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From election held May 5, 2020

[last update 15june2020]

Recording decisions made on group operation, policy, and activities.

• There will be no recording of any BNUG Board meeting, SIG meeting etc. except for monthly general meeting presentations with permission of presenter.
• BNUG website will be reworked by a subcommittee under direction of Communication Coordinator, currently Sharif Shaikh
• Outreach status
  • Put up flyers to advertise BNUG. E.g., Microcenter.
  • To do: Schools, colleges, computer training: tell about BNUG as professional group they could get involved with.

people need to be able to send stuff safely to each other, so there are different ways people cope with this, let's discuss ways to deal with this safely and securely.
People aren't complying with since it's difficult to do.
Using key encryption, encryption using acrobat and winzip
Raise consciousness about “wishful encryption”

[Evie]Contact Rho about meeting contents - following is tentative
TENTATIVE: How teaching robots to function, then demo this (“I'm a Microsoft proponent” for example). Technical details on design and program robots.
We'd like to see the code and learn how it does this and that to the robot.

However, the web site shows an ethical issue: it asks people
to confirm attendance using an online dis-service, meetup.com.
It requires visitors to run nonfree Javascript code, and it
collects personal data, thus contributing to massive surveillance.
These are two of the things I would denounce in my talk,
See stallman.org/eventbrite.html, which also covers meetup.com.

I would feel hypcritical asking people to use meetup to come to
my talk.

Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Adam to contact him and suggest we collect attendees not using meetup, instead have attendees send email to sign up. Or else not require anyone to RSVP.

Person speaking has serious ethical questions about meetup and thus we are not using meetup for signups. Instead send your RSVP to president@bnug.org; and come to the meeting to learn more about his concern and reasons for avoiding meetup.

• Lab training proposed by Glenn
  • Is there enough interest in BNUG membership to run one of these?
  • Where could we run this?
    • [steve-glenn]Should we see if MassBay can host this? (would need a classroom we can use & secure for two+ whole days); if acceptable I(steve) can check w/Tony.
    • (Could use Lexington Community Center but would need to give them % of profits and might have difficulty scheduling the event as they are a busy center!)
    • [glenn]Could Microsoft Burlington host this?
    • Other places?

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5/5/2020
NAS – Network Attached Storage – by Synology, Inc. Overview, demonstration. Presented by Jeff Katz of Whaling City Software (jkatz@whalingcity.com) and Joshua Douglas of Synology, Inc. Presented online to the Boston Network Users Group's May 5, 2020 meeting. For information on the group or to join, visit http://bnug.org.

6/2/2020
Mainframes - Then and Now, presented by Norm Stembridge. See the history of mainframes and how they're used today. Presented online to the Boston Network User Group's June 2, 2020 meeting. For information on the group or to join, visit http://bnug.org.

6/2/2020
The latest Intel chip technologies, presented by Jeff Katz of Whaling City Software (jkatz@whalingcity.com), to the June 2, 2020 online meeting of the Boston Network Users Group. For information on the group or to join, visit http://bnug.org.

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