WPLUG Board 2008 Goals

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• LUGRadio Live USA - Vance 12:45, 20 November 2007 (EST)
• Establish secret Antarctic command post - Vance 12:45, 20 November 2007 (EST)
• Meeting schedule defined and published 2-3 months 6 months out - resolve meeting places - Vance 12:45, 20 November 2007 (EST)

Five Year Goals

• Tangible benefits for members
• Medium/Large scale Pittsburgh based Linux conference
• Training to the point of formal certification (see what's going on with the FreeBSD community)
• Strong SIGs that meet monthly
• Better WPLUG reputation -- local, national level -- with other lugs, FOSS in general, governments
• File for 501(c)(3) status
• Grow membership by 50% each year

Three Year Goals

• Regional conference on a yearly basis
• OS Desktop training sessions -- PrePrint workflow, photo workflow, etc. More of a classroom instruction session see about working with ProTech or something
• Tiered membership program
  • associate, student, professional, etc
  • provides infrastructure for tangible benefits
• Incorporate with the state
• Crossover membership with other PGH technology organizations
  • In a regional sense -- connect with other Linux/BSD/Free Software Groups
  • Ohio, WVULug, CPlug, BPLUG, PSLUG
  • regional alliances
  • (aka getting in touch with other organizations that serve a similar purpose)

One Year Goals

• getting committees functioning
  • start with individual people
  • put people on the committee that are active and willing to do the tasks within the scope
  • make them feel empowered
  • have committees go through the same exercise we're doing here
    • 1 year, 6 mon, 3 mon plans
  • board member on each committee to oversee, but not do the work
  • reduce barrier to entry on committees
• Tax ID number
• Meeting schedule defined and published 2-3 months out - resolve meeting places
• LUGRadio Live USA
• Fix the online community
  • retire penguin
  • install a real CMS
    • openACS is not a long term solution
    • maybe just stick with MediaWiki
  • redirect wplug.org to wplug.ece.cmu.edu
  • install jabber server for wplug (wildfire is a good option)
  • find some network admins
  • set specific times on IRC for questions/help rather than idlefest
  • select a software platform
  • contest for new WPLUG logo or layout