Open Source Meeting Meetings

By Ryan L. Kopf - Apr. 16, 2009

Our April 15th OSUM meeting helped our officers plan future OSUM meetings and understand how we can be a better organization. As a group we talked about how to improve open-source use on our campus, and most importantly how to make our meetings appeal to everyone.

• Introductions
• Goals Recap
  • Spread Open Source software around campus as much as possible
  • 20 more members per semester
  • Spread the word on open source software and what it means
• Discussed the availability of free Java tutorials
  • cheaper Java certifications
• Officer Reports
  • President --> discussed with officers to make sure everyone knew exactly what they should be doing.
  • Procurement --> getting a used computer with group funds
  • Secretary --> continue taking notes and minutes of the meeting
  • Treasurer --> Keep track of funds of group
  • Other officers --> working on continuing to building the group
• Main Discussion
  • Dicussed possibility of having a speaker come in --> decided May 6th, last meeting of semester
  • Ways to improve OSUM
  • Building a bigger base (recruiting members who don't necessarily have a programming background)
  • Dividing meetings up into several sections: Officers, non-programmers, and programmers
  • Creative ideas into meetings; showing cool and interesting ways to use open source software
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