1999.02.09 Meeting Notes

As Silver Dragon was a bit cramped for the last meeting, we held this one at Steve's Pizza. We filled the back room pretty well. Afterwards, a few of us headed over to Espresso Roma.

Topics included:

• LUGoD has now been registered as a special interest group with the City of Davis.
• www.lugod.org has been registered with InterNIC, thanks to Steve Wormley.
• A rough draft of the LUGoD Constition was distributed. It should be discussed in more detail at the next meeting.
• Becoming a Church of Linux was briefly entertained, as it would be amusing. It was quickly brought down due to possible religious problems. It could also convey the wrong image to people.
• Funding - how can we get it, and what would we need it for
  • Possible Sources
    • Membership dues? The idea hasn't been shot down yet.
    • Become registered with ASUCD. What restrictions would this entail?
  • Possible Uses
    • Room rental for future meetings
    • GLUE (Groups of Linux Users Everywhere) registration $35/year
    • Printing costs for pamphlets or flyers
    • Public booth, perhaps at the MU or Farmer's Market to hand out flyers or copies of Linux on CD
    • Some kind of overhead or projector for demonstrations at meetings
  • $2 was collected from people present to help pay for rental of a room for the next meeting.
  • Bank account possibilities were discussed. To be determined by the Treasurer, after more information on non-profit organizational status is determined.
    • Perhaps a fictitious name would be useful.
    • Local bank would be appropriate
• OCA Gossip
  • It's been suggested by the OCA that we merge together. Discussion on this is postponed until we have more information on what would be involved in "merging".
  • We decided that there should be a liason to discuss this with the OCA, to get more information for the next meeting. Marianne volunteered, as no one else seemed too eager.
• LUGoD Officers were voted in
  • "root" or Chairperson: Pete Salzman
  • "sys" or Vice Chairperson: Bill Kendrick
  • "/dev/null" or Treasurer: Zach Johnson
  • "typescript" or Secretary: Melissa Hardenbrook
  • Webmistress: Marianne "Yamara" Waage
  • E-mail can be sent to the title@lugod.org. ie. root@lugod.org or devnull@lugod.org
• A 2 hour time limit on the formal meetings was imposed, to allow people to schedule more easily. Informal gathering afterwards is, of course, acceptable and encouraged.
• Suggestions of a 20 or 40 minute presentation to be held somewhat regularly during the meetings was recommended. Volunteers for presentations are welcome, sent to root@lugod.org
• Mailing list names were discussed.
  • vox@lugod.org to be sent to all members
  • spam@lugod.org to be mediated by sys, and articles of interest filtered to vox. This would be used for advertisements and such.

Attendees:

• Zach Johnson
• Remington Stone
• Jennifer Rutherford
• Marianne Waage
• Greg Young
• Bill Kendrick
• Nicole Carlson
• Jessica Luedtke
• Melissa Hardenbrook
• Brennen Reynolds
• Pete Salzman
• Steve Wormley
• Joe Arruda
• Leng Siakkhasone
• Ajay Tallam