2017.01.16 Meeting Notes

Location

Project Reports

• Installfests — No news.
• Hands-On Demo — No news.

Other Business

• News —
  • Website migrated successfully to a new VPS; thanks to Rod Roark of Sunset Systems for continuing to host our site and mailing lists
  • Smashwords hiring senior engineer and frontend developer
  • Dennis Stevense, of Streamline, (our guest speaker) mentioned they're looking for a frontend developer
  • Next meeting, February 20th at Explorit; topic TBA
• Financial Report —
  • Our current balance, prior to reimbursements for the anniversary meeting expenditures, is $896.61
  • $9.28 in donations were collected
• Special Elections —
  • Since November, LUGOD was still in need of a President ("root") and Vice President ("sys")
  • Tim Thatcher, our current Treasurer ("/dev/null") offered to nominate himself for Vice President, if someone else can fill the Treasurer vacancy
  • Will Marshall nominated himself for Treasurer; running unopposed, and with no objection from those in attendance, he was elected to that position
  • Tim therefore nominated himself for Vice President; running unopposed, and with no objection from those in attendance, he was elected to that position
  • Therefore, at this time our officers are:
    • President (root): None (Bill Kendrick continues to act as defacto president in the meantime)
    • Vice President (sys): Tim Thatcher
    • Secretary: Kenny Lyons
    • Treasurer: Will Marshall

Presentation

• "Taming a Dinosaur [Docker 6] with Docker and JavaScript", presented by Dennis Stevense, Streamline (a division of Digital Deployment)
• Presentation slides (4.5MB PDF)

Attendance

• Bill Kendrick
• Dennis Stevense
• Glen
• Joel
• Kenny Lyons
• Nick Schmalenberger
• Ryan
• Sung
• Tim Thatcher
• Will Marshall