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Meeting Minutes
2014
2014-12-29 Meeting
- Met at CSHL campus in Cold Spring Harbor
- Made group decision on the Lidmug logo to use
- Helped one member investigate erroneous sudden battery depletion on laptop
- Discussed some of the details of the new Bitcoin blockchain transfer protocol and started some basic understanding and discussion of Merkle Hash Trees
- Investigated further details concerning the Electrum bitcoin wallet, which does not require downloading the entire blockchain but does not have 'testnet' support, yet forks of it do
- Updated linux_logo on Lidmug server via diff/patch to remove an extra character causing an unwanted terminal line break; discussed several other possible fix options
- Read OpenVPN documentation
- Enjoyed watching one member's game of FTL on Linux
2014-11-24 Meeting
- Met at CSHL campus in Cold Spring Harbor
- Discussion and examination of Libcoin source code to host our own BitCoin blockchain
- Compiled the custom Libcoin source
- Discussion of ways to access the custom blockchain on the server yet not have it public
- Discussion of BitCoin clients that can make use of our own external blockchain
- We played a bit with FireChat on our cell phones, testing the P2P chat functionality
2014-10-27 Meeting
- Meeting moved to last Monday of the month and at CSHL in Cold Spring Harbor
- Some difficulties finding the correct location on CSHL campus
- Wireless doorbell worked okay for being let in the door
- Played with a BitCoin "testnet" server in a Docker instance
- Attempted to do some BitCoin mining on the testnet; success with CPU mining but not with a USB ASIC; another blockchain hosting solution required to allow ASIC mining
2014-09-25 Meeting
- Met at Panera Bread at the Walt Whitman Mall
- Rolled 3D printed "hex" dice to create a BitCoin wallet using "truly random" data
- Demonstration of how to take the rolled random data and create a wallet
- Discussion of multiple keys being tied to a single wallet and implications on pseudo-anonymity
- Multiple members had conflicts with the last Thursday so decided to move the meeting to the last Monday of the month
- Suggestion to move the meeting to CSHL in Cold Spring Harbor, we decided to try it
2014-08-28 Meeting
- Meeting back at Panera Bread at the Walt Whitman Mall
- Don't know what happened as I was away at DebConf14 in Portland, OR.
2014-07-31 Meeting
- Arrived at LaunchPad to find parking lot demolished and surrounded by a gate; no warning
- Additionally back door for LaunchPad we were told to use to enter was locked and no sign
- LaunchPad repeated query for # people expected despite email for this two days earlier
- Projector was not available in the small conference room we were in this time
- Overall debacle threw meeting off-kilter and discussion was off-topic much of the night
- 10:30pm left LaunchPad in favor of continuing the meeting at Rosa's Pizza downstairs
- After this experience decided to go back to meeting at Panera Bread in Walt Whitman Mall
2014-06-26 Meeting
- Found parking lot behind LaunchPad a bit tricky to find parking in; very busy
- No refreshments, we were offered the pasta left over in the fridge while waiting for others to arrive
- Discussion of nyccug.org domain name and a "sock puppet" idea
- Query about status of the Meetup group and if anyone has any control of it
- Discussion and planning of how to set up a test cryptocurrency, blockchain, coin client, mining
- Some discussion of the planned Bylaws
2014-05-29 Meeting
- Met at LaunchPad in Huntington, they ordered a pizza for us from Rose's downstairs
- Decision of organization name to be "Long Island Digital Money Users Group", i.e. "money" vs "monies"
- Went over Draft ByLaws and found several items needing addressing
- What qualifes as being an active member? (Article III) Currently too loose. "Being on the mailing list" equaling "being an active member" causes an issue when there are "66% super-majority vote from "active members" required
- New motions -- # of members required (Article IV) is confusing. "Square root of the # of active members." Where are the # of active members stated, and how is that kept track of?
- Logic by which business is conducted (Article V) likely needs modification. Among other things, "Dependent motions" language seems confusing, and "electronic forum" is too vague a specification.
- Super-majority vote requires 66% vote of active members but there seems to be no specification of what determines if a member is active vs inactive. (Article IX)
- "Approval voting" method is not specified
- Concerning "Restrictions" section, Bitcoin itslef is considered political today, but the section states that LIDMUG will abstain from any political affiliation. (Article XI)
- Conflict of Interest section mentions the word policy many times, but does not adequately define what the policy actually is. (Article XI)
- What should the requirements be for making a meeting "official" for the organization? Announcing a meeting on Meetup should not be an official method.
- Discussion concerning storage of shared documents, plan to install ownCloud 6 on server
- Discussion of "administrative access control" document to document who has access to what services
- Discussion of examining alternate ByLaws from other organizations to compare how they have been written compared to the current Draft ByLaws for Lidmug
- Discussion concerning Lidmug's Meetup page, as the May 29th meeting was not posted there and Matt is currently the only one with admin control of it.
- Bill had the idea of starting a "test cryptocurrency" so we could all figure out how Bitcoin and other Altcoins really work internally. That seems like a good idea.
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