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Grex Coop Item 272: March 2010 Meeting Minutes
Entered by denise on Mon Mar 8 21:31:09 UTC 2010:

Present: kentn*, unicorn*, gelinas*, denise*, remmers, mary, and through
 skype: cross* and tonster.   *=board members.

 Call to order at 6:15.  Discussion of any updates to old meeting 
minutes to take place in that item in coop.

 Next board meeting: April 11th at Zingerman s at 6pm.

 Treasurer s report: TS will be meeting with Mark on 3/11 to get 
paperwork. Mark will pay outstanding bill[s] before turning paperwork 
over to TS.

 Staff report: -Dan reported that Grex has been upgraded to Open BSD 
4.6.  Steve has the usb drive with some backup info on it. Remmers will 
try and get it from Steve to bring it over to provide.net so we can 
access the info stored on it.  Picospan stopped working with the most 
recent upgrade about a week ago, so it was removed.  Dan would like to 
pass on some info to rest of staff so a staff meeting has been scheduled
 for Thursday, 3/11 at 7:30 pm EST; place TBD [will pass on info in 
email].

 Grex status & future--will come back to this after other necessary 
items done.
     -Status reports when system is down: Twitter can be set up and used
     
for status reports. remmers has set up a page: twitter.com/grexstatus; 
we can be notified of any updates/reminders. Staff will need to use it, 
though, to post the updates.  Google is also set up; Posterous can also 
be used.  A clarification was made that there are 2 scenerios  [sp?]: -
status announcements vs what to do if Grex is down long term.  

Staff appointments: gelinas moved to add tonster to staff with root 
access; unicorn seconded; motion carried.
    -Should we open up the staff conference? Current conference should 
stay closed as comments were made with the confidentiality factor in 
place.  Keep the current conf. available for [new] staff to access to 
see what has happened when, precidents, etc. Will need a member vote 
before changes are made as there has been a vote in the past; need to 
see what and when this was last voted on.
-Google rank and updating grex s web pages: Keep pages updated to 
improve rank; someone needs to do the work to keep it updated; what can 
we do to make the work easier now? remmers will look into the web stuff;
 once the web is maintained, rankings will improve naturally. -Increased
disk space: are individual quotas being inforced? Yes. Can  quotas be
increased? We have the space so it should be able to increase;  this is
a staff issued to discuss limits and set up.

Other business/walk-in items
    -Grex s future location-staff to come up with location 
possibilities.
-Meeting venue change: kentn has done some research; many of the 
available community resources require contracts, memberships and/or 
fees. Also would like to provide remote access. Will continue to explore
 options. -Facebook status; there is a grex page already there. -Access
for MySQL/PostgreSQL databases for users. What are users trying  to use
this for? What does access mean?  People are using this on mnet;  using
it for such things as making tables, queries, compiling  programs... 
Would having this bring in new people? -Back to the question of What
does grex want to be? How can we open it  up without bringing it down? 
Should be a place to explore, experiment,  learn C, shell scripting,
BBS, etc. Need to bring validation to another  level. With the financial
aspect, what would we provide for it? What IS  the system? --> an
abstract community of people who care and support it  [the technology is
the tool].  There IS a mission statement online that  we can use.
-Traceroute/ping/nmap wrapper which limits use? Should be provided for 
varified users; treasurer has been varifying users. -SSH bs Telnet. Is
telnet going away? Is there a reason to keep it  going? It has not been
supported since grex was using BSD[?] versions  3.7/3.8.  Most places
have already shut it off. Though we should warn  people when it would go
away, perhaps in the MOTD. This is something  staff should discuss.
-Dial-up--Is there still a script available to see how these lines are 
being utilized? Need to get the statistics and go from there. [There was
 little use in Feb [2 users, one for 0 minutes, one for 24; a little
more  in Jan; down in Dec.]

Meeting adjourned at 8:55pm

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#1 of 1 by kentn on Mon Mar 8 21:54:02 2010:

Thanks, denise.  Good job with all that technical discussion.  If there
are any corrections or clarifications, make them in this item.

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