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Meeting was opened at 7:30PM by Zane Gilmore as evening Chairperson. Approximately 40 were present. Venue Sydenham Community Association Hall. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Nick Elder read out the motion he posted in this email list Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:17:11 +1300 (PC realtime clock running 4 minutes fast!) I MOVE THAT THE CLUG MEETING THIS COMING WEDNESDAY BE A GENERAL MEETING. AND THAT AT THIS MEETING WE FORM AN EXECUTIVE ! 2nd in LIST by Christopher Sawtell Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:16:49 +1300 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Various meeting members then addressed the meeting giving their for and against the motion of CLUG having a executive/committee &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& 8.45 approx Supper &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Zane then recalled the meeting together. Members of the meeting asked John Veitch to help out with the proceedings. After some further discussion Nick Rout moved: That the original motion be amended: That a committee of four be appointed to organize the CLUG monthly meetings Second by David Stevens The motion was carried (unanimous) The motion was then re submitted: that a committee of four be appointed to organize the CLUG monthly meetings Second by David Stevens The motion was carried (unanimous) The following were then nominated by members of the meeting to form such a committee: Nick Elder (declined) Nick Rout (seconded) Zane Gilmore (seconded) Barry Marchant (declined) Carl Cerecke (seconded) Mahesh DeSilva (seconded) Christopher Sawtell (seconded) There were no more nomination. Members of the meeting felt that as there were five nominations this time round, that the committee should therefore consist of five instead of four to save the formality of voting one name off of the list. Dave Lilley moved that the number on this committee be five. second Albert van Velzen carried (unanimous) &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& General Business The Open source technology centre was discussed. (Details will be posted here in list Thursday) &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Installfest The CLUG installfest to be held Canterbury University on the 15th of March was discussed. Main points I noted from this discussion were: That we should limit our have at least 25 sets of distros burned by opening time. That we should concentrate on RedHat, Mandrake and that we should have Knoppix disks also. That we should look in to having a small distro such as VAlinux-enhanced Redhat. Or possibly Redhat 6.2 for slower machines. That we limit machines accepted for installations to a 486 DX80 with 32megs of RAM or higher That Leo organize publicity for the installfest. And that the installfest be open to the public no earlier than 9:30 to give organizes time to set up. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Meeting closed at about 10:30 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& CLUG financial balance will be posted in list in due course over the next day or three. This is an unofficial record submitted to the CLUG mailing list by one individual in good faith. ============================================== ==============================================
