response 13 of 71:

Dec 30 16:43 UTC 2012

This is about Grex's independence and control.  That's what got Grex
going in the first place, for good reason.  Loss of that independence
and control will not improve things in spite of the passage of time.

As for "nothing happened," that's not quite true.  We've made several
changes in the past few years, including reducing Grex's costs and
replacing an aging server (and preparing to do so again soon), giving
users more disk space, doing a better job of validating new users,
updating our web pages, reducing the size of our Board, updating the
operating system, installing more applications, removing the dial-ins
which few were using, and more.

It takes time and effort to make things happen, but we did get quite
a bit done. It can be frustrating to try to make things happen, but
that's a volunteer-run organization for you.  In comparison to Grex's
past operation we've been doing a lot of things recently.  We can still
do more. More work, such as planning, needs to occur outside of Board
meetings, and even that is possible to do if people are willing to help.

Merging/dissolving Grex will mean no more Cyberspace Board and no
Arbornet Board. Then what?  Adding more money to Arbornet's bank account
will not magically make things happen.  It's a matter of motivation.
What will motivate people to help?  That's the question we need to
answer for Grex.  I don't see dissolving Grex as helping. Spending time
on this is distracting from other tasks we need to be doing.