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Computer Committee Meeting 20190515

Agenda

Section titled “Agenda”

Chair nomination

Section titled “Chair nomination”
 Unanimous -  For Dwight S. No Other contestant.

Expansion location

Section titled “Expansion location”
Take 104 lobby but if something opens up better then we'll take that. Cavate (spelling?) committee to work on a project to secure items on display and tools in the area.

Events and fun

Section titled “Events and fun”
  - Texas Linux Fest May 31st - June 1st (Irving convention center)
  - Lets play (Aug 9-11)
     - Booth $175
     - General Avaliblity
     - 50/50 2x2 classes with SDC and VCC
     - Chat with vector about attendance
  - QuakeCon
  - Defcon
     - approach the board about a single booth for presence

Projects

Section titled “Projects”
  - Meetup Pilot Program (vcc and dms promotion)
    - Jo (lead)
    - Peter (support)
  - Phone phreaking with payphone
  - Mame Terminal and Racky McRack

Classes

Section titled “Classes”
  - Work on core classes and promotional material about them
  - Jo is A+ cert and can teach CompTIA A+ prep
  - Material
    - Comptia prep
    - Intro to Web Dev (js, html5, css, etc.) via freecodecamp
    - Python and ML Classes (coding dojo)
    - MLH hackathons
    - CTF
    - Locksport
    - Docker
    - DevOps
  - Further discussion online (talk/chat)
  - history of computers and general intro to computers for people that don't like computers (@jo)
  - Microcontrollers

PR

Section titled “PR”
  - Core mission message
  - Build a connection with Retro computer meetup (david f.)

Museum

Section titled “Museum”
  - Expansion To be a clean slate


  - Next machine: Document first before on display
    - Dwight to lead documentation of 'racky mcrack' and mime cab terminal
    - Dwight to document docker cluster
    - Should have demo and instructions for the machine

Open floor

Section titled “Open floor”
  - David volunteers as program directory for radio and youtube
  - 8-bit guy collab

Meeting notes

Section titled “Meeting notes”

Attendance

Section titled “Attendance”
  - Ben
  - Capt
  - Bill
  - Dwight
  - Helen (mojop)
  - Peter
  - Mike_Fredick

Start: 7pm

Section titled “Start: 7pm”

End: 8:30pm

Section titled “End: 8:30pm”

Action Items

Section titled “Action Items”
  - Get attendees access to kanboard
  - Update kanboard with user stories based on above
  - Team to plan PR events online
  - Team to document events, projects, and classes
  - Jo to lead test pilot for meetup

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