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I apologise for my tardiness. The Board of Directors is scheduled to meet at 19:00 (7:00 PM) EST, on February 7, 2010. The meeting will be in the Kids Room, upstairs at Zingerman's Next Door. The agenda includes Election of Officers Staff Report Scheduling the Next Meeting Discussion of Grex Status and Future Please suggest any changes here.
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One thing to note. Apparently, there is some kind of sporting event that evening. Zingerman's is asking for a five dollar ($5.00) per person minimum this time.
Some kind of sporting event? Are you kidding?
I'll announce the election results as soon as possible after the polls close at midnight tonight (Friday, Feb. 5). That way, you'll know who the Board members actually are. ;-) Won't be able to attend due to a bad case of being out of town. We plan to leverage this sporting event on Sunday by going out to dinner at a restaurant that is normally quite crowded but won't be due to abovementioned sporting event.
Re the agenda: You might want to discuss the issue of how board, staff, and users can communicate when Grex is down. I believe that tonster offered a VM running backtalk for that purpose. That's a good way to go in my opinion and could have other uses as well, e.g. staff development machine. (The idea that an organization like Grex should be confined to one hardware box is *so* 20th century...) Another issue - notification mechanism for status updates. We used to use HVCN for this, and currently Google I believe. My suggestion: Twitter. Lots of companies and other organizations are using it for exactly this purpose. Advantages include easy access via a simple URL, log of all posts, builtin RSS feed so that folks can get automatic notification of updates.
Kent, he did mention the name of the event, and I have heard of it, but my life no longer revolves around television, so it's largely irrelevant to me.
Okay, not everyone's into the Super Bowl :)
fwiw, has anyone considred the posoible, or impossible, attendance/communications with both/either cross or unicorn? re - a bucnch of the above ... the superbowl xliv, iirc
kickoff is 1825hrs .... with the who for halfitme entertianment. geeeeeeeeeeeeeze. but .. there IS a grex board meeting overlaoping. /sigh
Re #0: also, don't forget to discuss specific stuff like: email and personalized web domains (veek.cyberspace.org - SDF has this).. and find out how much staff time you wish to allot for implementation.
I still have the grex-owned speaker phone that can be used for calls into the meeting from out-of-towners [conference call if more than one needs to call in]. Though I doubt there's a phone outlet we could use at Zingerman's.
except for my not having a laptop, my magicjack arrangement is complete and with three 'extentions' all self powered. the magicjack is a very low current usb plugin and brainless to use. there is NO ohter load on the laptop. al the phones are selfpowered. i;ll bring the stuff in hopes.
oh! i jsut found out that magicjack had free conference calls too!
hwooppee! i have created a conference call 'room' now.
adn it works.
users would foirst call 305-848-8888 --- hten theere are two choices,
dial 1 to joine (do this) or 2 to create (alreadid this)
then you are asked for the ocnference room number which is:
123,922,3740
you will be joined to the conference call and told you are the (x)th joiner
adn there are (y) number of pppl on the call.
i love magicjack. hope someone can bring a laptop.
Will we be trying this again at the next meeting? If so, we should make sure it works on someone else's laptop and that we have time to get it working prior to the meeting. If the MagicJack device isn't an option, we'll need to come up with something else. Cell phones aren't the best option due to small speakers but will do in a pinch. The lack of a phone line we can use is one disadvantage of Zingerman's.
my diagnosis of the experitment ... it almost worked ... is taht the wirelss connection was not up to speed (intended). my being late didn;t help the experiment either. more prep time would have helped. magicjack sensed that there was a change of machines as well as a chnage in locations and needed to receive authgentication. when that was tried, teh wifi seemed unable to keep up. ... or ... there was a port blocked (i just thoguth of taht) at zingies. i;ll check w/the mj ppl to get a better understanding. my bad. howeer unicorn and i -did- test teh conferenceing from my place and it workde JustFine (tm) ... no lag, good audio, there was some squelching thogh so only onel pern could talk at a time, it seemed. think simplex rathenr than duplex communicatins. courtesy woeuld have to prevail.
if theres a phone line or a cell phone to host the call, I have a real conferencing line that can be used for people to join conference calls.
I don't think there is phone we can use in Zingerman's next door (it would probably be their business line). But if a cell phone would be listenable (bigger speaker?) that might be an option.
the conference call setu[p seems to work w/o a magic ajck login. unicorn adn i didn;t test all compbinations/permutatins but we did test a couple. i don;t remember explicitly whetnher or not i had disconnencted from mj . also ... the point was to have a speaker phone connected to the conferenece line. i do this around the house on a regular basis with the 3 self-powered cordlwess units i brought to the meeting. dialing into the cnference call could be done with any phn ... but from the zingies locatoin, any phn connnections woeuld have to be selfpowered. the cell phn could have as easily been didaled into the conf call and unicorn (plus others) coudld have joined as well. iirc, the last m-b0x board meeting was -totally- by tonsters' conference line ... not a single ftf in a public place.
I think the last one may have been jeanne's, but I have used one in the past for board meetings.
If would could get a conference call going, that'd be great. Can we test prior to the meeting, under meeting conditions, to make sure it works?
if you're asking me, absolutely. we can test it anytime.
When would be a good time for you to do the test and can we get a couple volunteers to try dialing in? I can be one of those dialing in. If we had a few more, we'd have a pretty decent test.
I'm pretty flexible. Let me know when is good for you and anyone else
who wants to try. You can email me at tonster@tonster.com if you'd
like.
Dial-In Numbers
US/CAN Toll free: 1-877-647-3411
US/CAN Toll: 1-719-867-0497
There are many more international numbers as well.
How does this work when there is only a cell phone in the meeting room?
Dial-in with it via cell or other means, and put the cell on speaker I would imagine. There's a meeting code that goes out to the attendees and then anyone attending remotely can hear/speak on that one line.
Okay, thanks. I appreciate all the help, tonster. We'll see if we can't get a few of use to try it via a cell phone on "meeting" side.
http://arborwiki.org/city/Places_to_have_a_meeting options ...
Are there other folks, particularly board members, who would like to try tonster's conference call number? We need to do this fairly quicky if we hope to use it at the next board meeting. Let me know and I'll see if we can't arrange short test.
aside froem a group of calls to areacode 305 my ocnference call line is avialalbe, still.
and it works .. if any 2-3-4 ppl wanna try it ?????
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