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__Minutes:__

1 Minutes of previous meeting
 - approved Ian / Chris
2 Matters arising
 None
3 Correspondence
 4 bank statements
4 Treasurers report
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5 Topics for 2007 meetings

 Next meeting is 22nd not 29th.

 Jan 22 - Cairo presents a dual-boot WinXP/Edgy install

 Feb 26 - MSFT discusses the Novell deal

 We will try and book more outside speakers. Discussed a number of people we should contact. Suggested speakers were OpenOffice, Firefox, Sun (Solaris/Java), RedHat, Craig Neville-Manning (coming to Hamilton in April), Richard Lummis (VoIP), John O'Donoghue (LiteUp), doing backups in Linux, look at Auckland LUG speakers.

6 Public advocacy events

 Focus on business - Which members already have industry contacts?

 Workshops - Went very well last year apart from limited space and bandwidth

 Bruce would like Bigger location, Better connection (deal with PlaNet?) and/or local apt cache. Commitment from members to improve the guru:newb ratio. Bruce and Lindsay working on this.

 September: Big advocacy push in conjunction with SFD.

 SFD display, followed by install/postinstall/howtofix presentation, followed by installfest/fixfest


7 General Business

 Orcon - Bruce to email Craig Whitmore with new address (PO Box 21051 zip 3249)

 IT Partners - Bruce to write letter of thanks for projector.

 - Bruce blames Christmas break for slackness. Seconded by several others.

Meeting closed 8:40

Next committee meeting was going to be at Simon's but has been moved to James's place, 31 Aberfoyle Street [7:30 Feb 19th|CommitteeMeetingTopics.2007-02-19]
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