Meeting Chair duties ==================== 1. Confirm that the automatic calendar has not chosen a date which is inappropiate -- watch for holidays at the end of the month like Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year's Day. 2. Reconfirm facility availability -- Prime facilities are: OCSEA http://www.colug.net/maps/ocsea.php Leibert (map tbd) AI http://www.colug.net/maps/aisite.php Backups are the UA Public Library, Little Theatre (call M-F 9-5 to rseerve -- 614 486 8621 ) http://www.colug.net/maps/ualib.php and the Dublin Branch ( 614-645-2170 ) http://www.colug.net/maps/dublinlib.php Others: OSU Math Department http://www.colug.net/maps/osu.php 2. Arrange for and confirm with the presenters for the upcoming month that they are available, and have their presentation materials available by the date of the meting. (These get linked in at ~COLUG/pubhtml/notes/YYMMmtg/ and so must be made available under the GPL; or FDL Copies of these licenses are on http://www.colug.net/licenses/ ) 3. Copy and edit the prior month's meeting ammouncement, in the form meeting/meeting.YYYYMM.txt -- where YYYYMM is Year Month. Update the meeting/meeting.txt soft link. 4. Post announcement to COLA and LWN 5. Update the links in http://www.colug.net/presentations/ : -- top is the presenter specific section; bottom is the meeting notice archive section. -------------------------- 6. Developmental: Keep track of and encourage presenters to step forward. 7. Remember to thank the meeting site provider and presenters after the meeting. 8. Write a safe php-mysql tool to hold the variable content and automatically pull the correct elements off, with individual user accounts, admin role rights, and other value added content. --------------------- README.meetings.txt rev 020402 PH rev 20040126 JEP