Editing WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070514

= Agenda =

# Minutes from Previous Meeting
# Officer Reports
## Chair - Patrick Wagstrom
### Elections will happen at June 9th meeting
### Pittsburgh Perl Mongers have asked for help with Pittsburgh Perl Workshop
## Vice Chair - Vance Kochenderfer
## Secretary - Bill Moran
## Treasurer - Beth Lynn Eicher
## Member at Large - Beth Lynn Eicher
# Committee Reports
## Program
### Next meeting on June 9th in NSH 3002 - speaker is Mike Skowvron
### Picnic is in August
### Do we want to consider a larger scale installfest in late July / Early August?
## Public Relations
## Internet
### Patrick looked at a few VPS options, tektronic.net and johncompanies.  The former is cheaper ($20/mo), the latter is rock solid and well regarded ($35ish/mo).
## Investigating
## Newsletter
# Unfinished Business
# New Business

= Minutes =

# Call to order: 7:38
# Minutes from March: Approved with minor edits.
# Officer Reports
## Chair
### Can not attend June 9th elections -> Vance to handle chair duties
### PPM have asked for help with perl workshop
### Pgh tech council -> not interested in meeting
### WPLUG involved with summer slam?
### Would perl mongers be interseted in barcamp?  Patrick to contact.
## Vice Chair
### Sent letter to Post Gazette
### Vance has t-shirts for swag
## Secretary
### Membership records are being updated
## Treasurer
### Have not seen any recent bank statements
### Patrick gave Beth his PO box key
# Committee reports
## Program committee
### May is not a good time for an installfest (picnics, other stuff)
### May could be a good time for the picnic for 2008
### Beth investigating other venues (2 libraries with too many stairs)
### Squirrel Hill is booked far in advance
### Jared from PTC has expressed openness to allow us to have meetings there.
### It would be intersting to have ~4 meetings /year outside of CMU
### Meeting June 9, NSH 3002 I/O talk on FS perf/etc Mike Schoven
#### Promo this to SNAPgh
#### We need an RSVP@wplug so we know how many people are going to show
### Picnic will happen in August
### Greg Akens: would like a repeat of the Coding Dojo event
#### Late July/Early August (scheduled for August)
#### Can we well publicise this?
#### Patrick will have a bunch of Ubuntu CDs
#### Maybe set up a "classroom session" with Ubuntu: Follow along
##### Need additional volunteers to help out
##### Publicise it with Ubuntu
### We should move the October meeting: Probably to the 20th
### Picnic is on Aug 5
### Still need meeting topic for July 14
## PR committee
### Called Bernie/left voicemail/Pgh TiE -- 3rd/4th week of June
### Survey : waiting for input
### Linux phrase book - we have as a givaway
### Vance to send out reminder regarding survey
### Ted & Brian were turned down for the sprout fund
## Internet
### Either tektronic.net or johncompanies.  tt = $20/mo, jc = $35/mo
### Patrick to check out PAIR
### Beth to check out aspstation
### Beth to migrate DNS to Joker
## Newsletter
### April issue is out.  May issue looking for submissions
## Erie LUG
### We should offer to give a talk in Erie
# New Business
## IRC: Informal member meetings: Wednesday 6th from 7:00 - 8:00 PM Candidates should be there in case of question
## Patrick Announce contest, Deadline July 1, Will be prize.  Feel free to use content management system, etc
## Member profiles: what kind of questions to ask
## It was moved to remove the wplug-bs mailing list.  The motion passed unanimously.
## Bill should have a password for wplug-members
## Dave O. should be removed from wplug-board
# Adjourned at 8:58.