The opening gavel was struck at 7:45 pm.
In attendance were: valerie, janc, kaplan, jared, scg, scott, llanarth,
dickb, dan, davel, and mta.
_covetousness_: The Treasurers Report
See item 26.
August update:
o there have been $300 in dues paid to date.
o the ISDN line has brought in $445 in August for a total of
$715 of the $1035 pledged.
o The auction has brought in $151.07 in August for a total of
$670.07 of the $821.54 pledged.
August see us with 1 new member, 4 unpaid members in their grace
period, and 96 total members.
_eggdrop_: Publicity Committee Report
Major question: has anyone found a new way to publicize GREX?
Suggestion included the Ann Arbor Observer; ads in HS theatre
programs, fliers in highschools, and outreach through Ann Arbor's
Community Television Network.
_lust_: Technical Committee
Grex has been crashing a lot lately. These are hard crashes, and the
best solution is to get onto the 670. Mike McNally came over to look
at the 670, which had been having trouble with the disks we have.
Mike managed to fix that problem, but now we need to install the
software correctly. (Currently it stops partway through the boot
process, just before fsck.
GOOD NEWS: The progress has been good.
BAD NEWS: We still don't have enough staff hours to work on this.
Mike McNally has offered to continue helping this
weekend (August 29 & 30)and plans are in process to have
a work meeting.
Modems: All the modems in the trunk hunt are now GVC error
correcting modems and their lines are now back in the order they were
in previously. We now have 13 lines working an connected. So far
there have only been about 15 minutes each day when every modem is in
use, so this setup should hold us for a while.
670: The terminal server is now ready to be put into place as soon
as the 670 is ready.
_envy_: ISDN Line
The phone lines for the ISDN line have now been ordered. The
hardware is reported to both already have been ordered and "will be
ordered Real Soon Now" The actual status isn't clear. The ISDN
routers will be delivered to Jan and Valeries house and the lines
should be turned on just after labour day.
_gluttony_: Auction Report
3 items remain open
12 items remain unpaid
30 items are paid for
aproximately $670 worth of items are paid for, of which $347 worth
have not yet been delivered. (For a total of $#22 that has been paid
for and delivered.)
_anger_: Equipment in Exchange for Exports
The concensus was that although we appreciate the offer, grex isn't
and shouldn't be in the import/export business and we have elected to
turn down the offer.
_sloth_: New Business
We might want to look into securebuy.com as an avenue to be able to
accept credit card payments in GREX's name for memberships. It's an
AT&T service to handle credit card payments for small merchants.
The closing gavel was sounded at 8:17 for what may well be the shortest
Cyberspace Communications Board Meeting on record.
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Thanks, Misti.
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