WLUG Committee Meeting
20 June 2005
Meeting Minutes

Meeting opened at 7.08pm

Present: PerryLorier, JohnMcPherson, JamieCurtis, MattBrown, GreigMcGill, GianPerrone
Apologies: CraigBox, CraigMckenna

1. Minutes from previous meeting

Motion: that the minutes are a true and accurate record of the previous meeting

Moved GreigMcGill
Seconded GianPerrone

Motion passed

2. Matters arising from previous meeting

PerryLorier still to announce Exim4 Video to list. Confirm With Craig as to whether InstallFest sponsors were thanked/followed up.

3. Correspondence

• No correspondence was received.

4. Treasurers report

The treasurer was not present, however the financial position of the WLUG has not altered since the last report.

5. Map out meetings through to September including AGM

July: Denise Tyrer-Harding from Pipers to be confirmed, but initial emails confirm she is happy to present.

August: Peter Guttman tentatively - Perry to confirm.

September: AGM only - possibility of meeting not ruled out if any ideas are presented.

6. Review of fundraising ideas

WEL Energy Trust application due in September. Test rig still primary option.

7. Hoiho - When/How shall we upgrade to Sarge, and Who should do this?

JohnMcPherson to prepare upgrade plan with services and customisations (checklist and backup strategy). Upgrade to be done before Saturday the 25th of June.

8. The Wiki Debate

We want to achieve:

• We want to display clean rendering to all viewers.
• We want to maintain one style of markup language, which should be as flexible and as simple as possible.
• We want to have a clean, maintained platform which is easily upgraded.
• We want to ensure any modifications made are not wasted - the OSS community should benefit.

The following considerations were discussed:

• PhpWiki is still being actively developed, albeit slowly.
• MediaWiki? is being heavily and actively developed.
• MoinMoin uses flat files - this rules it out.

Conclusion - Two approaches will be attempted in tandem:

• After upgrading to Sarge, we will look at slowly moving our codebase towards the current PhpWiki release. JohnMcPherson and PerryLorier will work on this.
• JamieCurtis and MattBrown will attempt to upgrade to the current release in a single action.

9. Relicensing Wiki content under CreativeCommons

MattBrown - please fill me in.

10. General business

10.1. DanielLawson wished to clarify the position of WLUG regarding use of funds with regard to:

• Planned expenses
• Possible expenses

GreigMcGill will work out average expenditure with CraigMckenna from the last 3 years, and extrapolate this into a very basic operating budget.

The committee felt this was relatively unnecessary, given the low levels of funding involved, and the relatively small operating requirements of the group. Our financial records are available from the Treasurer on request at any time.

10.2. NZLUG Wiki

Discussion post-nzlug mailing list thread.

Motion: If there is an appropriate indication from NZLUG that it is desirable, Perry will put up an NZLUG branded entrypoint into the WLUG Wiki.

Moved PerryLorier
Seconded MattBrown

Meeting closed at 9:29pm.

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