The meeting was held on May 27, 1998, at Zingerman's in Ann Arbor. Thanks to Jiffer for arranging the room! Present: arthurp, dang (board), janc (president), danr, jiffer, valerie (board), scott (secretary), mziemba, llanarth, roadtrip, STeve, scg (board, late). I. Initial gavel pounding by Janc (at 7:49 pm we started in informational mode until quorum could be achieved) II. Treasurers report (janc) April was not great, a lot of income was for spare parts. Similar for May. Both months did not break even for regular income over expences. Current membership 101, 100 paid up. The rest of the information presented can be found in Coop item:106 IV. Publicity committee (misti, not present) Valerie has faxed the Grex press release to several papers and broadcasters. Valerie also brought samples of a business card sized flyer for comments (Scott made good on his $5 pledge for printing), to general approval. Jiffer (the Grex Storekeeper) has been working on selling merchandise- one suggestion was to write a "!tshirt" command so people can get easy info. Valerie promises to cover areas like party w/ shirt ads. 66. Technical committee. Not a lot to report. Some vandal activity. Marcus tweaked a system setting that seems to be helping prevent crashes from fork bombs. Groovy config has been done. Some discussion of PPP on dialups (still being discussed in Coop). Mail machine is almost assembled, next step will be disks and then software. Staff multiple mailing lists, where staff mail is divided by category so each staffer can specialize and get less total mail. STeve may have found a new source of Sun parts w/ good prices. 77. New staff appointments: arthurp has been recommended for root staff. No quorum, can't take action. Mziemba mentioned being interested in helping on staff. 90. 501(c)3 Application Approval. Janc brought completed 501(c)3 forms, also posted in Grex web page. Before sending to IRS, want to have Board approve (no quorum, no action). HPF. Termination of IC-Net connection. This has been suggested as a cost cutting measure, since this line is currently unused. Est. savings ~$40/month. STeve mentioned that this might be difficult to do w/ our Centrex contract. STeve is also concerned that our growth means we will need this line for mail (when mail machine is done). Some discussion about dropping one or two dialins, but more stats wanted. 95. New Business: Shutting off old Grex, not done yet. Some files still wanted from it. 2000. Final Gavel Pounding: meeting finished 8:47 pm scg arrived at 8:53 pm, so quorum achieved. Janc moves: "I Move that Charles Mitchell, login id arthurp, be appointed to root staff w/ all rights and privileges pertaining thereto". Second by valerie. Vote: 5 in favor, 0 opposed, 0 abstained. Motion passes. 501(c)3 Approval: moves "I move that Board approve the wording of the 501(c)3 application as submitted by Jan Wolter (janc)". Dang seconds the motion. (scg publicly thanks Jan, general applause) Vote: 4 in favor, 0 opposed, 1 (scg) abstained. Motion passes. Some repeat discussion of IC-Net link, no action. Final gavel pounding by Janc at 9:06 pm. Respectfully submitted, Scott Helmke (helmke), Secretary.11 responses total.
Two "final" gavel poundings? and only one initial? heh. Also, who made the 501(c)3 motion?
and since when is (scott) (helmke)...?
That's the login he used to use. Interesting.
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Since these minutes are an official record of corporation business, I suggest identifying people -- certainly board members -- by their full names at least once.
(Yes, "helmke" was my original login ID. Interesting slip...)
(I remember all those "you can't do that to me, I'm (helmke)" response attributions.)
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I have the right to slave for grex. I have the right to a psychiatrist, if I can not afford one.... ;)
Believe me, you'll need one! :)
maybe for board members mention names once ...after that, and for non-board attendees, logins are JustFine (tm) ... and *much* more easily recognized, imo.
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