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Contents 1 Prep for Upcoming Meetings 1.1 ICANN update 1.2 OGLF 1.3 Political Advocacy committee 2 New Biz 2.1 Calendar/Events 2.2 Late Members 2.3 Web Services 2.4 Myles Has A Question 2.5 Government funding

Prep for Upcoming Meetings

• Schedule somewhat up to date, and we have talks up to the end of the year. (Kudos, Myles)
• LITP is on May Day (Saturday, May 1)

ICANN update

• Myles' job... to ask people to fill in a form about board membership
• Myles made noise that ICANN ought to have an opinion on XXX, and is composing a letter to bring this towards the board
• Myles on brochure committee; a metadiscussion about how to encourage members to join the NARELO
• Ties cut with Department of Commerce, but this means they need to have organization
• Upcoming meeting in Honolulu, as opposed to Kapskasing

OGLF

Moving forwards... Web site nearing deployment.

Political Advocacy committee

Committee of Mike... Rather busy.

He brought a folder!

Target of discussions:

• Copyright
• Patents
• Don't want US-style copyright or patents
• Don't want loss of open protocols
• ACTA
• Loss of social contract in copyright, patents, etc
• Erosion of "fair use"

Next goal:

• Determine what kind of policy should be promoted around GTALUG
• Do a presentation at a TLUG meeting

New Biz

Calendar/Events

Desirable to build some infrastructure for having common event lists.

Highly desirable to do standards-based stuff; feed an iCal file hither and thither.

Serious opportunity... Toronto User Groups generally don't communicate terribly much. This, getting away from technology issues, is the opportunity. Communicating...

Part of what we should be doing is:

• Reaching out politically
• Reaching out to other open source related groups
• Providing assistance + social support services using Linux

Late Members

• Web Server
  Sending ghost email.

Myles will be fixing this.

• We should have a web page indicating web site maintainer.
• We should publish a note on the front page announcing the passing of members.
• Should have an "In Memoriam" section.

1. Need to have an info@gtalug.org which goes to Drew
2. Bill Thanis will contact Joe to see if he wishes to update Leah's page
3. Policy: If we're contacted about a deceased, we should forward the relevant material to tlug-announce

Web Services

• Where to go vis a vis site, hardware, software

• Deferring to next month...

Myles Has A Question

Myles is now leader of PyGTA.

Would like to have classes on topics.

May need to attach to the GTALUG corporation...

Government funding