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Item 116: Minutes from the 6/24/98 Grex Board of Directors Meeting

Entered by scott on Thu Jun 25 20:01:36 1998:

Minutes from the 6/24/98 Grex Board of Directors Meeting

Board members in attendance:
aruba Mark Conger, Treasurer
janc Jan Wolter, President
mta Mista Anslin
scott Scott Helmke, Secretary (arrived late)
valerie Valerie Mates

Others attending:
keesan, jdeigert, STeve, llanarth, other, kittie

    1023   Initial Gavel Pounding - janc

    4506A  Treasurer's Report - aruba
May:  took in $390 to general fund, $372 to spare parts fund.  Spent 
$593 for normal expenses, $150 for 501(c)3 application.  5 new members: 
jiffer, arrow, womble, sea, and dea.
June: so far have taken in $11158 (!) to general fund, $10 to spare 
parts.  Will have approximately same expenses as May (no 501(c)3 fee, of 
course).  3 new members, currently at 106 members, 95 of whom are paid 
up.

    8718   Publicity Committee - mta
press release: been issued, with no apparent results.

misti's T-shirt raffle had 16 entries: arrow, atticus, bjorn, cb311, 
giry, headdoc, hematite, jiffer, jmm, kaplan, mnlze, nephi, nt, 
parnesen, remmers, shm0.  The drawing was held at meeting...  Other 
(Eric Bassey)draws out the winner: headdoc (Audrey Bricker)!

aruba has completed the Grex manual, distributed a few.  Valerie is 
working on HTML version.

Valerie has created business card flyers which need to be copied.

STeve (STeve Andre') mentioned Grex classes as a possibility (old idea) 
to some discussion of where to find a suitable computer setup to hold 
classes.

    990    Technical Committee - staff
valerie has restored auarch (auction archive) account from backups.

more ptys added: 96, up to 72 telnets allowed.

Small discussion of vandals.

(Some complaints about Indian users- chats, telnet queue filling up)

STeve is researching spare parts, may have a good source (and perhaps be 
able to get a spare chassis "free").

Granny can be turned off, Pumpkin is now running much cooler, too.

Arthurp has assembled, tested, and OS loaded the mail machine, is ready 
for security and config. 

    990EZ  Cost reductions - aruba
whether Grex needs to reduce costs, and how to do it.  Aruba didn't 
bring any data (computer problems caused by major storm right before 
meeting), so no hard data to go from.  Some discussion of dialins, needs 
to be tabled till next month.

    990T   New Business - all
Visiting Netherlands Grexer clees should be arriving in A2 tonight, 
picnic this weekend?  (addendum:  clees showed up with long-time Grexer 
bhelliom as meeting was breaking up)

    990W   Final Gavel Pounding - janc at 9:28 pm, meeting adjourned.
6 responses total.

#1 of 6 by scg on Thu Jun 25 20:04:42 1998:

I was there too.


#2 of 6 by bmoran on Thu Jun 25 20:32:25 1998:

$11158? Or is a . missing?


#3 of 6 by scott on Fri Jun 26 01:10:53 1998:

Oops, sorry, steve.  You were listed in my notes but not translated into the
list of Board members.

The real number is $1158 (still a very high number).


#4 of 6 by arthurp on Fri Jun 26 02:09:05 1998:

Is returning from the emergency room where he was treated for
palpitations at hearing the $11,000 figure.  <wink wink>

Still, very cool.  I meant to be there, but the storm erased my memory.


#5 of 6 by aruba on Fri Jun 26 02:42:44 1998:

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#6 of 6 by aruba on Fri Jun 26 02:44:26 1998:

A large check came in this month.  I will have more to say about it in the
treasurer's report.


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