2011 AGM Agenda - 22 March 2012
Meeting opened 7.40pm
Quorum Acheived 10 2011 paid members
Approval of 2010 AGM minutes
Chris O'Halloran moved that the minutes from the past AGM be approved. Bruce Kingsbury seconded
President's Report
Chris O'Halloran gave a verbal report outlining the clubs activities of the preceding year. This included but not limited to:
Thanks to the former committee members and farewell to John Billings and Sam Lin.
The advent of the elgg.wlug.org.nz social networking additional to the server following Peter Reutemann talk
Thanks also to Peter Reutemann and Ewen Cummings for acustomising the elgg interface.
The year started with a Debian Squeeze party and pizza
Lindsay Druett did a talk on IPV6
Tom Butz talked on https://crux.nu/ and it was interesting to see a PalmOS (or Psion) emulation.
Peter Reutemann talked about the Sheeva plug computer
Michael Doerner of TechnologyWise spoke on the SME Server project
Greg Balle talked about BitCoin, how is works and showed off his mining rig.
John Billings talked about virtualisation
SoftwareFreedomDay
- PeterReutemann and Jodie present GIMP
- A panaroma camera by John F
- Linux Clusters at the Uni
- Selfreplicating Linux distro by ChrisCummings
Later in year
- Chris O'Halloran talked a little about Matplotlib and Python.
- Ian Stewart talked about Libre Office and programming it using BASIC.
Chris O'Halloran moved to have the President's report accepted. RodAldridge seconded. Carried Unanimous
Treasurer's Report
Chris O'Halloran presented the following
The present account is $577.14
RimiHosting provided a generous donation of $250 as part of Software Freedom Day
At the meeting it became apparent that not all the costs incurred were fully accounted for, in part to the early departure of John Billings from the committee. However, nothing appeared to be exception.
Rod Aldridge moved to have the Treasurer's report accepted provisionally on the basis that it would be updated. Bruce Kingsbury seconded. Carried Unanimous
Election of Officers
(Don't forget to do CommitteeHandover this year)
Tresurer Ronnie Collinson
Chris O'Halloran moved. Tony Butz seconded. Carried unanimous
Secretary Rene Bartosh
Chris O'Halloran moved Rod Aldridge seconded Carried unanimous
Vice President Peter Reutemann
Bruce Kingsbury moved Ronnie Collinson seconded Carried unanimous
President Bruce Kingsbury
Ian Stewart moved Ronnie Collinson seconded Carried unanimous
Committee 1 Chris O'Halloran
Rod Aldridge moved Ian Stewart seconded Carried unanimous
Committee 2 Rod Aldridge
Carried unanimous
Committee 3 Ian Stewart
Carried unanimous
General Business
Discussed Life Membership
Proprose SGM for life membership since it wasn't on the AGM Agenda
Discussed membership fees and decided no change was required
Discussed http://www.wlug.org.nz being redirected to http://elgg.wlug.org.nz but decided not to.
Discussions around formats Monday evening versus Saturday morning.
Committee would meet the week after the Monday evening meetings
Meeting Closed 9pm
Followed by drinks and chat.
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