WLUG Meeting Minutes
17 November 2005

Meeting opened at 7:42pm.

Present: LindsayDruett, DavidHallett, CraigBox, IanMcDonald, MatthiasDallmeier, PerryLorier, GianPerrone

1. Minutes from previous meeting

Moved: Gian Seconded: Perry

Motion passed

2. Matters arising from previous meeting

No one really did anything.

3. Correspondence

None.

4. Hoiho & hosting.

CraigMckenna has asked us to seek alternative hosting because Hoiho is using too much bandwidth.

Options offered so far:

• FX Networks - $100/mo
• CRCnet - very likely, needs small server
• BSD's office

Want to pay nothing. 1U preferable for hiding in other peoples' hosting - being considerate on rack space.

• New server/new hosting
• Current server/new hosting
• International hosting (rimuhosting.com)

Options for getting a machine:

• Approach someone who sells them (IBM/HP/Dell etc)
• Approach a big name Linux vendor (RedHat/Novell)
• Approach someone with an interest in the community
• Four companies putting up $500 each (Infometrics owe us some favours)
• Free virtual hosting
• Second hand machine out of subscriptions
• Paid virtual hosting
• New machine out of subscriptions

Action: Write letters, do stuff. Find out how long CraigM will continue hosting, look at moving it immediately to BSD if required.

5. Meetings

November meeting topic: No meeting topic. To be followed up on mailing list and have someone take responsibility by end of tomorrow.

Gian's place still on offer (Taharua Rd) - 12km out of Hamilton, might be better to get somewhere close; tentative date is 18 December. Effort to be made to make the barbeque more inclusive. Venue and date to be confirmed by the next meeting.

No formal committee meeting arranged for December; will start up again in January.

6. General business

none

Meeting closed at 8:20pm.