Council 2009 02

When: 2009-02-18 Scribe: jon Facilitator: ian supposed to facilitate, but sick; richard picks up the ball ... hands off to anne. Attendance: richard, anne, marie, oso, dave, webb, cliff, sergio (briefly), matteo (late), vagrant (slightly later)

Commitments
no previous commitments

Reports
state of onion (read by richard)
 * hiring new front desk recp
 * link changed
 * typo fix!

additional general updates:
 * (dave) given away most computers in shortest time
 * (richard) more dedicated (specific area) interns, due partly to focused recruiting
 * (dave) down trend in donations at door, some parts shortages; february always low tho
 * (richard) tours now at noon and 5; told oregonian reporter (article will be up soon)
 * marie asks about whats up with website being updated?  richard: held up by server troubles, economy, etc. "next week or so" will be up.

other

webb wants coder report. richard reports: brief history of coder group and difficulty of managing software projects. [see 'mythical man month' -ed] coders closed. then either staff or core folks writing code. ryan wunderkind is now 14, so talking about paying him; more after staff mtg. going forward: find core folks and diversify a bit on code development. (some more specifics discussed, about what sorta help is needed, answer - roughly sysadmin. perils of this discussed.  more discussion ensues about sharing fg software with other fgs, etc.  much more detail of trouble of getting coders is discussed -- who can do what, what kinda coders would work, potential classes.)

webb reporting on first bash class of second round.
 * about 12 people, wifi sucked eggs [scribe paraphrasing, later approved by webb during minutes checking] tho. half on own laptops, half on machines here.
 * 1/3 on it, 1/3 got it with help of TA (charlie mccarthy -- was "big, big, big help"), 1/3 werent prepared (no subversion; but probably will be back with svn cuz they were sophisticated).
 * used google svn repository
 * perhaps should be more prepared with "infrastructure" (names, etc)

no more reports.


 * anne: mentions "open source bridge", an oscon "replacement" in portland


 * marie: recentchanges camp (wiki), she is attending

Next meeting

 * facilitator: anne
 * scribe: webb
 * minutes checker: marie