Grex Coop Conference

Item 347: Board Meeting - 09 May 2014, 20:00 EDT, teleconferenc

Entered by kentn on Mon May 5 19:06:08 2014:

   Agenda for the May 9, 2014 Grex Board Meeting 

       1. Call to Order/Roll Call/Determination of Quorum
       2. Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes 
       3. Schedule Next Meeting 
       4. Business
           a. Status of Elections
           b. Election of Board Officers for 2014 (Secretary, Treasurer,
           Chairman) c. Treasurer duties
       5. Status Reports (Staff, Treasurer)
           a. Financial report
           b. System report
       6. Walk-in Business
       7. Adjourn

   We will use Google Hangouts for this meeting.  See:
   https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/2944865?hl=en&ref_topic=2944
848
   You will need a Google+ account to do a video call and the right
   computer/smartphone/tablet setup to connect and participate.
16 responses total.
#1 of 16 by kentn on Mon May 5 19:07:44 2014:

If there are additions to the agenda, add them in this item.  This is our
first try using Hangouts as a method of communicating during a meeting, so
be aware.

#2 of 16 by walkman on Thu May 8 15:40:53 2014:

I'm having trouble seeing how this hangout setup works. From what I can 
gather, I will have to have participants in the gmail contact list. 
I setup my Google+ account and activated google hangouts so I'm a big
step  closer. 

If you want to add me to your contacts for the hangout, please use the 
email I sent in the response. I don't want to post it here!
Thanks

#3 of 16 by cross on Thu May 8 16:09:57 2014:

So as long as one person has everyone in the contacts list, they can 'invite'
people to the hangout.  Could you send me your contact info?  I haven't seen
a note from you.  crossd@gmail.com

#4 of 16 by mary on Thu May 8 17:16:00 2014:

Thanks for meeting.  That's an important sign there is still breath is this 
old girl.

#5 of 16 by cross on Sat May 10 15:34:18 2014:

A quick note: We did meet last night.  Everyone was there (virtually, that
is), we elected officers had reports and so on.  TS graciously volunteered
to take notes and post minutes for this particular meeting.

I will present a "nutshell summary" until TS has time to post actual minutes:

1. Meeting brought to order: present were cross, kentn, walkman, tod and tsty.
2. Scheduling next meeting: we agree to meet bimonthly on the 2nd Wednesday
   of the month at 8:30pm E[DS]T.  The next meeting is therefore scheduled for
   July 9 at 20:30 EDT.
3. Electing of officers:
   a. kentn is appointed chairman
   b. cross is appointed secretary
   c. tod is appointed treasurur
4. Discussion of treasurer duties; the P.O.Box has been re-established, etc.
5. staff and treasurer reports:
   a. we have about $1500 in the bank
   b. Grex is mostly up, we will be transitioning to FreeBSD
6. walkin business: general discussion about hardware and future directions.
7. Adjourn.

#6 of 16 by kentn on Sat May 10 21:17:20 2014:

Thanks, Dan.  I thought it was one of the better board meetings Grex has
had in a while.  Lots of good discussions and ideas for making things
run better.  I hope we can keep it up.  It was a rather long meeting,
but I guess that's expected when we haven't met for quite a few months
and have several new members with good ideas.  We also had a number of
issues building up over the last few months and a number of status
items to go over.

If we meet more frequently we can possibly keep the agenda shorter and
get done sooner.

Note that meeting minutes usually go in a separate item so when we are
ready to post them we can do that.  It would be good if you review the
notes that TS took and see if you agree before posting.  Thanks.

#7 of 16 by walkman on Sat May 10 21:45:26 2014:

If we wanted to discuss things like the direction of grex, should we do
it  here? There were some great points about what grex has had to offer
in the  past compared to now and that the focus should be on learning
unix. I agree  with this and have some ideas.

#8 of 16 by kentn on Sat May 10 22:42:12 2014:

Agora item 6 would work for this I think.  I could link it to coop, I
think, if that would help.

Or, you could start a new coop item if you think it should be a
separate discussion.

#9 of 16 by cross on Sun May 11 01:14:49 2014:

For that matter, perhaps it's time to roll coop.

#10 of 16 by kentn on Sun May 11 02:14:05 2014:

I'm in agreement about that.  It's probably long over due.

#11 of 16 by tod on Sun May 11 03:15:33 2014:

Nice to meet you all at the meeting last night.

#12 of 16 by cross on Sun May 11 14:59:25 2014:

Indeed; same here.

#13 of 16 by kentn on Sun May 11 15:17:35 2014:

Definitely.  Thanks to Dan for getting us all conlected.  Thanks to
everyone for attending and participating.  It was good to meet all of
you.

#14 of 16 by tod on Mon May 12 06:58:47 2014:

Next time, I shall use a tablet instead of the phone.  The battery died
just as the meeting adjourned.  Worked great, though!

#15 of 16 by denise on Wed May 14 22:56:39 2014:

I'm glad all of you were able to have a productive meeting and it sounds
 like things will get back on track. Thanks in advance for everyone's
hard  work!

#16 of 16 by cross on Tue Jun 24 16:42:34 2014:

TS did send me minutes, but they were not appreciably different from
resp:5, so let that stand as the formal record of minutes from the last
meeting.

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