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<div>Monday, October 29th, 2007, 7:30 PM<br />
<br />
= Agenda =<br />
<br />
# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair<br />
## Vice Chair<br />
## Secretary<br />
## Treasurer<br />
## Member at Large<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
## Investigating<br />
## Newsletter<br />
## ErieLUG<br />
# Unfinished Business<br />
# New Business<br />
<br />
= Items for Discussion =<br />
<br />
* '''Selection and announcement of new officers'''<br />
* Set board meeting schedule for next 12 months<br />
* Set GUM/event schedule for next 12 months<br />
* Appointment of [[Committees|committee members]]<br />
** Internet Committee<br />
** Program Committee<br />
** Investigating Committee<br />
** Newsletter Committee<br />
** ErieLUG Revival Committee<br />
** Public Relations Committee<br />
* Misc. payments (some of these may already be approved so don't need a vote, just a check)<br />
** Vance - CafePress swag ($41.97)<br />
** Vance - Linode, prorated payment for Sep. 10-30 ($13.97)<br />
** Patrick - [http://patrick.wagstrom.net/misc/2007MemberOfTheYearFunding.pdf Member of the year] ($20.00)<br />
** Patrick - [http://patrick.wagstrom.net/misc/WPLUG10thAnniversaryCake.pdf 10th anniversary cake] ($44.78)<br />
** WPLUG business cards<br />
* Review and update [[WPLUGBoard#WPLUG_Goals|WPLUG goals]]<br />
<br />
= Meeting Minutes =<br />
<br />
* Call to order 7:45 PM<br />
# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
## Not available<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair<br />
### Nothing to report<br />
## Vice Chair<br />
### There may be membership information in the PO box<br />
## Secretary<br />
### Nothing to report<br />
## Treasurer<br />
### There is money that needs to be deposited as dues<br />
### Arranging for transfer of the checkbook and mailbox key - will be returning to Pgh over Thanksgiving<br />
## Member at Large<br />
### Intends to work toward women's SIG in 2008<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
### Installfest Nov 10. Will have OpenSolaris media and there may be a tech from Sun in attendance. Will attempt to set up an OpenSolaris VM that can PXE boot for net installs (Ted will bring a box). Room 1507 @ CMU.<br />
### Attempts to contact Michael S have not succeeded<br />
### Neil S. to talk about Bricolage in December.<br />
### BL would like to do a weeknight meeting as early as December. Will start discussion on wplug-plan@<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
### Have resolved password problems.<br />
## Investigating<br />
### No report. Mike in NY, but liable to continue on committee<br />
## Newsletter<br />
## ErieLUG<br />
# Unfinished Business<br />
## Jennifer Landefield has an uncertain amount of WPLUG funds from her time as treasurer 7 - 8 years ago. BL will approach her to settle up.<br />
# New Business<br />
## New board: Chair Vance K., Vice-chair Mike S., Treasurer Dave K., Secretary Beth E., Ted R. as Member at large<br />
### Patrick to send out notice of new board<br />
## Committee Appointements<br />
### Internet Committee: Beth Lynn, Mike S., Dave O., Dave K.<br />
### Program Committee: Beth Lynn, Ted R., Mike S., Brian S.<br />
### Investigating Committee: Mike H., Bill M.<br />
### Newsletter Committee: Mark D., Vance K., Mike S.<br />
### ErieLUG Revival Committee: Vance K., Beth Lynn, Chris T., Dave K., Dave O.<br />
### PR Committee: Mike S., Ted R., Brian S., Dave K.<br />
## Moved to reimburse Patrick $20 for member of the year card: passed without opposition<br />
## Linode charged additional money to Vance for our server account, but the amount is still within the previously approved amount<br />
## Vance got a quote for new business cards: $50 for 500, $70 for 1000. Vance & Ted to continue research<br />
## The board mailing list needs switched to the new members<br />
## info@wplug.org to be redirected to Mike S.<br />
## top@wplug.org needs adjusted for new members<br />
## events@wplug.org needs investigated to see who should be on it<br />
## The board defers site decisions to the Internet committed, but recommends maintaining the wiki and mailman and recommends that a third party service such as Google apps be investigated for CMS, and recommends that at least 2 admin accounts exist on the hosted service at any time.<br />
## WPLUG goals discussion deferred until the November 19 meeting<br />
* Adjourned at 10:28 PM</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoardWPLUGBoard2007-11-02T03:48:51Z<p>Wmoran: Moved Oct meeting to past</p>
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<div>The WPLUG board consists of five elected members of WPLUG who oversee the operations of WPLUG and plan for its future growth. The current board was elected on Saturday, October 16, 2006 and consists of:<br />
* Chair: [[User:Pwagstro | Patrick Wagstrom]]<br />
* Vice-Chair: [[User:Vance | Vance Kochenderfer]]<br />
* Secretary: [[User:Wmoran | Bill Moran]]<br />
* Treasurer: [[User:Michael.Hansell | Mike Hansell]] (from special election of June 9, 2007)<br />
* Member-at-Large: [[User:Bethlynn | Beth Lynn Eicher]]<br />
<br />
= Previous WPLUG Board Meetings =<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20061030 | October 30, 2006]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20061127 | Monday, November 27, 2006]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20061211 | Monday, December 11, 2006]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070122 | Monday, January 22, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070212 | Monday, February 12, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070312 | Monday, March 12, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070402 | Monday, April 2, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070514 | Monday, May 14, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070611 | Monday, June 25, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070709 | Monday, July 30, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070813 | Monday, August 20, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070910 | Monday, September 10, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20071029 | Monday, October 29, 2007]]<br />
<br />
= Upcoming WPLUG Board Meetings =<br />
<br />
<br />
= WPLUG Goals =<br />
<br />
At the October 30, 2006 meeting the WPLUG board established a set of five, three and one year goals. We then pared each of these sets of goals to about five different concrete and actionable items. The goal of this plan is that the one year tasks always lead us in the direction of the three year tasks, which are the foundation for the five year tasks. The one year plan should be revisited as needed during the year, with the three and five year plan revisited annually.<br />
<br />
== Five Year Goals ==<br />
* Tangible benefits for members<br />
* Medium/Large scale Pittsburgh based Linux conference<br />
* Training to the point of formal certification (see what's going on with the FreeBSD community)<br />
* Strong SIGs that meet monthly<br />
* Better WPLUG reputation -- local, national level -- with other lugs, oss in general, goverments<br />
* Incorporate as a 501(c)(3)<br />
<br />
== Three Year Goals ==<br />
* Regional conference on a yearly basis<br />
* OS Desktop training sessions -- PrePrint workflow, photo workflow, etc. More of a classroom instruction session see about working with ProTech or something<br />
* Tiered membership program<br />
** associate, student, professional, etc<br />
** provides infrastructure for tangible benefits<br />
* Incorporate with the state<br />
* Crossover membership with other PGH technology organizations<br />
** In a regional sense -- connect with other Linux/BSD/Free Software Groups<br />
** Ohio, WVULug, CPlug, BPLUG, PSLUG<br />
** regional alliances<br />
** (aka getting in touch with other organizations that serve a similar purpose)<br />
<br />
== One Year Goals ==<br />
* getting committees functioning<br />
** start with individual people<br />
** put people on the committee that are active and willing to do the tasks within the scope<br />
** make them feel empowered<br />
** have committees go through the same exercise we're doing here<br />
*** 1 year, 6 mon, 3 mon plans<br />
** board member on each committee to oversee, but not do the work<br />
** reduce barrier to entry on committees<br />
* Tax ID number<br />
* Meeting schedule defined and published 2-3 months out - resolve meeting places<br />
* LUGRadio Live USA<br />
* Fix the online community<br />
** retire penguin<br />
** install a real CMS<br />
*** openACS is not a long term solution<br />
*** maybe just stick with MediaWiki<br />
** redirect wplug.org to wplug.ece.cmu.edu<br />
** install jabber server for wplug ([http://www.jivesoftware.org/wildfire/ wildfire] is a good option)<br />
** find some network admins<br />
** set specific times on IRC for questions/help rather than idlefest<br />
** select a software platform <br />
** contest for new WPLUG logo or layout</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070910WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200709102007-09-24T04:03:34Z<p>Wmoran: Add minutes</p>
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<div>= Agenda =<br />
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# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair - Patrick Wagstrom<br />
## Vice Chair - Vance Kochenderfer<br />
## Secretary - Bill Moran<br />
## Treasurer - Mike Hansell<br />
## Member at Large - Beth Lynn Eicher<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
## Investigating<br />
## Newsletter<br />
## ErieLUG<br />
# Unfinished Business<br />
# New Business<br />
<br />
= Minutes =<br />
<br />
# Called to order at 7:32 PM<br />
# Previous meeting's minutes approved.<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair - Patrick Wagstrom<br />
### It's very important to get the board to meetings on time, it was upsetting that some people were late to the business meeting at the GUM. It was good that everyone had their reports ready and the meeting went quickly.<br />
### Patrick to investigate getting a key to the CMU rooms, in case Ted runs in to difficulty. As long as there's someone associated with SCS, we should be able to use the rooms in Newell-Simon.<br />
### South Hills Giant Eagle may have a usable venue if needed.<br />
### Jared (PTC) is open to allowing us to meet at PTC facilities in case of an emergency.<br />
### The board should actively foster relationships that allow us access to other venues in the event CMU is unavailable.<br />
### We have a nice pool of nominees for the board.<br />
### There will be a cake at OLF during the pre-party on Friday, Sept 28. We need to approve money for the October meeting for cake, etc.<br />
### Mike S. understands our reservations to slicehost. Vance will register a Linode account and Mike will write a reimbursement check. We previously voted to spend $300/year and the $20/month plan looks good.<br />
## Vice Chari - Vance Kochenderfer<br />
### Executrain may offer a training discount for WPLUG employees, but Vance has not heard back despite contacting them.<br />
### Vance will soon be getting a quote for business cards.<br />
## Secretary - Bill Moran<br />
### It's OK to give a 30-day grace period for folks who want to renew but can't get money until the next meeting.<br />
### PO box has been renewed<br />
### Ballots for the election need to be sent out<br />
## Treasurer - Mike Hansell<br />
### $60 in dues collected<br />
### Account balance: $506.89<br />
## Member at large - Beth Eicher<br />
### Pittsburgh Perl workshop is having difficulty. It would be nice to promote the event for them. They are also looking for volunteer help for the October 13/14 event<br />
### SNAPgh has indefinitely lost their venue<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
### Each board member should analyze how the programming went last year. We have stuck to meeting dates, does it matter? Was the quality of the speakers good enough? Was it wise to scale back to only 1 meeting per month and one installfest every 3 months? Please write up your opinions and bring them to the next meeting.<br />
### There are two leads for the October meeting, if neither work, Patrick will give a talk either on Python or MythTV. It would be good to have the new board plan the December meeting.<br />
### The November installfest is shortly after the new board takes over. Ideas for theme? Fedorafest? Gentoofest?<br />
### Most committees are actually run by the board. It'd be good for the new board to actively recruit committee members.<br />
### About 15 people have signed up for the mailing list for the activities fair.<br />
### Greg Simkins got a quote on a WPLUG poster.<br />
### Bryan Smith signed up to help Ted with LPI work.<br />
### Vance bought 2 mugs and a tote bag from Cafe Press. Please bring to next meeting.<br />
## PR<br />
### The activities fair is probably worth doing again<br />
### Software Freedom Day looks good. Need 20 or 30 CD cases or sleeves.<br />
## Internet<br />
### We're buying them a virtual server<br />
## Investigating<br />
### The complaint has been rectified (found to be without cause).<br />
## Newsletter<br />
### Never heard back from Bobbie on books, apparently she's interested<br />
### ErieLUG is alive and kicking<br />
### Software Freedom Day looks good, we think what we're doing is legal.<br />
### Greg Simkins needs to fill out a form for what he wants for the sign so we can approve it.<br />
# Next meeting is the Monday after elections (Oct 22)<br />
# Adjourned 9:20</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoardWPLUGBoard2007-09-23T17:51:58Z<p>Wmoran: Move last meeting to "previous"</p>
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<div>The WPLUG board consists of five elected members of WPLUG who oversee the operations of WPLUG and plan for its future growth. The current board was elected on Saturday, October 16, 2006 and consists of:<br />
* Chair: [[User:Pwagstro | Patrick Wagstrom]]<br />
* Vice-Chair: [[User:Vance | Vance Kochenderfer]]<br />
* Secretary: [[User:Wmoran | Bill Moran]]<br />
* Treasurer: [[User:Michael.Hansell | Mike Hansell]] (from special election of June 9, 2007)<br />
* Member-at-Large: [[User:Bethlynn | Beth Lynn Eicher]]<br />
<br />
= Previous WPLUG Board Meetings =<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20061030 | October 30, 2006]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20061127 | Monday, November 27, 2006]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20061211 | Monday, December 11, 2006]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070122 | Monday, January 22, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070212 | Monday, February 12, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070312 | Monday, March 12, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070402 | Monday, April 2, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070514 | Monday, May 14, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070611 | Monday, June 25, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070709 | Monday, July 30, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070813 | Monday, August 20, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070910 | Monday, September 10, 2007]]<br />
<br />
= Upcoming WPLUG Board Meetings =<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20071022 | Monday, October 22, 2007]]<br />
<br />
= WPLUG Goals =<br />
<br />
At the October 30, 2006 meeting the WPLUG board established a set of five, three and one year goals. We then pared each of these sets of goals to about five different concrete and actionable items. The goal of this plan is that the one year tasks always lead us in the direction of the three year tasks, which are the foundation for the five year tasks. The one year plan should be revisited as needed during the year, with the three and five year plan revisited annually.<br />
<br />
== Five Year Goals ==<br />
* Tangible benefits for members<br />
* Medium/Large scale Pittsburgh based Linux conference<br />
* Training to the point of formal certification (see what's going on with the FreeBSD community)<br />
* Strong SIGs that meet monthly<br />
* Better WPLUG reputation -- local, national level -- with other lugs, oss in general, goverments<br />
* Incorporate as a 501(c)(3)<br />
<br />
== Three Year Goals ==<br />
* Regional conference on a yearly basis<br />
* OS Desktop training sessions -- PrePrint workflow, photo workflow, etc. More of a classroom instruction session see about working with ProTech or something<br />
* Tiered membership program<br />
** associate, student, professional, etc<br />
** provides infrastructure for tangible benefits<br />
* Incorporate with the state<br />
* Crossover membership with other PGH technology organizations<br />
** In a regional sense -- connect with other Linux/BSD/Free Software Groups<br />
** Ohio, WVULug, CPlug, BPLUG, PSLUG<br />
** regional alliances<br />
** (aka getting in touch with other organizations that serve a similar purpose)<br />
<br />
== One Year Goals ==<br />
* getting committees functioning<br />
** start with individual people<br />
** put people on the committee that are active and willing to do the tasks within the scope<br />
** make them feel empowered<br />
** have committees go through the same exercise we're doing here<br />
*** 1 year, 6 mon, 3 mon plans<br />
** board member on each committee to oversee, but not do the work<br />
** reduce barrier to entry on committees<br />
* Tax ID number<br />
* Meeting schedule defined and published 2-3 months out - resolve meeting places<br />
* LUGRadio Live USA<br />
* Fix the online community<br />
** retire penguin<br />
** install a real CMS<br />
*** openACS is not a long term solution<br />
*** maybe just stick with MediaWiki<br />
** redirect wplug.org to wplug.ece.cmu.edu<br />
** install jabber server for wplug ([http://www.jivesoftware.org/wildfire/ wildfire] is a good option)<br />
** find some network admins<br />
** set specific times on IRC for questions/help rather than idlefest<br />
** select a software platform <br />
** contest for new WPLUG logo or layout</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20071020Meeting-200710202007-09-18T14:53:58Z<p>Wmoran: </p>
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<div>= Schedule for the Day =<br />
9:30am - Setup<br/><br />
10:00am - Business Meeting Starts<br/><br />
10:45am - Business Meeting Ends<br/><br />
11:00am - Featured Presentation<br/><br />
12:00pm - Brief break for Pizza<br/><br />
2:00pm - Finish clean up, everyone out<br/><br />
<br />
= Speaker/Presentation =<br />
<br />
TBD<br />
<br />
= Business Meeting =<br />
Votes will be taken at this meeting for the 2008 board of directors of WPLUG. All mail in ballots must be received by Friday, October 19th, 2007. Those wishing to vote in person may do so.<br />
<br />
# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
<br />
== Documents For Meeting ==<br />
Election 2007 ballot: [[Media:2007_10_WPLUG_Ballot.pdf]]<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 categories below.<br />
* Host: ???<br />
* Co-Host: ???<br />
* Pizza: ???<br />
* Donuts: ???<br />
* Setup: ???<br />
* Clean Up: ???</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/Western_Pennsylvania_Linux_Users_GroupWestern Pennsylvania Linux Users Group2007-09-18T14:49:52Z<p>Wmoran: Make the link _correct_</p>
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<div>The purpose of the WPLUG Wiki is to keep track of various documents and other "stuff" related to WPLUG.<br />
<br />
The main WPLUG page is at [http://www.wplug.org/ http://www.wplug.org/]<br />
<br />
== Upcoming Meetings & Events ==<br />
The official schedule can always be found at [http://www.wplug.org/meetings/ http://www.wplug.org/meetings/]. Here's the unofficial listing with pages for each talk.<br />
<br />
* [[Meeting-20071020 | October 20, 2007]] - 10a-2p - Board Elections & General User Meeting<br />
<br />
For longer term planning and discussion about future meetings, please see the [[UpcomingMeetings | upcoming meetings]] page.<br />
<br />
== Upcoming Related Events ==<br />
* September 29, 2007 - [http://www.ohiolinux.org/ Ohio LinuxFest], Columbus, OH. Be sure to visit the [[2007 WPLUG OLF Caravan | WPLUG OLF page]] for more page about WPLUG folks attending.<br />
* October 13-14, 2007 - [http://www.pghpw.org/ Pittsburgh Perl Workshop], Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA<br />
<br />
Feel free to see the [[Previous Related Events | previous related events]] page for examples of what we've done in the past.<br />
<br />
== Online Resources ==<br />
WPLUG provides a variety of online resources to its members and the community at large, in fact, you're looking at one of these resources right now -- the WPLUG wiki. We provide these resources as a way for our members to help each other, spread the word about Linux and other open source, and generally just socialize.<br />
* [[MailingLists | Mailing Lists]] - The WPLUG mailing lists are a big part of our community. We have specific lists for many different issues, ranging from general announcements, to jobs, to people trying to sell stuff in our marketplace.<br />
* [[IRC | Internet Relay Chat]] - This is a realtime chat facility that we operate on the [http://www.freenode.net/ FreeNode] IRC network. At times this can be a very good way to get information.<br />
* [[Study Group | Certification Study Group]] - A self-study group is forming for participants to assist each other in obtaining Linux certification.<br />
<br />
== Organizational Materials ==<br />
<br />
* [[MeetingChecklist | Meeting Checklist]] - this is what needs to be done for each meeting and the responsibilities of each person.<br />
* [[FinancialDocuments | Financial Documents]] - links to the forms and instructions from the WPLUG treasurer.<br />
* [[Committees | Committee Information]] - Listing of WPLUG Committees and members<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard | Board Information]] - information on meetings of the WPLUG board<br />
* [[OpenSourceHowTo.Org | OpenSourceHowTo.Org]] - OpenSourceHowTo.Org is a place for instructional guides, video how-to's, wiki's & forms on setting up Open Source server side applications.<br />
<br />
== Swag ==<br />
<br />
Order clothing and other cool stuff with the WPLUG logo from [http://cafepress.com/wplug CafePress]. [[Image:Wplugmug.jpg]]<br />
<br />
== Past Meetings ==<br />
<br />
For information on previous meetings, please see the [[Previous Meetings | previous meetings page]]. If you're new to WPLUG, this will give you an idea of WPLUGs activity level and what sort of things we do.</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/Western_Pennsylvania_Linux_Users_GroupWestern Pennsylvania Linux Users Group2007-09-18T14:49:17Z<p>Wmoran: Create link to meeting page.</p>
<hr />
<div>The purpose of the WPLUG Wiki is to keep track of various documents and other "stuff" related to WPLUG.<br />
<br />
The main WPLUG page is at [http://www.wplug.org/ http://www.wplug.org/]<br />
<br />
== Upcoming Meetings & Events ==<br />
The official schedule can always be found at [http://www.wplug.org/meetings/ http://www.wplug.org/meetings/]. Here's the unofficial listing with pages for each talk.<br />
<br />
* [[Meeting-20070310 | October 20, 2007]] - 10a-2p - Board Elections & General User Meeting<br />
<br />
For longer term planning and discussion about future meetings, please see the [[UpcomingMeetings | upcoming meetings]] page.<br />
<br />
== Upcoming Related Events ==<br />
* September 29, 2007 - [http://www.ohiolinux.org/ Ohio LinuxFest], Columbus, OH. Be sure to visit the [[2007 WPLUG OLF Caravan | WPLUG OLF page]] for more page about WPLUG folks attending.<br />
* October 13-14, 2007 - [http://www.pghpw.org/ Pittsburgh Perl Workshop], Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA<br />
<br />
Feel free to see the [[Previous Related Events | previous related events]] page for examples of what we've done in the past.<br />
<br />
== Online Resources ==<br />
WPLUG provides a variety of online resources to its members and the community at large, in fact, you're looking at one of these resources right now -- the WPLUG wiki. We provide these resources as a way for our members to help each other, spread the word about Linux and other open source, and generally just socialize.<br />
* [[MailingLists | Mailing Lists]] - The WPLUG mailing lists are a big part of our community. We have specific lists for many different issues, ranging from general announcements, to jobs, to people trying to sell stuff in our marketplace.<br />
* [[IRC | Internet Relay Chat]] - This is a realtime chat facility that we operate on the [http://www.freenode.net/ FreeNode] IRC network. At times this can be a very good way to get information.<br />
* [[Study Group | Certification Study Group]] - A self-study group is forming for participants to assist each other in obtaining Linux certification.<br />
<br />
== Organizational Materials ==<br />
<br />
* [[MeetingChecklist | Meeting Checklist]] - this is what needs to be done for each meeting and the responsibilities of each person.<br />
* [[FinancialDocuments | Financial Documents]] - links to the forms and instructions from the WPLUG treasurer.<br />
* [[Committees | Committee Information]] - Listing of WPLUG Committees and members<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard | Board Information]] - information on meetings of the WPLUG board<br />
* [[OpenSourceHowTo.Org | OpenSourceHowTo.Org]] - OpenSourceHowTo.Org is a place for instructional guides, video how-to's, wiki's & forms on setting up Open Source server side applications.<br />
<br />
== Swag ==<br />
<br />
Order clothing and other cool stuff with the WPLUG logo from [http://cafepress.com/wplug CafePress]. [[Image:Wplugmug.jpg]]<br />
<br />
== Past Meetings ==<br />
<br />
For information on previous meetings, please see the [[Previous Meetings | previous meetings page]]. If you're new to WPLUG, this will give you an idea of WPLUGs activity level and what sort of things we do.</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070709WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200707092007-08-11T19:50:33Z<p>Wmoran: Add minutes</p>
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<div>Monday, July 30, 2007, 7:30 PM<br />
<br />
= Agenda =<br />
<br />
# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair - Patrick Wagstrom<br />
## Vice Chair - Vance Kochenderfer<br />
## Secretary - Bill Moran<br />
## Treasurer - Mike Hansell<br />
## Member at Large - Beth Lynn Eicher<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
## Investigating<br />
## Newsletter<br />
## ErieLUG<br />
# Unfinished Business<br />
# New Business<br />
<br />
= Items for Discussion =<br />
<br />
* Open Source Picnic -- What needs to be done?<br />
* InstallFest on 8/11<br />
* Marketing WPLUG<br />
* Resources to Internet committee<br />
* Informing committees about process<br />
<br />
= Meeting Minutes =<br />
<br />
# Call to order at 7:38 PM<br />
# Minutes approved with minor edits<br />
# Officer Report<br />
## Chair<br />
### Weirdness with summer slam: We were only listed on some invites. A small group of WPLUGers showed up. Vance sent Jared a thank-you. This seems a good event for WPLUG to attend. Distinctive clothing is more or less mandatory (otherwise we just blend in). Seems wise to have a strategy for next year, since evangelism and job hunting seem contradictory to each other. It may be possible to put up a table for next year. A Summer Slam wiki page might be worthwhile.<br />
## Vice-Chair<br />
### One query regarding Erie LUG was passed on to Bill/John. Another regarding Linux/PPC was referred to the mailing list/installfest.<br />
## Secretary<br />
### 35 Members in good standing at this time<br />
### Will be sending out messages to all members regarding renewal dates<br />
## Treasurer<br />
### Have received information from Beth.<br />
### Now have official letter of cancellation from Paypal<br />
### Tracking accounts by paper at this time<br />
### Mike is well-prepared to hand over paperwork to new treasurer<br />
### Need to renew PO box soon<br />
### $531.98 in bank account<br />
### Beth/Mike/Bill signed bank signature card<br />
### Account will continue to require only 1 signature on checks<br />
## Member at large<br />
### Accepted new member at last GUM.<br />
### Gave PO box key to Mike<br />
# Committee reports<br />
## Program<br />
### Last month's event went well with 18 attendees<br />
### Host should always formally thank the speaker. We should send thank-you letters (may still have some -- look for them at installfest.<br />
### Picnic<br />
#### Lack of signing-upness on the wiki.<br />
#### Beth is leaving early (5:30) so someone else needs to take care of cleanup -- Vance volunteers.<br />
#### Have nothing to grill and nobody has volunteered to grill<br />
#### Bill to send out picnic reminders<br />
#### Would be beneficial for everyone to contact someone personally<br />
### Installfest<br />
#### Coding dojo is a go<br />
#### Confirmed room 1507<br />
#### Patrick may make it<br />
#### We have lots of Ubuntu CDs<br />
#### Beth will demo Ubuntu install. RSVP to Beth if you're coming.<br />
#### Beth verified the 10:00 - 5:00 PM time is correct<br />
### No topic for Sept meeting yet<br />
### Need to start sending out emails pimping OLF and other events. This year is WPLUG's 10th anniversary. We should have a cake or something.<br />
### We should organize our stuff into event-specific boxes<br />
### Ted Rogers is interested in doing a crash course for the LPI exam<br />
### "Pittsburgh Linux Fest" -- we can get $4000 from Pitt if we form a "club". First get the stuff in place at Pitt, then can move forward. Timed for next spring.<br />
## PR<br />
### Advertisements with Pitt news: We seem to feel the benefit is not worth the cost. <br />
### City paper may be willing to give us a free plug. Mike to investigate.<br />
### We need new business cards: Vance to investigate.<br />
### Activities fair at Pitt is coming up in Sept. Good place to set up a table.<br />
### Software Freedom Day. Vance has created a flier. No organized plans yet. Dave Kraus has been working with the SFD international peole.<br />
### T-Shirts successfully distributed.<br />
### Survey is "hanging around"<br />
## Internet<br />
### Slicehost is a 2-man firm and did not return Beth's calls. The snapshot feature is the only advantage of slicehost. Beth will speak with Mike S. regarding these concerns.<br />
## Investigating<br />
### Nothing has been heard regarding the recent incident.<br />
## Newsletter<br />
### July issue is ready. Material requested for next month.<br />
### Kiddix: Vance pursuing inteview<br />
## ErieLUG<br />
### URL has been transferred to ErieLUG.org<br />
# Unfinished business<br />
## It's important to inform committees of the required processes. Mike S. needed some explanation of the funding process.<br />
## Mike is making progress toward getting us a tax ID.<br />
# New Business<br />
## Vance will do an IRC session on the picnic this Wednesday.<br />
## Patrick will do an IRC session on OLF and what to do for WPLUG's 10th birthday<br />
# Next meeting on the 20th. Patrick will not be in town, teleconference will be needed.<br />
# Adjourned 9:37</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070611WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200706112007-08-11T18:58:52Z<p>Wmoran: Fix typos</p>
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<div>Monday, June 25, 2007, 7:30 PM<br />
<br />
= Agenda =<br />
<br />
# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair - Patrick Wagstrom<br />
### Upcoming Meetings<br />
## Vice Chair - Vance Kochenderfer<br />
## Secretary - Bill Moran<br />
## Treasurer - Mike Hansell<br />
## Member at Large - Beth Lynn Eicher<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
### Virtual Private Server Issues<br />
## Investigating<br />
## Newsletter<br />
## ErieLUG<br />
# Unfinished Business<br />
# New Business<br />
## Increasing membership<br />
<br />
= Items for Discussion =<br />
<br />
* Your thoughts here<br />
<br />
= Meeting Minutes =<br />
<br />
Call to order at 7:45, all members attending<br />
<br />
# Meeting minutes for May approved with minor edits<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair<br />
### For the July 14th meeting: company called SDG systems: talk about replacement ROMs for devices like Palm Treos. Cool talk about embedded stuff.<br />
### Aug 11th is still a go for installfest.<br />
### It is important to start getting things in order for board transition. What can we do to improve the transition this year?<br />
### PTC should be sending us stuff about Summer Slam. They don't seem to be hesitant about working with us as they have in the past. Best to tell folks to rsvp directly to pghtech.org.<br />
## Vice Chair<br />
### Thanks to Brian Seklecki for putting together the last minute talk for the GUM.<br />
## Secretary<br />
### We currently have 34 members in good standing.<br />
## Treasurer<br />
### As of June 29: $517.89 in bank account<br />
### Last expenditure was $20 to Vance to reimburse for prizes<br />
### Beth still has some Treasurer stuff that she needs to pass on to Mike<br />
### Mike's name needs to be added to the bank account<br />
## Member at large<br />
### An issue was raised and referred to the investigating committee<br />
# Committee reports<br />
## Programming<br />
### July 14, SDG systems Dave Kraus is setting it up<br />
### Working with Michael Skowvren to reschedule his talk<br />
### It's good for speakers to have cell # of program committee members in case of emergency and vice-versa<br />
### Aug 5 picnic: Snider park is reserved. We'll do the wiki signup for bringing stuff.<br />
### Aug 11 installfest: coding dojo will be there. We have 120 Ubuntu CDs. Beth tentatively to do installation walkthrough.<br />
### Summer Slam: Patrick to spam list && create WPLUG signup list.<br />
### Barcamp:-> Nobody seems willing/able to plan such an event (requires a good bit of work). Patrick to send info to Beth, who may know someone who can set it up.<br />
## PR<br />
### Survey is in holding pattern. Not ready to be launched yet. Vance and Patrick to work on it.<br />
### TiE wants to push stuff back to October<br />
### Doing CD giveaway for software freedom day in September. Would be nice to get copies of the open cD that are professionaly presse - Vance to start a page on the Wiki.<br />
## Internet<br />
### Linode, looks like a good deal. Their AUP does not seem to prohibit IRC bots. They'll waive the setup fee because we're a LUG. We can have up to 3 email addys for billing contact. We'll need a credit card to pay.<br />
### Erie LUG has moved their page back to ErieLUG.org, we've created a redirect<br />
## Investigating<br />
### Nothing to report<br />
## Newsletter<br />
### Nothing to report<br />
## ErieLUG<br />
### Seems to be moving forward on its own<br />
# Unfinished business<br />
## Member profiles?: No response from Ted<br />
## wplug-bsd mailing will not be migrated to the new serve with other services.<br />
## Beth provided Bill with access to wplug-members<br />
## IRC session had decent amount of participation. We'd discussed that being semi-regular thing. Would be nice to have planned topics are certian times<br />
### Bill will host an IRC session on June 27 with the topic of membership<br />
# New business<br />
## The board moves to approve $300 for the next year for the internet committee to purchase service from Linode.com for WPLUG internet services. The account must be registered to "The Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group".<br />
### This passed unanimously<br />
## Appears as if the announcement for the WPLUG site redesign contest was sent only to the board in draft form. Patrick to investigate. This may explain the lack of response.<br />
# July meeting moved to July 30, same location at 7:30.<br />
# adjourned at 9:45 PM.</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoardWPLUGBoard2007-08-11T18:54:18Z<p>Wmoran: Migrated meeting to "previous"</p>
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<div>The WPLUG board consists of five elected members of WPLUG who oversee the operations of WPLUG and plan for its future growth. The current board was elected on Saturday, October 16, 2006 and consists of:<br />
* Chair: [[User:Pwagstro | Patrick Wagstrom]]<br />
* Vice-Chair: [[User:Vance | Vance Kochenderfer]]<br />
* Secretary: [[User:Wmoran | Bill Moran]]<br />
* Treasurer: [[User:Michael.Hansell | Mike Hansell]] (from special election of June 9, 2007)<br />
* Member-at-Large: [[User:Bethlynn | Beth Lynn Eicher]]<br />
<br />
= Previous WPLUG Board Meetings =<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20061030 | October 30, 2006]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20061127 | Monday, November 27, 2006]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20061211 | Monday, December 11, 2006]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070122 | Monday, January 22, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070212 | Monday, February 12, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070312 | Monday, March 12, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070402 | Monday, April 2, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070514 | Monday, May 14, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070611 | Monday, June 25, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070709 | Monday, July 30, 2007]]<br />
<br />
= Upcoming WPLUG Board Meetings =<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070813 | Monday, August 13, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070910 | Monday, September 10, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20071015 | Monday, October 15, 2007]]<br />
<br />
= WPLUG Goals =<br />
<br />
At the October 30, 2006 meeting the WPLUG board established a set of five, three and one year goals. We then pared each of these sets of goals to about five different concrete and actionable items. The goal of this plan is that the one year tasks always lead us in the direction of the three year tasks, which are the foundation for the five year tasks. The one year plan should be revisited as needed during the year, with the three and five year plan revisited annually.<br />
<br />
== Five Year Goals ==<br />
* Tangible benefits for members<br />
* Medium/Large scale Pittsburgh based Linux conference<br />
* Training to the point of formal certification (see what's going on with the FreeBSD community)<br />
* Strong SIGs that meet monthly<br />
* Better WPLUG reputation -- local, national level -- with other lugs, oss in general, goverments<br />
* Incorporate as a 501(c)(3)<br />
<br />
== Three Year Goals ==<br />
* Regional conference on a yearly basis<br />
* OS Desktop training sessions -- PrePrint workflow, photo workflow, etc. More of a classroom instruction session see about working with ProTech or something<br />
* Tiered membership program<br />
** associate, student, professional, etc<br />
** provides infrastructure for tangible benefits<br />
* Incorporate with the state<br />
* Crossover membership with other PGH technology organizations<br />
** In a regional sense -- connect with other Linux/BSD/Free Software Groups<br />
** Ohio, WVULug, CPlug, BPLUG, PSLUG<br />
** regional alliances<br />
** (aka getting in touch with other organizations that serve a similar purpose)<br />
<br />
== One Year Goals ==<br />
* getting committees functioning<br />
** start with individual people<br />
** put people on the committee that are active and willing to do the tasks within the scope<br />
** make them feel empowered<br />
** have committees go through the same exercise we're doing here<br />
*** 1 year, 6 mon, 3 mon plans<br />
** board member on each committee to oversee, but not do the work<br />
** reduce barrier to entry on committees<br />
* Tax ID number<br />
* Meeting schedule defined and published 2-3 months out - resolve meeting places<br />
* LUGRadio Live USA<br />
* Fix the online community<br />
** retire penguin<br />
** install a real CMS<br />
*** openACS is not a long term solution<br />
*** maybe just stick with MediaWiki<br />
** redirect wplug.org to wplug.ece.cmu.edu<br />
** install jabber server for wplug ([http://www.jivesoftware.org/wildfire/ wildfire] is a good option)<br />
** find some network admins<br />
** set specific times on IRC for questions/help rather than idlefest<br />
** select a software platform <br />
** contest for new WPLUG logo or layout</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20070811Meeting-200708112007-08-10T20:37:09Z<p>Wmoran: Add my name to setup</p>
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<div>The third [[InstallFest]] of 2007 will be held on August 11, 2007 from 10am to 5pm at Carnegie Mellon University, 1507 Newell-Simon Hall. An installfest is an interactive event where you bring your computer to either show off some neat aspect of Linux, or seek help about getting Linux running on your hardware.<br />
<br />
= Getting There and Parking =<br />
Please enter through the outside doors of NSH 1507. This is the easiest to let you in at and keeps the foot traffic through other parts of the building at an absolute minimum. If you have equipment to unload we should have people to help you. For information on parking locations and how to access the outside door please see [http://tinyurl.com/39a7al this map] or [http://www.wplug.org/meetings/one-location?location_id=1 this page].<br />
<br />
= I'd like help with =<br />
If you're going to be installing a particular piece of software and would like help with it, put your name on this list.<br />
* Your name here<br />
<br />
= I can help with =<br />
If you can help out with a particular piece of software that you think other people may be installing, put your name on this list.<br />
* Mackenzie Morgan - Ubuntu in general, Beryl<br />
* Your name here!<br />
<br />
= I'm going to show off =<br />
If you've got a particular setup, peripheral, or application that you're planning on showing off at the installfest, put your name on this list.<br />
<br />
* [[User:Bethlynn|Beth Lynn Eicher]] will be giving a demonstration of installing Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn"<br />
* [[user:Michael.Hansell|Michael Hansell]] Installing Xubuntu on a Pentium 2 366mhz 128mb laptop<br />
* [[user:insomnia|Greg Akins]] Kubuntu as a deployment target for a Spring Web Flow application [http://pghcodingdojo.org/index.php/Iteration_0 Iteration 0]<br />
* Your name here!<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 categories below.<br />
* Host: Ted Rodgers<br />
* Co-Host: ???<br />
* Pizza: Greg Simkins<br />
* Donuts: Greg Akins<br />
* Setup: Bill Moran<br />
* Clean Up: ???</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20070714Meeting-200707142007-07-13T17:27:02Z<p>Wmoran: I'll handle pizza</p>
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<div>General User Meeting - July 14, 2007, 10a to 2p - [http://www.wplug.org/meetings/one-location?location_id=13 CMU Newell Simon Hall 3002]<br />
<br />
= Schedule for the Day =<br />
9:30am - Setup<br/><br />
10:10am - Business Meeting Starts<br/><br />
11:00am - Business Meeting Ends<br/><br />
11:10am - Featured Presentation: SDG Systems<br/><br />
12:00pm - Brief break for Pizza<br/><br />
12:30pm - Resume presenation<br/><br />
2:00pm - Finish clean up, thanks for coming.<br/><br />
<br />
= Speaker/Presentation =<br />
Linux on Mobile Devices - Speaker(s): Todd Blumer<br />
<br />
Todd Blumer of [http://www.sdgsystems.com SDG Systems] will discuss his company's work in the development and marketing of rugged mobile computing devices using the [http://handhelds.org/ Familiar Linux] distribution.<br />
<br />
Outline of Presentation<br />
* Overview of SDG Systems and product descriptions (hands-on during lunch)<br />
* Overview of [http://www.openembedded.org/ OpenEmbedded] build environment<br />
* "Drill down" (but not too deep) on doing a port to a mobile device (ARM / XScale emphasis)<br />
<br />
Hands-on Devices<br />
* [http://www.tdsway.com/ TDS] Recon 400X<br />
* [http://one2onemate.com/student.html One2OneMate StudentMate PC]<br />
* [http://www.grayhillembedded.com/ Grayhill Duramax HG]<br />
* [http://www.openmoko.com/ OpenMoko Phone]<br />
<br />
= Business Meeting =<br />
<br />
# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair<br />
## Vice Chair<br />
## Secretary<br />
## Treasurer<br />
## Member at Large<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Newsletter<br />
## Internet<br />
## Investigating<br />
# New Business<br />
<br />
== Documents For Meeting ==<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 categories below.<br />
* Host: [[User:Curlynoodle | David Kraus]]<br />
* Co-Host: ???<br />
* Pizza: Bill Moran<br />
* Donuts & Coffee: [[User:Curlynoodle | David Kraus]]<br />
* Setup: [[User:Curlynoodle | David Kraus]], ???<br />
* Clean Up: ???</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070611WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200706112007-06-26T16:38:52Z<p>Wmoran: </p>
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<div>Monday, June 25, 2007, 7:30 PM<br />
<br />
= Agenda =<br />
<br />
# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair - Patrick Wagstrom<br />
### Upcoming Meetings<br />
## Vice Chair - Vance Kochenderfer<br />
## Secretary - Bill Moran<br />
## Treasurer - Mike Hansell<br />
## Member at Large - Beth Lynn Eicher<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
### Virtual Private Server Issues<br />
## Investigating<br />
## Newsletter<br />
## ErieLUG<br />
# Unfinished Business<br />
# New Business<br />
## Increasing membership<br />
<br />
= Items for Discussion =<br />
<br />
* Your thoughts here<br />
<br />
= Meeting Minutes =<br />
<br />
Call to order at 7:45, all members attending<br />
<br />
# Meeting minutes for May approved with minor edits<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair<br />
### For the July 14th meeting: company called SDG systems: talk about replacement ROMs for devices like Palm Treos. Cool talk about embedded stuff.<br />
### Aug 11th is still a go for installfest.<br />
### It is important to start getting things in order for board transition. What can we do to improve the transition this year?<br />
### PTC should be sending us stuff about Summer Slam. They don't seem to be hesitant about working with us as they have in the past. Best to tell folks to rsvp directly to pghtech.org.<br />
## Vice Chair<br />
### Thanks to Brian Seklecki for putting together the last minute talk for the GUM.<br />
## Secretary<br />
### We currently have 34 members in good standing.<br />
## Treasurer<br />
### As of June 29: $517.89 in bank account<br />
### Last expenditure was $20 to Vance to reimburse for prizes<br />
### Beth still has some Treasurer stuff that she needs to pass on to Mike<br />
### Mike's name needs to be added to the bank account<br />
## Member at large<br />
### An issue was raised and referred to the investigating committee<br />
# Committee reports<br />
## Programming<br />
### July 14, SDG systems Dave Kraus is setting it up<br />
### Working with Michael Skowvren to reschedule his talk<br />
### It's good for speakers to have cell # of program committee members in case of emergency<br />
### Aug 5 picnic: Snider park is reserved. We'll do the wiki signup for bringing stuff.<br />
### Aug 11 installfest: coding dojo will be there. We have 120 Ubuntu CDs. Beth tentatively to do installation walkthrough.<br />
### Summer Slam: Patrick to spam list && create WPLUG signup list.<br />
### Barcamp:-> Nobody seems willing/able to plan such an event (requires a good bit of work). Patrick to send info to Beth, who may know someone who can set it up.<br />
## PR<br />
### Survey is in holding pattern. Not ready to be launched yet. Vance and Patrick to work on it.<br />
### TiE wants to push stuff back to October<br />
### Doing CD giveaway for software freedom day in September. Would be nice to get copies of the open cD that are professionaly presse - Vance to start a page on the Wiki.<br />
## Internet<br />
### Linode, looks like a good deal. Their AUP does not seem to prohibit IRC bots. They'll waive the setup fee because we're a LUG. We can have up to 3 email addys for billing contact. We'll need a credit card to pay.<br />
### Erie LUG has moved their page back to ErieLUG.org, we've created a redirect<br />
## Investigating<br />
### Nothing to report<br />
## Newsletter<br />
### Nothing to report<br />
## ErieLUG<br />
### Seems to be moving forward on its own<br />
# Unfinished business<br />
## Member profiles?: No response from Ted<br />
## wplug-bsd mailing will not be migrated to the new serve with other services.<br />
## Beth provided Bill with access to wplug-members<br />
## IRC session had decent amount of participation. We'd discussed that being semi-regular thing. Would be nice to have planned topics are certian times<br />
### Bill will host an IRC session on July 27 with the topic of membership<br />
# New business<br />
## The board moves to approve $300 for the next year for the internet committee to purchase service from Linude.com for WPLUG internet services. The account must be registered to "The Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group".<br />
### This passed unanimously<br />
## Appears as if the announcement for the WPLUG site redesign contest was sent only to the board in draft form. Patrick to investigate. This may explain the lack of response.<br />
# July meeting moved to July 30, same location at 7:30.<br />
# adjourned at 9:45 PM.</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070611WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200706112007-06-26T16:33:44Z<p>Wmoran: </p>
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<div>Monday, June 25, 2007, 7:30 PM<br />
<br />
= Agenda =<br />
<br />
# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair - Patrick Wagstrom<br />
### Upcoming Meetings<br />
## Vice Chair - Vance Kochenderfer<br />
## Secretary - Bill Moran<br />
## Treasurer - Mike Hansell<br />
## Member at Large - Beth Lynn Eicher<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
### Virtual Private Server Issues<br />
## Investigating<br />
## Newsletter<br />
## ErieLUG<br />
# Unfinished Business<br />
# New Business<br />
## Increasing membership<br />
<br />
= Items for Discussion =<br />
<br />
* Your thoughts here<br />
<br />
= Meeting Minutes =<br />
<br />
Call to order at 7:45, all members attending<br />
<br />
# Meeting minutes for May approved with minor edits<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair<br />
### For the July 14th meeting: company called SDG systems: talk about replacement ROMs for devices like Palm Treos. Cool talk about embedded stuff.<br />
### Aug 11th is still a go for installfest.<br />
### It is important to start getting things in order for board transition. What can we do to improve the transition this year?<br />
### PTC should be sending us stuff about Summer Slam. They don't seem to be hesitant about working with us as they have in the past. Best to tell folks to rsvp directly to pghtech.org.<br />
## Vice Chair<br />
### Thanks to Brian Seklecki for putting together the last minute talk for the GUM.<br />
## Secretary<br />
### We currently have 34 members in good standing.<br />
## Treasurer<br />
### As of June 29: $517.89 in bank account<br />
### Last expenditure was $20 to Vance to reimburse for prizes<br />
### Beth still has some Treasurer stuff that she needs to pass on to Mike<br />
### Mike's name needs to be added to the bank account<br />
## Member at large<br />
### An issue was raised and referred to the investigating committee<br />
# Committee reports<br />
## Programming<br />
### July 14, SDG systems Dave Kraus is setting it up<br />
### Working with Michael Skowvren to reschedule his talk<br />
### It's good for speakers to have cell # of program committee members in case of emergency<br />
### Aug 5 picnic: Snider park is reserved. We'll do the wiki signup for bringing stuff.<br />
### Aug 11 installfest: coding dojo will be there. We have 120 Ubuntu CDs. Beth tentatively to do installation walkthrough.<br />
### Summer Slam: Patrick to spam list && create WPLUG signup list.<br />
### Barcamp:-> Nobody seems willing/able to plan such an event (requires a good bit of work). Patrick to send info to Beth, who may know someone who can set it up.<br />
## PR<br />
### Survey is in holding pattern. Not ready to be launched yet. Vance and Patrick to work on it.<br />
### TiE wants to push stuff back to October<br />
### Doing CD giveaway for software freedom day in September. Would be nice to get copies of the open cD that are professionaly presse - Vance to start a<br />
page on the Wiki.<br />
## Internet<br />
### Linode, looks like a good deal. Their AUP does not seem to prohibit IRC bots. They'll waive the setup fee because we're a LUG. We can have up to 3 email addys for billing contact. We'll need a credit card to pay.<br />
### Erie LUG has moved their page back to ErieLUG.org, we've created a redirect<br />
## Investigating<br />
### Nothing to report<br />
## Newsletter<br />
### Nothing to report<br />
## ErieLUG<br />
### Seems to be moving forward on its own<br />
# Unfinished business<br />
## Member profiles?: No response from Ted<br />
## wplug-bsd mailing will not be migrated to the new serve with other services.<br />
## Beth provided Bill with access to wplug-members<br />
## IRC session had decent amount of participation. We'd discussed that being semi-regular thing. Would be nice to have planned topics are certian times<br />
### Bill will host an IRC session on July 27 with the topic of membership<br />
# New business<br />
## The board moves to approve $300 for the next year for the internet committee to purchase service from Linude.com for WPLUG internet services. The account must be registered to "The Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group".<br />
### This passed unanimously<br />
## Appears as if the announcement for the WPLUG site redesign contest was sent only to the board in draft form. Patrick to investigate. This may explain the lack of response.<br />
# July meeting moved to July 30, same location at 7:30.<br />
# adjourned at 9:45 PM.</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070611WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200706112007-06-26T16:32:50Z<p>Wmoran: </p>
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<div>Monday, June 25, 2007, 7:30 PM<br />
<br />
= Agenda =<br />
<br />
# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair - Patrick Wagstrom<br />
### Upcoming Meetings<br />
## Vice Chair - Vance Kochenderfer<br />
## Secretary - Bill Moran<br />
## Treasurer - Mike Hansell<br />
## Member at Large - Beth Lynn Eicher<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
### Virtual Private Server Issues<br />
## Investigating<br />
## Newsletter<br />
## ErieLUG<br />
# Unfinished Business<br />
# New Business<br />
## Increasing membership<br />
<br />
= Items for Discussion =<br />
<br />
* Your thoughts here<br />
<br />
= Meeting Minutes =<br />
<br />
Call to order at 7:45, all members attending<br />
<br />
# Meeting minutes for May approved with minor edits<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair<br />
### For the July 14th meeting: company called SDG systems: talk about replacement ROMs for devices like Palm Treos. Cool talk about embedded stuff.<br />
### Aut 11th is still a go for installfest.<br />
### It is important to start getting things in order for board transition. What can we do to improve the transition this year?<br />
### PTC should be sending us stuff about Summer Slam. They don't seem to be hesitant about working with us as they have in the past. Best to tell folks to rsvp directly to pghtech.org.<br />
## Vice Chair<br />
### Thanks to Brian Seklecki for putting together the last minute talk for the GUM.<br />
## Secretary<br />
### We currently have 34 members in good standing.<br />
## Treasurer<br />
### As of June 29: $517.89 in bank account<br />
### Last expenditure was $20 to Vance to reimburse for prizes<br />
### Beth still has some Treasurer stuff that she needs to pass on to Mike<br />
### Mike's name needs to be added to the bank account<br />
## Member at large<br />
### An issue was raised and referred to the investigating committee<br />
# Committee reports<br />
## Programming<br />
### July 14, SDG systems Dave Kraus is setting it up<br />
### Working with Michael Skowvren to reschedule his talk<br />
### It's good for speakers to have cell # of program committee members in case of emergency<br />
### Aug 5 picnic: Snider park is reserved. We'll do the wiki signup for bringing stuff.<br />
### Aug 11 installfest: coding dojo will be there. We have 120 Ubuntu CDs. Beth tentatively to do installation walkthrough.<br />
### Summer Slam: Patrick to spam list && create WPLUG signup list.<br />
### Barcamp:-> Nobody seems willing/able to plan such an event (requires a good bit of work). Patrick to send info to Beth, who may know someone who can set it up.<br />
## PR<br />
### Survey is in holding pattern. Not ready to be launched yet. Vance and Patrick to work on it.<br />
### TiE wants to push stuff back to October<br />
### Doing CD giveaway for software freedom day in September. Would be nice to get copies of the open cD that are professionaly presse - Vance to start a<br />
page on the Wiki.<br />
## Internet<br />
### Linode, looks like a good deal. Their AUP does not seem to prohibit IRC bots. They'll waive the setup fee because we're a LUG. We can have up to 3 email addys for billing contact. We'll need a credit card to pay.<br />
### Erie LUG has moved their page back to ErieLUG.org, we've created a redirect<br />
## Investigating<br />
### Nothing to report<br />
## Newsletter<br />
### Nothing to report<br />
## ErieLUG<br />
### Seems to be moving forward on its own<br />
# Unfinished business<br />
## Member profiles?: No response from Ted<br />
## wplug-bsd mailing will not be migrated to the new serve with other services.<br />
## Beth provided Bill with access to wplug-members<br />
## IRC session had decent amount of participation. We'd discussed that being semi-regular thing. Would be nice to have planned topics are certian times<br />
### Bill will host an IRC session on July 27 with the topic of membership<br />
# New business<br />
## The board moves to approve $300 for the next year for the internet committee to purchase service from Linude.com for WPLUG internet services. The account must be registered to "The Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group".<br />
### This passed unanimously<br />
## Appears as if the announcement for the WPLUG site redesign contest was sent only to the board in draft form. Patrick to investigate. This may explain the lack of response.<br />
# July meeting moved to July 30, same location at 7:30.<br />
# adjourned at 9:45 PM.</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070709WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200707092007-06-26T16:12:46Z<p>Wmoran: Date</p>
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<div>Monday, July 30, 2007, 7:30 PM<br />
<br />
= Agenda =<br />
<br />
# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair - Patrick Wagstrom<br />
## Vice Chair - Vance Kochenderfer<br />
## Secretary - Bill Moran<br />
## Treasurer - Mike Hansell<br />
## Member at Large - Beth Lynn Eicher<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
## Investigating<br />
## Newsletter<br />
## ErieLUG<br />
# Unfinished Business<br />
# New Business<br />
<br />
= Items for Discussion =<br />
<br />
* Your thoughts here<br />
<br />
= Meeting Minutes =<br />
<br />
To be added.</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoardWPLUGBoard2007-06-26T16:12:07Z<p>Wmoran: Update meeting dates</p>
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<div>The WPLUG board consists of five elected members of WPLUG who oversee the operations of WPLUG and plan for its future growth. The current board was elected on Saturday, October 16, 2006 and consists of:<br />
* Chair: [[User:Pwagstro | Patrick Wagstrom]]<br />
* Vice-Chair: [[User:Vance | Vance Kochenderfer]]<br />
* Secretary: [[User:Wmoran | Bill Moran]]<br />
* Treasurer: [[User:Michael.Hansell | Mike Hansell]] (from special election of June 9, 2007)<br />
* Member-at-Large: [[User:Bethlynn | Beth Lynn Eicher]]<br />
<br />
= Previous WPLUG Board Meetings =<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20061030 | October 30, 2006]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20061127 | Monday, November 27, 2006]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20061211 | Monday, December 11, 2006]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070122 | Monday, January 22, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070212 | Monday, February 12, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070312 | Monday, March 12, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070402 | Monday, April 2, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070514 | Monday, May 14, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070611 | Monday, June 25, 2007]]<br />
<br />
= Upcoming WPLUG Board Meetings =<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070709 | Monday, July 30, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070813 | Monday, August 13, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070910 | Monday, September 10, 2007]]<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20071015 | Monday, October 15, 2007]]<br />
<br />
= WPLUG Goals =<br />
<br />
At the October 30, 2006 meeting the WPLUG board established a set of five, three and one year goals. We then pared each of these sets of goals to about five different concrete and actionable items. The goal of this plan is that the one year tasks always lead us in the direction of the three year tasks, which are the foundation for the five year tasks. The one year plan should be revisited as needed during the year, with the three and five year plan revisited annually.<br />
<br />
== Five Year Goals ==<br />
* Tangible benefits for members<br />
* Medium/Large scale Pittsburgh based Linux conference<br />
* Training to the point of formal certification (see what's going on with the FreeBSD community)<br />
* Strong SIGs that meet monthly<br />
* Better WPLUG reputation -- local, national level -- with other lugs, oss in general, goverments<br />
* Incorporate as a 501(c)(3)<br />
<br />
== Three Year Goals ==<br />
* Regional conference on a yearly basis<br />
* OS Desktop training sessions -- PrePrint workflow, photo workflow, etc. More of a classroom instruction session see about working with ProTech or something<br />
* Tiered membership program<br />
** associate, student, professional, etc<br />
** provides infrastructure for tangible benefits<br />
* Incorporate with the state<br />
* Crossover membership with other PGH technology organizations<br />
** In a regional sense -- connect with other Linux/BSD/Free Software Groups<br />
** Ohio, WVULug, CPlug, BPLUG, PSLUG<br />
** regional alliances<br />
** (aka getting in touch with other organizations that serve a similar purpose)<br />
<br />
== One Year Goals ==<br />
* getting committees functioning<br />
** start with individual people<br />
** put people on the committee that are active and willing to do the tasks within the scope<br />
** make them feel empowered<br />
** have committees go through the same exercise we're doing here<br />
*** 1 year, 6 mon, 3 mon plans<br />
** board member on each committee to oversee, but not do the work<br />
** reduce barrier to entry on committees<br />
* Tax ID number<br />
* Meeting schedule defined and published 2-3 months out - resolve meeting places<br />
* LUGRadio Live USA<br />
* Fix the online community<br />
** retire penguin<br />
** install a real CMS<br />
*** openACS is not a long term solution<br />
*** maybe just stick with MediaWiki<br />
** redirect wplug.org to wplug.ece.cmu.edu<br />
** install jabber server for wplug ([http://www.jivesoftware.org/wildfire/ wildfire] is a good option)<br />
** find some network admins<br />
** set specific times on IRC for questions/help rather than idlefest<br />
** select a software platform <br />
** contest for new WPLUG logo or layout</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070514WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200705142007-06-19T16:45:49Z<p>Wmoran: Add minutes</p>
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<div>= Agenda =<br />
<br />
# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair - Patrick Wagstrom<br />
### Elections will happen at June 9th meeting<br />
### Pittsburgh Perl Mongers have asked for help with Pittsburgh Perl Workshop<br />
## Vice Chair - Vance Kochenderfer<br />
## Secretary - Bill Moran<br />
## Treasurer - Beth Lynn Eicher<br />
## Member at Large - Beth Lynn Eicher<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
### Next meeting on June 9th in NSH 3002 - speaker is Mike Skowvron<br />
### Picnic is in August<br />
### Do we want to consider a larger scale installfest in late July / Early August?<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
### 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).<br />
## Investigating<br />
## Newsletter<br />
# Unfinished Business<br />
# New Business<br />
<br />
= Minutes =<br />
<br />
# Call to order: 7:38<br />
# Minutes from March: Approved with minor edits.<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair<br />
### Can not attend June 9th elections -> Vance to handle chair duties<br />
### PPM have asked for help with perl workshop<br />
### Pgh tech council -> not interested in meeting<br />
### WPLUG involved with summer slam?<br />
### Would perl mongers be interseted in barcamp? Patrick to contact.<br />
## Vice Chair<br />
### Sent letter to Post Gazette<br />
### Vance has t-shirts for swag<br />
## Secretary<br />
### Membership records are being updated<br />
## Treasurer<br />
### Have not seen any recent bank statements<br />
### Patrick gave Beth his PO box key<br />
# Committee reports<br />
## Program committee<br />
### May is not a good time for an installfest (picnics, other stuff)<br />
### May could be a good time for the picnic for 2008<br />
### Beth investigating other venues (2 libraries with too many stairs)<br />
### Squirrel Hill is booked far in advance<br />
### Jared from PTC has expressed openness to allow us to have meetings there.<br />
### It would be intersting to have ~4 meetings /year outside of CMU<br />
### Meeting June 9, NSH 3002 I/O talk on FS perf/etc Mike Schoven<br />
#### Promo this to SNAPgh<br />
#### We need an RSVP@wplug so we know how many people are going to show<br />
### Picnic will happen in August<br />
### Greg Akens: would like a repeat of the Coding Dojo event<br />
#### Late July/Early August (scheduled for August)<br />
#### Can we well publicise this?<br />
#### Patrick will have a bunch of Ubuntu CDs<br />
#### Maybe set up a "classroom session" with Ubuntu: Follow along<br />
##### Need additional volunteers to help out<br />
##### Publicise it with Ubuntu<br />
### We should move the October meeting: Probably to the 20th<br />
### Picnic is on Aug 5<br />
### Still need meeting topic for July 14<br />
## PR committee<br />
### Called Bernie/left voicemail/Pgh TiE -- 3rd/4th week of June<br />
### Survey : waiting for input<br />
### Linux phrase book - we have as a givaway<br />
### Vance to send out reminder regarding survey<br />
### Ted & Brian were turned down for the sprout fund<br />
## Internet<br />
### Either tektronic.net or johncompanies. tt = $20/mo, jc = $35/mo<br />
### Patrick to check out PAIR<br />
### Beth to check out aspstation<br />
### Beth to migrate DNS to Joker<br />
## Newsletter<br />
### April issue is out. May issue looking for submissions<br />
## Erie LUG<br />
### We should offer to give a talk in Erie<br />
# New Business<br />
## IRC: Informal member meetings: Wednesday 6th from 7:00 - 8:00 PM Candidates should be there in case of question<br />
## Patrick Announce contest, Deadline July 1, Will be prize. Feel free to use content management system, etc<br />
## Member profiles: what kind of questions to ask<br />
## It was moved to remove the wplug-bs mailing list. The motion passed unanimously.<br />
## Bill should have a password for wplug-members<br />
## Dave O. should be removed from wplug-board<br />
# Adjourned at 8:58.</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070312WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200703122007-06-19T16:23:57Z<p>Wmoran: Fixups for approval</p>
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<div>= Agenda =<br />
<br />
# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair - Patrick Wagstrom<br />
## Vice Chair - Vance Kochenderfer<br />
## Secretary - Bill Moran<br />
## Treasurer - David Ostroske<br />
## Member at Large - Beth Lynn Eicher<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
## Investigating<br />
## Newsletter<br />
# Unfinished Business<br />
## Beth Lynn is to empty the Paypal account and close it.<br />
## Bill to investigate a captcha plugin for Wiki PGedia to be used for the creation of new accounts and anonymous edits.<br />
## The current Paypal links on the WPLUG site will be replaced with a recommendation that payment be sent to the PO box.<br />
## LugRadio Live. Patrick to research possibility of partnering with Google.<br />
## Patrick to research the possibility of WPLUG hosting a barcamp.<br />
## The WPLUG survey: SWAG?<br />
# New Business<br />
<br />
= Minutes =<br />
<br />
#CTO: all members present: 7:44<br />
#Jan and Feb minutes approved (change quited to quieted)<br />
#PO box was renewed for $31 in Feb and Patrick was reimbursed<br />
#officer reports<br />
##Chair: been busy, stuff seems to be running "OK"<br />
###Aplogize for the meeting problem on the 20th 90% of the people couldn't make it: need RSVP for next time to ensure good attendance<br />
###There is a Mac UG in Monroeville<br />
##Vice Chair<br />
###Quiet: some newbie questions on the info@ list, but not many serious bites.<br />
###Vance does not have a LightScribe burner<br />
###Does not anticipate need for WPLUG funds<br />
###Brochures: no pricing yet: Scribus can generate CMYK<br />
##Secretary<br />
###Still getting caught up<br />
##Treas<br />
###$295.34 in cash box<br />
###Paypal amounts did show up in the account<br />
###Account balance on Feb 16: $467.89<br />
###Refreshment fund: $73.24<br />
###Have not gotten in contact with Tolven Health Care yet<br />
##Director at Large<br />
###Interested in organizing 1 day for "women in OSS" to see who shows up: expect it to take a significant amount of planning/recruitment. Ladies only event. Seems to be a comfort problem keeping women away in general. Potential for yearly event. BL is requesting the support of the board.<br />
###A little slower getting back in to the groove than expected<br />
##committee reports<br />
###Program<br />
####Ted R. been doing great job so far<br />
####It'd be nice to redo the Team 1 – need a month's planning and RSVP<br />
####Potential for someone to talk about qemu and kvm<br />
####Should probably move the picnic to May because rooms are nearly impossible to get in May. Sunday is generally better than Saturday for the picnic.<br />
####I think we do a better job of lining up stuff in advance if we line stuff up in advance.<br />
####Michael Skowvron may do a talk on kernel scheduling.<br />
####Patrick to talk to Tom Jones about Tolven<br />
####Patrick to research company that uses Vista <br />
###PR<br />
####LiveCD is "doing their own thing"<br />
####Cert study group: not much going on really<br />
####Survey: no progress<br />
####TiE Pgh: trying to get some kind of joint happy hour event – possibly coordinate with geek night, but geek night is sometimes "beyond capacity". Will propose June's geek night.<br />
####Dave provided Vance fliers from TiE summit<br />
###Internet<br />
####BL: Penguin: welcome worn out at SCS. Could relocate to ECE. IC to research new locations and possible costs.<br />
####Formal tie would be better than informal tie with SCS<br />
###Investigating<br />
####Still don't know if Mike H. is on IC or not. BL will see him soon.<br />
###Newsletter<br />
####Been in touch with 3 publishers getting book reviews. 5 book reviews outstanding. 1 draft review already in.<br />
####business as usual<br />
##Unfinished businesses<br />
###Paypal is empty/confirmed.<br />
###Have not research CAPTCHA plugin<br />
###Membership page has been has had paypal link removed<br />
###LUGRadio Live. Still waiting on Chris and Google. BL will attempt to follow up with Chris.<br />
###WPLUG hosting barcamp. (Pittsburgh hosting barcamp, not WPLUG) will be on discussion for next user group powwow. We want this to be a team effort with other groups (dorkbot). Dru Sealy on mailing list is associated with dorkbot. Need lots of small rooms. Patrick to find date for next UG meeting.<br />
###Suggestions for SWAG for WPLUG survey.<br />
###Patrick moves spending up to $100 on prizes for wplug survey, Dave seconded. Passed with no opposition. ###On your honor, please only take the survey once – part of document rules.<br />
##New businesses<br />
###More ideas on women in open source: May be a local chapter of society of women engineers. WPLUG may provide funding. BL will post on WPLUG-announce@.<br />
###Dave O. resigning. Motion to accept Dave O.s resignation from the board and as treasurer with thanks for his service to WPLUG. Carried<br />
###Move that we call a special election to fill the treasurers position with noms in May and election in June. No objection.<br />
###Move that BL serve as treasurer in interim until replacement is found. No objection.<br />
###Move to amend previous adopted motion: Noms in April, election in May. No objection.<br />
#Moved to adjourn: Adjourned at 10:17.</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/Election-20070609Election-200706092007-06-04T17:31:08Z<p>Wmoran: </p>
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<div>This special election is to fill the position of Treasurer on the WPLUG board. This new officer will serve on the WPLUG board until October 2007, the end of the current term. This is the only position we are electing for at this meeting.<br />
<br />
The ballot for this election is available [[ Image:2007_06_WPLUG_Ballot.pdf | here]].<br />
<br />
There are two candidates running for the position, [[User:Michael.Hansell | Michael Hansell]] and [[User:curlynoodle | David Kraus]]. The board sent a brief questionnaire to the candidates, and their statements appear at the bottom of this page.<br />
<br />
= Ask the Candidates =<br />
<br />
There will be a special ask the candidates session in the WPLUG IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, channel #wplug) on Wendesday, June 6th, 2007 from 8-9pm EDT. We encourage all members to attend and ask questions of the candidates. There will '''not''' be an ask the candidates session at the user meeting.<br />
<br />
= Candidate Statements =<br />
These responses are exactly as received by the WPLUG board. The only changes were wiki formatting to make it preformatted text.<br />
<br />
== David Kraus ==<br />
<br />
== Background Information ==<br />
Your Name: David Kraus (apa curlynoodle)<br />
<br />
Your Profession:<br />
Automation/Controls Developer<br />
<br />
How long Have You Been Involved With WPLUG?<br />
I began as a list lurker in 2005, then signed on as an active member<br />
in Aug 2006.<br />
<br />
== Candidate Questions ==<br />
What qualities do you think make you qualified for Treasurer?<br />
<br />
- I strive to build and maintain professional yet collegial<br />
relationships with my fellow WPLUG members and others in the<br />
organization.<br />
- I pride myself as being a trustworthy person who can also add,<br />
subtract, multiply and divide.<br />
<br />
What is one new idea that you'd like to implement as a member of the<br />
WPLUG board?<br />
<br />
Organize an introductory presentation/workshop for local middle and<br />
high school students to help bolster interest in compsci, programming,<br />
OSS, and Linux. (May not be a 'new' idea, but I think its a good<br />
one.)<br />
<br />
What are some things you can help WPLUG do better as a member of<br />
the WPLUG board?<br />
<br />
- Actively seek new presenters for meetings and special events.<br />
- Promote the organization (and Linux) in new areas of industry. i.e.<br />
automation and controls.<br />
- Help with site content updates and communications.<br />
<br />
Final Free Response Space (use this to say anything else):<br />
<br />
If elected, I pledge to execute the role of WPLUG Treasurer to the<br />
best of my ability and always in the best interest of the<br />
organization. I will do my part to strengthen the organization and<br />
help make it an even better resource for our community. <br />
<br />
== Michael Hansell ==<br />
My name is Michael Hansell, I've been with WPLUG since BethLynn<br />
introduced me back in 2004. I have recently graduated (April 2007) from<br />
the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in ADMJ Computer Forensics.<br />
During the last semester I worked under BethLynn at TimeSys Corporation<br />
as a Systems Administrator. Before that I worked with X-Cel Quality<br />
Services as a Manager of Information Systems for about 7 years.<br />
<br />
While with WPLUG I have been on numerous committees, including currently<br />
the Investigating Committee, and the Public Relations committee. <br />
<br />
While at the University of Pittsburgh I was the President of the Impax<br />
Advance Weapons Club, Vice President for Panther Grappling club,<br />
Business Manager for 3 clubs; the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu club, Abro's<br />
Capoeira club, and the Panther Grappling club.<br />
<br />
I also earned my Eagle Scout badge from troop 195 in 1998. <br />
<br />
I’m currently looking for a job, and am looking at going for my Masters<br />
of Business Administration, Masters of Information Systems, and/or<br />
Master of Science in Information Science (MSIS) Security Assured<br />
Information Systems (SAIS). There is also talk of me doing a seminar for<br />
the American Society for Quality speaking about ISO certifications and<br />
Linux.<br />
<br />
While with the martial art clubs at Pitt I had the reputation for being<br />
the go to guy for interclub communication and was responsible for alot<br />
of get togethers. In this grain I would like to see WPLUG have more<br />
connection with some of the other communities of the PA, Ohio, and WV areas.</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20070512Meeting-200705122007-05-12T03:47:29Z<p>Wmoran: /* Meeting Staff */</p>
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<div>The second [[InstallFest]] of 2007 will be held on May 12, 2007 from 10am to 2pm at Carnegie Mellon University, 1507 Newell-Simon Hall. An installfest is an interactive event where you bring your computer to either show off some neat aspect of Linux, or seek help about getting Linux running on your hardware.<br />
<br />
= Getting There and Parking =<br />
Please enter through the outside doors of NSH 1507. This is the easiest to let you in at and keeps the foot traffic through other parts of the building at an absolute minimum. If you have equipment to unload we should have people to help you. For information on parking locations and how to access the outside door please see [http://tinyurl.com/39a7al this map].<br />
<br />
= I'd like help with =<br />
If you're going to be installing a particular piece of software and would like help with it, put your name on this list.<br />
* Your name here!<br />
<br />
= I can help with =<br />
If you can help out with a particular piece of software that you think other people may be installing, put your name on this list.<br />
* MythTV - [[User:Pwagstro | Patrick Wagstrom]] (I'm a little pressed for time, so let me know in advance)<br />
<br />
= I'm going to show off =<br />
If you've got a particular setup, peripheral, or application that you're planning on showing off at the installfest, put your name on this list.<br />
* Your name here!<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 categories below.<br />
* Host: [[User: Vance | Vance Kochenderfer]]<br />
* Co-Host: ???<br />
* Pizza: Bill Moran<br />
* Donuts: [[User: Pwagstro | Patrick Wagstrom]]<br />
* Setup: [[User: Pwagstro | Patrick Wagstrom]]<br />
* Clean Up: [[User: Eksortso | David Ostroske]]</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20070414Meeting-200704142007-04-11T17:23:19Z<p>Wmoran: </p>
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<div>= Schedule for the Day =<br />
9:30am - Setup<br/><br />
10:15am - Business Meeting Starts<br/><br />
10:45am - Business Meeting Ends<br/><br />
11:00am - Featured Presentation "Rookie Mistakes"<br/><br />
12:00pm - Brief break for Pizza<br/><br />
12:30pm - Resume presenation<br/><br />
1:00pm - Finish clean up, everyone out<br/><br />
<br />
= Speaker/Presentation =<br />
"Rookie Mistakes" by Beth Lynn Eicher<br />
<br />
Linux is an incredibly powerful tool -- but that power comes at a cost.<br />
<br />
It's frequently easy to make mistakes when deploying a Linux system <br />
that cause system crashes, poor performance, or leave the door wide open <br />
for those people who are less than scrupulous. What's worse, is that <br />
while many of the mistakes are easily made by beginning Linux <br />
administrators, they are frequently seen by advanced administrators too!<br />
<br />
Beth Lynn Eicher will discuss some of these mistakes that are <br />
frequently made and how you can make sure that you don't suffer the same <br />
fate.<br />
<br />
= Business Meeting =<br />
There will be an actual business meeting at this meeting. The main purpose of the meeting will be to take nominations for a vacant board position. In general, we hope to keep everything else VERY brief.<br />
<br />
# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair<br />
## Vice Chair<br />
## Secretary<br />
## Treasurer<br />
## Member at Large<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
## Investigating<br />
# Old Business<br />
## Nominations for Treasurer<br />
# New Business<br />
<br />
== Documents For Meeting ==<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 categories below.<br />
* Host: ???<br />
* Co-Host: ???<br />
* Pizza: ???<br />
* Donuts & Coffee: [[User:Curlynoodle | David Kraus]]<br />
* Setup: [[User:Curlynoodle | David Kraus]]<br />
* Clean Up: ???</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070514WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200705142007-04-09T16:26:33Z<p>Wmoran: </p>
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<div>= Agenda =<br />
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# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair - Patrick Wagstrom<br />
## Vice Chair - Vance Kochenderfer<br />
## Secretary - Bill Moran<br />
## Treasurer - David Ostroske<br />
## Member at Large - Beth Lynn Eicher<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
## Investigating<br />
## Newsletter<br />
# Unfinished Business<br />
# New Business</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070402WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200704022007-04-09T16:25:50Z<p>Wmoran: </p>
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<div>= Agenda =<br />
<br />
# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair - Patrick Wagstrom<br />
## Vice Chair - Vance Kochenderfer<br />
## Secretary - Bill Moran<br />
## Treasurer - David Ostroske<br />
## Member at Large - Beth Lynn Eicher<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
## Investigating<br />
## Newsletter<br />
# Unfinished Business<br />
# New Business<br />
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= Minutes =<br />
<br />
#CTO 7:45<br />
#All attending<br />
#No minutes<br />
#Officer reports<br />
## Chair<br />
###barcamp: suggestion to play along with summerslam. Not a lot of interest. Efforts to coordinate with other groups have met with little response.<br />
###Pete @ medsphere possibly interested if we get more involvement from the medical community (OpenVista)<br />
LugRadio Live is not happening<br />
##Vice Chair<br />
###Vance:<br />
###Survey swag: Pretence hall willing to provide book/books.<br />
##Secretary<br />
###No report<br />
##Treasurer:<br />
###Paypal: We don't owe Paypal any money. Account is closed.<br />
#Committee reports<br />
##Program<br />
###Topic for April, tentative volunteer for June (Linux IO subsystem)<br />
###May: Still planning<br />
###We should wiki arrangements as soon as we know the exact date -- planning for either 6th or 20th <br />
###Next installfest in June or July (whichever one isn't the LIOS talk)<br />
###Need to find something for August<br />
###Snapgh interested in partnering with us for Team 1 field trip -- May might be a good time<br />
###Patrick to confirm room assignment w/ Ted<br />
##PR<br />
###TiE is still interested in doing "happy hour" event. Vance to get in touch with Bernie regarding venue.<br />
###WPLUG needs new business cards<br />
###Patrick to email Greg/Matt/Bill/BL with the URL to look at the survey<br />
###emailing geek night with a logo can get us some representation -- BL to track down<br />
##Internet<br />
###ASPStation price $150/month to colo<br />
###We need to set a date to kill existing Penguin: "Operation: murder the Penguin" by Aug 1.<br />
##Investigating<br />
##Newsletter<br />
###Books from Oreilly + Prentece hall + Wiley all out to have reviewed<br />
#Unfinished business:<br />
##Review of 1 year goals:<br />
##Good idea to feature members in TOP<br />
##Moved that WPLUG allocate funds for two t-shirt for member appreciation. Unanimously approved.<br />
##Substituting LUGRadio with barcamp<br />
##Bill to send out reminder emails for nomination meeting -- request for volunteers.<br />
##Patrick: Reminder email regarding BL talk<br />
#New business:<br />
##How can we schedule specific times for IRC stuff?<br />
##Contest to make WPLUG web site sexy<br />
#9:34 Adjourned</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070312WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200703122007-04-09T16:18:38Z<p>Wmoran: /* Agenda */</p>
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<div>= Agenda =<br />
<br />
# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair - Patrick Wagstrom<br />
## Vice Chair - Vance Kochenderfer<br />
## Secretary - Bill Moran<br />
## Treasurer - David Ostroske<br />
## Member at Large - Beth Lynn Eicher<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
## Investigating<br />
## Newsletter<br />
# Unfinished Business<br />
## Beth Lynn is to empty the Paypal account and close it.<br />
## Bill to investigate a captcha plugin for Wiki PGedia to be used for the creation of new accounts and anonymous edits.<br />
## The current Paypal links on the WPLUG site will be replaced with a recommendation that payment be sent to the PO box.<br />
## LugRadio Live. Patrick to research possibility of partnering with Google.<br />
## Patrick to research the possibility of WPLUG hosting a barcamp.<br />
## The WPLUG survey: SWAG?<br />
# New Business<br />
<br />
= Minutes =<br />
<br />
#CTO: all members present: 7:44<br />
#Jan and Feb minutes approved (change quited to quieted)<br />
#PO box was renewed for $31 in Feb and Patrick was reimbursed<br />
#officer reports<br />
##Chair: been busy, stuff seems to be running "OK"<br />
###Aplogize for the meeting problem on the 20th 90% of the people couldn't make it: need RSVP for next time to ensure good attendance<br />
###There is a Mac UG in Monroeville<br />
##Vice Chair<br />
###Quiet: some newbie questions on the info@ list, but not many serious bites.<br />
###Vance does not have a LightScribe burner<br />
###Does not anticipate need for WPLUG funds<br />
###Brochures: no pricing yet: Scribus can generate CMYK<br />
##Secretary<br />
###Still getting caught up<br />
##Treas<br />
###$295.34 in cash box<br />
###Paypal amounts did show up in the account<br />
###Account balance on Feb 16: $467.89<br />
###Refreshment fund: $73.24<br />
###Have not gotten in contact with Dr. yet<br />
##Director at Large<br />
###Interested in organizing 1 day for "women in OSS" to see who shows up: expect it to take a significant amount of planning/recruitment. Ladies only event. Seems to be a comfort problem keeping women away in general. Potential for yearly event. BL is requesting the support of the board.<br />
###A little slower getting back in to the groove than expected<br />
##committee reports<br />
###Program<br />
####Ted R. been doing great job so far<br />
####It'd be nice to redo the Team 1 – need a month's planning and RSVP<br />
####Potential for someone to talk about qemu and kvm<br />
####Should probably move the picnic to May because rooms are nearly impossible to get in May. Sunday is generally better than Saturday for the picnic.<br />
####I think we do a better job of lining up stuff in advance if we line stuff up in advance.<br />
####Michael Skowvron may do a talk on kernel scheduling.<br />
####Patrick to talk to Tom Jones about Tolven<br />
####Patrick to research company that uses Vista <br />
###PR<br />
####LiveCD is "doing their own thing"<br />
####Cert study group: not much going on really<br />
####Survey: no progress<br />
####TiE Pgh: trying to get some kind of joint happy hour event – possibly coordinate with geek night, but geek night is sometimes "beyond capacity". Will propose June's geek night.<br />
####Dave provided Vance fliers from TiE summit<br />
###Internet<br />
####BL: Penguin: welcome worn out at SCS. Could relocate to ECE. IC to research new locations and possible costs.<br />
####Formal tie would be better than information tie with SCS<br />
###Investigating<br />
####Still don't know if Mike H. is on IC or not. BL will see him soon.<br />
###Newsletter<br />
####Been in touch with 3 publishers getting book reviews. 5 book reviews outstanding. 1 draft review already in.<br />
####business as usual<br />
##Unfinished businesses<br />
###Paypal is empty/confirmed. Give paypal the middle finger.<br />
###Have not research CAPTCHA plugin<br />
###Membership page has been has had paypal link removed<br />
###LUGRadio Live. Still waiting on Chris and Google. BL will attempt to follow up with Chris.<br />
###WPLUG hosting barcamp. (Pittsburgh hosting barcamp, not WPLUG) will be on discussion for next user group powwow. We want this to be a team effort with other groups (dorkbot). Dru Sealy on mailing list is associated with dorkbot. Need lots of small rooms. Patrick to find date for next UG meeting.<br />
###Suggestions for SWAG for WPLUG survey.<br />
###Patrick moves spending up to $100 on prizes for wplug survey, Dave seconded. Passed with no opposition. ###On your honor, please only take the survey once – part of document rules.<br />
##New businesses<br />
###More ideas on women in open source: May be a local chapter of society of women engineers. WPLUG may provide funding. BL will post on WPLUG-announce@.<br />
###Dave O. resigning. Motion to accept Dave O.s resignation from the board and as treasurer with thanks for his service to WPLUG. Carried<br />
###Move that we call a special election to fill the treasurers position with noms in May and election in June. No objection.<br />
###Move that BL serve as treasurer in interim until replacement is found. No objection.<br />
###Move to amend previous adopted motion: Noms in April, election in May. No objection.<br />
#Moved to adjourn: Adjourned at 10:17.</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070312WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200703122007-02-18T04:27:06Z<p>Wmoran: Added agenda</p>
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<div>= Agenda =<br />
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# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair - Patrick Wagstrom<br />
## Vice Chair - Vance Kochenderfer<br />
## Secretary - Bill Moran<br />
## Treasurer - David Ostroske<br />
## Member at Large - Beth Lynn Eicher<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
## Investigating<br />
## Newsletter<br />
# Unfinished Business<br />
## Beth Lynn is to empty the Paypal account and close it.<br />
## Bill to investigate a captcha plugin for Wiki PGedia to be used for the creation of new accounts and anonymous edits.<br />
## The current Paypal links on the WPLUG site will be replaced with a recommendation that payment be sent to the PO box.<br />
## LugRadio Live. Patrick to research possibility of partnering with Google.<br />
## Patrick to research the possibility of WPLUG hosting a barcamp.<br />
## The WPLUG survey: SWAG?<br />
# New Business</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070212WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200702122007-02-18T04:21:58Z<p>Wmoran: Add Minutes</p>
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<div>= Agenda =<br />
<br />
# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair - Patrick Wagstrom<br />
## Vice Chair - Vance Kochenderfer<br />
## Secretary - Bill Moran<br />
## Treasurer - David Ostroske<br />
## Member at Large - Beth Lynn Eicher<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
## Investigating<br />
## Newsletter<br />
# Unfinished Business<br />
## Beth Lynn is to empty the Paypal account and close it.<br />
## Bill to investigate a captcha plugin for pgedia to be used for the creation of new accounts and anonymous edits.<br />
## Bill is to send a copy of the WPLUG flier to Vance<br />
## The current Paypal links on the WPLUG site will be replaced with a recommendation that payment be sent to the PO box.<br />
# New Business<br />
<br />
= Items for Discussion =<br />
<br />
Instead of cluttering the agenda above, I'm going to put some notes here. Relevant items can be folded into the minutes later. Feel free to add to this. [[User:Vance|Vance]] 14:03, 12 February 2007 (EST)<br />
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* Vice-Chair's report<br />
** Out of brochures - discuss design and printing of new ones<br />
** Should V-C have an inventory of brochures, business cards, CDs, stickers, etc. to mail out to folks who inquire about WPLUG?<br />
<br />
* Program Comittee<br />
** We could use a database of experts. I've had a couple of people ask about "So when are you going to have someone speak on Xen? I asked about that a few months ago." or "When is a python talk coming up?". These people obviously don't realize the work required to find speakers on these topics, if we had a database, that would be helpful.<br />
** Meeting at Team-1 systems next Tuesday<br />
<br />
* PR Committee<br />
** Joint happy hour-like event with TiE Pittsburgh<br />
** [[PRCommittee/Survey_Draft|Survey]]<br />
** [[Study_Group|Certification study group]]<br />
<br />
* Newsletter Committee<br />
** January issue out<br />
** Three books distributed to reviewers<br />
** Can use content for February issue<br />
<br />
* New Business<br />
** Organize a [http://barcamp.org/ BarCamp] event in Pittsburgh for user groups?<br />
<br />
= Meeting Minutes =<br />
# Called to order at 7:41 PM. Attending: Patrick W., Vance K., Dave O., and Bill M.<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair's report: WPLUG is running well. The recent installfest was a success with several people attending for the first time, and the connection with the Iteration Zero folks seems to have been successufl.<br />
## Vice Chair: We've run out of WPLUG brochures, so none could be delivered to Judi G., who volunteered to distribute them at an upcomming Sci-fi conference. Vance will research printing cost (such as the difference between full-color printing and spot-color printing) in order to get more fliers printed. Bill is to update the WPLUG wiki configuration so that .sla files can be uploaded. As Vice-chair (and the "voice of WPLUG") Vance will keep a private store of business cards and other marketing material for use as needed.<br />
## Secretary's report: Still catching up. Dave O. and Bill M. to meet on Saturday, Feb 17th to finish tranferring and updating record-keeping materials.<br />
## Treasurer's report: Cash amount hasn't changed. We have $467.89 in the bank account. A deposit of $45.99 from PayPal means that the PayPal account can now be closed.<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program Committee: Tuesday, Feb 20th at 7:00 PM, WPLUG will host a site visit with Team One systems to see their High-availability technology. Team One will be providing food at the event. The next GUM is March 10th with the topic "How do I do That". Patrick may be unable to attend. Speakers and other volunteers are needed. It was noted that ballots and the membership meeting announcement must go out before the end of the week for the membership meeting coincident with the GUM.<br />
## PR Committee: Brian S., Dave O., Beth E., and Patrick W. are hoping to attend the TiE summit to pitch WPLUG to the attendees. There is an effort to engage in a joint TiE/WPLUG happy hour event. The WPLUG survey has been posted to the Wiki for comment. Vance and Patrick will research givaways to be used to encourage survey-takers. Patrick volunteered his installation of phpsurveyor for delivery. The study group has quited since Greg S. left the area. WPLUG is still supporting the group via the Wiki, but not promoting it.<br />
## Newsletter Committee: The January issue is out. There has been a huge response to the book review effort. Material is still needed for the February issue. Patrick suggested that it may be possible to get hardware for review in The Open Pitt.<br />
# Unfinished Business<br />
## Paypal account is empty. Waiting for report from Beth E. on closing. The Internet Committee needs to remove the PayPal link.<br />
## Bill still needs to investigate a CAPTCHA plugin for Wiki PGedia.<br />
## Vance received a copy of the WPLUG flier.<br />
# New Business<br />
## LugRadio Live is progressing. Effort is under way to schedule a Skype conference call to advance the project. It may be possible to partner with Google.<br />
## Patrick is to research the possibility of WPLUG hosting a Barcamp.<br />
# Next meeting scheduled for March 12, 7:30 PM<br />
# Adjourned at 8:51 PM</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20070310Meeting-200703102007-02-18T01:22:49Z<p>Wmoran: /* Documents For Meeting */</p>
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<div>Our second General User Meeting of 2007 will occur on March 10th, 2007 from 10am to 2pm at Carnegie Mellon University, Newell Simon Hall 3002. It will feature both a members business meeting, from 10am to 10:45am, and a presentation for the remainder of the session. The meeting is free and open to the public and no reservation is required. We encourage all those interested to attend.<br />
<br />
= Schedule for the Day =<br />
9:30am - Setup<br/><br />
10:00am - Business Meeting Starts<br/><br />
10:45am - Business Meeting Ends<br/><br />
11:00am - Featured Presentation "[[How Do I Do That?]]"<br/><br />
12:00pm - Brief break for Pizza<br/><br />
12:30pm - Resume presenation<br/><br />
1:15pm - Social Time<br/><br />
2:00pm - Finish clean up, everyone out<br/><br />
<br />
= Speaker/Presentation =<br />
"How do I do that?" - This presentation by multiple members of WPLUG will address many of the basic questions of how to do things in Linux, especially if someone is used to doing them in Windows. If you have questions about how to do something, make sure to add it to the [[How Do I Do That?]] web page. We'll go over issues on that page and select a subsection of them to present.<br />
<br />
= Business Meeting =<br />
There will be an actual business meeting at this meeting. We have actual motions to vote on that involve changing the bylaws. All mail in ballots must be received by Friday, March 9th, 2007 at 5pm. Those wishing to vote in person may do so.<br />
<br />
# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair<br />
## Vice Chair<br />
## Secretary<br />
## Treasurer<br />
## Member at Large<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
## Investigating<br />
# Old Business<br />
## Voting on the bylaws<br />
# New Business<br />
<br />
== Documents For Meeting ==<br />
Voting on Bylaws Amendment: [[Media:2007_03_WPLUG_Ballot.pdf]]<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 categories below.<br />
* Host: ???<br />
* Co-Host: ???<br />
* Pizza: ???<br />
* Donuts: ???<br />
* Setup: ???<br />
* Clean Up: ???</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20070210Meeting-200702102007-02-06T00:18:44Z<p>Wmoran: Volunteered ...</p>
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<div>The first InstallFest of 2007 will be held on February 10th, 2007 from 10am to 3pm at Carnegie Mellon University, Newell Simon Atrium. An installfest is an interactive event where you bring your computer to either show off some neat aspect of Linux, or seek help about getting Linux running on your hardware.<br />
<br />
'''Note:''' The [http://pghcodingdojo.org/ Pittsburgh Coding Dojo] will be holding an event called [http://pghcodingdojo.org/index.php/Iteration_0 Iteration Zero] concurrent with the installfest. Follow the link for details.<br />
<br />
= I'd like help with =<br />
If you're going to be installing a particular piece of software and would like help with it, put your name on this list.<br />
* (Add your name here ...)<br />
<br />
= I can help with =<br />
If you can help out with a particular piece of software that you think other people may be installing, put your name on this list.<br />
* MythTV - [[User:Pwagstro | Patrick Wagstrom]]<br />
* FreeBSD/PHP/Apache/PostgreSQL - [[User:Wmoran | Bill Moran]]<br />
<br />
= I'm going to show off =<br />
If you've got a particular setup, peripheral, or application that you're planning on showing off at the installfest, put your name on this list.<br />
* Nintendo Wii Remotes controlling Linux applications - [[User:Pwagstro | Patrick Wagstrom]]<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 categories below.<br />
* Host: [[User:Wmoran | Bill Moran]]<br />
* Co-Host: ???<br />
* Pizza: ???<br />
* Donuts: [[User:Curlynoodle | David Kraus]]<br />
* Setup: [[User:Curlynoodle | David Kraus]]<br />
* Clean Up: [[User:Curlynoodle | David Kraus]]</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070212WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200702122007-02-05T18:42:11Z<p>Wmoran: Added newsletter committee</p>
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<div>= Agenda =<br />
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# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair - Patrick Wagstrom<br />
## Vice Chair - Vance Kochenderfer<br />
## Secretary - Bill Moran<br />
## Treasurer - David Ostroske<br />
## Member at Large - Beth Lynn Eicher<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
## Investigating<br />
## Newsletter<br />
# Unfinished Business<br />
## Beth Lynn is to empty the Paypal account and close it.<br />
## Bill to investigate a captcha plugin for pgedia to be used for the creation of new accounts and anonymous edits.<br />
## Bill is to send a copy of the WPLUG flier to Vance<br />
## The current Paypal links on the WPLUG site will be replaced with a recommendation that payment be sent to the PO box.<br />
# New Business</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070212WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200702122007-02-01T06:58:19Z<p>Wmoran: </p>
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<div>= Agenda =<br />
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# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair<br />
## Vice Chair<br />
## Secretary<br />
## Treasurer<br />
## Member at Large<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
## Investigating<br />
# Old Business<br />
## Beth Lynn is to empty the Paypal account and close it.<br />
## Bill to investigate a captcha plugin for pgedia to be used for the creation of new accounts and anonymous edits.<br />
## Bill is to send a copy of the WPLUG flier to Vance<br />
## The current Paypal links on the WPLUG site will be replaced with a recommendation that payment be sent to the PO box.<br />
# New Business</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070122WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200701222007-02-01T06:53:19Z<p>Wmoran: </p>
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<div>= Agenda =<br />
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# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair<br />
## Vice Chair<br />
## Secretary<br />
## Treasurer<br />
## Member at Large<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
## Investigating<br />
# Old Business<br />
# New Business<br />
## Greg Simkins to become Internet committee memeber<br />
## Rogers/Seklecki LiveCD project<br />
## [http://www.tiepgh.org/event02152007.shtml TiE Pittsburgh Open Source Summit]<br />
## Paypal difficulties<br />
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= Minutes =<br />
<br />
# The meeting was called to order at 7:41 PM. All board members attending.<br />
# Meeting minutes for the previous board meeting were not ready for approval.<br />
# Chair's report<br />
# Vice Chair's report<br />
## An Ubuntu CD was sent out to satisfy a request made in December. No response has been received.<br />
## We could use better organization for distributing CDs.<br />
# Treasurer's report<br />
## $294.43 in cash.<br />
## $201.90 in the account.<br />
## No word from Paypal -- their security measures are problematic. Beth Lynn is to empty the Paypal account and close it. Measure to close the paypal account was passed by unanimous vote.<br />
## $220 was deposited in December for membership renewals.<br />
# Secretary's report<br />
## Record keeping is still behind. Focusing on most important first.<br />
# Member at large's report<br />
## Job situation is sorted out, expect to become more active in February.<br />
## Will spearhead the effort to fix Penguin.<br />
## Greg Simkin's study group is gaining momentum, but it's unclear where that will go.<br />
# Program committee report<br />
## Ted Rogers is a program committee member for all effective purposes.<br />
## NSH 3305 may be substituted for the Atrium for installfests. Atrium vendors are unsure if they can open when an installfest is scheduled, and don't like them for that reason.<br />
## NSH 3002 OK for the March meeting.<br />
## Work is in progress to schedule a site visit with Team 1 systems.<br />
## Greg Simkins is to survey the WPLUG community to determine what times are best for meetings. Patrick to follow up with Greg on status of that effort.<br />
# PR committee<br />
## Members are Greg S., Vance K., and Matt H. Meeting between Greg and Vance has occurred.<br />
## Looking to support a local live CD.<br />
## Looking to acquire more CDs to distribute.<br />
## It doesn't appear that any distros can provide CDs with the WPLUG logo.<br />
## Too many people interested in Linux have never heard of WPLUG. Investigation into buying mailing lists from magazines indicates that the cost is likely too high.<br />
## Greg S. study groups is currently supported via the wiki.<br />
## Greg S. has contacted the editor for the PG. No response yet.<br />
## Connection with the Pittsburgh Coding Dojo made via the PTC.<br />
## WPLUG now has a listing with the OReilly user group program.<br />
# Internet comittee<br />
## Dave O. fixed the WPLUG graphic on the wiki.<br />
## 2 incidents of wiki defacement have been detected and fixed.<br />
## Bill to investigate a captcha plugin for pgedia to be used for the creation of new accounts and anonymous edits.<br />
# Investigating committee<br />
## Mark D. is a member. Mike H. has neither accepted nor rejected.<br />
# Newsletter Committee<br />
## December issue is late. Submissions are needed.<br />
## Wiley's Tech division: pamphlet of new books for 2007 provides free copies for review.<br />
# New Business<br />
## Greg Simkins was voted on to the Internet Committee without objection.<br />
## The WPLUG board expresses a desire that the PR committed adopts the LiveCD project as an initiative of the PR committee. (passed without objection)<br />
## The PR committee will attempt to promote at the TiE Pgh OS summit.<br />
## Bill is to send a copy of the WPLUG flier to Vance<br />
## The current Paypal links on the WPLUG site will be replaced with a recommendation that payment be sent to the PO box.<br />
# Next meeting confirmed for Feb 12, 2007. Same time/location.<br />
# Adjourned at 9:15 PM</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070122WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200701222007-01-19T05:04:17Z<p>Wmoran: /* Agenda */</p>
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# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair<br />
## Vice Chair<br />
## Secretary<br />
## Treasurer<br />
## Member at Large<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
## Investigating<br />
# Old Business<br />
# New Business<br />
## Greg Simkins to become Internet committee memeber<br />
## Rogers/Seklecki LiveCD project</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20070122WPLUGBoard/Meeting-200701222007-01-15T01:46:19Z<p>Wmoran: </p>
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<div>= Agenda =<br />
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# Minutes from Previous Meeting<br />
# Officer Reports<br />
## Chair<br />
## Vice Chair<br />
## Secretary<br />
## Treasurer<br />
## Member at Large<br />
# Committee Reports<br />
## Program<br />
## Public Relations<br />
## Internet<br />
## Investigating<br />
# Old Business<br />
# New Business<br />
## Greg Simkins to become Internet committee memeber</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20070310Meeting-200703102007-01-04T16:23:35Z<p>Wmoran: </p>
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<div>= March 2007 GUM =<br />
== Speaker/Presentation ==<br />
TBD<br />
== Business Meeting ==<br />
Call to order: 10:00 AM<br />
=== Agenda ===<br />
Voting on Bylaws Amendment: [[Media:2007_01_WPLUG_Ballot.odt]]</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20070113Meeting-200701132007-01-04T16:22:32Z<p>Wmoran: </p>
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<div>= Agenda =<br />
== Speaker and Topic ==<br />
TBD</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20070113Meeting-200701132007-01-02T00:27:13Z<p>Wmoran: /* Agenda */</p>
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<div>= Agenda =<br />
== Speaker and Topic ==<br />
TBD<br />
== Business Meeting ==<br />
Call to order: 10:00 AM<br />
=== Agenda ===<br />
Voting on Bylaws Amendment: [[Media:2007_01_WPLUG_Ballot.odt]]</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20070113Meeting-200701132007-01-02T00:26:29Z<p>Wmoran: /* Agenda */</p>
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<div>= Agenda =<br />
== Speaker and Topic ==<br />
TBD<br />
== Business Meeting ==<br />
Call to order: 10:00 AM<br />
=== Agenda ===<br />
Voting on Bylaws Amendment: [[Image:2007_01_WPLUG_Ballot.odt Draft Ballot]]</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20070113Meeting-200701132007-01-02T00:24:45Z<p>Wmoran: /* Agenda */</p>
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<div>= Agenda =<br />
== Speaker and Topic ==<br />
TBD<br />
== Business Meeting ==<br />
Call to order: 10:00 AM<br />
=== Agenda ===<br />
Voting on Bylaws Amendment: [[Media:Image:2007_01_WPLUG_Ballot.odt Draft Ballot]]</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20070113Meeting-200701132007-01-02T00:21:39Z<p>Wmoran: </p>
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<div>= Agenda =<br />
== Speaker and Topic ==<br />
TBD<br />
== Business Meeting ==<br />
Call to order: 10:00 AM<br />
=== Agenda ===<br />
Voting on Bylaws Amendment</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/Western_Pennsylvania_Linux_Users_GroupWestern Pennsylvania Linux Users Group2007-01-01T22:24:02Z<p>Wmoran: </p>
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<div>The purpose of the WPLUG Wiki is to keep track of various documents and other "stuff" related to WPLUG.<br />
<br />
The main WPLUG page is at [http://www.wplug.org/ http://www.wplug.org/]<br />
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== Upcoming Meetings ==<br />
The offical schedule can always be found at [http://www.wplug.org/meetings/ http://www.wplug.org/meetings/]. Here's the unofficial listing with pages for each talk.<br />
* [[Meeting-20070113 | January 13, 2007]] - General User Meeting, vote on old motions<br />
* [[Meeting-20070210 | February 10, 2007]] - Installfest<br />
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For longer term planning and discussion about future meetings, please see the [[UpcomingMeetings | upcoming meetings]] page.<br />
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== Upcoming Related Events ==<br />
* The [http://pghcodingdojo.org Pittbsburgh Coding Dojo] is holding a [http://pghcodingdojo.org/index.php/January_25th_Meeting meeting] on January 25th.<br />
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Feel free to see the [[Previous Related Events | previous related events]] page for examples of what we've done in the past.<br />
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== Online Resources ==<br />
WPLUG provides a variety of online resources to its members and the community at large, in fact, you're looking at one of these resources right now -- the WPLUG wiki. We provide these resources as a way for our members to help each other, spread the word about Linux and other open source, and generally just socialize.<br />
* [[MailingLists | Mailing Lists]] - The WPLUG mailing lists are a big part of our community. We have specific lists for many different issues, ranging from general announcements, to jobs, to people trying to sell stuff in our marketplace.<br />
* [[IRC | Internet Relay Chat]] - This is a realtime chat facility that we operate on the [http://www.freenode.net/ FreeNode] IRC network. At times this can be a very good way to get information.<br />
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== Organizational Materials ==<br />
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* [[MeetingChecklist | Meeting Checklist]] - this is what needs to be done for each meeting and the responsibilities of each person.<br />
* [[FinancialDocuments | Financial Documents]] - links to the forms and instructions from the WPLUG treasurer.<br />
* [[Committees | Committee Information]] - Listing of WPLUG Committees and members<br />
* [[WPLUGBoard | Board Information]] - information on meetings of the WPLUG board<br />
<br />
== Past Meetings ==<br />
<br />
For information on previous meetings, please see the [[Previous Meetings | previous meetings page]]. If you're new to WPLUG, this will give you an idea of WPLUGs activity level and what sort of things we do.</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/MeetingChecklistMeetingChecklist2006-10-23T04:00:43Z<p>Wmoran: </p>
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<div>[http://www.wplug.org/pages/wplug-meeting Responsibilies document]</div>Wmoran//www.wplug.org/wiki/Western_Pennsylvania_Linux_Users_GroupWestern Pennsylvania Linux Users Group2006-08-21T20:57:31Z<p>Wmoran: </p>
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<div>The purpose of the WPLUG Wiki is to keep track of various documents and other "stuff" related to WPLUG.<br />
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The main WPLUG page is at [http://www.wplug.org http://www.wplug.org]</div>Wmoran