G'day Everyone,
Here are the meeting minutes for 2007. Sorry about the delays - i'm a slacker.
Have a look over them, and raise any points at the AGM on Friday.
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SLUG Sydney Linux Users Group Incorporated
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2007 Annual General Meeting
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Friday 30th March 2007
at Level 13 IBM building 300 Pacific Hwy
St Leonards
Meeting opened at ?7pm
Presidents report by Lindsay Holmwood
Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG)
President's Report 2006-2007
The 2006/2007 period was a reasonably historic one for SLUG on a
number of fronts. UTS, our venue for the last 10 years kicked us out,
forcing us to find a new place to hold our monthly meetings. We hosted
linux.conf.au 2007, the first time an LCA has returned to a previously
hosting city. We also managed to come in at a profit, due to new
insurance and banking arrangements.
Although it's been a turbulent year at times, I think we've come a
long way. With an expected surge of new members out of linux.conf.au,
the future certainly looks bright.
Meetings
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We've been holding meetings at the University of Technology, Sydney
(UTS) for as long as any of us can remember. UTS have always been a
pleasure to deal with, and Tim Bayfield has been amazingly helpful in
single handedly booking rooms for meetings and activities.
Unfortunately, due to VSU and internal politiking UTS decided to start
charging us $600 per meeting for using their venue. This was obviously
beyond SLUG's means, so we were forced to find a new venue at
extremely short notice (UTS's change of heart came one week out from a
SLUG meeting).
Fortunately for us, IBM stepped up to the plate and provided us a
fantastic venue at St. Leonards. Although the getting into the
building was sometimes tricky, SLUG has coped extremely well and we're
still managing a decent turnout of at least 30 people per meeting.
Unfortunately the shift to the North Shore has caused our numbers to
dwindle, with the extra 20 minute journey and change of train line
making it difficult for some to get home at the end of a meeting.
Fingers crossed we'll be able to find a solution to this problem in
the coming year.
Speakers at SLUG this year included:
* April: James Dumay
* May: Ian Weinand
* June: Mikolaj Habryn, Dave Airlie
* July: Chris Deigan, Silvia Pfeiffer, André Pang
* August: Pascal Klein, Jamie Wilkinson
* September: Conrad Parker, Adam Kennedy
* October: Ken Yap, Peter Miller
* November: John Ferlito, Charles Grey
* January: Holger Levsen, Mikal Still
* February: James Dumay, Lindsay Holmwood
Thanks goes out to everyone who volunteered to speak, some at very
short notice. :-)
Events
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We had a broad smattering of events this year, catering to all sorts
of special niches and interests. Special events included:
* DebSIGs, organised by Lindsay Holmwood + Robert Collins
* Codefest, organised by Mary Gardiner
* SLUGaMuSIG, organised by Denis Crowdy
* Videofests, organised by Silvia Pfeiffer
* SydPUG, organised by Gavin Sherry
* Women's Meetup, organised by Myrto Zehnder
* SLUG Workshop, organised by Chris Deigan
* Website codefest, organised by Silvia Pfeiffer
And of course, there was linux.conf.au in January. LCA was a
resounding success that wouldn't have been possible without the hard
work and dedication of many members of SLUG who volunteered to make it
all happen.
800 attendees. 70 speakers. 5 days. An awesome event.
Other things
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* New SLUG website.
With the old website needing a bit of love, the committee and
assorted volunteers spent some time setting up a copy of Drupal and
transferring all the relevant data across.
This process culminated in a website codefest, organised by Silvia
Pfeiffer, that saw about 10 volunteers getting together in a lovely
photo studio provided by Dave McQuire and hacking on new features for
the website, and fixing up the content.
It's been a great success, with the site looking miles better and
significantly easier to navigate.
* New hosting.
SLUG's server maddog suffered a series of critical hardware
failures that forced us to look for alternative hosting. Solutions
First kindly chipped in and provided a virtual machine on their
hosting infrastructure. Thanks goes out to sol1 for providing a
helping hand!
As you can see, a tremendous amount has happened this year. Thanks to
everyone who's been involved this last year - without your help SLUG
wouldn't nearly be what it is.
I look forward to another fantastic year for 2007-2008!
Lindsay Holmwood
SLUG President
Treasurers report by Ken Wilson
SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group
2006 Treasurers report
Main changes in 2006 were the closing of the Credit union account as
all signatories had not been updated as the paperwork was too complex,
it was easier just to close the account, and the changing of insurance
companies to halve the public liability cost; which changes SLUG from
loosing money each year to covering our expenses with a little to
spare. See accounts for details.
Ken Wilson
Treasurer
SLUG – Sydney Linux Users Group Inc.
2006 Accounts
Opening Balances
Commonwealth Account $1,077.18
Australian Credit Union $683.87
Petty Cash $129.50
Total _----------------> $1,890.55
Income
Donations $138.53
Interest $10.02
Membership $1,697.50
Tea & Coffee $401.70
Total _---------------> $2,247.75
Expenses
Bank fees $27.95
Insurance $700.00
Miscellaneous $198.50
Speakers Dinners $415.50
Tea & Coffee $142.73
Membership $25.00
Total _---------------> $1,509.68
Profit (Loss) _---------------> $738.07
Closing Balances
Commonwealth Account $2,291.12
Peter Miller took the chair
Nominations called for committee positions being vacated.
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President
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Lindsay Holmwood (N:Matt Moor, S: Erik de Castro Lopo, accepted), unopposed
Vice President
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Silvia Pfeiffer (N: Lindsay Holmwood, S: Erik de Castro Lopo, accepted),
unopposed
Matt Moor (N: Lindsay Holmwood, S: Erik de Castro Lopo, declined)
Treasurer
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Ken Wilson (N: Lindsay Holmwood, S: Erik de Castro Lopo, Accepted), 19
John Ferlito (N: Matt Moor, S: Erik de Castro Lopo, Accepted), 4
Secretary
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John Ferlito (N: Matt Moor, S: Erik de Castro Lopo, declined)
James Polley (N: Matt Moor, S: Micheal Kedzierski, declined)
Silvia Pfeiffer (N: Lindsay Holmwood, S: Erik de Castro Lopo, declined)
Matt Moor (N: John Ferlito, S: Silvia Pfeiffer, accepted), unopposed
Ordinary
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James Dumay (N: Lindsay Holmwood, S: Erik de Castro Lopo, accepted), 20,
elected
Sridhar Dhanapalan (N: Lindsay Holmwood, S: Erik de Castro Lopo,
accepted), 22, elected
John Ferlito (N: Matt Moor, S: Erik de Castro Lopo, accepted), 18, elected
James Polley (N: Matt Moor, S: Michael Kedzierski, accepted), 9
Erik de Castro Lopo (N: Silvia Pfeiffer, S: Matt Moor, accepted), 10
Matt Moor (N: Lindsay Holmwood, S: Erik de Castro Lopo, declined)
Election results
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President
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Lindsay Holmwood
Vice President
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Silvia Pfeiffer
Treasurer
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Ken Wilson
Secretary
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Matt Moor
Ordinary Committee Members
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James Dumay
Sridhar Dhanapalan
John Ferlito
The outgoing committee was thanked and the new committee congradulated.
meeting closed 7.45pm
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