Utah Open Source
Meeting Minutes
6 November 2007
Attendees
Clint Savage (herlo)
Will Smith (undertakingyou)
Doran Barton (fozz)
Jayce Hall (jayce^)
John Anderson (sontek)
Stephen Shaw (decriptor)
Emily Shaw (memilyrae)
General Housekeeping
501C3 Licensing – herlo & memilyrae
Set up SSL on websites – undertakingyou & herlo
- Project Management; E-Groupware - undertakingyou
- Bank account balance – memilyrae
- possibly use about $2000 for new equipment; $3000+ for seed money
- Link to Herlo for updated video (with correct date) – fozz
- Monthly Newsletter – mindjuju
- need speakers names 2 weeks early to put in newsletter – all groups
- speaker recap in following newsletter
- send to companies – herlo
webmail & scheduling calendar - undertakingyou
- separate groups and core
- need mail client to subscribe to Zembra or Boonee (?)
- needs to be able to automatically gather dates from blogs to add to calendar
- more/other mailing lists
- Sign legal papers – sontek and jayce^ - from memilyrae
Change wordpress to go year by year – herlo & undertakingyou
Conference Planning
- Conference Details
- Conference Location – Fozz
- Rob has SLCC connections
- Dan Pope wants to help – herlo (send info)
- Re-approach Celebration Center
- Other ideas: E-Center (what about concerts?)
- Conference Location – Fozz
- Schedule finalized 3 months before conference
- Keynote
- pick one in the area, one out of area.
- Set time limits
- Perens video – problems in some browsers. Change to Flash? Red 5? Ming? - Will
- Talking to Sponsors – Decriptor
DirectPointe, GuruLabs, Omniture
- Start recruiting new sponsors in January
- Perks for Sponsorship
- Gift Bags? Payments? Other?
- Meeting with current sponsors – show what we have to offer to build their business
- November?
Other Topics
- Need hardware for (mail) server – anyone willing to donate?
- Set up and deploy – undertakingyou
- UTOS on Twitter
- Widget, iCals, RSS aggregate for calendars (???)
- Phone Conference and IRC meetings
- Soft phone – ask Jared – herlo
- Cheap shared hosting
- Large conference meeting
- Get 2007 sponsors involved
- Sponsors and community ask questions
- Sponsors to get their customers interested in attending and presenting
- Host/Have monthly events
- How do we reach out to other “geek” groups?
- Trek (pacard, Spock)
- Mascots (tux, beasty)
- educational groups
Dates to Remember
- NEXT MEETING: December 8, 2007 @
- MDRP – November 10, 1-5 p.m. at OSTC.
Paintball – November 17, Spec-op for signing up
