Meeting-20131109

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WPLUG will hold its next general user meeting on Saturday, November 9, 2013, at the Wilkins School Community Center. You don't have to be a WPLUG member to attend; everyone is welcome.

Since 10-15 minute "lightning talks" were so popular at our previous meeting, we're once again opening the floor to anyone who'd like to give a lightning talk on their favorite free or open source software.

We'll also hold be holding the 2014 WPLUG Board of Directors election during our business meeting.

Schedule for the Day

1:30pm - Doors open, set up
2:00pm - Business Meeting starts, elections
2:30pm - Lightening talks... You have something that you are working on? Or want to share something in the FOSS/Linux world that just interests interests you? Can you deliver it in 10 minutes or so? Well then, come on in and tell us about it.
3:30pm - Meeting ends, everyone out. Some of us may go to D's 6pack for beer and dogs.

Election

At this meeting, we will elect the WPLUG Board of Directors for 2013-2014.

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 2:00pm to be sure you get to cast yours.

The ballot for this election has been provided to the membership and can be downloaded from the wiki in ODT and PDF formats. Blank ballots will also be available at the meeting. Detailed instructions for voting are given at Election Instructions.

Those who were nominated at the October 13, 2012 nominations meeting and have agreed to be candidates are (in alphabetical order):

  • Patrick Barron
  • Vance Kochenderfer
  • Joseph Prostko
  • Stanley Slomberg
  • Justin Smith

Meet the Candidates

There will be a special "meet the candidates" session in the WPLUG IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, channel #wplug) on Tuesday, October 29, 2012 from 7:30 - 8:00 p.m. We encourage all members to attend and ask questions of the candidates.

Candidate Statements

Patrick Barron

Vance Kochenderfer

Joseph Prostko

Stanley Slomberg

Justin Smith

Speaker/Presentation

Is there a particular free or open source program you just can't live without? Tell us about it! There's no need to prepare a speech or make slides; just show us your program in 10-15 minutes.

Justin Smith:

  • MakeMKV, your one-click solution for ripping Blu-Ray and DVD movies on Linux
  • Handbrake, a GPL-licensed video transcoder that can convert MakeMKV rips to different formats so you can watch them on different devices

Your name here

Meeting Minutes

To be added.

Meeting Staff

If you would like to volunteer to assist with this meeting, please add your name to one or more of the categories below.

  • Host: Your name here
  • Co-Host: Your name here
  • Setup: Your name here
  • Clean Up: Your name here

Carpooling

  • Your name/location here