Agenda

1. Presenters Corner (Open Source Talk + Howtos - Site update, running a LUG etc)
2. Finances - we can't let Teddy pay for everything.... Does anyone have ideas for how to run the finances of the group e.g. a group bank account, or becoming an official charity?
   • Run Google Adsense or Advertising Space
3. Mailing list - This is the only way the commnuity can discuss and debate on important issues, so that the main meeting is just used to assent a activities.
4. Ideas for running OSZ

   • Someone (VOLUNTEER!) should read http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html and give a summary of how LUGs are run.

5. Software Freedom Day, 16 September 2006: what are we doing?

   • Someone (VOLUNTEER!) should read the site and give a brief rundown of some ideas for what to do/who to get involved.
6. Add information to the wiki!
   • Personal pages (homepages on the wiki) will allow us to gauge levels of expertise
   • information about projects that use open source will raise their profile
   • more information will raise our profile on search engines. Ironically, as of 18 April, the only search engine to have crawled this site is MSN.com (the Microsoft site)!
   • report back about conferences/workshops you go to, or add links to the site
   • Tell us if you're hacking on an open source project, or if you'd like to learn but don't know where to start!

7. Partnerships with regional LUGs or open source groups (like http://www.zoss.org.zw/ in Zimbabwe)

   • Are there any other open source groups?

8. Future of CodeZed (http://www.codezed.org)

   • Suggestions and ideas for the use of CodeZed

   • Clarify intentions behind OSZ mailing list and ZLUG mailing list.
9. Translating open source software

   • There are plenty of projects to translate open source software (including OpenOffice.org and Ubuntu.

   • These are activities that don't require a lot of technical knowledge, you just have to learn how to use the tools - Ubuntu uses a web interface, so you just have to type your translations into a web browser.

   • Would it be worth starting a translation project? Into which language(s)?
10. Dont worry about my being to formal here, but i gues a user group like ours would need to consider a constitution???

PS - Don't let Teddy take the fun out of meetings with agendas and minutes . The most important thing is to keep it social, and try to learn at least one new thing about Linux or open source at each meeting - or perhaps meet one new person.

Minutes

Formalities

• The meeting started quite late as the projector needed to be collected but nonetheless everything went on smoothly.
• The meeting was started by Mr. Nyambe Teddy who guided everybody through the agenda.
• Apologies: Mr Fraxon Lubingu sent apologies, so the Open Source Intro Presentation was cauncelled

OSZ Administration

• Bornwell and Kasenga volunteered to spearhead the formalization of the organization by looking at the organizational structure, financial management and also making a constitution.

• Sylvester & David volunteered to be in the publicity.

Software Freedom Day

The Software freedom day was chosen as an event to bring about open source software awareness and its availability. The event would be observed in Zambia as well which falls on 16 September 2006. (Chi chi, Miyanda and Mwaula) have taken up this challenge. Many others activities will be identified but the following were identified:

• demonstrates in schools & universities

• objectively promote free & open software

• distribute open source software
• install fests

The activities would be carried out at places yet to be identified. But Manda Hill and Arcades shopping centres have been suggested. Related sites: http://www.sofwarefreedomday.com/

Mailing list

Caroline will be moderating the mail list.

Guest Speakers

It was proposed to have guest speakers lined up 1 or 2 months prior their presentation. Some of the items on top of the agenda include:

• Open source Intro to newbies
• how to install linux,
• how to install applications on linux
• install webserver
• Programming languages
  1. PHP
  2. Python
  3. Perl
  4. C++
  5. etc

Committee and Miscellaneous Issues

• The need for a committee to organize meetings and see that things are in place, Teddy to organize a committee

• CodeZed – sister organization need to exchange information http://www.codezed.org/

• Knowledge, advocating for software, giving support to organization (free support to local members) and at a fee to other organizations.

How to use the wiki

• Mwaula gave a talk on how to use the wiki
  • work best in GUI

  • how to add a webpage (personal profile) to CategoryHomepage

  • uploading images and files
  • making new link for each new project