Board Minutes 2006-09-28

Board Members Present: Eric, Chris, Mark and Susan

Only agenda item was Speakers

  • Eric is still talking to VMWare
  • Eric has also spoken with Xen
  • LiveJournal might be a good speaker for a scalability talk
  • Chris may have a lead on a speaker as well (analyst company?)
  • Mark will speak to Don Silverek about a Computer Forensics talk
  • Eric will contact Marssee about finding O’Reilly Authors (besides Kyle) who would be willing to talk to the group
  • Eric may be able to present on Revision Control for SysAdmins, but not this month
  • DriveSavers may be another possible speaker
  • If we don’t have a solid lead for a September speaker by Thursday before the meeting, Eric will ask Kyle to speak

Other items discussed

  • There should be a box of “goodies” coming from Usenix
  • A possible SoCoSA event – end of summer beer fest or something like that