In Attendance: Board members: Kentn, gelinas, denise, and via computer: cross; others: remmers and mary. We have a quorum [now 3 needed per recent bylaw change]. Meeting called to order at 6:49. Gelinas moved to approve previous meeting minutes; denise seconded, motion carried. Next meeting will be after the election in December: December 19th, 6:30 pm, Meeting place TBA. Board Election Status: There are 3 candidates [tsty, gelinas, and jadecat] for 1 vacant position. --The voting will take place between Dec. 1st and Dec. 15th. Anyone who pays for a membership by Dec. 15th will be counted in the vote. Tsty will have to let the vote administrator who the current members are. --Sometime we will need to look into staggering the positions so we have either 2 or 3 open positions open at one time instead of 4 and 1. This may need a bylaw change. Status of By-laws Elections: There are 2 changes: --Membership dues are now $18/year or $2/month; must pay for 3 months to be able to vote. --Board size will be 5 members; quorum is 3. Town Hall Cf item and Planning [ongoing]: --Encourage users to participate in planning; generate ideas and volunteers to implement. --Should we consider having free memberships [w/a valid id? for a certain time period] to get more people involved? --Dues *have* been lowered. How do current members feel about offering free memberships? --What do members get? Mainly to vote and the warm fuzzy feeling in helping out. What new stuff will we be adding? --Right now we have 2 levels of users: validated from newuser and verification of ID to get full access [not tied to membership]. --Keep stuff we have now and add new stuff [software, hardware...?] --Two general types of users: Those using the technical stuff vs those using the BBS/Party. Who s part of the governance? Can we get the tech. people involved in BBS, at least in the co-op conf.? Can we get a membership committee to contact these [invisible?] people and see if they ll contribute? And to publicize [a separate committee of volunteers, perhaps?]? --How can we be more responsive to some of the ideas that people are proposing? We need staff to be able to help... Staff to have the ability to allocate others to do help. Can we recruit help [in areas other than co-op]? -->Need to fix the web newuser! Dan has worked on a newuser program; can we get it up to test? Perhaps put it up on remmers freeBSD machine to test? When is newuser going to be streamlined? Vision [over the next 8 months or so] to build the membership [4-5 months?] and the platform [4 months?] --How can we set Grex up to make it easier to do the stuff we want to do? FreeBSD instead of OpenBSD? Other Operating System? Are we ready for a virtual system? --We need staff to be in communication. Helpers Who Are Not Staff-What is the Process? --People can work on projects and submit to the staff for review. --There is a source repository on Grex that can be checked out. Status Reports: Treasurer s report [through email from treasurer]: -The savings account has been closed; $$ moved to checking account. --Balance [checking and Paypal]: $2567.64. There has been 7 paypal donations/memberships for $126. The AT&T and Provide bills have been paid. Staff report: Grex was down briefly recently but quickly rebooted [still won t reboot from the hard drive. Cross has updated Open BSD --version 4.8. Gelinas moved to adjourn the meeting, denise seconded; meeting adjourned at 8:40 pm.3 responses total.
"must pay for 3 months to be able to vote." i was wondering about this - is it possible to pay a bigger amount and vote immediately?
The "must pay for 3 months" means that you're eligible to vote as soon as you've paid three months' worth of dues. If you pay it all tomorrow, then you become an eligible voter tomorrow.
thanks. makes sense.
You have several choices: