Grex Oldcoop Conference

Item 227: Grex Board of Director’s Meeting, December 17, 2004

Entered by mooncat on Tue Jan 4 02:58:37 2005:

(better late than never, right?)

Attending Board Members: Slynne, Aruba, Polygon, Gelinas, Mary, Mooncat
Non-Board Members- Remmers, a visitor

1.      Opening Gavel: 7:11pm.
2.      Welcome new board members 
3.      Treasurer s Report: In November we took in $207, $375 out. In 
December we took in $294 as of the meeting date. There were 70 members, 
67 paid up. Winter taxes will be about $30.
4.      Staff Report- Next Grex. 
a.      Gelinas ran a reap, restarted newuser to a new group. Haven t 
been cleaning disks, mostly reap is keeping the disks open enough.
b.      No Next Grex news (1/3 update- since we re on Next Grex I would 
say there has since been activity)
c.      Why we ve been experiencing down time from internet connection- 
seems to be something in the building wiring. Moving to co-lo would 
then fix the problem.
d.      Donated modem needs a firm warm update- kip is currently out of 
contact.
5.      Co-location- with Provide.net
a.      They will monitor our bandwidth usage from time to time; if we 
are consistently over our allotted amount they ll chat with us to set 
up the increase to the next incremental cost level.
b.      So far, from all info gathered (see Gelinas  item on the 
subject in coop) there doesn t appear to be a downside.
c.      What followed was much discussion, most of which has been said 
in coop by the posting of these minutes- people seem very civilized, 
could have modems, UPS on rack will last for 30 seconds, enough time 
for their generator to kick in, deal does not hinge on Next Grex, we 
would leave many problematic elements behind.
d.      Phone conversation with tech at provide.net regarding allotted 
bandwidth per month- how does that break down based on what Grex is 
currently using.

Motion by Aruba, seconded by Polygon: Prepare Grex to move to 
Provide.net by February 1, 2005. 
        Ayes: 6, No: 0, Absent: 1

6.      Schedule next meeting: place- at Slynne s provided there is 
only one board member phoning in, if there are two the meeting will be 
at Dave Cahill s. The new board will decide the date and time via e-
mail.
7.      Treasurer s Job: discussion to create a list of tasks the 
treasurer does, could the job be broken up between multiple people? 
Will be necessary to lose the expectation that the monthly reports will 
be posted by day 1 of the month.
-exit Polygon
        More discussion.

8. Closing Gavel: 8:35(ish)
14 responses total.
#1 of 14 by cross on Wed Jan 5 02:34:03 2005:

FYI- I think we can use PF to limit the amount of bandwidth grex can
possibly use, so we can force our traffic to stay within our allotment.

#2 of 14 by gelinas on Wed Jan 5 03:06:53 2005:

Suggestions on how to do so would be welcome.  I think there is an item for
the discussion of pf in garage.

#3 of 14 by cross on Wed Jan 5 03:22:47 2005:

I'll see if I can find some information when I get some spare time.  Leave
is over and I'm back in the grind.  :-(

#4 of 14 by gelinas on Wed Jan 5 03:31:16 2005:

It's item 154 in garage.

#5 of 14 by cross on Wed Jan 5 03:46:45 2005:

Thanks.

#6 of 14 by richard on Mon Jan 10 02:50:35 2005:

Thanks to Mooncat who has finished her final term as grex's secretary.  
These are her last minutes.  She has done a good job posting these reports 
for the last four years  :)

#7 of 14 by aruba on Mon Jan 10 04:33:41 2005:

Very true!  Thanks Anne, for doing a great job as secretary.

#8 of 14 by other on Mon Jan 10 04:44:00 2005:

I agree that Anne HAS done a great job these last four years.  ;)

#9 of 14 by charcat on Mon Jan 10 04:54:12 2005:

Thanks Anne, great job.

#10 of 14 by mfp on Mon Jan 10 05:23:20 2005:

Thanks, Anne!

#11 of 14 by mary on Mon Jan 10 11:54:43 2005:

I think you'd have to have been at some of the meetings to 
understand how very good Anne is at minutes.  She's a listener.  I 
was there too but it wasn't until the minutes that I got the 
overview right.

We'll miss you, Anne.

#12 of 14 by twenex on Mon Jan 10 14:31:44 2005:

She's a what?

#13 of 14 by mooncat on Mon Jan 10 16:48:37 2005:

<blushes> Thanks everyone, I was glad to serve as secretary for three 
years during my four years on the board. ;)

#14 of 14 by jesuit on Wed May 17 02:15:22 2006:

TROGG IS DAVID BLAINE

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