[activities] Minutes for Committee Meeting 05-04-2009

Greetings,

Last Sunday was the first meeting of the new committee. The minutes can
be found at http://wiki.slug.org.au/committeeminutesapril2009 and are
also reproduced below.


====== Minutes for April Committee Meeting ======
Attending --- Sridhar, Ken, Rob, Tim, James, Melissa, Anna, Harrison

Apologies --- Scott, Sonia

Start --- 05-04-2009 @ 12:20pm
End   --- 05-04-2009 @ 2:00pm

===== Treasury report =====
  * need to update paperwork with commbank

    ACTION: Ken to locate cheque account things

  * annual statement to Dept Fair Trading
    * Signed during meeting
  * bank form for executive members
    * exec need to go say hi to the nice commbank people
  * New cable now gives good sound recording. May need to look at radio
mike to give fully independent meeting recording. This is expensive.

===== Project/action progress reports  =====
  * introductions
    * Sridhar Dhanapalan - President
      * Business analyst at Biz Cubed
      * President of SLUG last year
    * James Polley - Vice President
      * Sysadmin at Google
    * Melissa Draper - Secretary
      * Web developer at Babel Com
    * Ken Wilson - Treasurer
      * Treasurer of SLUG for past 5 years
    * Tim Ansell - Ordinary Committee Member
      * Engineer at Google
    * Rob Weir - Ordinary Committee Member
      * Sysadmin
    * Harrison Conlin - Ordinary Committee Member
      * Student

  * overview of responsibilities
    * Sridhar outlined responsibilities of the committee

  * processes and methods 
    * Sridhar introduced the new committee members to the processes

===== Next committee meeting =====
  * Next monthly meeting is 24-04-09 --- Following Sunday is 09-05-09

===== Previous SLUG Meeting (27-03-09) =====
  * How well did it work?
    * AGM needs streamlining
  * What can we do better?
    * Possibly adopt the Linux Aus methods.

    ACTION: Tim to investigate

===== Next SLUG monthly meeting (24-04-09) =====
  * Point person

    ACTION: Rob is point person for the April meeting

  * Venue
    * Atlassian
  * General talk
    * TBA

    ACTION: Sridhar to look through his email history to find offers to
talk

  * In-depth talk
    * TBA

    ACTION: Sridhar to look through his email history to find offers to
talk

  * Sluglets
    * TBA
  * Dinner
    * Golden Harbour


===== Next next SLUG monthly meeting (29-05-09) ===== 
  * General talk
    * TBA
  * In-depth talk
    * TBA
  * SLUGlets
    * TBA

===== General business =====
  * Infrastructure:
    * Current VM is in dire need of replacement
    * Discussion of web services available
    * Drupal 5? needs upgrading or replaced
    * Mailman needs fixing
    * Tim suggested merging the two wikis
      * discussed logistics, privacy, commercial-in-confidence etc and
decided against

    ACTION: Sridhar to get James and Rob on sysadmins list
    ACTION: Sridhar to interface with Sol1 to get new VM to migrate to
    ACTION: Sridhar to detail access to infrastructure for slug to the
new committee, including sysadmins

  * videos current and present incl av team
    * need to set up info for new av team members
  * code of conduct for mailing lists and irc channel etc

    ACTION: James to investigate


-- 
Melissa Draper

w: http://meldraweb.com & http://geekosophical.net
p: +61 4 0359 5395

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