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__WLUG Committee Meeting__%%%
__23 February 2005__%%%
__Provisional Meeting Minutes__
-Meeting opened at 7.14pm
+Meeting opened at 7.30pm
-Present: GreigMcGill, CraigBox, JohnMcPherson, JamieCurtis, PerryLorier, GianPerrone, CraigMckenna
+Present: GreigMcGill, CraigBox, JohnMcPherson, JamieCurtis, PerryLorier, GianPerrone, CraigMckenna, MattBrown
!1. Minutes from previous meeting
Motion: that the minutes are a true and accurate record of the previous meeting
-Moved GianPerrone
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-Seconded CraigMckenna
+Moved CraigBox
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+Seconded GreigMcGill
!Motion passed
!2. Matters arising from previous meeting
-No update
on Exim 4 books
.
+* Philip Hazel was arranged for a very well received meeting
on [
Exim].
+* The Computer Science department have offered to continue their sponsorship of a room for WLUG meetings in 2005.
+* New wiki migration has been put on hold; John is working on a new theme, and Greig is concerned that security fixes from PhpWiki are backported into our code if necessary.
+* Gavin Denby has been contacted regarding new user tutorials: he has apologised for being out of contact, and is working on a distro neutral curriculum for a potential start later in the year.
+* The Trust Waikato funding round is coming in April; all committee members have been asked to think of funding opportunties to present to the next meeting, and Greig will take this to the group mailing list
.
!3. Correspondence
-The linux
.conf.au organisers thanked
us for our offer of support
.
+Book reviews were submitted to O'Reilly
.
+
+5 copies of the Exim 4 book have to sell before a copy can be donated to the library - Jamie to keep
us informed
.
!4. Treasurers report
The Treasurers report was tabled and accepted.
-!5. Reply-to munging on the mailing list
-
-We see the technical merits of reply-to munging but WLUG is a public discussion list and most posts expect a public reply. We encourage all users to check the To: header before clicking "send" in their mail client.
-
-!6.
Software patent legislation
-
-WLUG will issue a statement to NZOSS offering their support in the fight against software patents. John will contact NZOSS regarding this.
-
-!7. Installfest
+!5. Free
Software Foundation donations
-Craig in contact with Daniel regarding installfest location & internet access. Investigating ideas for quick distro installations. Need
a PABX for phone line testing. Minimum PC standards will be enforced. Contact Recycled Tech regarding machines above
that point/modems
. Follow up on Ubuntu CDs. Craig
to talk
to Matt
to prepare list of tasks. Leverage Firefox - potential Windows installations too
.
+The WLUG committee feel that there are
a number of charities
that are deserving of the attention of LUG members, and owing to the nature of some of these groups that the selection of a single one is a very politically charged subject
. The committee would like
to encourage members wishing
to make donations
to consult other members and potentially collect group donations at meetings, to submit to be made in the WLUG's name
.
-Installfest sponsors sought to provide giveaways/spot prizes, food, table hire
.
+!6
. linux.conf.au
-Other potential install targets - monowall
.
+The committee will consult the organisers of linux.conf.au 2006, congratulate them on winning their bid to host the conference, and offer any help that we as a group can provide
.
-!8
. Fundraising
+* Several members of WLUG will probably want to attend this privately, so we should investigate having WLUG hats made.
+* Sun are sponsoring a NZ Linux user to linux.conf.au 2005 - there is potential that WLUG might be consulted as part of the selection process and we are prepared to help if asked
.
-Suggested topics: server hardware, school staff, library books, trip to linux.conf.au, CD duplicator, test rig, projector, video/video streaming/video encoding
.
+!7
. Upcoming meetings
-Suggested fundraising topic: WLUG Presentation Centre - projector
, video gear, PC/
s to run etc
.
+* Novell/IBM on Monday.
+* Wim Coekaerts
, Oracle'
s Manager in charge of Linux - Matt will suggest a meeting on 27 April.
+* We have been asked
to approach Peter Guttman of Auckland University for a cryptography presentation
.
-!9
. General business
+!8
. General business
-* Mailing list archives currently have full email addresses
- Craig
to investigate
with ITS
.
-* phpLdapAdmin
needs to be reinstalled
.
-* Video from Exim presentation still in Wellington.
-* Approach Peter Guttman
to present a talk on either Encryption in NZ, Security on
the Internet, Security on Linux. Perry
to email for May or June
.
-* Greig emailled
Nandor again. No response yet. We don't intend
to email again
.
-* New wiki theme required. Again
.
+* Installfest planning now undeway
- potential date sometime in May 2004, a year after the last installfest. An OHP can be put up on the first day of courses, but no Unix tuts are being run this year. To address the concerns of people who paid a full year membership fee
to join at the installfest, we will offer a $10 subscription at this years installfest. We will consult the LUG about the distribution to install to new users,
with a view to using Ubuntu Hoary. Corporate sponsors need to be approached
.
+* The To Do list
needs to be updated (and done)
.
+* Someone needs
to tidy up
the ParliamentaryQuestions and send them
to RodneyHide; mailing list to be contacted regarding this
.
+* Nandor Tanczos
to be approached about another meeting as election time approaches
.
+* Matt to adopt and modify the SAGE-AU code of ethics; there seems little point in building our own from scratch
.
-Meeting closed at 8:24pm
.
+Meeting closed at 8:30pm
.
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