Call to order @ 6:45. Present: Board Members--Kentn, Unicorn, Gelinas [and family], Denise Guests--Mary, Remmers, Tsty Quorum has been met. Denise moved, Unicorn seconded to approve the minutes from the previous meeting; motion carried. Next meeting has been scheduled for May 15th at 6:30. Status of Treasurer: Tsty reports there is $2567 in the account, $306 in PayPal. The ATT line has been paid for and cancelled. ProvideNet is now on auto-pay. Joe will contact Mark to get mailbox key. Joe will also call Tsty with amount owed to Mark. Status of new user validation efforts: Are Paypal payers being validated? Dan has recently validated some users; Gelinas will soon be able to start doing more. Web site updates: Allow users to use CGI and SSI on their web pages? CGI ay be implemented. SSI-a security issue? We ll add services on a need based case by case basis. No updates on web newuser. Kent has been doing some website updates [but no major overhauls]. Blocking tor? [Potential method for handling vandals if we remove resh] Are people coming in on tor and causing problems? To block--need to keep list updated; hasn t been in a couple years. Not removing resh. Town Hall Cf Item & Planning, continued. Questions raised: What is Grex- -a techie place? A community? Is there enthusiasm? Restart with a local focus? To be continued. 8:30 Gelinas moved & Denise seconded to adjourn the meeting; motion carried.8 responses total.
Could someone enable CGI for me. (and while your at it SSI would be nice)
Why? It isn't enabled for me.
the board item says cgi on request?
Too much work.
At least while I'm working. SSI-exec was turned down, by the way. The thing is we'll need keep adding new directories all the time if this goes for a lot of people. It's possible but we'd need to be careful.
re #0 'restart with a local focus'? what does that mean? Turn grex into a local a2 area focused website? isn't hvcn still around for those who want that?
Grex won't be turned into anything new - that boat has sailed. If or when Grex ends there will probably be some new way to get folks together. It may build on lessons learned from Grex but it won't be Grex.
Yes, the talk was about focusing more on local AA matters as there are a lot of people in AA who have a lot of opinions to share. And an argument that someone else is already doing something so Grex shouldn't? That's awfully short-sighted. Note that this was just discussion at the board meeting and we need to engage in that sort of discussion much more often. It's too easy to focus on the cost of pencils and ignore the big decisions we need to make. But if people want to criticize, we'll go back to discussing the cost of pencils (figuratively speaking). Then people can criticize about the lack of discussion on Grex's future. I don't think we'll necessarily become AA-focused, exclusively, as we have many people from around the US and the world who use Grex, so we wouldn't want to turn them away. But it wouldn't hurt to attract more AA folks to Grex and give them a place to talk about local issues. Nor would it hurt to attract other groups from other places who want to share opinions.
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