Present: Jamie Wilkinson (minutes), Jeff Waugh (chair), Tony Green, Jaime Hemmett, Peter Hardy, Jan Schmidt
Apologies: Mary Gardiner Meeting opened 19:35 1. Ongoing tasks * Investigating discounts for SLUG members. Jamie announced that Anchor Systems are happy to provide discounted services (i.e. web hosting, colocation, domain registrations) to card carrying SLUG members, in return for some promotion from SLUG. The details of this need to be sorted out between Anchor and SLUG, as to what both parties are prepared to offer each other. Tony mentioned that Spice Boys do give a discount to SLUG members, but that it does depend on how well the owners recognise your face and that the specifics of a discount aren't fixed. This needs to be documented somewhere. Tony also said that bookstores were not really viable as SLUG doesn't have the membership size to make it worthwhile for the stores. Jaime mentioned that LinuxChix members can get unreviewed O'Reilly books for free, provided that a review is written. Perhaps SLUG members would be interested in reviewing books too? * Provide second HDD for maddog. Tony has the second hard disk, and shall pass it on to Jeff who will perform the upgrade soon. * Small regular SLUG events. The response from several people was that they weren't interested in organising small SIG-like SLUG events, both technical and social. No interest from the committee in pursuing this further. * Security Fest Jaime would like a date set before she books the room. 1.1 Website competition. * Name the new logo. Consensus is that the logo (mascot) needs a name. Jamie and Jan suggested "Tugger the Slugger", given that the alt tags in the website already show this. Consensus amongst the committee was to poll for suggestions from the membership and pick the best one. * Website design. The website competition can now go ahead as we have the new logo. The specifications are that we would like it to be purely CSS. no HTML, with the exception that HTML attributes may be added to enhance the use of CSS. Jaime will announce the competition. There are also a lot of photos of SLUGgers and of SLUG events that could be collected and inserted into Gallery, now that it is available on the website. Jeff will ask around for photos. 1.2 FAQs Jan had some FAQs for the committee to submit. 2. August meeting review Consensus amongst the committee was that it went well, although the indepth talk was waylaid by a lot of questions that were assumed knowledge for the talk. A FAQ may be required to inform speakers of the type of audience they should be aiming at. 3. Upcoming meetings. * September General talk will be on X-Box Linux. Sluglets to be gathered during the month. In depth talk may be either Telstra reps on their Linux desktop rollout, project "firefly", or Robert Squiddy Collins on the arch version control system. * October Silvia and Conrad from CSIRO on Annodex. Rob if the Telstra talk goes ahead in September. 4. Upcoming events * CSE Codefest Jeff to contact Compsoc. * Security fest. Needs a location, a date, and some speakers. * Computer fairs. Can't use them as an installfest (far too little space and time per customer) but can use them to pimp SLUG and Linux and possibly even flog merchandise. Demos of nifty stuff. Need some gear to flog. Can summon membership to show up at an event for support, also the organisers of the computer fair would love it if we caused a lot of people to rock up and buy stuff. * Paintball. 5 Other Business. * Jeff and Tony are resigning their positions as president and vice president of SLUG. They will both write their resignation to the committee, and then announce to the membership. Details of the effects of the resignations to be be nutted out on the committee list. Meeting closed 20:18. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
