Hi everyone,
Here are the committee meeting minutes for October. We've got a lot of
events coming up that we need SLUGgers for -- people wanting to help out
should join the activities list:
http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/activities
In particular, SLUG needs lots of help with the installfest.
These events are:
- UNSW CSE Associations Market Day, 15th October
- UTS Installfest with UTS's Progsoc, 18th October
- [EMAIL PROTECTED], early November
- Security Fest, late November (depending on us finding a room at UTS
-- that's exam time)
Please discuss the minutes on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- Minutes ---
Present: Chris Deigan, Mary Gardiner (minutes), Peter Hardy, Jaime
Hemmett, Michael Kortvelyesy, Ben Leslie, Jan Schmidt (chair), Jamie
Wilkinson.
Meeting open: 7:10pm
1. New committee members
We welcomed Michael, Benno and Chris to committee. Michael asked whether
members of the committee had any assigned roles (aside from the
executive roles). Committee is more a grab-bag of tasks rather than
particular roles.
1.1 Handover to new exec
- Pete and Jan need to become bank account signatories
- the Department of Fair Trading only needs a registered public
officer, which was Mary, so no change needed.
1.2 Update access to maddog.slug.org.au
- Benno has an account, Michael needs to be added
2. Ongoing tasks
2.1 Videos
- Michael will take care of approaching speakers for permission to
video them and distribute the video, audio and slides. Jamie will
prepare a permission form. Jan needs to prepare a list of all the
video we have available.
2.2 Website
Benno and Jaime will request slides from past speakers, and put up a
more comprehensive list of past talks, and note on the website which
talks have video, audio and/or slides available.
At some stage we might approach one of the Australian mirror sites or
a local hosting company (maybe Anchor) about hosting the video and
audio, until then we will distribute video and audio only on demand.
2.2.1 FAQs
The current FAQs are in publishable form.
2.3 Website competition
The idea of having a second formal competition was abandoned. We will
ask for patches to the existing website more informally.
3. Review of September meeting
The talks were fine.
We need to be more firm about tangential questions, especially in the
techie talk. Michael suggested that each talk needs a moderator.
4. October meeting
The general talk will be Conrad Parker, Sylvia Pfeiffer and Andre Pang
on Annodex.
SLUGlets will be mail filtering and spam filtering from an end user's
point of view.
Techie talk: Might be Telstra desktops, backup is Gus on mod_perl
5. November meeting
The general talk will be Jamie Honan on DTV. Jan and Ken Yap will
share the techie slot, Jan on kino + gstreamer, and Ken Yap on
recording and digitisng radio.
SLUGlets will have a multimedia theme.
6. Upcoming events
6.1 Security fest
We would like to hold this in November, but exams make it difficult
to get rooms.
6.2 Codefest @ CSE
Tentative date: 8th November.
6.3 Installfest @ UTS
18th October.
Move the organisation to festies. Pete too busy to follow through on
doing most of the organisation, but he will post a list of tasks to
festies. Matthew Beauregard, the Progsoc contact, is on festies.
6.4 Associations Market Day @ UNSW
15th October
Benno has arranged for SLUG has been given a free stall at the UNSW
CSE Associations Market Day provided we give some help with set up.
Jaime will design SLUG flyers for Jan and Benno to print by the 13th
October. It would be good to have Knoppix CDs to hand out as well as
some demos of Linux and FS programs.
We need volunteers from 11am to 4pm or thereabouts. Jamie, Michael,
Benno and Pete will be there.
6.5 Telstra talk @ USyd
Jan, Mary, and perhaps Pete and Chris will attend the Telstra desktop
talk at USyd on 8th October. Mary to report to SLUG meeting.
7 Next ctte meeting location
The next meeting will be in Burwood. Jan will look around for a good
cafe.
8. LCA RDP
SLUG is going to nominate two people to the linux.conf.au organisers
to be considered as Regional Delegates to linux.conf.au. We need to
decide by October 20. We will send a mail to announce, asking people
to nominate themselves to committee, and choose our nominees by 17th
October, to be sent to LCA organisers on the 20th.
9. Mailing list
We've already posted a factual correction to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list
saying that we do indeed do spam filtering. A vote of financial
members about closed vs. open slug list will happen at the next
monthly meeting.
After that, we put the result of the vote into the FAQ.
10. SLUG as a Free Software Project (reprise)
Ideally, the SLUG committee's role should be to bankroll events
organised by SLUG members. In order to increase transparency and
enable people to participate, we are going to change the festies list
into a general activities list, and the committee will move almost all
of their discussion to that list.
11. General business
Pete has a client that will do 250 SLUG business cards for $50. A
SLUG business card with webpage, info on joining the lists, committee
contact address would be good to hand out at events.
Michael also mentioned a company in Queensland that can do high
quality long life business cards.
Meeting closed: 9:02pm
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