The Officers of Olympic Softworks had our first meeting on May 5, at a local coffee shop.

Here is a very brief summation of our time there:

We discussed our current situation in several ways.

1. Our current legal status. The only remaining obstacle is licensing with the city of Lacy before we actually do any business transactions. Lacey does not allow online registration, so I had to download the form and have a sundry form emailed to me...they are now being snail-mailed to the good people in Lacey's city government and hopefully we will have our local business license soon.

2. We need to line up a list of “preferred recipients” for computers that we receive and intend to donate. Part of this is creating pages on this website to allow people to self-register, part was agreeing to aggressively solicit larger organizations in our two target groups. Elder citizens, and at-risk children.

And we discussed organizational needs as we begin Phase 1 of our organizational plan, with a concerned look towards Phase 2.

1. Work on our website needs to be stepped up. Especially in the areas of how to make use of Free Software written from the perspective of a person who used to use Microsoft Windows. This being what are the already existing analogues of standard windows applications such as Office and Internet Explorer? But also focusing on how to get applications originally written for Windows to run under the WINE compatibility layer, including popular games.

2. We discussed our compensation; what jobs we can expect to be compensated for and what jobs are simply community service(mostly the latter) so there will be no hard feelings among ourselves. I want to make clear that this organization is dedicated community service by providing free technical education and computers(half of all computers we get will be donated for free to targeted groups and half at extremely low-cost to everyone else).

3. We addressed our individual need for I.T. Certificates. All of us are power-users of computers, but only one of us has any actual professional I.T. Background, and none of us has any usable school credits or relevant vocational certificates. These will begin with all Officers that work on computers or teach obtaining A+, then Net+, and then Linux+. From there we will likely broaden out with some of us going for different, larger certificates.

4. We also discussed creating podcasts as basic training for people on DVDs, and on YouTube. We may turn this into a more in-depth video program that we may offer as an incentive for donations.

Meeting began at 5:20pm and ended at 6:50pm

All 3 Officers were in attendance: