16:32:45 <billf> #startmeeting 16:32:46 <coxn> apologies for being tardy 16:32:46 <Tribot> Meeting started Mon Oct 7 16:32:45 2013 UTC. The chair is billf. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 16:32:47 <Tribot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 16:32:51 <billf> #chair coxn IsharaComix justis billf mhrivnak 16:32:52 <Tribot> Current chairs: IsharaComix billf coxn justis mhrivnak 16:32:58 <billf> #topic Meeting 10 October 16:33:05 <billf> IsharaComix: thanks for sending the announcement last week 16:33:08 <billf> #action mhrivnak will order the pizza 16:33:09 <mhrivnak> I'm happy to order the pizza. 16:33:11 <billf> I have emailed Aaron and confirmed with him for thursday 16:33:13 <mhrivnak> :) 16:33:14 <coxn> [redacted] 16:33:21 <coxn> gah. sorry. bad paste 16:33:35 <coxn> #meetingtopic weekly SC IRC meeting 16:33:41 <billf> it's in the minutes now :-) 16:33:50 <coxn> yeah I'll deal with that later 16:34:18 <billf> I will update the wiki page during the meeting... please don't edit 16:35:29 <billf> #action billf will confirm with Neal McCorkle as NCSU host 16:35:50 <billf> do we "need" to resurve the attrium ? 16:36:08 <IsharaComix> "need", probably not, especially since students will be gone 16:36:45 <IsharaComix> sometimes companies set up shop in the atrium to have their tables, reserving just lets us avoid this situation from occuring. 16:37:05 <billf> I say we don't bother this month, given that we might get rejected because schools out 16:37:33 <justis> agreed 16:37:54 <billf> who wants to get drinks and ice ? 16:38:35 <coxn> I'm not speaking up because I won't be present 16:38:38 <mhrivnak> I'm willing to take a turn at it if nobody else wants to. 16:38:49 <coxn> I can volunteer to confirm that the live streaming is working from off-site. :) 16:39:05 <billf> #action mhrivnak will get drinks and ice 16:39:33 <IsharaComix> :D 16:39:40 <billf> ok, and MC the meeting ? 16:41:28 <billf> justis: do you want to MC this one ? 16:42:03 <justis> billf: If I could predict the rest of this week, I would. So far, it looks questionable whether I can even attend. 16:42:13 <billf> OK. 16:42:34 <justis> billf: But thank you for the offer. 16:42:44 <billf> I will see if I can delegate video recording to Jack 16:43:05 <billf> I can print some signage for the windows 16:43:22 <billf> do we need/want the outdoor signs from IsharaComix ? 16:43:34 <mhrivnak> I will get them on Wed. 16:43:35 <IsharaComix> billf, the signs are starting to look kind of ratty 16:43:59 <billf> I vote to skip them this week. 16:44:18 <mhrivnak> fine by me. it saves me an errand. :) 16:44:24 <billf> yep 16:44:37 <IsharaComix> still hope i can offload them to somebody with more room in their home than me. :) 16:44:41 <justis> Skip them because they're looking ratty? 16:44:45 <billf> let's get the pizza delivered at 6.45pm again - this is a busy night 16:44:53 <mhrivnak> sounds good. 16:45:19 <billf> justis: yes, and we are down on committee people to put them out, etc 16:45:24 <justis> For future meetings, I would authorize professional printing of laminated or vinyl signs 16:45:40 <justis> would vote for the expense, that is 16:45:43 <billf> yeah, I would like that too 16:45:47 <mhrivnak> sounds good 16:46:13 <billf> I have the old laminated banner - that could use a refresh too 16:46:57 <billf> OK, so it will be billf and mhrivnak for Thursday, with justis a maybe 16:47:41 <justis> s/maybe/hopefully/ 16:47:42 <mhrivnak> ya, we should consider knighting some volunteers for the evening, like jack for video. 16:47:49 <justis> hear hear 16:47:52 <billf> I will also email Peak10 and see who is coming to talk 16:48:00 <mhrivnak> maybe someone to keep an eye on new member registrations and answer questions there. 16:48:24 <billf> great idea - I will email the ml and ask for a volunteer 16:48:55 * mhrivnak will be AFK for about 1 minute or less 16:49:33 <billf> anything else we need to discuss today ? 16:50:51 <IsharaComix> don't think so 16:51:02 <mhrivnak> I'm still working on the nonprofit center stuff. 16:51:05 <justis> who's presenting in November? 16:51:15 <mhrivnak> I can do the renewal with alpo's credentials now if necessary 16:51:24 <mhrivnak> but still trying to get a hold of them to associate my account with the org. 16:51:29 <mhrivnak> that's all on that front. 16:51:34 <justis> IsharaComix has a nomination for a future preso, 'ik' on machine learning 16:51:40 <billf> good point, coxn was going to line up the crypto guy 16:52:06 <justis> snyrk is officially off the hook for November and glad about it 16:54:09 <justis> done? 16:54:09 <coxn> I've lined up the crypto guy 16:54:14 <justis> coxn: thx! 16:54:15 <coxn> I can be done 16:55:08 <billf> coxn: if you send me the synopis etc I will set up a drupal page 16:55:18 <IsharaComix> oh 16:55:19 <IsharaComix> i have something 16:55:32 <IsharaComix> so, eventbrite doesn't seem to be doing much, so do we want to stop bothering with it? 16:55:50 <mhrivnak> how many RSVPs have we been getting? 16:56:00 <IsharaComix> We usually get from 15 to 30 RSVPs. 16:56:06 <billf> how did the RSVP numbers compare to attendance ? 16:56:21 <IsharaComix> vastly underestimate 16:56:48 <billf> I didn't record the attendance last month, but all pizza was eaten, and we took in ~$77 16:57:16 <billf> I vote to discontinue eventbrite 16:57:42 <mhrivnak> the only value I see is that we may at some point meet at a venue that wants a roster of who we are expecting. 16:57:43 <justis> but does eventbrite *predict* attendance, as a function of rsvp count? 16:57:58 <mhrivnak> so we could just whip out eventbrite for that occasion if/when it comes 16:58:02 <billf> I am concerned about the spread of inconsistant info over too many places, eventbrite being one of them 16:58:03 <mhrivnak> or try to keep people in the havit. 16:58:05 <mhrivnak> er, habit 16:58:21 <IsharaComix> well, we missed the boat this time around 16:58:24 <mhrivnak> red hat is a venue where we would probably need to provide at least a partial list of who is coming. 16:58:27 <justis> If we can get volunteers to run a check-in table, we could require RSVP in order to get pizza 16:58:35 <IsharaComix> haha 16:58:42 <IsharaComix> that'll get them to rsvp 16:58:45 <billf> I had someone somment last time that they went to the wrong room because we changed it on the drupal site but not on eventbrite 16:58:45 <justis> :) 16:58:46 * mhrivnak is hosting a meeting starting at 1, so will drop off very soon 16:59:00 <mhrivnak> I'm fine with keeping it or dropping it. 16:59:11 <billf> ok, let's close 16:59:11 <justis> billf: we could solve that by only posting the info in one place and linking to the other 16:59:13 <mhrivnak> sounds like it may be more trouble than it's worth at the moment. 16:59:15 <IsharaComix> all right. just wanted some folks to weigh in. it's extra work 16:59:24 <billf> justis: 100% agree 16:59:28 <justis> IsharaComix: skip it if you want 16:59:31 <justis> imo 16:59:44 <billf> thanks all !! 16:59:50 <justis> billf: thanks! 16:59:52 <billf> let's get to work ! 16:59:58 <billf> #endmeeting