WPLUGBoard/Meeting-20071210
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Monday, December 10th, 2007, 7:00 PM Newell-Simon Hall, CMU
Agenda
- Reading and Approval of Minutes from Previous Meeting
- Officer Reports
- Chair
- Vice Chair
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Member at Large
- Committee Reports
- Program
- Public Relations
- Internet
- Investigating
- Newsletter
- ErieLUG
- Unfinished Business
- New Business
Items for Discussion
- Set GUM/event schedule for next 12 months
- Review and update WPLUG 1- 3- 5-year goals
Minutes
Call to order at 7:33pm
- Minutes from October board meeting were approved.
- Officer Reports
- Chair
- No new business to report.
- Vice Chair
- Interviewed for Post Gazette article "Wal-Mart, Dell offers help breathe new life into Linux" by Elwin Green. Article Good exposure for FOSS and WPLUG.
- Secretary - Absent
- Treasurer
- Reprint Apr & May 2007 statements received, Jun 2007 statement still missing
- Two deposits: $94 cash, $18.64 check from coins
- Cash on hand $330 + Oct membership collection = $595; also have a large amount of coins.
- Beth Lynn has Dec GUM refreshment funds and report
- Debit Card application to be submitted, 12/11
- Beth Lynn will go to Oakland Eureka branch to pickup signature card, deposit payment for pending membership, and request ATM card
- Member at Large
- Linode virtual host is SLOW, referred to Internet Committee
- Internet Committee Side-Bar
- Spam Assassin may kill virtual host, proposed to stress test.
- Proposal to remove list moderation and drop non-subscribed incoming mail (SPAM)
- Chair
- Committee Reports
- Program (Ted Rodgers)
- LDAP Authentication presentation by B. Skrekeli for Jan 2008 GUM
- Pgh Tech Council offered to list WPLUG events on calendar, Ted to contact PTC for details.
- PR
- Dave Kraus to send letter(s) to local high schools and colleges extending an invite to WPLUG InstallFests, etc.
- Reach-out to community groups offering Linux/FOSS demostrations.
- Internet
- (See above side-bar)
- Apache redirects on virtual host need work, Dave Kraus
- Need a Postfix and Mailman expert to help with mail migration
- Proposed to enable email confirmation on new MediaWiki configuration to enable editing of WPLUG wiki.
- Investigating
- No new business to report.
- Newsletter
- December issue of TOP to include review from Patrick Wagstrom.
- ErieLUG revival
- No new business to report.
- Program (Ted Rodgers)
- Unfinished Business
- None
- New Business
- WPLUG Goals
- Jabber will not be implemented, strike from goals list.
- No current interest in Podcasts and LinuxRadioLive, strike from goals list.
- Tiered Membership, WPLUG is not yet ready.
- Installfest router needs replaced:
- Proposed, voted and approved motion for $60 to Ted Rodgers to purchase and configure a new COTS router for Installfests
- Discussion on implementing a router/file server appliance for use at Installfests, provides local copies of popular distros decreasing traffic on CMU network.
- Need to get WPLUG committees moving
- Get reports from committee chairs
- Committees to establish roles, get members involved.
- January GUM: Invite membership, recruit volunteers, define roles/tasks, setup meetings.
- WPLUG Goals
(Vance and Mike to notify membership)
- Standard Operating Procedures
- New Membership, etc.
- Mike Semcheski to report at Jan 2008 board meeting
- Standard Operating Procedures
- adjourned 10:14p