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Grex Board Meeting Minutes - May 20, 2007
Present: S. Lynne Fremont (slynne) - Board Member, President
Jan Wolter (janc) - Board Member, Secretary - Staff
Mark Conger (aruba) - Board Member, Treasurer
Colleen McGee (cmcgee) - Board Member
Telepresent:
Larry Kestenbaum (polygon) - Board Member
Absent:
Dan Cross (cross) - Board Member
Bruce Howard (bhoward) - Board Member - Staff
Opening Gavel Tap: 7:43 pm
Meeting started late because of Jan and Larry forgot about it and needed
to be located to make quorum.
Treasurer's Report:
Grex took in $181.22 in April and spent 156.90. Bank balances is high,
near $7000.
Staff Report:
Jan was the only staff person present, and he had not been active in
staff activities lately, and was unable to make any report. Next time
he hopes to come to the meeting better prepared.
Lynne said she drives by Grex's location daily, and would be willing to
do reboots when needed. This would require that she be oriented in
the procedure and added to the list of people to be allowed access.
Colleen moved:
That we give Lynne temporary access to the Grex computer
pending staff approval.
Larry seconded, four votes in favor, 1 abstentions (Lynne), motion
passes.
Lynne will contact Joe Gelinas about setting up an orientation tour.
Mark indicated interest in going along.
Old Business:
Upgrades to Grex
Last month ideas were discussed for using some of the cash on hand to
improve Grex. Ideas suggested incuded getting error correcting
memory in Grex's computer (which might require a new motherboard),
and getting a raid disk and/or a larger disk. The board had requested
that staff produce specific proposals for these. No proposals have
been received.
Colleen will "nudge" staff.
Internet Access Policy
Last month a plan to institute a policy for validated accounts
was voted on. There is a feeling that a member vote is needed to
fully institute this.
In the April meeting we had discussed instituting three levels of
access to the internet from Grex. The April minutes had included
the following suggestion for a possible arrangement of these new
access classes. Unfortunately we did not actually review this at
the meeting, so I'm not exactly sure how all the things discussed
this month are supposed to relate to this proposal:
There would be three classes of users:
Class 1: No Internet access. Can send and receive mail only
to local Grex account.
Class 2: Full E-Mail and HTTP. Users can send and receive
email from or to any address. They can also access the
web from Grex (eg, by using lynx).
Class 3: Full net access. Full access to the Internet,
including telnet, ssh, ftp. What members have today.
All new user accounts would be created in class 1.
Promotion from class 1 to class 2 would be via some sort of
social validation method, as described above.
Promotion from class 2 to class 3 would require some more formal
validation, that actually identifies the users, like mailing in
a photocopy of a drivers license, or sending in $1 via pay pal.
The discussion this month focused on procedures for the class 2 to
class 3 validation problem, in terms of what should be acceptable as
id for validation. Mark reviewed for us the validation procedures
that were instituted by the Grex board on Sept 27, 1995. This allows
validation to be performed by sending in a photocopy of either a
government ID, school ID, library ID, or a personal check. To be
acceptable for validation an ID card must not be expired, must include
the person's name, and some other identifying information (an address,
name of a school, etc). A later board motion added the option of
validating by making a paypal payment (which is now the most common
option). Interestingly, the intent at the time that these rules were
written was to all people to become validated without becoming
members, which was never implemented, but which is what we are trying
to do now.
The board felt that the existing validation rules were extremely
well thought out, and needed no revision.
The board also felt that there should be no requirement to ever
revalidate a user while an account remains active. However, if the
account is reapped for inactivity, and the person returns, then
they would have to be re-validated.
It was suggested that validated accounts would be reaped after a
year of idleness, rather than the current 90 days. I think, in
retrospect that that was meant to apply to non-member accounts in
class 3. I don't know if it was meant to include class 2 accounts.
Colleen offered to write up a new version of this proposal in hopes
of getting the member vote on it done.
Immortals List:
Dan had raised a question in coop about the immortals list, many
accounts on it having been idle for a long time and the users never
being likely to return. Board really didn't see a problem here,
and was content with the status quo. If maintaining those accounts
is ever deemed to cause technical problems (eg, with password
algorithm), or security problems, then it would probably fine to
de-activate them, so they can't be logged into, but the names should
not be removed from the immortals list and freed for re-used.
Schedule Next Meeting:
The next board meeting will be on Sunday, June 24 at the home of
Colleen McGee.
New Business:
None.
Closing Gavel Tap: 8:55 pm
2 responses total.
Next board meeting is this coming Sunday. I think we need an agenda. I'll post directions at the end of the week, or you can email me here on Grex.
Thanks. I forgot.
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