Board Meeting - 05 July 2016, 20:00 EDT Via Google Hangouts 1. Call to Order/Quorum 2. Elect officers for 2016. 3. Schedule next meeting. 4. Business a. 5th Board director and 4:1 election cycle b. SSH tunneling policy c. SSL certs for web site 5. Treasure's Report 6. Staff Report 7. Walk-in Items 8. Adjourn. We will use Google Hangouts for this meeting. See: https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/2944865?hl=en&ref_topic=2944848 You will need a Google+ account and the right computer/cellphone/tablet setup to connect. It is possible to call in, as well, but that needs to be done when the meeting starts.7 responses total.
If you have any other items you want to discuss, let me know and we'll add them to the agenda, or use the walk-in items part of the meeting.
Some bylaw mods for meeting & voting requirements was brought up. Let's start an item about it.
Ooops, I mean to post the minutes immediately after the meeting. Doing so
now:
1. Called to order at 20:12 EDT.
roll call: kentn, tod, unicorn, cross (We have quorum)
2. First order of business: elect officers for 2016
* tod nominates cross as Chairman
- cross accepts
- Motion carries unaninmously
* cross nominates tod as Treasurer
- tod accepts
- Motion carries unaninmously
* tod nominates Kent as Secretary
- unicorn seconds
- Motion carries unaninmously
* 2016 Board: cross (Chairman), tod (Treasurer), kentn (Secretary), unicorn
3. Schedule next meeting.
* Semptember 12, 2016 (Monday, 20:00 US/Eastern)
- Motion carries unaninmously
4. Business
* Schedule election for 5th board member
- We're in a bit of a bind in terms of procedure.
- We've got an odd 4:1 election split.
- Cross suggests postponing the election to 2017 to go back to a 3:2 split
* Motion passes unanimously
* cross suggests we edit the bylaws to modernize them.
- We will produce proposed edits and post in coop
- Voting TBD
* SSH tunneling policy
- Users were requesting SSH tunnels
- Firewall/policy already in place block this except for verified users
- No additional changes needed at this time
* SSL certs for web site
- We need to get Tony some information designating him as a staff
representative. Then he can get us a new certificate.
- cross will type up a letter; tod will get any additional supporting
documentation needed.
- tod will shop around for reasonably priced certs
- emailed tonster about it
5. Treasure's Report
* No further information from TS
* US Bank has a detail on accounts for non-profits
- tod will ask gelinas to go to the bank and extract our old funds
- tod will set up a new account with the national account
* tod will check PayPal soon
* TS still has records
- There is a file cabinet in his possession
- TS has shown he won't get it back to us
- cross moves to cut our losses with respect to it
* gelinas has access to the P.O.Box
- kentn will get secondary access to the box
- Should we look into a forwarding service?
6. Staff Report
* kentn notes an uptick in validations
* A number of people try to run bots
- znc, which is installed locally. Meh; ignore it.
(it won't work for non-validated users anyway)
* New Grex:
- cross will ping Tony about a virtual machine again
7. Walk-in Items
* No walk-in items
8. Adjourn
* tod motions to adjourn
- kentn seconds
- Motion carries unaninmously
* Meeting adjourned at 21:08 EDT
Are we going to do this again? (I have treasurer access)
You mean another Board meeting? We should. Our Chairperson can schedule it and ask for agenda items.
Oh; that's me. I'll send an emaila bout that shortly.
Yee haw
You have several choices: