Here are the minutes from tonight's organizational meeting.
Executive Summary
We have a group responsible for finding a regular meeting
space. The members are on the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing
list, which is open to all. The goal is to be able to resume
regular weekly clinics and monthly presentations starting in
January. The space finders have tight deadlines to meet
to get that job done.
We decided not to incorporate or charge dues, but we did elect
some officers for our non-organization.
Many other topics were discussed, and decisions were, in many
cases, arrived at.
Action items are listed in CAPITAL LETTERS throughout.
Scan the action items and see what you've volunteered to do.
Minutes
These minutes are my (kbob's) interpretation of what happened
at the meeting. Sorry if I omitted, misattributed, or
misunderstood your great idea.
I also reorganized stuff. This is not the order it happened in.
Attendees
These people attended the meeting.
Ben Barrett
Justin Bengtson
Kahlie Burke
Jamie Chamoulos
Seth Cohn
Ed Craig
Bob Crandell
Jim Darrough
Anne Eagle
Jim Kaplan
Horst Luecke
kbob Miller
Mike Owen
Larry Price
Rob Shirey arrived just as we finished.
Stacey Wellborn
Topics
I. Club Organization
I.A. incorporation
I.B. dues and budget
Seth is opposed. Nobody wanted to argue the case in favor of
a formal organization, so once again, we remain an anarchy.
I.C. officers
Seth: wants president and vice president
Darrough: wants silly titles. Suggested Grand Poobah and Vice
Poobah.
Seth: Wants to keep Rob Hudson as Webmaster.
Concensus: keep Rob.
Seth: wants to be Guy in Charge of Getting Free Shit
Kbob and BobC (the two other white Bobs) were railroaded
into taking the pres and VP positions.
ACTION ITEM kbob: Run the club.
ACTION ITEM BobC: Help run the club.
II. Activities
II.A. Mailing Lists
Seth: wants to move lists off efn.org onto boxes he controls.
Problems with dropped mail, politics.
Seth: wants to set up a Mailman admin interface w/ Michelle
Brownsworth.
Seth: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is for those who herd cats -- er, no,
it's for discussion of club organization issues. Subscribe by
sending a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kaplan: wants a moderated list, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kbob: wants [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Darrough: Wants EUGLUG to be able to form SIGs. We decided
that the way to form a SIG is to create a mailing list.
Anybody can create a mailing list, so anybody can form a SIG.
Some SIGs will die from lack of interest, but the good ones
will survive.
ACTION ITEM Seth: move mailing lists off EFN, set up mailman,
set up low-noise and announce lists.
ACTION ITEM Kaplan: moderate low-noise.
ACTION ITEM Rob Hudson: update web site to describe new mailing list
setup when Seth gets it done. Find way to track all lists (or
just point to mailman page).
II.B. Clinics
Concensus: we like weekly clinics. Which night depends
on what's available for our meeting space.
II.C. Presentations
Concensus: We want to start monthly presentations again
as soon as we have space.
II.D. Special Events
Seth: Computer Expo was good. Let's repeat it next year.
Seth: We should do two special events a year.
Seth: We should do a booth at Oregon Country Fair again.
Join [EMAIL PROTECTED] to discuss.
Seth: I want to organize a key signing party
ACTION ITEM Ed and Ben: organize EUGLUG's Country Fair presence next year.
II.E. K-12 Project
Eugene's 4J school district is working with the PLUG
(Portland Linux User Group) to set up diskless Linux
boxes in classrooms.
It seems silly for them to be working with PLUG when
we're right here.
This project is looking for a volunteer. Who wants to
help the 4J schools install Linux in their classrooms?
ACTION ITEM anybody: volunteer to lead or contribute to this project.
III. Meeting Space
We need a space for clinics and a space for presentations.
There are several possibilities, and various club members
have volunteered to work each possibility.
Our goal is to have a meeting space(s) by January 1, 2002,
both for clinics and for presentations.
III.A. Candidate Spaces
EWEB (Eugene Water & Electric Board)
University of Oregon
Libraries
Main Building (on Agate?)
The Growers' Market
City of Eugene
County of Lane
EFN (Eugene Free Network)
ORCAS (Oregon Center for Applied Science)
The Atrium Building, 10th & Olive
Public Library (not open until late spring)
River Road Parks & Recreation (suggested by BobC after meeting)
III.B. Plan of Action
Six members volunteered to take responsibility for trying to
get space with specific organizations. Those members and
organizations are:
Ben: U of O
Ed: Growers' Market
Larry: EFN
Kaplan: EWEB, Atrium Bldg, City, County
kbob: ORCAS
BobC: River Road Parks & Recreation
Our plan is to spend one week (11/29 through 12/6)
brainstorming how to convince space owners to let us
use their space, and how to overcome objections that
past space holders have had.
The following week, we will talk to all the space holders.
After that, the holidays will make it much harder to reach
people.
ACTION ITEM Seth: subscribe the six to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ACTION ITEM Ben: prepare a Wiki page for brainstorming discussion and
post its location to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ACTION ITEM Ben, Ed, Larry, Kaplan, kbob, BobC:
Subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if Seth doesn't do it.
ACTION ITEM Ben, Ed, Larry, Kaplan, kbob, BobC:
Join into the Wiki discussion. Complete the
discussion by 12/6.
ACTION ITEM Ben, Ed, Larry, Kaplan, kbob, BobC:
Contact your target organization(s). See if they'll let us
meet there. Keep the herding list apprised. Complete by
12/13.
I feel optimistic that we'll have a good meeting room next
year.
IV. Other
IV.A. Logo design
Justin: has designed a new EUGLUG logo, wants to see it used.
ACTION ITEM Justin: Show us your logo.
IV.B. Web Site
There was discussion of what we might want to do with
the web site. There were no firm decisions reached.
I think the concensus is that we like what Rob's doing,
but it should be easier for other people to contribute
content.
Assuming that there's a real problem here to be solved
(I'm not convinced there is), anybody want to take
charge of this?
ACTION ITEM anybody: volunteer to make web site collaboration easier.
IV.C. U of O Open Source User Group
Ben says he went to one of their meetings. They're
a small group. They don't meet year-round.
IV.D. EUGLUG Distro
Ben wants to do a EUGLUG Linux distribution. Go, Ben!
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
