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janc
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Agenda for the 1/26/99 Grex Board of Directors Meeting
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Jan 21 00:19 UTC 1999 |
Agenda for the 1/26/99 Grex Board of Directors Meeting
ALERT: The meeting time is TUESDAY night, not WEDNESDAY night
7:30pm - upstairs at Zingerman's Nextdoor
Astron Initial Gavel Pounding - janc 1 second
Thrimidge Election of 1999 Officers - all 15 minutes
Forelithe Treasurer's Report - aruba 10 minutes
Afterlithe Publicity Committee - mta 5 minutes
Wedmath Technical Committee - staff 10 minutes
Halimath UPS Purchase? - all 10 minutes
Winterfilth New Business - all ?? minutes
Blotmath Final Gavel Pounding - TBA 1 second
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janc
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response 1 of 29:
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Jan 21 00:25 UTC 1999 |
Note that due to the different schedules of the new board members, we
have changed board meetings from the third Wednesday of the month to the
third Tuesday of the month.
If anyone has more agenda items, please let me know.
I just reserved the Kid's Room at Zingermans, our usual meeting spot,
but their is a catch: they close at 9:00pm. In other words, too soon.
Either we need to meet fast, start earlier, or find another meeting
location. Apparantly these new hours took effect this month. Dunno how
long they last. Any ideas?
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janc
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response 2 of 29:
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Jan 21 00:29 UTC 1999 |
PS: http://www.zingermans.com/ is one of the most thoroughly useless
web pages I've ever seen.
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aruba
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response 3 of 29:
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Jan 21 02:44 UTC 1999 |
We might have to meet fast this month. What is "UPS Purchase"?
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cmcgee
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response 4 of 29:
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Jan 21 03:54 UTC 1999 |
winterfilth: curbs in Ann Arbor
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janc
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response 5 of 29:
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Jan 21 05:00 UTC 1999 |
In some item or another we were talking about whether or not we should
buy a UPS (uninteruptable power supply) for Grex. I don't think we ever
got any figures on exactly what the power savings would be, and unless
we come up with such figures, then the board is unlikely to approve the
purchase of one, but I figured it belonged on the agenda.
(The item names are out of the middle of a longer sequence. I chose
this subset largely because "winterfilth" was so appealing a name.)
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aruba
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response 6 of 29:
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Jan 21 15:02 UTC 1999 |
Oh! My mistake. I was thinking "United Parcel Service". They seemed a
little big for us to be buying. :)
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rcurl
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response 7 of 29:
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Jan 21 17:16 UTC 1999 |
You can tell a geek by what they think UPS means....
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davel
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response 8 of 29:
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Jan 21 21:12 UTC 1999 |
Hey, Mark is a geek, too, Rane.
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aruba
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response 9 of 29:
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Jan 22 02:43 UTC 1999 |
I'd like to think so. However the last "UPS" I investigated for Grex was,
indeed, United Parcel Service.
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rcurl
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response 10 of 29:
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Jan 22 06:17 UTC 1999 |
Mark has to straddle the two worlds.
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aruba
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response 11 of 29:
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Jan 22 15:55 UTC 1999 |
Heh. That's about the size of it.
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janc
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response 12 of 29:
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Jan 22 18:23 UTC 1999 |
Any suggestions on meeting locations? Times? Zingerman's closes and
hour-and-a-half after our meeting starts. Does anyone have ideas for an
alternate location? Or can we start meeting eariler, say at 6:30?
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scott
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response 13 of 29:
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Jan 22 21:22 UTC 1999 |
6:30 would be fine with me.
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janc
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response 14 of 29:
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Jan 22 21:58 UTC 1999 |
STeve and Mark said 6:30 would work for them. It works for me and
Valerie (who isn't on the board anymore, but she's at least easy for me
to poll).
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aruba
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response 15 of 29:
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Jan 23 01:55 UTC 1999 |
There seems to be general agreement that we ought to try to get a merchant
credit card account, so why don't we make that an item on the agenda.
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mary
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response 16 of 29:
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Jan 23 13:39 UTC 1999 |
I'd like to see all startup costs, ongoing charges and fees
disclosed before a final decision is made. I'm probably
the only one but I still feel we are thinking too big
for our budget. We are spending money based on the
assumption that if we do, it will come, and that's the
way we'll pay for it.
If half of our existing members decided to switch to
paying by credit would Grex still be getting the
same net? No fair speculating on new members. ;-)
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mary
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response 17 of 29:
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Jan 23 13:54 UTC 1999 |
John is out of town at the moment but I don't think he'd
have a problem with a 6:30 start.
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aruba
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response 18 of 29:
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Jan 23 14:53 UTC 1999 |
I agree about disclosing starting costs online. If we get a deal like danr
has, we'd essentially be paying a flat rate to accept cards, so it wouldn't
matter (except maybe in really extraordinarily good months) how many people
paid by card. But clearly unless it brings in some new money, it won't be a
plus for Grex. (We should really discuss this in the credit card item,
though.) At the meeting I just want to ask the board for advice on how to
proceed. We're not ready to write any checks yet.
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rtg
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response 19 of 29:
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Jan 24 04:17 UTC 1999 |
The 26th is the fourth tuesday, not the third. Was there a typo in
resp:1, or is this month an exception?
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remmers
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response 20 of 29:
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Jan 25 14:20 UTC 1999 |
I'm back in town and can verify that a 6:30 starting time is fine with
me. (I prefer an early start like that, actually.)
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janc
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response 21 of 29:
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Jan 25 19:31 UTC 1999 |
OK - though I don't think I've heard from everyone, I've heard from a
quorum. I've changed our reservation at Zingerman's to 6:30.
Oh, Board meetings on on fourth Tuesdays, not third. Sorry.
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janc
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response 22 of 29:
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Jan 25 19:35 UTC 1999 |
Updated Agenda:
Agenda for the 1/26/99 Grex Board of Directors Meeting
6:30pm - upstairs at Zingerman's Nextdoor
Rethe Initial Gavel Pounding - janc 1 second
Astron Election of 1999 Officers - all 15 minutes
Thrimidge Treasurer's Report - aruba 10 minutes
Forelithe Publicity Committee - mta 5 minutes
Afterlithe Technical Committee - staff 10 minutes
Wedmath UPS Purchase? - all 10 minutes
Halimath Credit Cards - all 10 minutes
Winterfilth New Business - all ?? minutes
Blotmath Final Gavel Pounding - TBA 1 second
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jep
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response 23 of 29:
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Jan 25 20:59 UTC 1999 |
Aha, month names in The Shire, from Tolkien.
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remmers
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response 24 of 29:
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Jan 25 22:02 UTC 1999 |
Did the board ever ratify the status quo of having outgoing http access
available to all? I remember its being discussed here a few months ago
but don't recall seeing anything in the minutes. If it hasn't been
acted on, it probably should be, one of these months.
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