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Grex Coop Item 364: Board Meeting - 05 July 2016, 20:00 EDT
Entered by kentn on Sun Jul 3 14:48:15 UTC 2016:

Board Meeting - 05 July 2016, 20:00 EDT
Via Google Hangouts

1. Call to Order/Quorum
2. Elect officers for 2016.
3. Schedule next meeting.  
4. Business
   a. 5th Board director and 4:1 election cycle
   b. SSH tunneling policy
   c. SSL certs for web site
5. Treasure's Report
6. Staff Report
7. Walk-in Items
8. Adjourn.

We will use Google Hangouts for this meeting.  See:
https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/2944865?hl=en&ref_topic=2944848
You will need a Google+ account and the right computer/cellphone/tablet
setup to connect.  It is possible to call in, as well, but that needs to
be done when the meeting starts.

7 responses total.

#1 of 7 by kentn on Sun Jul 3 14:51:57 2016:

If you have any other items you want to discuss, let me know and we'll
add them to the agenda, or use the walk-in items part of the meeting.

#2 of 7 by tod on Wed Jul 6 21:24:15 2016:

Some bylaw mods for meeting & voting requirements was brought up.

Let's start an item about it.

#3 of 7 by cross on Thu Jul 7 15:09:43 2016:

Ooops, I mean to post the minutes immediately after the meeting. Doing so
now:

1. Called to order at 20:12 EDT.
   roll call: kentn, tod, unicorn, cross (We have quorum)

2. First order of business: elect officers for 2016
   * tod nominates cross as Chairman
     - cross accepts
     - Motion carries unaninmously
   * cross nominates tod as Treasurer
     - tod accepts
     - Motion carries unaninmously
   * tod nominates Kent as Secretary
     - unicorn seconds
     - Motion carries unaninmously
   * 2016 Board: cross (Chairman), tod (Treasurer), kentn (Secretary), unicorn

3. Schedule next meeting.
   * Semptember 12, 2016 (Monday, 20:00 US/Eastern)
     - Motion carries unaninmously

4. Business
   * Schedule election for 5th board member
     - We're in a bit of a bind in terms of procedure.
     - We've got an odd 4:1 election split.
     - Cross suggests postponing the election to 2017 to go back to a 3:2 split
       * Motion passes unanimously
   * cross suggests we edit the bylaws to modernize them.
     - We will produce proposed edits and post in coop
     - Voting TBD
   * SSH tunneling policy 
     - Users were requesting SSH tunnels
     - Firewall/policy already in place block this except for verified users
     - No additional changes needed at this time
   * SSL certs for web site
     - We need to get Tony some information designating him as a staff
       representative.  Then he can get us a new certificate.
     - cross will type up a letter; tod will get any additional supporting
       documentation needed.
     - tod will shop around for reasonably priced certs
     - emailed tonster about it

5. Treasure's Report
   * No further information from TS
   * US Bank has a detail on accounts for non-profits
     - tod will ask gelinas to go to the bank and extract our old funds
     - tod will set up a new account with the national account
   * tod will check PayPal soon
   * TS still has records
     - There is a file cabinet in his possession
     - TS has shown he won't get it back to us
     - cross moves to cut our losses with respect to it
   * gelinas has access to the P.O.Box
     - kentn will get secondary access to the box
     - Should we look into a forwarding service?

6. Staff Report
   * kentn notes an uptick in validations
   * A number of people try to run bots
     - znc, which is installed locally.  Meh; ignore it.
       (it won't work for non-validated users anyway)
   * New Grex:
     - cross will ping Tony about a virtual machine again

7. Walk-in Items
   * No walk-in items

8. Adjourn
   * tod motions to adjourn
     - kentn seconds
     - Motion carries unaninmously
   * Meeting adjourned at 21:08 EDT

#4 of 7 by tod on Sat Mar 4 04:56:23 2017:

Are we going to do this again?
(I have treasurer access)

#5 of 7 by kentn on Sat Mar 4 05:55:44 2017:

You mean another Board meeting?  We should.  Our Chairperson
can schedule it and ask for agenda items.

#6 of 7 by cross on Sun Mar 5 20:32:17 2017:

Oh; that's me. I'll send an emaila bout that shortly.

#7 of 7 by tod on Tue Mar 7 04:36:27 2017:

Yee haw

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