Ohio and Chestnut Streets. Please refer to the [http://www.portauthority.org/ Port Authority web site] to obtain transit schedules for the specific day and time.<br />
<br />
=== Carpooling ===<br />
<br />
If you are willing to offer a ride to the event, list where you're coming from and give people a way to contact you. Thanks!<br />
<br />
* Your name/location here<br />
* Your name/location here<br />
<br />
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<div>It's that time of year again! WPLUG's 15th annual Open Source Picnic will take place in [[North_Park#Babble_Brook_Shelter|North Park]] on August 20, 2016 from 1:00-6:00 p.m. In the spirit of open source collaboration, we invite everyone to help make our picnic a success by bringing food, inviting people, and organizing activities for the day. Bring your friends! Invite the whole family! <br />
<br />
(That's our only rule for the day, incidentally: everything must be family-friendly. No booze; nothing scandalous.)<br />
<br />
The more people participate, the more successful we'll be. If you'd like to pitch in, add your name to one of the lists below. Be sure to RSVP for your entire party (including guests) by e-mailing [mailto:rsvp@wplug.org rsvp@wplug.org]. You need to do this even if you've signed up below.<br />
<br />
== Setup ==<br />
Hanging signs, setting up pic-a-nic tables, and chasing away pesky critters. Please show up at 12:30.<br />
<br />
* [[User:Patbarron|Pat Barron]]<br />
* [[User:terryg|Terry Golightly]]<br />
* Your name here!<br />
* Your name here!<br />
* Your name here!<br />
<br />
== Cleanup ==<br />
* [[User:Patbarron|Pat Barron]]<br />
* [[User:terryg|Terry Golightly]]<br />
* Your name here!<br />
* Your name here!<br />
<br />
== Food/Drinks ==<br />
Try to be considerate of people with food allergies (listed below). If you pack something that somebody can't eat, tossing in something extra for them would be very nice!<br />
<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer - watermelon<br />
* [[User:Patbarron|Pat Barron]] - iced tea<br />
* [[User:terryg|Terry Golightly]] - $60.00 allocated give me some suggestions!!!!!!!!<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer - sodas, water, and ice<br />
* your name and idea here<br />
* [[User:jaredj|Jared Jennings]] - an interesting salad, likely without lettuce<br />
* your name and idea here<br />
<br />
=== Food Allergies ===<br />
If you're planning to attend, please list your food allergies here and rate them according to severity: <br />
*'''Mild''' (minor effects; may be okay in small quantities)<br />
*'''Moderate''' (noticeable effects)<br />
*'''Severe''' (life-threatening). <br />
<br />
We cannot guarantee that people bringing food will accommodate your dietary restrictions. If it looks like your choices will be limited, pack something for yourself - or better yet, bring enough for everyone so we can try something new!<br />
<br />
* Your info here<br />
* Your info here<br />
<br />
== Supplies ==<br />
(Grills, coolers, paper towels, cutlery, hand sanitizer, etc)<br />
* [[User:Vance|Vance Kochenderfer]] - large (62 qt.) WPLUG cooler<br />
* [[User:jprostko|Joesph Prostko]] - The NEW Official WPLUG Grill (and charcoal)<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer - paper towels<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer - plates<br />
* Your name here<br />
* Your name here<br />
<br />
== Sports/Games/Activities ==<br />
* [[User:Patbarron|Pat Barron]] - I have a chess set with me everywhere I go anyway, in case anyone's into that sort of thing. ;-)<br />
* Your idea here<br />
* [[User:jaredj|Jared Jennings]] - frisbee & foursquare ball<br />
* Your idea here<br />
<br />
== Venue Information ==<br />
The picnic will take place at the [[North_Park#Lakeshore_Pavilion|Lakeshore Pavilion]] in North Park.<br />
<br />
The shelter is on Lake Shore Drive. There is angle parking slightly south of the pavilion, in between the roadway itself and the bike path.<br />
<br />
=== Ridesharing ===<br />
If you need a ride to the park or can provide one, post in this area.<br />
<br />
* [[User:Vance|Vance Kochenderfer]] - coming from Castle Shannon, can provide transportation from nearby in the South Hills. E-mail me if interested.<br />
* Your name - your location<br />
* Your name - your location<br />
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
<br />
Meeting to be held at [[IBM Squirrel Hill]] at 7:30pm, on Tuesday, July 19th, 2016.<br />
<br />
== Agenda ==<br />
<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
<br />
== Minutes ==<br />
<br />
The regular meeting of the WPLUG Board of Directors was held at 7:30pm on July 19th, 2016 at IBM Squirrel Hill.<br />
<br />
In attendance were:<br />
<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer (Chair)<br />
* Terry Golightly (Treasurer) (by conference call)<br />
* Pat Barron (Secretary)<br />
* Justin Smith (Director at Large) (by conference call)<br />
* Joe Prostko (Vice Chair) (by conference call)<br />
<br />
Not attending:<br />
<br />
* None<br />
<br />
The meeting was called to order at 7:31pm.<br />
<br />
The minutes of the previous (June 21st) board meeting were read. The minutes were approved as read.<br />
<br />
''Reports of officers:''<br />
<br />
Chair: Nothing to report.<br />
<br />
Vice chair: Will look into LinkedIn group to see what the status of it is. It's possible in a couple months might be able to do a presentation about configuration management. Notes that he doesn't think he's currently a moderator of the LinkedIn group.<br />
<br />
Secretary: WPLUG currently has 16 members, no memberships due to lapse through the end of August.<br />
<br />
Treasurer: Checking account balance is currently $495.97 - this includes one debit from Linode of $12.50 on June 2nd. On June 21st a withdrawal of $100 was made by accident and was redeposited. On June 24th the check made out to WSCC in the amount of $50 cleared.<br />
<br />
Director at large: Currently evaluating monitoring software at work - Nagios vs. proprietary, doing a 3 month trial of both ending in September. After the completiion of the 3 month trial, might be able to do a presentation on Nagios.<br />
<br />
''Reports of committees:''<br />
<br />
Program committee: We have our picnic as the August event, this is all scheduled. There is already a wiki page for it. Will probably in next few days send out an announcement to encourage people to bring things. We should probably consider that we are going to have to buy some things, we should make a motion to allocate money for this. Joe currently has the grill. Vance moved to authorize the treasurer to spend up to $60 for food and supplies as necessary. Terry suggested bringing various games that he has. The treasurer called for the question currently before the board, and the motion was adopted. For September, October, and November we need to come up with presentations, please send a message to the wplug-plan list to let us know if you can come up with a speaker or topic (sending to the wplug-board list would be OK too). Terry passed out two WPLUG business cards to two different clients in the last week. Vance will keep bugging people he knows to see if they can give a presentation.<br />
<br />
Technology Committee: We did the Linode upgrade to the higher RAM server, that seems to have helped the out-of-memory issue somewhat; the system hasn't crashed yet as far as Vance knows, though it still does not seem to be freeing swap.<br />
<br />
Investigating Committee: No report.<br />
<br />
Marketing and Communications Committee: Joe will be investigating making use of the LinkedIn group. There was no other activity noted.<br />
<br />
<br />
''New business:''<br />
<br />
Terry advised that he's received a notice in our PO box that the USPS will be auditing our box; they wilk be requiring ID from whoever completes the audit. The notice left in our box does not mention a specific deadline. Terry will scan the notice and mail it out, and we'll determine who can address it. Pat suggests looking to do it online, but if they require ID, this might not be possible.<br />
<br />
''Old business:''<br />
<br />
None<br />
<br />
There being no further business, it was moved to adjourn the meeting. The motion was adopted. The meeting was adjourned at 7:55pm.</div>Patbarron//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20160621WPLUGBoard/Meeting-201606212016-05-17T22:23:54Z<p>Patbarron: /* Minutes */ "DRAFT" notation removed - these minutes were approved as posted during the July 19th board meeting</p>
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
<br />
Meeting to be held at a location and time yet to be determined, on Tuesday, June 21st, 2016.<br />
<br />
== Agenda ==<br />
<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
<br />
== Minutes ==<br />
<br />
The regular meeting of the WPLUG Board of Directors was held at 7:30pm on June 21st, 2016 at IBM Squirrel Hill.<br />
<br />
In attendance were:<br />
<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer (Chair)<br />
* Terry Golightly (Treasurer)<br />
* Pat Barron (Secretary)<br />
* Justin Smith (Director at Large) (by conference call)<br />
<br />
Not attending:<br />
<br />
* Joe Prostko (Vice Chair)<br />
<br />
The meeting was called to order at 7:34pm.<br />
<br />
The minutes of the previous (May 17th) board meeting were read. Two corrections were offered to the draft minutes, which were updated with the corrections. The minutes were adopted as corrected.<br />
<br />
''Reports of officers:''<br />
<br />
Chair: Nothing to report.<br />
<br />
Vice chair: Not present, left no report.<br />
<br />
Secretary: WPLUG currently has 17 members. One membership is due to lapse in July, and that member has been notified.<br />
<br />
Treasurer: Checking account starting balance as of May 31st, 2016 statement was $521.47. A withdrawal of $60 was inadvertently made, and was subsequently re-deposited. $40 in member dues was deposited. As of the date of the May 31st statement, the check that was written to WSCC in May has not yet cleared. After all account activity, new balance is $561.47.<br />
<br />
Director at large: No news to report.<br />
<br />
''Reports of committees:''<br />
<br />
Program committee: WPLUG did not organize an event in June. We do have a visit at the Small Systems Museum booked for July 16th in the afternoon. Because the person who runs the museum is also the CTO at the Penn Brewery, he has offered us a brewery tour in addition to the museum visit; the brewery tour will be conducted first, and those not interested in participating in the brewery tour can opt out and just join for the museum visit. Pat agreed to set up an Eventbrite invitation to gather RSVPs as the host would like a rough count of attendees. The annual picnic is scheduled for August 20th. We should come back with a technical event in September, as by that point we will not have held any technical events for three months. The October GUM includes nominations for the Board election, and the November GUM includes the election itself, so we'd like to have something good for each of these meetings to encourage people to come out. We are keeping in mind Justin's offer to do a presentation, this will depend on his availability and he will keep us apprised of that; he won't know about his September availability until closer to then.<br />
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Technology Committee: Justin notes that Linode is offering a new plan that will double our RAM at no cost to us, this may alleviate our swap issues. Pat or Vance have the credentials and can do this at some point soon. Pat notes that this may only put off the swap issue rather than resolve it. Vance notes that if we don't change the Apache configuration to increase the number of workers, we may never hit the physical RAM limit after increasing the amount of available RAM.<br />
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Marketing and Communications Committee: No one in attendance is aware of any new activities. It was noted that we do still have a LinkedIn group, and that there are now (since the time the group was created) new options as to group visibility which we may find useful. If someone would like to look at this and take over maintenance of it, they should get in touch with Vance. In the absence of an active maintainer, the group will sit there, more or less dormant. Terry is still a moderator of the LinkedIn group but hasn't checked it in a while. Terry notes that while it is dormant right now, it could be made active again with some care, but wonders how many social media outlets we really need.<br />
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Investigating Committee: No report.<br />
<br />
<br />
''New business:''<br />
<br />
Pat raised a question about when the PO box renewal was due, and whether the renewal date was approaching. Vance recalled that when it was renewed last, it was renewed for a full year, and that the post office will place a notice in the box when the renewal is due. Therefore, no action on this is required at this time.<br />
<br />
''Old business:''<br />
<br />
None<br />
<br />
There being no further business, it was moved to adjourn the meeting. The motion was adopted. The meeting was adjourned at 8:01pm.</div>Patbarron//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20160517WPLUGBoard/Meeting-201605172016-05-16T17:14:45Z<p>Patbarron: /* Minutes */ Two corrections offered at May board meeting were added; DRAFT notation removed as corrected minutes were then adopted.</p>
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
<br />
Meeting to be held at [[IBM Squirrel Hill]] at 7:30pm, Tuesday, May 17th, 2016.<br />
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== Agenda ==<br />
<br />
* Approve minutes of the [http://www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20160419 April 19th] board meeting.<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
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== Minutes ==<br />
<br />
The regular meeting of the WPLUG Board of Directors was held at 7:30pm on May 17th, 2016 at IBM Squirrel Hill.<br />
<br />
In attendance were:<br />
<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer (Chair)<br />
* Joe Prostko (Vice Chair) (by conference call)<br />
* Terry Golightly (Treasurer) (by conference call)<br />
* Pat Barron (Secretary)<br />
* Justin Smith (Director at Large) (by conference call)<br />
<br />
Not attending:<br />
<br />
* (No directors were absent)<br />
<br />
The meeting was called to order at 7:38pm.<br />
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The minutes of the previous (April 19th) board meeting were read. No changes or corrections were offered, and the minutes were adopted as read.<br />
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''Reports of officers:''<br />
<br />
Chair: Nothing to report.<br />
<br />
Vice chair: Continuing to post to social media about our events, will post tomorrow as a reminder for this weekend's event. Will follow up with the systems engineer he's been in contact with at his workplace with regard to doing a presentation, needs to get an opportunity to go to the facility where he is.<br />
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Secretary: WPLUG currently has 17 members. One membership is due to lapse in June, and that member has been notified.<br />
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Treasurer: Nothing has changed since last month's report, other than $30 expenditure to rent the Lakeshore Pavilion at North Park 8am to 11pm on August 20th for the WPLUG picnic.<br />
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Director at large: Nothing to report.<br />
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''Reports of committees:''<br />
<br />
Program committee: We were able to reserve meeting space at the Wilkins School for this Sunday from 12:30pm to 7:00pm - we must double-check times with WSCC, because agreement states 2pm to 10:30pm, while our meeting is scheduled to begin at 1pm. Vance reviewed the rental agreement, there is an issue where the agreement requires a certificate of insurance which we do not have. Vance will confirm with WSCC if they will absolutely require this. WSCC offered the room for free, though it was felt that this was not fair to WSCC. WPLUG offered $50 for the room, WSCC countered with $25. Vance believes we should still send them $50. Justin believes this would be fair, but that we should be mindful of the organization's financial position as we rebuild the ranks of membership. Vance indicates we are doing better because we've basically cut our Linode bill in half, so we have more money available than we were used to having in the past. Justin wonders if we could pay the $25 rate that WSCC offered, and invest the other $25 in some Linux-related asset that WSCC could use. Vance reviewed that the reason we were offered the room free originally was due to our help in troubleshooting their WiFi, and the thing they need most is an equipment refresh which would be expensive, which might be more than the treasury could accommodate. Terry has a couple of Wi-Fi antennas that are much taller - perhaps we could buy some new antennas to improve their reception, though the walls are so thick it might not help. Vance says that the current access points there only do 802.11b/g so upgrading to access points adhering to the newer standards may improve connectivity, as they may be more directional. Vance moved to authorize Vance (as chair) to sign the agreement subject to negotiation of the insurance requirement, and also to authorize the treasurer to pay WSCC $50 for the use of the meeting space. The motion was adopted. Our August venue is reserved for the picnic. We need to start making plans in terms of setting up wiki page for picnic, planning who is bringing what, etc. We do have some money that we are able to spend on that event. We can take that up in earnest next month. We currently have no plans for June or July, Vance is trying to see if there's anyone we can recruit to speak; we should start trying to make contacts with people Vance doesn't know, and thinking of other possible events we could organize. We could follow up with the person who runs the microcomputer museum, as people found the big iron museum interesting. Please try to beat the bushes for any other talks or events. Justin asked if we've detected any common threads in conversations with people who've attended our recent events. Pat indicates that he didn't notice common threads in conversation, but the recent successful talks we hosted were all intermediate to advanced level presentations, rather than more beginner-level presentations. Justin might be able give a presentation during the week of June 7th (the 11th would be our normal meeting date), he will check his calendar to determine the possibilities.<br />
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Technology Committee: Vance hasn't had a chance to look into the swap issue much more, other than creating a cron job that logs vmstat statistics every 5 minutes. Swap usage seems to be monotonically increaseing. Pat summarized a discussion he had with a Unix kernel VM internals subject matter expert, and the results of his investigation of monitoring services - the net of that investigation is that there are third-party monitoring services available that have "free" plans, but the type of monitoring available from any of the services investigated under their "free" plans would not meet our current need. Vance says there is a daemon called "monit" that is flexible as far as what it monitors and what actions it takes. There was a brief discussion about John Lewis's suggestion to use Nagios, and other options investigated by Pat.<br />
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Marketing and Communications Committee: No report.<br />
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Investigating Committee: No report.<br />
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''New business:''<br />
<br />
For this Sunday, Vance suggested it would be a good idea for us to try to have a pizza order or something to help attract some people, we should try to reestablish the refreshment fund to accommodate this. Vance is willing to contribute to this, as is Pat, and we can ask others who want to participate in the food order to chip in. Pat suggests we should scout out places to order from in advance. Terry says there is a Vocelli's nearby.<br />
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Terry asked about creating a page for people to know what to expect from the event and to allow them to list what they're working on. There is already a page on the wiki for this event, that could be used for this purpose.<br />
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''Old business:''<br />
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None<br />
<br />
There being no further business, it was moved to adjourn the meeting. The motion was adopted. The meeting was adjourned at 8:44pm.</div>Patbarron//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20160522Meeting-201605222016-05-09T02:32:54Z<p>Patbarron: /* Meeting Staff */</p>
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<div>WPLUG will have a workshop on Sunday, May 22, 2016 starting at 1:00pm at the [[Wilkins School Community Center]]. This will be a combination [[InstallFest]] and hackathon.<br />
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== Schedule for the Day ==<br />
1:00pm - Doors open, set up<br/><br />
6:00pm - Meeting ends, everyone out.<br />
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== Program ==<br />
While easy-to-install distibutions make the traditional [[InstallFest]] less necessary these days, people still run into problems, such as specific hardware devices. If you need help getting Linux up and running, bring your machine along and we'll see what we can do!<br />
<br />
Alternatively, if you're working on a project and would like to bring it along, feel free! You can show it off or try to get help if you're having problems.<br />
<br />
You can list it here if you like:<br />
* Your name - what you're working on<br />
* Your name - what you're working on<br />
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== Logistics ==<br />
We will be meeting in the auditorium on the lower level of the [[Wilkins School Community Center]]. If you have a significant amount of hardware to bring in, drive around to the back of the building and carry it down the ramp to the door (this is also the only handicapped-accessible entrance).<br />
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== Meeting Staff ==<br />
If you would like to volunteer to assist with this meeting, please add your name to one or more of the [[MeetingChecklist|categories]] below.<br />
* Host: [[User:Vance|Vance Kochenderfer]]<br />
* Co-Host: [[User:Terryg|Terry Golightly]]<br />
* Setup: [[User:Patbarron|Pat Barron]], [[User:Jprostko|Joe Prostko]]<br />
* Clean Up: your name here, your name here<br />
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== Carpooling ==<br />
<br />
* Your name/location here<br />
* Your name/location here<br />
<br />
[[Category:Meetings]]</div>Vance//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20160409Meeting-201604092016-03-20T20:44:11Z<p>Vance: /* Carpooling */ sign up</p>
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<div>WPLUG will have a General User Meeting and presentation on Saturday, April 9, 2016 starting at 3:00pm at [[IBM Squirrel Hill]].<br />
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== Schedule for the Day ==<br />
3:00pm - Doors open, set up<br/><br />
3:15pm - Business Meeting starts<br/><br />
3:30pm - Featured presentation<br/><br />
5:00pm - Meeting ends, everyone out.<br />
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== Speaker/Presentation ==<br />
'''Title:''' The Internet of Things: Past, Present and Future<br />
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'''Speaker:''' Robert Blackwell<br />
<br />
Much like the Internet existed before the World Wide Web, people have been making intelligent, connected devices before the term "Internet of Things" was coined. Robert will talk about where things stand now with devices and also give a historical perspective.<br />
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== Meeting Minutes ==<br />
<br />
To be added.<br />
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== Meeting Staff ==<br />
If you would like to volunteer to assist with this meeting, please add your name to one or more of the [[MeetingChecklist|categories]] below.<br />
* Host: [[User:Patbarron|Pat Barron]]<br />
* Co-Host: Your name here<br />
* Setup: Your name here, your name here<br />
* Clean Up: [[User:Vance|Vance Kochenderfer]], your name here<br />
<br />
== Carpooling ==<br />
* [[User:Vance|Vance Kochenderfer]] - driving from Castle Shannon/South Hills area; see my user page for contact info<br />
* Your name/location here<br />
* Your name/location here<br />
<br />
[[Category:Meetings]]<br />
[[Category:Minutes]]</div>Vance//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20160312Meeting-201603122016-02-29T04:59:33Z<p>Patbarron: /* Meeting Minutes */ Noted no quorum for business meeting</p>
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<div>WPLUG will have a General User Meeting and presentation on Saturday, March 12, 2016 starting at 3:00pm at [[IBM Squirrel Hill]].<br />
<br />
== Schedule for the Day ==<br />
3:00pm - Doors open, set up<br/><br />
3:15pm - Business Meeting starts<br/><br />
3:30pm - Featured presentation<br/><br />
5:00pm - Meeting ends, everyone out.<br />
<br />
== Speaker/Presentation ==<br />
'''Title:''' File and Directory Permissions<br />
<br />
'''Speaker:''' Dan Martin<br />
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Dan will be giving a talk about file and directory permissions, going into the more basic permissions, as well as more advanced topics, such as the sticky bit, setuid, and setgid.<br />
<br />
== Meeting Minutes ==<br />
<br />
No business meeting was held due to lack of quorum - only two members present.<br />
<br />
== Meeting Staff ==<br />
If you would like to volunteer to assist with this meeting, please add your name to one or more of the [[MeetingChecklist|categories]] below.<br />
* Host: Your name here<br />
* Co-Host: Your name here<br />
* Setup: Your name here, your name here<br />
* Clean Up: Your name here, your name here<br />
<br />
== Carpooling ==<br />
* Your name/location here<br />
* Your name/location here<br />
<br />
[[Category:Meetings]]<br />
[[Category:Minutes]]</div>Jprostko//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20160419WPLUGBoard/Meeting-201604192016-01-20T00:16:31Z<p>Patbarron: /* Minutes */ Remove DRAFT notation - minutes were approved as posted during May 2016 board meeting</p>
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
<br />
Meeting to be held at [[IBM Squirrel Hill]] at 7:30pm, Tuesday, April 19th, 2016.<br />
<br />
== Agenda ==<br />
<br />
* Approve minutes of the [http://www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20160329 March 29th] board meeting.<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
<br />
== Minutes ==<br />
<br />
The regular meeting of the WPLUG Board of Directors was held at 7:30pm on April 19th, 2016 at IBM Squirrel Hill.<br />
<br />
In attendance were:<br />
<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer (Chair)<br />
* Joe Prostko (Vice Chair) (by conference call)<br />
* Terry Golightly (Treasurer)<br />
* Pat Barron (Secretary)<br />
<br />
Not attending:<br />
<br />
* Justin Smith (Director at Large)<br />
<br />
The meeting was called to order at 7:42pm.<br />
<br />
The minutes of the previous (March 29th) board meeting were read. No changes or corrections were offered, and the minutes were adopted as read.<br />
<br />
''Reports of officers:''<br />
<br />
Chair: No report, other than was pretty pleased with the turnout at the last GUM.<br />
<br />
Vice chair: Didn't get a chance to follow up with the systems engineer to talk about FreeIPA, will try to talk to him on Friday. Has some e-mails to info@wplug to follow up on, need to sort out the spammy ones from regular ones. There was one asking for a link exchange which we may not follow up on. There was a small discussion on link exchange spam and wiki spam and pruning dead links from the wiki.<br />
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Secretary: WPLUG currently has 17 members. 3 joined in April - one new member and two rejoining members. All those members who were due to lapse in April did lapse. One member is due to lapse in May, and has been notified.<br />
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Treasurer: As of March 31st, WPLUG's checking account balance was $436.47. On April 16th a deposit of $140 was made, including a donation from a GUM attendee, and new member dues, which would bring us to $547.47 after all bank transactions are completed.<br />
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Director at large: Not present, left no report<br />
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''Reports of committees:''<br />
<br />
Technology Committee: The WPLUG VPS continues to have some memory errors still, symptom shows all swap in use - there is memory free, but if you try to run a program it generates an out of memory error. It hasn't been pursued further; the only thing that seems to fix it is to reboot, and sometimes that must be done from the Linode control panel. Vance thinks the problem is that things aren't being removed from swap. Anyone who has time to investigate this would be welcome to do so. There was a lengthy discussion about how to go about troubleshooting such an issue.<br />
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Event Committee: We still need to follow up with plans for May. Vance hasn't checked with Wilkins School about availability in May, Vance can try to follow up but success is doubtful due to the May event being only a month out. The proposed event is a social/workshop, ideally with hardwired network if we are going to help people do installs. Some other attraction such as food would be nice. For this event, we primarily need a space we have access to for 3 to 5 hours. We also need to get in touch with the libraries to inquire about using space there. Terry thinks we should have some "before you come" instructions on the wiki, due to multitude of possible hardware configurations and advance prep that may be necessary; we might want to know what people's goals are in advance so we can be prepared. Vance thinks it might be doubtful to secure a venue for May given the timeline. Could we do something entirely non-technical? What locations could we get? CLP Squirrel Hill and some other locations have historically had poor availability. Joe offered to check into whether we could hold an event at his workplace, but this could be difficult. We may need a fallback plan for May, or we could possibly take a break for May. Games N' At could be a possible backup. We will otherwise continue to pursue leads of people who might want to do a talk.<br />
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Investigating Committee: No report.<br />
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Marketing and Communications Committee: Joe has been trying to post to social media whenever we have events.<br />
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''New business:''<br />
<br />
Joe asked about beginning the planning for the picnic. Vance indicated that, as is our tradition, we should try to plan this event for August. We would like to try to drum up interest, get space reserved early. We have some funds we can set aside for this purpose. Vance asked Pat to investigate looking into a shelter at North Park. Pat pointed out he might not have a debit card at the point when the rental would happen, so someone else might need to go to North Park in person to do the actual rental, and also wondered if any other venue would be more desirable. Joe suggested going with North Park as a first option, and pursuing other options if needed. Terry investigated, and found that facility rental at North Park can now be done online. Vance moved that the treasurer be authorized to spend up to $50 to rent a shelter; the motion was adopted.<br />
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''Old business:''<br />
<br />
None<br />
<br />
There being no further business, it was moved to adjourn the meeting. The motion was adopted. The meeting was adjourned at 9:07pm.</div>Centinel//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20160315WPLUGBoard/Meeting-201603152016-01-20T00:16:01Z<p>Patbarron: /* Minutes */ "Draft" notation removed - these minutes were adopted as posted at the April 19th 2016 board meeting</p>
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
Meeting to be held at [[IBM Squirrel Hill]] at 7:30pm, Tuesday, March 29, 2016.<br />
<br />
== Agenda ==<br />
* Approve [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20160216#Minutes|minutes of February 16, 2016 meeting]]<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
<br />
== Minutes ==<br />
<br />
The regular meeting of the WPLUG Board of Directors was held at 7:30pm on March 29th, 2016 at IBM Squirrel Hill.<br />
<br />
In attendance were:<br />
<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer (Chair)<br />
* Joe Prostko (Vice Chair) (by conference call)<br />
* Terry Golightly (Treasurer)<br />
* Pat Barron (Secretary)<br />
* Justin Smith (Director at Large) (by conference call)<br />
<br />
Not attending:<br />
<br />
* ''(No directors were absent)''<br />
<br />
The meeting was called to order at 7:43pm.<br />
<br />
No one asked to have the minutes of the previous (February 16th, 2016) board meeting read. The minutes were approved as posted on the wiki.<br />
<br />
''Reports of officers:''<br />
<br />
Chair: Last weekend, the Vance and Terry visited the Wilkins School Community Center to help with their WiFi network. The wireless access point on the top floor was reconfigured to connect to the wireless access point in the basement via power-line networking rather than wirelessly, so it should be more reliable, but not particularly fast. Since that was done, one tenant reported still having connection issues. Vance will research replacing the existing access points with ones that support newer standards and that may be more powerful. This is not a WPLUG activity, strictly speaking, but Vance wanted to ensure that the board was aware of it. The Wilkins School Community Center is much busier now than when the network was first installed, and has many more users than it had originally.<br />
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Vice chair: Attempting to get a potential speaker interested in doing a presentation on a topic such as FreeIPA.<br />
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Secretary: WPLUG currently has 17 current members, with 3 whose memberships are due to lapse in April. Members due to lapse have been contacted.<br />
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Treasurer: Haven't gotten the March bank statement yet, checking account balance from statement most recently received was $408.97. Recently deposited $40 in cash plus one members renewal check, currently holding $60 to be deposited. Our Linode billing is switched over to the Treasurer's debit card. We are still waiting to receive the Chair's debit card.<br />
<br />
Director at large: No report to present - new business will be brought forward later in the meeting.<br />
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''Reports of committees:''<br />
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Technology Committee: Nothing to report since last month.<br />
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Event Committee: Robert Blackwell has agreed to do a presentation in April, and the Chair is planning to make an announcement to the mailing list within the next 24 hours to drum up attendance for the presentation.<br />
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Investigating Committee: No report.<br />
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Marketing and Communications Committee: No report.<br />
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''New business:''<br />
<br />
Vance raised the topic of planning for future meetings. Through April, we will have had 3 presentations in a row, so it might be nice to do something different for May, such as the idea that Terry brought forward in the last board meeting.<br />
<br />
Terry reviewed his idea: have a social event for people bring their stuff, tinker, hack, and for people to request help. Potential issues could be drumming up interest, and getting people to sign a release form. We had created a release form template in the past, but there were some concerns, and the effort stalled after it was suggested that an attorney review it. Terry asked if anyone had been in contact with David Tessitor recently. <br />
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Pat indicated that he still has the template release form that had previously been considered, and will send it around to the current board for review. Vance inquired if there was any specific reason or incident that has caused the idea of a release form to come up, as we haven't had one for multiple prior Installfests. Pat mentioned that the idea probably started with him, and that his original concern and position was that he was unwilling to do any work on anyone's machine who wanted help setting up a dual-boot configuration without having some kind of signed release form, due to the number of things that can go wrong that could result in catastrophic data loss, even under the best of circumstances.<br />
<br />
Vance indicated that the proposed format sounds good, and that we would need to determine a venue, and get the word out. Terry proposed that some potential venues could be the Brookline library, or the Monroeville library. Terry was opposed to trying to use the library in the North Hills where a previous event had been held, as the staff was uncooperative and it wasn't possible to get a hard-wired Ethernet port to use. Pat reminded that hard-wired Ethernet isn't available at the Brookline library, either. Vance mentioned that a hard-wired Ethernet port would be possible at the Wilkins School Community Center, if we could get the Trevanion Room (which has such a port available). Pat suggested that we could discuss this idea on the wplug-plan mailing list to get input from a wider audience; Terry suggested holding in-person discussion as well.<br />
<br />
Vance requested that Terry get in touch with the Monroeville library, to ask about possibly holding an event there on the 14th or the 21st; Terry agreed to do this.<br />
<br />
Vance asked if anyone had been in contact with anyone at Hack Pittsburgh recently; no one indicated that they had been.<br />
<br />
Vance mentioned that part of the value of this type of event would be to be able to stand over the person's shoulder and help them through the process. Terry mentioned that this is particularly useful for those with older hardware. Vance suggested that we could help attendees research what devices work with which Linux distributions.<br />
<br />
Justin mentioned he could potentially do a remote presentation on the topic of helping people move away from proprietary solutions towards open-source solutions.<br />
<br />
Vance agreed that he will contact the Wilkins School Community Center to see if WSCC would be available on those dates, while Terry contacts the library. Then we'll make a decision where we want to go. We would prefer to have a venue with a wired network connection available if possible.<br />
<br />
Terry suggested that it might be useful also get in touch with Jon Mazur at CPUsers Group in Tarentum to discuss planning a joint event.<br />
<br />
Vance indicated that he has reached the end of the list of people he contacted to ask to speak, so there are no further potential speakers from that pipeline. He said he still has a list of suggested speakers that were provided by Beth Lynn to sort through, to determine who could give a reasonable presentation.<br />
<br />
Vance expressed appreciation for the remote presentation idea that Justin raised, we would have to determine how we could do this. Pat suggested that it might be possible to make use of video conferencing hardware at IBM Squirrel Hill; it was suggested to go immediately after the meeting adjourns to look at the video conferencing hardware and see if it might be suitable.<br />
<br />
Justin mentioned that he may be out of town for work in July, but aside from that would be available. Remote presentation would available if we need it, and he might also be physically present in Pittsburgh at various times.<br />
<br />
Vance recalled a discussion with Robert Blackwell, who noted that Larry Wall will be in Pittsburgh in August to give a presentation at another event - could we perhaps get him to present something for us, or jointly with the Perl Mongers group?<br />
<br />
Joe mentioned that he will check with the contact he mentioned earlier, to ask if he'd be interested in doing a presentation on FreeIPA, or perhaps some other topic.<br />
<br />
Justin has a friend in the area involved in PittMESH which is using OpenWRT, this might be a topic people could be interested in. Justin will get in touch with him. <br />
<br />
Justin indicates that he has not remained in active contact with Pittsburgh Filmmakers, but reminds that the Pittsburgh Center for Arts was willing to consider giving a presentation on Blender - the one we did before was very well attended. For certain groups of people, Linux makes a lot of sense. On other end of spectrum, whenever you are a developer, developing on Windows and OS X can be a nightmare. Would i be possible that we could talk with representatives of two different local development groups who happen to use Linux to say why they switched? Such a presentation may interest developers and get them to attend.<br />
<br />
Vance agreed that we should make an effort to get in contact with some of these other groups - we've done some things in the past with other groups that have eventually trailed off, it would be worth trying to get back in touch.<br />
<br />
Joe wanted to know when we would be starting to plan for the annual picnic. Vance responded that we should probably start doing so in April so we can reserve space, and that he was planning to bring this up at the next board meeting.<br />
<br />
Vance asked how did the last GUMs go (that took place in his absence). Pat expressed the opinon that the presentations were well done, but he wished they had been better attended.<br />
<br />
''Old business:''<br />
<br />
None<br />
<br />
There being no further business, it was moved to adjourn the meeting. The motion was adopted. The meeting was adjourned at 8:34pm.<br />
<br />
''(After the meeting adjourned, the board members who were present in person did go to look at the video conferencing hardware at IBM Squirrel Hill - and discovered that the video conferencing system that had previous been installed was either gone, or moved elsewhere, so this particular idea will probably not make any progress.)''</div>Centinel//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20160216WPLUGBoard/Meeting-201602162016-01-20T00:13:02Z<p>Patbarron: /* Minutes */ Draft notation removed - minutes approved as posted at March board meeting</p>
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
<br />
Meeting to be held at IBM Squirrel Hill at 7:30pm, Tuesday, February 16th, 2016.<br />
<br />
== Agenda ==<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
<br />
== Minutes ==<br />
<br />
The regular meeting of the WPLUG Board of Directors was held at 7:30pm on February 16th, 2016, via conference call (due to potential of inclement weather).<br />
<br />
In attendance were:<br />
<br />
* Joe Prostko (Vice Chair)<br />
* Terry Golightly (Treasurer)<br />
* Pat Barron (Secretary)<br />
* Justin Smith (Director at Large)<br />
<br />
Not attending:<br />
<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer (Chair)<br />
<br />
The meeting was called to order at 7:39pm.<br />
<br />
No one asked to have the minutes of the previous (January 19th 2015 ) board meeting read. The minutes were approved as posted on the wiki.<br />
<br />
''Reports of officers:''<br />
<br />
Chair: Absent, did not leave a report.<br />
<br />
Vice chair: Still waiting to hear back from Burgh Bees people about press contacts, as discussed at a previous board meeting.<br />
<br />
Secretary: WPLUG currently has 18 members, with one due to lapse at the at the end of February, one due to lapse in March, and one new member since the last board meeting.<br />
<br />
Treasurer: The checking account ending balance as of January 31st was $421.47. The treasurer is holding $40 in checks to be deposited from membership renewals, and the secretary is still holding $20 cash from a new membership. There was a text from FNB about suspending bank accounts that is still to be investigated.<br />
<br />
Director at large: Nothing to report<br />
<br />
''Reports of committees:''<br />
<br />
Technology Committee: Nothing to report since last month.<br />
<br />
Event Committee: Dan Martin has tentatively agreed to present in March, to be scheduled for the second Saturday in March (pending the speaker's availability). The Secretary will follow up with him to confirm his availability on that date.<br />
<br />
Investigating Committee: No report.<br />
<br />
Marketing and Communications Committee: No report.<br />
<br />
''New business:''<br />
<br />
Justin mentions that if WPLUG has any need for presentation equipment (e.g., laptop that a speaker could use), Justin's new company is giving away some hardware and if there is any interest in that Justin could investigate and either ship back or transport back on a future visit to Pittsburgh.<br />
<br />
Terry advanced an idea for a future event where people could bring their hardware for troubleshooting if they had problems. We'd require that they sign a release before assisting them. We had a template for such a release before, and were considering having an attorney look it over, but the idea never went anywhere. We have nothing planned for April, we could potentially do this then. A possible location could be the Monroeville library where we previously did an installfest.<br />
<br />
It was noted that our contact at the Monroeville library is also a supported of the CPUsers group in Tarentum. It was asked if anyone had had any contact with CPUsers Group recently, no one has.<br />
<br />
''Old business:''<br />
<br />
None<br />
<br />
There being no further business, it was moved to adjourn the meeting. The motion was adopted. The meeting was adjourned at 7:55pm.</div>Centinel//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20160213Meeting-201602132016-01-18T01:52:17Z<p>Patbarron: /* Meeting Minutes */</p>
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<div>WPLUG will have a General User Meeting and presentation on Saturday, February 13, 2016 starting at 3:00pm at [[IBM Squirrel Hill]].<br />
<br />
== Schedule for the Day ==<br />
3:00pm - Doors open, set up<br/><br />
3:15pm - Business Meeting starts<br/><br />
3:30pm - Featured presentation<br/><br />
5:00pm - Meeting ends, everyone out.<br />
<br />
== Speaker/Presentation ==<br />
'''Title:''' Virtualization with Proxmox<br />
<br />
'''Speaker:''' Nicholas A. Schembri<br />
<br />
[https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page Proxmox Virtual Environment] is a powerful Open Source Server Virtualization Platform, based on KVM and LXC. <br />
<br />
<br />
This setup will cover a basic 3 host cluster using nfs storage. Future presentations will expand to include Ceph Storage and rapid deployment of thin provisioned vdi clients. Proxmox is great for small to large Virtual Environment. Proxmox can expand from a single host all the way to 15+ hosts cluster.<br />
<br />
== Meeting Minutes ==<br />
<br />
No business meeting was held due to lack of quorum - only two members present.<br />
<br />
== Meeting Staff ==<br />
If you would like to volunteer to assist with this meeting, please add your name to one or more of the [[MeetingChecklist|categories]] below.<br />
* Host: Your name here<br />
* Co-Host: Your name here<br />
* Setup: Your name here, your name here<br />
* Clean Up: Your name here, your name here<br />
<br />
== Carpooling ==<br />
* Your name/location here<br />
* Your name/location here<br />
<br />
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
Meeting to be held at IBM Squirrel Hill at 7:30pm, Tuesday, January 19, 2016.<br />
<br />
== Agenda ==<br />
* Approve minutes of the [http://www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20151215 December 15th] Board meeting.<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
<br />
== Minutes ==<br />
<br />
The regularly scheduled meeting of the WPLUG Board of Directors was held on January 19th, 2015 at IBM Squirrel Hill. Directors attending were:<br />
<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer (chair)<br />
* Pat Barron (secretary)<br />
* Justin Smith(director at large - attending by phone)<br />
* Terry Golightly (treasurer - attending by phone)<br />
<br />
Directors not attending were:<br />
<br />
* Joe Prostko (vice chair)<br />
<br />
The chair called the meeting to order at 7:46pm.<br />
<br />
The minutes of the December board meeting were read. It was moved that the minutes be approved as read. The motion was adopted.<br />
<br />
''Reports of officers:''<br />
<br />
The Chair reported that he will be on vacation from Feb 11 to March 11 in Antarctica, will be out of contact and not reachable. He will try to get events set up for March (February is already set up), but won't be here to assist. The Vice Chair (or designate) will need to act in the Chair's absence, but the Chair will miss both the February and March board meetings. Antything that the Chair needs to be personally involved with must be finished up by Feb 10th.<br />
<br />
The vice chair was absent and left no report.<br />
<br />
The secretary reported that WPLUG currently has 17 members, with 1 due for renewal in February. 4 members lapsed in January, but has one renewed since lapsing, and one new member joined. The secretary is currently holding $40.00 in undeposited dues, one from a new member and one from the renewing member, which were was received with the members' membership forms and has not yet been relayed to the treasurer.<br />
<br />
The treasurer reported that the checking account balance is $446.47 as of December 31st. No deposits were made in the last month. Checks and debits in the amount of $12.50 were processed (Linode hosting/backup fees), leaving an ending balance of $433.97.<br />
<br />
The director at large reported that he will be able to act as director at large to whatever extent possible remotely from Ohio, and reported his intention to work to revive a LUG in Cleveland and seek to have that LUG work together with WPLUG collaboratively.<br />
<br />
''Reports of committees:''<br />
<br />
Technology committee: Twice now "yum update" has encountered memory allocation errors, the symptom is that main memory is available but swap is completely full, trying to run new processes doesn't work - reboot is required. May be something to keep an eye on when logging in. Justin indicates that he will have time in the upcoming week, and has previously discussed putting up a system like Nagios, and is<br />
interested in attempting to do so. Send alerts to admin@wplug.org, so they go to everyone on the technology committee. Justin states that the configuration is simple to maintain. Vance states that the problem doesn't seem to prevent Apache and MariaDB etc. from working properly.<br />
<br />
Event committee: February GUM is set up for IBM Squirrel Hill, Nick Schembri will be presenting on ProxMox; there will be a business meeting so 2 weeks notice is required. Still working to set up<br />
a meeting for March, we are hoping Robert Blackwell will still be available, and available on the 2nd Saturday of the month - if not, we may attempt a weeknight meeting.<br />
<br />
Investigating committee: No report<br />
<br />
Marketing and Communications Committee: No report<br />
<br />
''New Business:''<br />
<br />
Justin stated that Kevin Driscoll, former intern at Pittsburgh Filmmakers will taking over Justin's job, has been informed of WPLUG and intends to join or apply in the near future. If we have any contacts we can help him make (assuming he applies) that would be good.<br />
<br />
Terry stated that he wants to know if there are any triggers for subscribe/unsubscribe. It was mentioned that the list owner(s) gets a notification, and we may need to update these owners. Official lists have some board owners, others are maintained by volunteers. Vance noted that if Terry wants to moderate a list, he should let Vance or Pat know and he will be given moderator rights.<br />
<br />
Vance stated that he is hoping to continue to fill the pipeline of future speakers, will be working on this for the next 3 weeks until his departure, by which time he hopefully can line up a couple more. Then we can have events scheduled through Spring and can list them on the wiki.<br />
<br />
There being no further business to transact, it was moved to adjourn the meeting. The motion was adopted. The meeting was adjourned at 8:14pm.</div>Patbarron//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20160109Meeting-201601092016-01-03T02:42:46Z<p>100.6.95.105: /* Carpooling */</p>
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<div>WPLUG will take a field trip to the [[Large Scale Systems Museum]] in New Kensington starting at 3:00pm on Saturday, January 9, 2016.<br />
<br />
We'll get the chance to see a lot of "big iron" from computing history.<br />
<br />
== Schedule for the Day ==<br />
<br />
We will meet at the museum at 3:00pm. Visit the [[Large Scale Systems Museum]] page for the address and directions.<br />
<br />
There is no admission charge, but donations are gratefully accepted. Please consider chipping in $5 to $20 to help them keep the systems up and running (and pay the electric bill).<br />
<br />
Once we are done at the museum, probably sometime around 5:00pm, we will adjourn to the [https://www.zomato.com/pittsburgh/rey-azteca-new-kensington Rey Azteca] Mexican restaurant (100 Tarentum Bridge Road, New Kensington, PA 15068) for dinner.<br />
<br />
== Carpooling ==<br />
<br />
There is only one bus which goes to New Kensington, so if you are driving, please consider offering others the chance to rideshare. List where you're coming from and give people a way to contact you. Thanks!<br />
<br />
* Jared Jennings, North Side. Email wplug@jjennings.fastmail.fm.<br />
* Your name/location here<br />
<br />
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<div>The Large Scale Systems Museum is located at 924 4th Avenue, New Kensington, PA 15068. It is host to a number of mainframes, supercomputers, and minicomputers.<br />
<br />
A number of photos of the collection taken by Mike Loewen can be found [http://q7.neurotica.com/LSSM/ on this page].<br />
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== Transit Info ==<br />
<br />
The [http://www.portauthority.org/ Port Authority's] bus route '''1''' is the only one serving New Kensington.<br />
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
Meeting to be held at Pittsburgh Filmmakers at 7:30pm, Tuesday, December 15, 2015.<br />
<br />
== Agenda ==<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
<br />
== Minutes ==<br />
<br />
'''DRAFT'''<br />
<br />
The regularly scheduled meeting of the WPLUG Board of Directors was convened on Tuedsay, December 15th, 2015, at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. In attendance were:<br />
<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer (Chair)<br />
* Joseph Prostko (Vice Chair)<br />
* Pat Barron (Secretary)<br />
<br />
Absent board members Terry Golightly (Treasurer) and Justin Smith (Director at Large) were both reached by telephone. The Treasurer was not able to be physically present, but requested to participate by conference call. The Director at Large was not able to be physically present and was unable to participate in the meeting.<br />
<br />
It was noted that a quorum was present and that the meeting could begin.<br />
<br />
In view of the absence of the Director at Large, it was determined that we would not have access to the planned meeting venue. It was moved to recess the meeting, and to reconvene at Panera Bread, 5430 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15232. The meeting recessed at 7:45pm.<br />
<br />
The meeting reconvened at Panera Bread at 8:13pm, after the arrival of the Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary, and after calling the Treasurer by speakerphone. The Chair called the meeting to order at 8:13pm.<br />
<br />
It was moved to approve the draft minutes of the November 19th, 2015 WPLUG Board of Directors meeting as published on the wiki. The motion was adopted.<br />
<br />
''Reports of officers:''<br />
<br />
The Chair had nothing to report.<br />
<br />
The Vice Chair reported that he was contacted by someone looking for more info about WPLUG and mentoring, and that he will send a response to that person.<br />
<br />
The Secretary reported that WPLUG currently has 19 WPLUG members, with 4 members due for renewal in January. The members pending renewal have been contacted; response from 3 still pending, 1 member due for renewal has responded to indicate that he will not be renewing.<br />
<br />
The Treasurer reported that WPLUG currently has $446.47 in the checking account. There has been one deposit of $60.00, and one debit of $12.50 (Linode fees), as of November 30th, 2015.<br />
<br />
''Reports of committees:''<br />
<br />
The Technology Committee had nothing to report.<br />
<br />
The Event Committee reported that the committee chair is working to line people up for 2016 meetings. Robert Blackwell will be working on an IoT talk probably in March at earliest. Nick Schembri wants to talk about ProxMox, earliest availability projected to be February or March. The committee chair has been rying to get in touch with Roland Hess about doing a presentation on Android app development, but has not had any contact for the last few weeks, will keep following up - the potential speaker, if available, is not expected to be available in the very near future. A response was received from Dave McGuire in New Kennsington who has a collectio of old systems that we could arrange a field trip to; it is planned to try to arrange this trip for the originally planned date for the January GUM, but can reschedule if necessary. Charles Butler was also contacted to inquire about his availability to do a presentation, but no response has been received yet. The Event Committee's strategy for the upcoming year will be to work to fill up all of the available presentation slots in advance.<br />
<br />
The Investigating Committee had nothing to report.<br />
<br />
The Marketing and Communications Committee reported that there was the contact that the Vice Chair had previously noted, but has no other report.<br />
<br />
''New Business:''<br />
<br />
The Secretary suggested that it would be useful to contact the traditional press with regard to future events that we would like to especially call attention to. The Chair noted that some care must be used to drive the topic in a way that would be of interest to the mainstream press and the general public. It was noted that Robert Blackwell has been on the radio before, discussing an IoT project involving ALCOSAN - this is an example of something that catches the attention of the general media. The Vice Chair (in his role at Burgh Bees) had some press contacts, and will attempt to retrieve them. The Treasurer indicated that Dave Sevick at some point mentioned working with a person at NPR, in the context of a local noon show that focuses on happenings in Pittsburgh.<br />
<br />
The Chair raised the issue that our continued ability to use Hack Pittsburgh as a venue is uncertain, and that we had not been able to discuss this with John Lewis (our sponsor at Hack Pittsburgh) recently. The Chair suggested to look towards using the IBM Squirrel Hill location as our primary alternative in the event that the Hack Pittsburgh venue is unavailable or if the use of it is not feasible. The chair also suggested that the use of WSCC as a venue could be a possibility. The Chair requested that the board members keep an eye out for any other potential meeting venues.<br />
<br />
''Old Business:''<br />
<br />
There was no old business to discuss.<br />
<br />
It was moved to adjourn the meeting; the motion was adopted and the meeting was adjourned at 8:35pm.<br />
<br />
The Chair suggested to reconvene the meeting briefly at 8:36pm - as all of the attendees were still present, the meeting was reconvened.<br />
<br />
It was moved to change the location of the regularly scheduled January WPLUG Board of Directors meeting to IBM Squirrel Hill. The motion was adopted. It was moved to make the same location change for all future WPLUG Board of Directors meetings for the current Board term. The motion was adopted.<br />
<br />
It was moved to again adjourn the meeting; the motion was adopted and the meeting was adjourned at 8:43pm.<br />
<br />
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<div>WPLUG will have a party and hackathon on Saturday, December 12, 2015 starting at 3:00pm at [[HackPittsburgh]].<br />
<br />
== Schedule for the Day ==<br />
3:00pm - Doors open, set up<br/><br />
5:00pm - Meeting ends, everyone out.<br />
<br />
== Program ==<br />
There will be no business meeting - if you're working on a project and would like to bring it along, feel free! You can show it off or try to get help if you're having problems.<br />
<br />
You can list it here if you like:<br />
* Your name - what you're working on<br />
* Your name - what you're working on<br />
<br />
We'll also be having a holiday party, with hot chocolate, apple cider, cookies, and other treats! Bring your appetite and jingle bells.<br />
<br />
If you want to bring something to share, list it here:<br />
* Your name - your food item<br />
* Your name - your food item<br />
<br />
== Meeting Staff ==<br />
If you would like to volunteer to assist with this meeting, please add your name to one or more of the [[MeetingChecklist|categories]] below.<br />
* Host: [[User:Oflameo| John Lewis]]<br />
* Co-Host: Vance Kochenderfer, your name here<br />
* Setup: your name here, your name here<br />
* Clean Up: your name here, your name here<br />
<br />
== Carpooling ==<br />
<br />
* Your name/location here<br />
* Your name/location here<br />
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
Meeting to be held at [http://www.smallmanstreetdeli.com/ Smallman Street Deli] at 1912 Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, PA 15217 at 7:30pm, Thursday, November 19, 2015.<br />
<br />
== Agenda ==<br />
* Approve [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20151015#Minutes | minutes of October 15]] board meeting<br />
* Discuss/actualize board transition<br />
* Set board meeting schedule for the new board <br />
* List your item here<br />
<br />
== Minutes ==<br />
<br />
The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group was held on Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 7:55 PM at the Smallman Street Deli in Squirrel Hill, the regular presiding officer being in the chair and the regular secretary being present. The minutes of the January 20, March 17, and October 15, 2015 meetings were approved as distributed.<br />
<br />
The Vice-Chair reported that HackPittsburgh is still booked for the December General User Meeting and that he continues working on an audio conferencing server.<br />
<br />
The Secretary reported that there are currently 19 members.<br />
<br />
The Treasurer reported that there is $446.47 in the checking account. Recently deposited was $60.00 in dues, and $12.50 was recently paid to Linode for server hosting. He stated that the refreshment fund balance was $0.00, having been used to purchase food for the August picnic.<br />
<br />
The meeting then recessed to allow the newly-elected Board members to decide on officer appointments. The following appointments were made, and the Secretary announced them to the membership:<br />
* Chair: Vance Kochenderfer<br />
* Vice-Chair: Joseph Prostko<br />
* Secretary: Pat Barron<br />
* Treasurer: Terry Golightly<br />
* Director-at-Large: Justin Smith<br />
<br />
The meeting was called back to order at 8:17 PM.<br />
<br />
It was moved to reschedule the December meeting of the Board of Directors for December 15, 2015, and to establish the following schedule for meetings in 2016: January 19, February 16, March 15, April 19, May 17, June 21, July 19, August 16, September 20, October 18, and November 15, with meetings starting at 7:30 PM and to be held at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. The motion was adopted.<br />
<br />
It was moved to tentatively schedule General User Meetings in 2016 for the second Saturday of the month; however, these dates would be considered subject to change and meetings would not be announced until a speaker and program is lined up. The motion was adopted.<br />
<br />
It was moved to appoint the following individuals to the Technology Committee: Pat Barron as committee chair, Vance Kochenderfer, Justin Smith, Terry Golightly, Joseph Prostko, and John Lewis. The motion was adopted.<br />
<br />
It was moved to appoint the following individuals to the Event Committee: Vance Kochenderfer as committee chair, Pat Barron, Stanley Slomberg, and Joseph Prostko. The motion was adopted.<br />
<br />
It was moved to appoint the following individuals to the Investigating Committee: Nick Schembri as committee chair and David Sevick. The motion was adopted.<br />
<br />
It was moved to appoint the following individual to the Marketing and Communications Committee: Pat Barron. The motion was adopted. (Joseph Prostko serves as committee chair ex officio.)<br />
<br />
The meeting adjourned at 8:50 PM.<br />
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<div>WPLUG will have a General User Meeting and presentation on Saturday, November 14, 2015 starting at 3:00pm at [[HackPittsburgh]]. Elections for the Board of Directors will be held.<br />
<br />
== Schedule for the Day ==<br />
3:00pm - Doors open, set up<br/><br />
3:15pm - Business Meeting starts, election<br/><br />
3:30pm - Featured presentation<br/><br />
5:00pm - Meeting ends, everyone out.<br />
<br />
== Election ==<br />
At this meeting, we will elect the WPLUG Board of Directors for 2015-2016.<br />
<br />
Votes may be cast by mail or in person at the meeting. Your vote must be received before the polls close to be counted, so show up by 3:00pm to be sure you get to cast yours.<br />
<br />
The ballot for this election has been e-mailed to the membership and [[Media:2015_11_WPLUG_Ballot.pdf | is available as a PDF]] on the wiki. Blank ballots will also be available at the meeting. Detailed instructions for voting are given at [[Election Instructions]].<br />
<br />
Those who were nominated at the October 24, 2015 nominations meeting and have agreed to be candidates are (in alphabetical order):<br />
* Patrick Barron<br />
* Terry Golightly<br />
* Vance Kochenderfer<br />
* John Lewis<br />
* Joseph Prostko<br />
* Justin Smith<br />
<br />
=== Candidate Statements ===<br />
<br />
==== Patrick Barron ====<br />
<br />
In my view, WPLUG's primary focus in the upcoming year must be to re-engage with the local tech community. To do that, we must offer programming and experiences that people want, in an environment that people want to be part of. I believe the most important problem we need to solve is the problem of convincing potential presenters that WPLUG is a good venue for them to communicate their content. While we've taken on some of these issues before, I think the last couple of years of organizational knowledge, and reflection on the results of previous efforts, put us in a better position to take effective action now than we have been previously.<br />
<br />
If elected, this would be my fourth consecutive term on the Board. While I acknowledge that I have not had as much time in the last year to devote to WPLUG as I've had in prior terms, I've been happy to be able to help serve the interests of the FOSS community, and look forward to continuing that service for another term, in whatever ways the organization finds most valuable.<br />
<br />
==== Terry Golightly ====<br />
<br />
To be added.<br />
<br />
==== Vance Kochenderfer ====<br />
<br />
My focus for 2015-2016 is the presentations at WPLUG meetings. By recruiting speakers well in advance, and focusing on quality, we can have a program to promote and build the organization. We have seen a continuing drop in attendance, and I believe that having pre-announced talks on cool topics by great speakers is the way to reverse this. I base this on past experience; for example, between December 2004 and June 2005, we had talks on the following subjects: DocBook, Kernel Configuration, User-Mode Linux, RPMs, SysAdmin Basics, Managing an Open Source Project, Linux in Mission-Critical Applications, Subversion, MythTV, and Regular Expressions. Attendance was much stronger then, and we can get there again. I will put my energy into reaching out to potential speakers using my network and others I know through the Ohio LinuxFest and WPLUG's past.<br />
<br />
==== John Lewis ====<br />
<br />
I have improved WPLUG dramatically since I started my term as Vice Chair. I sponsored WPLUG's move to HackPGH and lobbied HackPGH at every Members meeting to make sure that our club doesn't get ignored. I booked the speakers. I got WPLUG acknowledged at Pittsburgh Code and Supply. I refocused the Linux Users Group on the thing that attracts people to it, which is aiding people in the use of GNU/Linux. Doing my next term we are going to make sure we can take membership payments on line using USD and BTC, and get a VoIP system up and running with the stretch goal of finally incorporating. Vote for me because I revitalized the organization.<br />
<br />
==== Joseph Prostko ====<br />
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I have been a WPLUG member for quite a few years, and a Linux user and open source developer for many more years. This year I am running again for the WPLUG board of directors, which I have served on since 2011. If elected I will probably want to try serving a role on the board that I haven't already served previously, just to round out my experience.<br />
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As mentioned in a couple of other candidate statements, I agree that offering quality programming is crucial to continued interest and growth of WPLUG. I think this may mean that WPLUG would then have less meetings over the course of the year, but as long as there's quality content offered each time there is a general meeting, I think it will be well worth it. I also think pursuing joint events with groups like Pittsburgh Code & Supply would be worth exploring as well, as it could be good for both groups.<br />
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I'd like to continue to see WPLUG grow as an organization with respect to meeting attendance and membership, and would like to do my best to help with that effort if elected to serve on the board.<br />
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For more about me, please check out my User page, located here: [[User:Jprostko]]<br />
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==== Justin Smith ====<br />
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I'm running because I want to make WPLUG a more welcoming organization. There are some in the Linux community who feel it's acceptable to express the same sort of condescending arrogance that popular figures such as Linus Torvalds espouse. It isn't. That attitude has damaged our reputation to such a degree that many of our long-term members/attendees now want little to do with us.<br />
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While I think we can all appreciate some good-natured teasing, such as the Vim vs Emacs holy wars, we need people on the board who can invite participation from users of all walks of life, and I have a record of doing just that.<br />
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The year before last, I was chairman of the board. I helped arrange for several meetings that were particularly successful, such as a talk about Blender at Pittsburgh Filmmakers that was widely attended - not just by WPLUG regulars, but by people who hadn't had prior exposure to open source software.<br />
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I hope to be a positive influence by arranging for similar such events and encouraging WPLUG's participation in open source projects. I will work against any individuals who attempt to tear down our community.<br />
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== Speaker/Presentation ==<br />
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'''Speaker:''' Vance Kochenderfer<br />
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'''Topic:''' MediaWiki Use and Administration<br />
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[http://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki] is the software which powers Wikipedia and many other wikis (such as the one you're viewing right now!). Vance will give an overview of how to use MediaWiki and some background if you want to install and maintain your own wiki.<br />
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[[Media:2015-11-14-mediawiki-pres.pdf|Slide presentation]]<br />
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== Meeting Minutes ==<br />
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The regular meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group was held on Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 3:15 PM at HackPittsburgh, the regular presiding officer and secretary being present. The minutes of the October 24, 2015 meeting were approved as read.<br />
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The Chair reported that he has been in contact with individuals working on Arch Linux on the ARM architecture about speaking at a future meeting.<br />
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The Vice-Chair reported that he is still working on Asterisk and Django, and that he has a media server that may potentially be useful for recording and/or livestreaming meetings. He stated he is planning to speak with Pittsburgh Code and Supply about listing WPLUG meetings among their events.<br />
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The Secretary reported that WPLUG currently has 19 members.<br />
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The Treasurer reported that there is $446.47 in the checking account, with $60.00 in dues recently deposited and $12.50 recently paid to Linode for hosting expenses. He stated that the refreshment fund currently has a $0.00 balance as it was used to purchase food for the August picnic.<br />
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The Event Committee reported that Robert Blackwell and Roland Hess have been contacted about speaking at future meetings; both will not be available until at least January. John Lewis stated that he can ask individuals at PittMesh to speak.<br />
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The election for the Board of Directors was put before the membership. Stanley Slomberg and Gene Kern were appointed as election tellers, and the polls were opened. Once all members had the opportunity to cast their votes, the Chair declared the polls closed.<br />
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The meeting then recessed to allow the election tellers the opportunity to count the ballots. The Chair called the meeting back to order at 3:48 PM and the tellers delivered their report.<br />
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Accordingly, the Chair declared Pat Barron, Terry Golightly, Vance Kochenderfer, Joseph Prostko, and Justin Smith elected.<br />
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The meeting adjourned at 3:52 PM.<br />
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== Meeting Staff ==<br />
If you would like to volunteer to assist with this meeting, please add your name to one or more of the [[MeetingChecklist|categories]] below.<br />
* Host: Your name here<br />
* Co-Host: Your name here<br />
* Setup: Your name here<br />
* Clean Up: Vance Kochenderfer, Your name here<br />
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
Meeting to be held at [http://www.smallmanstreetdeli.com/ Smallman Street Deli] at 1912 Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, PA 15217 at 7:30pm, Thursday, October 15, 2015.<br />
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== Agenda ==<br />
* Approve [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20150818#Minutes | minutes of August 18]] board meeting<br />
* Approve [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20150923#Minutes | minutes of September 23]] special board meeting<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
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== Minutes ==<br />
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The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group was held on Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 7:41 PM at the Smallman Street Deli in Squirrel Hill, the regular presiding officer being in the chair and the regular secretary being present. The minutes of the August 18 and September 23, 2015 meetings were approved as distributed.<br />
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The Chair reported that he has not yet implemented planned anti-spam measures on the server.<br />
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The Vice-Chair reported that he is preparing a presentation for the October 24, 2015 General User Meeting.<br />
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The Secretary reported that there are currently 18 members.<br />
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The Treasurer reported that there is $398.97 in the checking account. Recently deposited was $40.00 in dues and $17.91 in an additional donation. Recent expenditures were $12.50 to Linode for server hosting. He stated that WPLUG had received a $20.00 referral credit at Linode a few months ago, which is why hosting expenses for the past couple months were reduced.<br />
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The Technology Committee reported that John Lewis has joined PittMesh, that he wants to set up a Mumble server, and that he is still working on building a membership portal.<br />
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The Event Committee reported that it would attempt to contact Nick Schembri to speak about ProxMox and also try to line up future speakers.<br />
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The meeting adjourned at 7:53 PM.<br />
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(Approved on [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20151119|November 19, 2015]] - VK)<br />
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<div>Special meeting as [http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pipermail/wplug-board/2015-September/002950.html called by the Chair], to take place on Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 7:30 PM by audio conference. Business to be transacted is rescheduling of upcoming General User Meetings.<br />
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A special meeting of the Board of Directors of the Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group was held on Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 7:34 PM via audio conference, the regular presiding officer being in the chair and the secretary being present. It was ascertained that a quorum was present.<br />
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John Lewis moved to reschedule the October 10, 2015 General User Meeting at the IBM offices in Squirrel Hill to take place on October 24, 2015 at HackPittsburgh. The motion was adopted.<br />
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The meeting adjourned at 7:41 PM.<br />
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(Approved on [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20151015|October 15, 2015]] - VK)<br />
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<div>WPLUG will hold a General User Meeting and presentation on Saturday, October 24, 2015 starting at 3:00pm at [[HackPittsburgh]].<br />
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== Schedule for the Day ==<br />
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3:00pm - Doors open, set up<br/><br />
3:15pm - Business Meeting starts<br/><br />
3:30pm - Featured presentation<br/><br />
5:00pm - Meeting ends, everyone out.<br />
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== Nominations ==<br />
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At the business meeting, we will take nominations for the five seats on the WPLUG [[WPLUGBoard|Board of Directors]]. Those meeting the qualifications in Section 6.4 of the [[ByLaws#6_OFFICERS|WPLUG bylaws]] are eligible for election. Members may nominate any eligible person, including themselves. The election will be held on [[Meeting-20151114|November 14]]. You may nominate up to five people. '''Please show up promptly''' as the nominations will be one of the first items of business handled.<br />
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== Speaker/Presentation ==<br />
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Speaker [[User:Oflameo|John Lewis]]<br />
Topic: How I configured an [https://github.com/Oflameo/infrared_controlled_raspberry_pi | IR remote for a Raspberry Pi] or waisted 24 hours trying.<br />
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Story about about how I succeeded or failed at bending a Raspberry Pi to my will. Result to be determined. Chance of Live Demo 85%.<br />
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== Meeting Minutes ==<br />
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The regular meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group was held on Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 3:17 PM at HackPittsburgh. In the absence of the regular presiding officer, the Vice-Chair presided at the meeting. The regular secretary was present. The minutes of the September 12, 2015 meeting were approved as read.<br />
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The Vice-Chair reported that he is working on a SIP conferencing server, that HackPittsburgh has been booked as a venue for General User Meetings through December, and that he is still working on developing a membership portal.<br />
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The Secretary reported that WPLUG currently has 18 members.<br />
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The Treasurer was absent, but in his place the Secretary reported that there is $398.97 in the checking account.<br />
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The Marketing and Communications Committee discussed the need for materials to promote WPLUG such as business cards and stickers. Stanley Slomberg moved to authorize the expenditure of up to $20.00 for the purchase of business cards. The motion was adopted. John Lewis moved to authorize the expenditure of up to $25.00 for stickers. The motion was defeated.<br />
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Nominations for the 2015 Board of Directors election were opened. John Lewis, Vance Kochenderfer, Terry Golightly, Joseph Prostko, Pat Barron, and Justin Smith were nominated. Nominations were then closed.<br />
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John Lewis moved to authorize the expenditure of up to $10.00 for WPLUG stickers. The motion was defeated.<br />
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The meeting adjourned at 3:43 PM.<br />
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(Approved on [[Meeting-20151114|November 14, 2015]] - VK)<br />
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== Meeting Staff ==<br />
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* Clean Up: Add your name here, Add your name here<br />
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<div>This meeting was rescheduled for [[Meeting-20151024 | October 24, 2015]]. Please follow the link to that page.<br />
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
Meeting to be held at [http://www.smallmanstreetdeli.com/ Smallman Street Deli] at 1912 Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, PA 15217 at 7:30pm, Thursday, September 17, 2014.<br />
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== Agenda ==<br />
* Approve [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20150818#Minutes | minutes of August 18]] board meeting<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
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<div>WPLUG will have a General User Meeting and presentation on Saturday, September 12, 2015 starting at 3:00pm at [[HackPittsburgh]].<br />
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== Schedule for the Day ==<br />
3:00pm - Doors open, set up<br/><br />
3:15pm - Business Meeting starts<br/><br />
3:30pm - Featured presentation<br/><br />
5:00pm - Meeting ends, everyone out.<br />
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== Catering ==<br />
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Free Popcorn, Parsley, Tang, and Coffee for all attendees.<br />
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== Speaker/Presentation ==<br />
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Presentation: [https://github.com/Oflameo/intro_to_databases_with_sqlite3 Intro to Databases with SQLite3] by John Lewis<br />
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== Meeting Minutes ==<br />
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The regular meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group was held on Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 3:24 PM at HackPittsburgh. In the absence of the regular presiding officer, the Vice-Chair presided at the meeting. The regular secretary was present. The minutes of the June 27, 2015 meeting were approved as corrected.<br />
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The Vice-Chair reported that HackPittsburgh is making progress on its robotics project and that his presentation for today's meeting is available on Github.<br />
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The Secretary reported that WPLUG currently has 17 members.<br />
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The Treasurer reported that there is $353.58 in the checking account with $17.91 in receipts via Eventbrite for the picnic and $20.00 in dues to be deposited. Recent expenditures were $5.00 to Linode for hosting expenses, $9.00 to Comodo to renew the SSL certificate, and $102.00 to the U.S. Postal Service to renew the post office box. He stated that he will not be available to attend the upcoming Board of Directors meeting on September 17.<br />
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The Technology Committee reported that there has not been progress on the membership portal. The new SSL certificate was installed on the server, as were standard software updates.<br />
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The Events Committee reported that the Pittsburgh Maker Faire is on October 10, conflicting with the WPLUG General User Meeting, and that John Lewis will not be available on this date.<br />
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Pat Barron moved to ratify his expenditure of $9.00 for the SSL certificate. The motion was adopted.<br />
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John Lewis stated his intention to run for the Board of Directors for the upcoming year and to seek the office of Chair.<br />
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The meeting adjourned at 3:51 PM.<br />
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(Approved on [[Meeting-20151024|October 24, 2015]] - VK)<br />
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== Meeting Staff ==<br />
If you would like to volunteer to assist with this meeting, please add your name to one or more of the [[MeetingChecklist|categories]] below.<br />
* Host: [[User:Oflameo| John Lewis]]<br />
* Co-Host: Justin Smith<br />
* Setup: John Lewis<br />
* Clean Up: John Lewis<br />
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== Carpooling ==<br />
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<div>== Venue Info ==<br />
Meeting to be held at [http://www.smallmanstreetdeli.com/ Smallman Street Deli] at 1912 Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, PA 15217 at 7:30pm, Tuesday, August 18, 2014.<br />
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== Agenda ==<br />
* Approve [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20150721#Minutes | minutes of July 21]] board meeting<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
* List your item here<br />
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== Minutes ==<br />
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The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group was held on Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 7:45 PM at the Smallman Street Deli in Squirrel Hill. In the absence of the regular presiding officer, the Vice-Chair presided at the meeting. The regular secretary was present. The minutes of the July 21, 2015 meeting were approved as distributed.<br />
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The Vice-Chair reported that HackPittsburgh is unavailable on the third Saturday of the month, when we had planned for General User Meetings, and he reserved the venue for the second Saturdays. He noted that the third Saturday of October there will be a Maker Faire event in Pittsburgh. He stated that he will follow up with ComputerReach on holding a joint event and Pittsburgh Code and Supply about having WPLUG events listed.<br />
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The Secretary reported that there are currently 18 members.<br />
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The Treasurer reported that there is $469.56 in the checking account. Recently deposited was $20.00 in dues and $10.00 in an additional donation. Eventbrite receipts for the picnic amounted to $17.91 yet to be deposited.<br />
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The Technology Committee reported that John Lewis was still working on building a membership portal in Django, and Pat Barron and Joe Prostko were working on implementing anti-spam measures on the WPLUG server.<br />
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Pat Barron moved to renew the post office box for a period of one year for $102.00. The motion was adopted as amended.<br />
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Vance Kochenderfer moved to amend the previously-adopted dates for General User Meetings to be September 12, October 10, November 14, and December 12. The motion was adopted.<br />
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Vance Kochenderfer moved to amend the previously-adopted dates for Board of Directors meetings to be September 17, October 15, November 19, and December 17. The motion was adopted.<br />
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John Lewis stated that he would prepare a presentation to be delivered at the September General User Meeting.<br />
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The meeting adjourned at 8:11 PM.<br />
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(Approved on [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20151015|October 15, 2015]] - VK)<br />
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