Hi everyone, Here are the minutes of the March 2004 SLUG committee meeting. Please discuss on the activities list.
These and previous committee meeting minutes are available at http://www.slug.org.au/minutes/ --- Committee meeting minutes March 2004 --- Meeting open, 7:03pm, 5th March 2004 Present: Chris Deigan, Mary Gardiner (minutes), Peter Hardy, Jaime Hemmett, Michael Kortvelyesy, Jan Schmidt (chair), Jamie Wilkinson Apologies: Ben Leslie 1. General business 1. Direct deposit Jamie to chase up the availability of direct deposit into our bank account. 2. Video Jan has bought DVDs to store SLUG video on. He will try and make at least the audio available at one per week. Stamping the audio and video with copyright information was discussed, either by inserting a copyright notice as an audio segment or putting the notice in the meta-data comments. We discussed various ways of distributing the data: * Chris mentioned that PIPE Networks might be willing to mirror SLUG audio and video for users connected to PIPE. * We could ask interested people to email us * We could host it for members only * We could take advantage of bandwidth available to some SLUG members in the US 3. Urn Jan and Jaime will purchase an urn capable of holding 20 cups. 4. Campbell's Cash and Carry Card Jamie needs to report back on whether SLUG can get a Campbell's Cash and Carry card. 2. Review of recent events 1. Installfest The installfest was small, but some machines were installed. People turned up from outside SLUG. More notice would be better. The venue (Computerbank warehouse) was good but lacked air conditioning. 2. February monthly meeting No meeting muster was sent out, leaving the speakers a bit surprised at being videoed. No copyright forms were distributed to speakers, Jan and Jaime will add the forms to their meeting kit. Mary suggested that SLUGlets is not working in the 'tutorial' format as noone is willing to do the work to prepare a 45 minutes tutorial. Pete concurred and added that feedback on SLUGlets recently has been very negative. However, if we return to the variety show format, there needs to be a moderator to keep discussion at a level that won't lock most participants out. 3. Upcoming events 1. AGM The AGM is pretty much sorted. Jan and Jamie are confident that the President's and Treasurer's reports will be ready. We need to get the room confirmed for an announce by March 12. Michael mentioned that unemployed people might find the $25 membership fee steep. MOTION: That the membership for full-time students, unemployed people and healthcare card holders be reduced. The motion was CARRIED, and the 2004-2005 membership fee for full-time students, unemployed people and healthcare card holders will be set to $15 for the six months after the 2004 AGM (at which point it will halve to $7.50 as per the Constitution). Membership for all other members remains $25 ($12.50 six months after the AGM). 2. March monthly meeting Jeff Waugh is confirmed as the speaker after the AGM. Dinner will be at the House of Guang-Zhou. 3. April meeting Pete will do the preliminary organisation in April as Jan and Jaime will be away. We discussed potential talk topics: * Mike's bash tutorial * Jeff's Postfix talk * Chris on home wireless * Gus on emacs * a distro forum * an editor forum * intro to GNOME or KDE * What's new in GNOME 2.6? * What's new in latest KDE? * filesystems * doc authoring tools * Docbook * LaTeX * kernel 2.6 * zeroconf networking * OpenOffice * printing We decided to as Gus if he would be prepared to do an intro to emacs as the general talk, and Chris a talk on home wireless security as the special interest talk. 4. Next installfest 1. Date of next installfest A late March or early April installfest is possible in collaboration with the Sydney Uni Free Software Users Group 2. Installfests large and small The committee is prepared to support large installfests if someone is prepared to run them. Jan pointed out that until we have a group of regulars it will require time sacrifices from the committee to run monthly installfests and therefore they will be less frequent. 4. Prepare for committee handover Mary and Jamie, neither of whom are running for 2004-2005 committee, should document their roles by the end of March We need to send our new constitution to the Department of Fair Trading. Michael needs to learn CVS so that he can update the repository. 5. Other business 1. More members We should advertise SLUG membership prior to the AGM. Can Craige McWhirter give us access to his contacts list? We will contact the uni computing societies. 2. Stuff we should be doing Several meeting attendees have sent Pete SLUG feedback: in particular, the Khans want to help make SLUGlets better, and Sarah suggested that the website needs a "where to get help if you're new" section Meeting closed 8:15pm -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
