Waikato Linux Users' Group Incorporated
Annual General Meeting Minutes

26 September 2005
Held at LitB

Meeting opened at 7:16pm.

1. Membership signup/collection of subscriptions

27 members signed up, and subscriptions were collected from 18 members.

2. Apologies

Sid Swami submits his apologies.

3. Minutes of the previous AGM

Motion: that the minutes are a true and accurate record of the previous Annual General Meeting

Moved: MattBrown
Seconded: LindsayDruett

PASSED

4. Matters arising

There are no matters arising from the previous AGM.

5. President's report

• change in focus of the meetings - good year for presentations
• tidied up legal loose ends
• instrumental in the cessation of AuckLUG pretending to be NZLUG
• wiki is a respected and widely used source for open source information
• have not acheived more active participation in administration/direction/general members
• thanks to committee members - Craig Box as secretary, "Craig's legs have fallen off"
• Matt Brown - "Greig award for most enthusiastic and dedicated member of the committee"
• personally enjoyed the challenge, been on committee since incorporation, feel it's time to freshen up and offer some new spaces.

6. Survey results

Craig B presented survey results

7. Treasurer's report

Started year: $852.00 $775 in fees received $302.61 expenses - fees for registration of DNS, Installfest, refreshments $359.77 total expenses incl petty cash

Current balance $1264.87

8. Changes to charter

5 -> 3

Moved JohnMcPherson Seconded MattBrown

Motion Passed

Quorum 5 -> 4

Moved CraigBox Seconded RoderickAldridge?

Motion passed

Remove sentence "The meeting may not require the general attendance of the society, in the case of most disciplinary meetings, or may require full attendance in the case of a change to the charter or rules of the society."

Remove the paragraph "The committee can call a special general meeting by a pass vote at a committee meeting. A member may call a SGM if backed by a majority of the society's membership." and replace with "The committee can call a special general meeting by the request of any committee member. A member may call a SGM if backed by at least 10% of the society's membership."

Moved: JamieCurtis Seconded: IanMcDonald

Motion passed

9. Election of officers

President: LindsayDruett Vice President: DavidHallett Secretary: CraigBox Treasurer: IanMcDonald

Elected:

MatthiasDallmeier PerryLorier GianPerrone

10. General business

None

Meeting closed at 9:05