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Minutes 2008-12-04

2008-12-04

MTU LUG Meeting Minutes December 4th, 2008

Server Status
 ? agmlego is not here tonight

New VP
 Emergency Election
 He has to take time off, won't be an enrolled student
 Nominations
  The Front row (Alex and Markus)
  Tall Matt
 Voting Next week (so we can nominate more people)

SOCS (Snow Statue)
 Take to Steve after the meeting if you want to work out the design
 Nothing due till mid January

501(c) 3
 LUG qualifies as a 501(c) 3 organization
 Since our funding is less then 5000 a year
  There's a special exemption for small groups
 No special paper work for us
 Special paperwork for people who donate
 If people do start making donations to us then we have paperwork
  We'd have to go get tax certificates

Credit Union
 We now have a savings account

Fedora 10
 It destroyed our server...
 The script stopped working
  Dark cleared our mirror and fetched it
 Lots of Security updates

PR Update
 Worst time to recruit people...
 Sean will create a Flier for us to put up next semester
  Maybe Table tents and things
 Student Involvement Fair
  Big thing in Wads
  We'll do something as soon as someone figures out how to

Student Org backup
 Think we could backup to Student Org web server
 Steve will talk to USG

Budget Hearing
 We were given moneys for Installathon network connection
 Filmboard ads were donation from Arrakiv
  Tuesday at 6 in Fisher 133

End of Semester Social
 We have the Pop
 What kind of social?
  Next weeks meeting will be a movie (technically be post meeting)
  Have pizza too
 Take Funds from LUG account for Pizza?
  6 yes, 1 no, 0 abstain
 Markus will go get Pizza after we head-count

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