Meeting minutes and outcomes
From GLUG-Wiki
In Attendance:
- Karl Fischer
- Biyi Akinpelu
- Ludolph Neethling
- Scott Ryan
- Ross Addis
- Hiren Patel
- hold em poker online
- Buchan Milne
- Eugene Grimsdell
- Gert Burger
- JP Viljoen
- Francois Pieterse
- Braidi Appanna
- Victor Mosehla
- Nico Michael
Welcome and introduction
Food was provided by Eugene. After some refreshments, Ross took attendance and welcomed everyone.
GLUG mission, vision and goals
Mission
- Promote the use of Linux in Gauteng.
- Provide community service (e.g. assisting new users, no commercial responsibility).
Goals
Short-term goals:
- Exhibition at Rage Expo.
- Freedom Toaster renewal.
- Software Freedom Day?
Financials and mandatory requirements
- At present GLUG is not a legal entity.
- Do we need finances?
- If LPA still exists and is registered, we can consider using LPA as the legal entity to handle GLUG finances etc.
Funding ideas
- Sell T-shirts? We can consider approaching Henti about T-shirts.
GLUG Logo Competition
- A competition will be organised on the mailing list.
- Provisionally to close end of January.
- A prize will be arranged.
- Please have a look at GLUG Logo competition guidelines.
Formation of interim committee
- The current interim committee consists of all the attendees of the meeting.
- It was decided that a committee was required.
- How are members defined? GLUG members must:
- Register on a site (JP to investigate).
- Subscribe to at least one GLUG mailing list.
- Attended a meeting in person.
- Committee will be elected annually at the AGM.
Drawing up of constitution
- Amend CLUG constitution.
- A draft constitution will be sent to the mailing lists in advance of the AGM, for adoption at the AGM.
Key events and meetings
- Next meeting will be in the last week of January, in Centurion or Midrand.
- Meetings will in the interim be held on the last Friday of (most) long months (Jan, Mar etc.).
- The AGM will be held in January.
Roles and responsibilities
Open discussion
- List etiquette? May be covered in the constitution.
- linux.org.za and GLUG mailing list migration to glug.org.za.
- Maybe help refresh linux.org.za, making it useful to all South African LUGs, not just GLUG.
Proposed Ideas
- Monthly project donation:
- Choose an open source project per month.
- Members put contributions (optional) of their choice into a pool during the month.
- At the end of each month the pool is donated to the project either in funds or hardware purchases or any other way.
- Recommended hardware and vendors page:
- Page of recommended hardware and vendors to support
- GNU maintains a page for this.
- Perhaps link to that
- List some open source friendly vendors and perhaps a few points on why supporting these vendors is important in the long run.
- TV/radio advert on free/open software?
- Discuss how useful an advert on free/open software might be to get general public awareness.
- Government initiative:
- Throw some ideas around to see how we might be able to get government to better support and appreciate open standards (and open source as a by-product?).
- Page with places offering gnu/linux training.
