We need to have a BoD meeting, badly.  We haven't had one for nearly a
year (since October, 2007!).  What can we do to get everyone together
to have one?

46 responses total.

Are you finally going to try to vote out that piece of shit Chuck 
Martin?

I'd suggest an email conversation among the BOD and staff members to
schedule a meeting, then post date, place, and agenda here. 
Traditionally the president posts the agenda, but there isn't a
president now, so an I guess an ad hoc approach will have to do at this
stage.  Keep in mind that board meetings are open to the public.

Good luck!

That approach hasn't generated a lot of traction.  Hence, the public plea.

To the Grex community: A lot of you know the board members personally.  If
you have that kind of rapport with them, would you *please* *please* *please*
ask them to login and/or respond to their board email?

Thanks, Dan, for taking the lead.  Again.

Ain't no thang.

Yeah, I noticed, too, that not too many people responded to the email...

I don't remember how many people are on the board; can we at least get 
some kind of quorum together and get down to business?

Until I know when I'll be discharged from my partial hospitalization 
trreeatment program, I can't guarantee being to a meeting on time on a 
weeknight, as sometimes I don't finish up til 7-8:00.  I hope that I'll
be  finished sometime in the next week or two but I don't know for sure.
  Usually I have the weekend off from the program [except I had to go in
for  the day yesterday], so if we do something in the next couple weeks,
maybe  a weekend date would be best for me.

What can we do to make the meeting more fun so people would want to 
attend?  Maybe a potluck or something?

A potluck wouldn't be such a great idea because some people are so poor 
that they might actually start stealing the food. Ya know, not all of 
us can qualify for mensa only to end up asking other people to pay for 
their grex membership!

So who's going to pick a date, time, and place, and just get on with
this?  I know I've asked about it multiple times in various
items/conferences and  to specific people.


It's not like there's absolutely NO interest in keeping this board and 
system going.  This is my first time on the board thus, am asking for 
whatever protocal is needed.  Or not needed.

I vote for Sept. 9th, at 7pm Eastern.

Is that when Chuck Martin goes to hell with his whore mother?

chuck is getting chucked out.

I hope so. I mean hell, if grex wanted a dumbass to help with the daily
operations, then they should have put nharmon on staff.

I would probably spend more time dealing with system problems. Yes, that
means you.

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What good would that do if I post the blueprints to the attack on m-net?
Remember, unitard tried this approach and failed miserably. Geeze, once again,
you failed to learn something. What a shocker. I mean, hell, I wouldn't
guessed it from some 10 year perl veteran that codes on the following level
 
 
#12 Nathan Harmon  [nharmon] (11) (Mon, May 26, 2008 (15:55)):
 
 nathan@pythagoras ~/temp > cat > stupid.pl
 my $worldpac = "5"."0";
 my $butt = 5;
 print "It treated them as ";
 print $butt == $worldpac ? "the same." : "different.";
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 nathan@pythagoras ~/temp > perl ./stupid.pl
 It treated them as different.
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So the Board will meet at 7:00pm tomorrow (Sep 9) evening?  Where?

I have two suggestions for the agenda: an election of officers, and
scheduling a special election to replace Jan.

We also need a special election to replace that worthless piece of shit 
that calls himself unicorn.

resp:18 I don't know about everyone else, but I'll be in my apartment.... 
He he he.  :-)

Btw: Could someone please send me the phone number of wherever we are meeting?

OK, we're going to try to meet tonight at 6:30, at 32 55 Cardinal Drive. 
Sorry for the short notice.  Hopefully this will be a preliminary meeting to
set up a regular schedule again.

Excellent!  I hope y'all get back on track with regular meetings.

Shut it aruba.

yeh, kinda was short notice hoever if this meeting does no business
*except* set a a future dae for a complete meeting then it's
not a problem, imo.

We did have a meeting last night, and in my opinion, it was quite productive.
Sure, we didn't follow the correct protocol for it (in terms of laying out
the agenda before hand, etc) but in getting back on track, you've got to start
somewhere, and we did do that.

I'm glad the Board met.  I look forward to seeing what it did but am
sure some good things happened.  I would have liked for it to have
touched all the bases and made sure it followed all of the right
procedures, but if the first two things happened, I'll take that.  

Thanks for pulling things together.

No problem, but it wasn't just me.  The board mostly followed the
"standard" procedures, but the tone was, to an extent, "Hey, we
haven't talked in a year, what do we need to actually talk about?
What are the issues?"  Etc.  To that end, a large part of the tenor
was about how we should go about getting back on track.

A tentative date for the next board meeting was set, on October 9
(or was it 7?  Either way, that's the general time frame).  It is
tentative to some extent, because of my schedule, and whether I'll
be around on that day, or in the treeline doing some more field
training.

I'm glad that the board got together too.  Were officers selected?

Yes.  Steve is the president, Mark the treasurer, and either Mark or Denise
the secretary (it was a bit hard to hear on that one).

steve the president? what a CROCK! He shouldn't even have root
privileges much less be president. This is what we get for slynne coping
out.
a freaking ghost in the machine. 

Lar, give in to the fear, hatred, and anger. Follow the ways of the darkside.
Together we can overthrow the grex staff and bring order back to cyberspace.

resp:30 For your information, I was not eligible to run again. 

How dare you follow the organization's bylaws and not inject your own
sensibility into the system? :-)

re resp:27: I meant to thank all who were involved.  I do think you,
Dan, deserve much of the credit for taking the initiative.

Aww shucks.  Thanks, jep!

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Dan and Jep need to take their gay love affair back to nambla.org

I need to post minutes--will try and get to that this weekend; sorry
it's  taken a while!

And the next meeting is Tuesday, Oct. 7th at 7 pm at my house in Ypsi 
Township. Address will posted closer to the date.  

And in case there are others with allergies, this is a cat-free and a 
smoke-free environment.

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