Minutes from Grex BoD meeting, September 17, 2014:
* Call to order at 20:46
+ Rollcall: kentn, walkman, cross
+ Determination of Quorum: We have a quorum (3/5 members present)
* Approval of minutes from last meeting.
+ kentn moves that we approve minutes from last meeting
- Approved unanimously
* Schedule next meeting.
+ November 12 proposed as next meeting date.
+ Agreed as next date.
* Treasurer status
+ Postponed due to lack of treasurer attendance
+ tod sent tsty an email about forms; no response as yet
* Archivist
+ mary resigned years ago.
+ Main duty is to post minutes (put a textfile into a directory)
+ cross moves to eliminate the position, have board secretary
copy into the appropriate (web-accessible) place.
- Motion passes unanimously
* Database access for users
+ Some users have asked for this.
+ The blocker is staff time to set it up as a service.
+ We currently don't promise any real level of service
- How does that interact with offering database access?
- (We don't want to get into the business of being a
service provider)
+ Tabled for now.
* Coop/Agora fairwitness.
+ Katie resigned; Walter has resigned for all intents and purposes
+ Kent has been rolling conferences
+ Do we need to appoint a fairwitness/cfadm?
- Cross proposes that we do not: we should spend the
minimum amount of time necessary to not break the
service on conferencing.
- To what extent is conferencing necessary for governence?
| Kent points out that there is nothing saying that is how
it must be done.
+ walkman points out that hardly anyone uses it, it's not broken,
so don't fix it.
+ Will leave it to staff: walter left instructions.
- Takes about an hour; mostly re-reading the instructions.
+ We'll leave this as status quo.
+ Cross committed to posting three items last meeting, but has
not done so.
- He apologizes and will try and find time to do that.
* Grex hardware/software
+ Pinged Tony for the status of the VM for converting to FreeBSD
+ We will move to FreeBSD
- Do we want to stay on a VM?
+ Not in any hurry to move because things are pretty stable.
* Services/Applications Grex should offer
+ cross wants to become attractive to the DIY world (hackers, open
source, makers, etc)
+ kentn notes that in terms of validations, the majority are from
outside of the US
+ We still get college and other courses requesting student accounts
periodically
+ walkman asks how we intend to advertise this?
* No treasurer report
* Staff report:
+ cross reports All systems normal at this time.
* Walk-in business
+ None.
* cross moves to adjourn at 21:35
+ motion passes unanimously
+ We are adjourned.
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