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Grex Coop Item 71: Board Meeting Minutes: Oct 14, 2007
Entered by janc on Tue Dec 4 15:21:27 UTC 2007:

Grex Board Meeting Minutes - October 14, 2007

  Present:  S. Lynne Fremont (slynne) - Board Member, President
            Mark Conger (aruba) - Board Member, Treasurer
            Jan Wolter (janc) - Board Member, Secretary - Staff
            Colleen McGee (cmcgee) - Board Member
            Larry Kestenbaum (polygon) - Board Member
            Sindi Keesan (keesan)
            Jim Deigert (jdeigert)
  Telepresent:
            Bruce Howard (bhoward) - Board Member - Staff
  Absent:
            Dan Cross (cross) - Board Member

Opening Gavel Tap:  7:45 pm
   Delayed by forgotten phone.

Treasurer's Report:
   In September $60 income, $150 expenditures including $10 to renew
   Grex name.  Currently 56 members, 40 paid up.  Mark has been slow
   reminding people to renew this month.  Income of $60 so far in
   October.

Staff Report:
   Staff has nothing to report.  Unicorn is doing stuff, policing
   vandals.

   There have been a lot of junk postings to the conferences.
   Reviewed membership vote 17 from 3/15/2004:

     An item's author, the person who originally enters an item,
     may remove that item from the system, in its entirety,
     at any time before someone responds to it using a different
     login ID.  After another person has responded, an item may be
     removed only if it violates the general policies of grex or
     of the conference it was entered in, or if it clearly abets
     criminal activity.  Examples of the former include a very
     large item that attempts to fill all available disk space,
     items posted more than once or in several conferences at
     once, repetitive items and items that contain terminal
     escape sequences.  Examples of the latter include items
     that contain social security numbers or credit card numbers.
     These examples are not exhaustive; fair-witnesses and staff
     have discretion to act in the best interests of grex and
     its users in accordance with general policies.

   Seems like deleting spam items would be allowed under the
   "violates the general policies of grex" clause.

   Some discussion of the old "intro" conference and some interest
   in reviving it.  Colleen would become become the fairwitness
   and would present it as a "best of Grex conference".  This would
   be a one month experiment.

   Larry moves that:

     (1) the default conference for new users will become intro.
     (2) a new fairwitness will be appointed for intro.
     (3) the theme of intro is "the best of grex".  It will
         contain links to active items in other conferences.
     (4) staff will revert the default conference to agora if the
         fairwitnesses become inactive.

   Colleen seconds.
   Passes Unanimously.

Old Business:
   None.

Schedule Next Meeting:
   December 2, 2007, 7:00pm.  Mark Conger's house.

New Business:

   NEW MODEMS.  There were some problems with dialing in.  This
   turned out to be an AT&T issue.

   We have big modem bank.  Bill Levak (wlevak) has them.  Mark
   will talk to him.

   ELECTION.  Need to enter the nomination item.  Colleen will
   enter it.

   Colleen created "CYBERSPACE.ORG at flickr".  Another front
   porch for grex.

Closing Gavel Tap:   8:50pm

2 responses total.

#1 of 2 by janc on Tue Dec 4 15:22:39 2007:

OK, this is beyond embarrassingly late.  It's so embarrassingly late, that
we missed the scheduled date for the next board meeting, because nobody knew
when it was scheduled for, because I didn't post the minutes.

Sorry.

#2 of 2 by tod on Thu Dec 6 01:09:57 2007:

*blush*

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