Grex Oldcoop Conference

Item 210: Grex Board of Directors Meeting October 22, 2004

Entered by mooncat on Mon Nov 1 03:52:49 2004:


Attending Board Members: Mary, Gelinas, Slynne, Aruba, and Mooncat
Attending non-Board Members: Remmers, JanC, a visitor

1.      Opening Gavel: 7:15pm
2.      Treasurer s Report: In Sept. we took in $301.30 and spent 
$377.03; there were no new members. In October (as of meeting date) we 
had collected $432.00 and will be spending the same $377.03 out. In the 
black for the first time since March. 1 new member in October, 70 
members currently, 67 paid up.
3.      Staff Report/Next Grex Update: Next Grex is very nearly done, 
as far as base needs to go live- according to JanC, a couple more weeks 
and we should be there. 
a.      Currently there are a few members who are bug testing NextGrex, 
and Jan is fixing the problems as quickly as he can after getting 
notified of them. 
b.      Mail program- may be iffy at first as far as spam is concerned- 
at this point we re not totally sure what spam filter will be getting 
used.
c.      Need to get some people together to work on collecting spam-
filtering info.
d.      Also need to figure out how to manage the transition from Old 
to New Grex. The transition will mean that Grex will be down- but it 
shouldn t be down for more than a couple of days. This will also depend 
on how many people are involved in the transition work.
e.      As for Old Grex- there was a crash- Gelinas power-cycled the 
main machine, and all seemed okay.
4.      Schedule next meeting: Friday, November 19th at Aruba s- 7:30pm.
5.      Co-Location: Gelinas put the info he received in co-op. He 
spoke to John Allese (sp?) at Provide.net, they have space in their 
loft where we could house Grex. 
a.      $100.00 for 50gb per month, 128kbps. We could negotiate for 
more bandwidth.
b.      He ll throw in the cost of electricity
c.      We would save money with this set-up.
d.      Provide.net didn t particularly care about our configuration; 
we wouldn t have to try to fit Grex into a rack mount or anything.
e.      We wouldn t need liability insurance.
f.      Could possibly bring in RetroGrex too.
g.      We will continue to look into the library as an option.
h.      Perhaps we could try for a move prior to the expiration of the 
Pumpkin lease.
i.      Gelinas will go back and ask some more questions.
6.      New Business: None
7.      7. Closing Gavel: 8:25 pm.
14 responses total.
#1 of 14 by mooncat on Mon Nov 1 03:53:56 2004:

Sorry for the delay in posting the minutes, this past week was a bit 
busy for me.

#2 of 14 by tod on Mon Nov 1 05:16:12 2004:

Who was "a visitor"?

#3 of 14 by gelinas on Mon Nov 1 05:35:38 2004:

Someone who wished to remain anonymous.  I don't think they use grex.

#4 of 14 by tod on Mon Nov 1 18:36:50 2004:

re #3
The last time that happened at an Arbornet BoD meeting, it turned out to be
xdr.

#5 of 14 by gelinas on Tue Nov 2 02:46:20 2004:

I'm sorry that I was not clear: The person was introduced to us.

#6 of 14 by tod on Tue Nov 2 05:21:14 2004:

"introducting: david copperfield"

#7 of 14 by mooncat on Tue Nov 2 17:32:12 2004:

The visitor is not a grex user.

#8 of 14 by mfp on Tue Nov 2 19:37:43 2004:

It's mooncat's kerlish "beau".

#9 of 14 by mooncat on Tue Nov 2 21:16:41 2004:

Kerlish? The other bit is right though- fancy that.

#10 of 14 by naftee on Thu Nov 4 07:41:36 2004:

fancy schmancy

#11 of 14 by richard on Fri Nov 12 03:35:31 2004:

I think mooncat's beau should register the grex login "visitor", for he has
been identified.  names stick around here.  :)   (although how did mfp know
thats who "the visitor" was when he himself wasn't at the meeting? he have
ESP or something?)

#12 of 14 by mfp on Fri Nov 12 04:21:29 2004:

I just read this item carefully.  I forget exactly which hints I used, but
it was fairly obvious.  I'm sorry if I seemed creepy or something!

#13 of 14 by mooncat on Fri Nov 12 18:10:43 2004:

Nah, I just figured you were a good investigator.

#14 of 14 by jesuit on Wed May 17 02:15:19 2006:

TROGG IS DAVID BLAINE

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