Minutes of the 9/26/10 Board Meeting Present: Kentn, unicorn, tsty, gelinas, denise, remmers, mary, aruba Called to order @ 6:53 Treasurer s Report: -See aruba s 2 year summary of income/expenses, etc in item #283 -Checking account balance: $734.60; savings: about $1900. Because of the savings account only getting 0.1% interest, tsty moved and gelinas seconded the motion to close the savings account and transfer that money to checking. Motion carried. -Membership database is being worked on so that tsty can access it. 7 of 8 of us present are paid members. Can we set up an automated way of notifying expiring members that they re due for renewal? Will need to have a login id, working email address, and expiration date stored somewhere. tsty will start keeping track by hand; will investigate other options if/as needed. Should we eliminate showing id for membership? -Need a bylaw change to reduce membership fees; gelinas has drafted a statement and has entered an item in coop to discuss this before a possible vote. If dues change, do we want to keep it there for a given time period? monthly, quarterly, year? Give the board an option to make changes if needed? -Need bylaw changes to 1) reduce the size of the board and 2) reduce the number needed for a quorum. Mary has entered items in coop to discuss these issues before a possible vote. -Is there a command to run validation for newuser? Should include a workable email address. Staff Report: -Some of the menu shell is not working; needs a path change? Web newuser has a bug in it; remmers will look into this. -The system has now had 129 days of uptime. The system still won t boot directly from the hard drive; needs the cd drive first before booting. Can STeve or tonster look at this? Business: -AACS Spam Filtering Presentation Notes: tsty went to a presentation of the Ann Arbor Computer Society. They have hardware and software solutions available including providing spam filtering; tsty will provide us with a link/information. In any plan we use. we want an option to view the spam sent to us. -Town Hall Cf Item & Planning, continued: More info on handouts [summary of previous town hall items]; a lot of this is hardware related. If something happened that would close Provide.net could we get our hardware? If we get new equipment, could we get backups from elsewhere? Yes-->remmer s Free BSD could reconstruct through these backups. -Another handout includes potential plans for Grex: Status Quo thru new/incremental changes [to be discussed]. Are we selling a service? A system? Are we getting our money s worth? Next meeting: Sunday, Oct 17th, 6:30 pm in the Kid s Room at Zing s [next door, upstairs].2 responses total.
Thanks for this detailed summary of the meeting, Denise.
Your welcome. :-)
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