IRCSummary-20080221

  • Face to face meeting.
    • Split north and south.
      • North after the hamfest on Saturday April 26th, contact r2d2rogers
      • South TBD Contact hfwilke
  • Discussion on Funding
    • Non-Profit status tabled pending further research
      • [Action Item] Forum post and research into non-profit status and collection/handling of money
    • Was agreed that some funding would be needed for some events.
  • LoCo Team Bug Day

    • macd was not available for details
  • Newsletter
    • wharp will put together a newletter with summary of activities and cross post it on the mailing list and forums.
    • Submit items to wharp for the newsletter.
  • Mailing List Update
    • Admin access has been given to r2d2rogers
    • Additional admins nominated and granted access, boomer, Robdgreat, and wharp
  • Hamfest http://www.ares-nela.org/hamfest/

    • Setup is Friday April 25th from 1pm till 7pm
    • Fest is Saturday April 26th from 8am till midafternoon
    • Booth details
      • Staffing - three people at a time, one for each table in the booth, in shifts.
      • Demo Machines, planned at 2 laptops per table for a total of 6.
      • Possible computer for burning additional/different disks
      • 400 discs of Hardy Heron, if there is no delay in release, will be available to hand out.
      • Flyers, Stickers, and Possibly demo loaner laptops to be provided by System76
      • Conference Pack ordered from Canonical; Conference Pack B for Non-Approved LoCo Teams

      • Costs
        • Tables @ $10 is $30
        • Electricity is $10
        • Entry fee for the Hamfest is $5 per person
        • 400 Hardy CD's burned for 25- 40 cents per disc [ACTION ITEM: r2d2rogers] Find out cost on CD-R's
    • r2d2rogers will be attending the next Ham Club meeting to make contact with hams who are already interested in linux to see if we can get a partner in the Ham related Demos
    • Several LoCo Members expressed interest in getting a Ham license.

    • People wanting to help at the hamfest need to sign up on the project page at FIXME
    • Hamfest team meeting TBD
  • Call for subteam participation
  • General Team contact email to be setup
    • Some discussion of domain name for when the team is approved.
  • Business cards discussed and added to Hamfest tasks

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