Meeting attendees: Frank, Bob, Kyle & Dave.

Not much on the Agenda this month, just upcoming meeting topics:

December: Panel discussion on various Virtualization methods, such as vmWare, OpenVZ, Xen and more. Panel participants will include Kyle, Frank, Aaron, and a co-worker of Aaron's whose name escapes me.

January: Paul Stagnoli and Brian Davidson have volunteered to talk about a net-bootable device that they hacked at his work.

The board meeting was attended by Paul (VP), Aaron (Treas.), Dave (Scribe), Bob (Dir. @ Large) and Frank (Dir @ Large).

I forgot to post the last minutes, so I'll congratulate Frank now for stepping up and accepting the 2nd Director at Large position (hooray!).

Our upcoming General Meeting Topics:
- October: Tom Haddon of Canonical will talk about Ubuntu.
- November: Our own Bob Blick will give a talk: 'Storage, Sharing and Backup: Samba, Rsync, and the MyBook World NAS'
- December: This one is still undecided, but could be a new Knoppix talk by Kyle, Paul might give a talk about linux servers, or perhaps a lively panel discussion.

We selected a date for the next Installfest - Sat. October 20th. I am awaiting confirmation from O'Reilly that the conference room is available before I announce the 'fest officially.

We also reaffirmed that we want to make this an Installfest-Plus. This just means opening up the event to help with configuring hardware or applications in addtion to the traditional OS installs.

• Roll call: Kyle (pres.), Paul (v. pres), Aaron (treas.), Dave (scribe), Bob (dir @ large)
• Results of the Board Election, held at the previous General Meeting:
  • President: Kyle Rankin

  • Vice President: Paul Peterson
  • Treasurer: Aaron Grattafiori
  • Scribe: Dave Sisley
  • Director at Large: Bob Blick

  ...not a major shake-up this year. Mostly the same personnel, but some at new positions (Paul & Aaron), and one new face: Bob Blick (welcome!).
  Please note that the second Director at Large position is still open. Anyone interested in the position can nominate themselves (or someone else) on the mailing list or at the next General Meeting.

• Upcoming Topics:
• August: Speaker will give a talk on Amazon, specifics to follow.
• September: Kyle will talk about DNS. This is a general talk about how DNS works, as a follow-up to Augie's recent PowerDNS presentation.
• October/November: Augie has offered to do another presentation (topic tba) and Paul is planning a discussion of LAMP. The order of these presentations has yet to be determined.
• Installfest: it was briefly discussed that we should schedule one soon... Stay tuned.
• There was agreement among the board that the Wii is pretty cool.

• Role Call: Present: Kyle (president), Matt (vice pres.), Dave (scribe), Aaron & Paul (dirs @ large).
• Installfest date has been confirmed: Sat. 3/17 at O'Reilly in Sebastopol. Dave will post to the announce list and mark the 'fest as confirmed on the website.
• Upcoming Meetings:
  - February: Paul will give a talk re: Linux & the 'Slug', the Linksys NSLU2, a network device designed to allow you to network an external drive.
  - March: This talk is being given in conjunction with the Installfest. It will be geared towards new/potential Linux users. The plan is for Kyle to give a 30 minute overview and then we will have a Q&A re: Linux headaches/annoyances as experienced by new users. We will solicit questions ahead of time via the mailing list.
• We have voted to change the date of the Board Meetings. They will now be held on the Monday after the General Meeting (so the next one will be held Feb. 19th).

• Role Call: Present: Kyle (president), Dave (scribe), Aaron & Paul (dirs @ large).
• Discussed moving the Board Meeting from a night other than the 1st Tuesday of the Month so as not to conflict with SoCoSA's general meeting. It was decided that we would move it to the Tuesday after the General Meeting (the 3rd Tues. of the month). (This may not be final, yet...).
• Next Installfest has been tentatively scheduled for Saturday, March 17th.
• Upcoming Meetings:
  - January: Asterisk with Chris Widger
  - February: Paul will give a talk on the Linksys NSLU2 (aka: the SLUG)
  - March: To coincide with the upcoming Installfest, we might offer a roundtable discussion on topics of interest to those who are new to linux. Possibilities include: Distro Comparison, Getting more out of a home Linux box. Other suggestions are welcome!
  - Kyle said he would like give a test run of his Linux World talk, topic tba (vmWare perhaps?).
• It was also suggested that perhaps we open the Installfest a bit to offer help in setting up or tweaking a particular app or service ("I've always wanted to run BLAH, but can't figure it out...). We do NOT want to be setting up someone's office mailserver, though.

• Role Call: Present: Kyle (president), Dave (scribe), Aaron & Paul (dirs @ large).
• Discussed rules & procedures for using our new O'Reilly passkey (for the conference room).
• Upcoming Topics for the General Meetings:
  - December: RFID (already happened - a great talk!)
  - January: Asterisk
  - February: Paul will talk about the Linksys slu2 which allows you to make your own Network Storage Device.
• We also discussed the next Installfest: March, perhaps?
• NBLUG's 10th anniversery is this summer - how to celebrate?

• Role Call: Present: Kyle (president), Matt (v.pres), Dave (scribe), Aaron (dir @ large), Paul (dir @ large) & Kat.
• Items of discussion
  1. Upcoming Speakers:
  - September: Jacob [This fell through, but Kyle gave his vmWare talk... phew!]
  - October: Filesystems - types, tweaking, etc.
  - November: RFID - almost confirmed!
  - December: Panel Discussion (topic TBA) - the December meeting is traditionally only lightly attended, so we want a lighter topic.
  Possible ideas for future talks: Linux server security - perhaps done in 2 parts, over 2 months.
  2. Installfest: We need to confirm O'Reilly conference room for 10/28 [done!], and prepare announcement. Matt & Dave are coordinating.

• Role Call: Present: Kyle (president), Matt (v.pres), Dave (scribe), Aaron (dir @ large) and Paul (dir @ large). We had a quorum, but nothing to vote on...
• Notable Items (from Kyle):
  1. We were unable to land a speaker, but decided a panel discussion on Multimedia Applications would be of interest. There is hope that Jacob Appelbaum will be prepared to speak at the September meeting. There was also discussion of drumming up some speakers at the upcoming Linux World conference.
  2. NBLUG Needs an Installfest Coordinator. Matt & Dave expressed interest, but are not committed yet. There's no reason the position can't be shared between 2 or more people.

• Role Call: Present: Kyle (president), Matt (v.pres), Dave (scribe), and Aaron (dir @ large). Not quite a quorum, so no voting...
• Installfest came up, but didn't really discuss as Greg was not there; Kyle will talk to him re: whether he will still coordinate.
• Possibility of a post-installfest LAN party & perhaps Game installs was discussed...
• We talked about how WE NEED SPEAKERS! Kyle will step up and do PXE/VMWare talk

• Role Call: Present: Kyle (president), Kat(director), Eric(scribe), Dave, Aaron. Dustin(treasurer) and Trevor arrived slightly late. With Dustin's appearance enough board members were present for a quorum.
• videos discussed. Kyle's still working on this. Using google video (upload.video.google.com) as a possible way to distribute videos instead of loaning out discs was discussed.
• nonprofit status discussed. Resolved: removed from agenda Can be reintroduced later if somebody on the board wants to.
• election process discussed. Who's running for each position discussed a little. Mentioned that currently all positions are uncontested.