Grex Oldcoop Conference

Item 307: Agenda: Grex Board of Directors Meeting on Monday, January 16, 2006

Entered by slynne on Mon Jan 9 00:50:28 2006:

Agenda: Grex Board of Directors Meeting on Monday, January 16, 2006
 
  1.  arrivals 6:30p
  2.  Opening Gavel Tap 7:00p
  3. Treasurer's Report 
  4.  Staff Report
  5. Election of Officers
  6. Old Business
  7. Schedule Next Meeting 
  8. New Business 
     - discuss review steve's performance as sysadmin (requested by
     eprom)
  9. Closing Gavel Tap  

The board meeting will be held  at 7:00 p.m., at the 
home of Lynne Fremont, 208 N. Grove, Ypsilanti. Anyone who
needs directions can call me at my work (734)477-1247 before 5:30p or at
my home (734)484-6852. On the day of the meeting, Bruce will most likely
be calling in on that number so if anyone needs directions, please call
my cell at (734)754-3773
27 responses total.
#1 of 27 by aruba on Tue Jan 10 02:42:53 2006:

Let's put "Discuss what to do about mail" on the agenda.

#2 of 27 by cross on Tue Jan 10 04:48:14 2006:

How about discussion of getting rid of the idle daemon.

#3 of 27 by slynne on Tue Jan 10 22:32:10 2006:

Agenda: Grex Board of Directors Meeting on Monday, January 16, 2006
 
  1.  arrivals 6:30p
  2.  Opening Gavel Tap 7:00p
  3. Treasurer's Report 
  4.  Staff Report
  5. Election of Officers
  6. Old Business
  7. Schedule Next Meeting 
  8. New Business 
     - discuss review steve's performance as sysadmin (requested by
     eprom)
     - Discuss what to do about mail (requested by arbua)
     - Discuss getting rid of idle daemon (requested by cross)
  9. Closing Gavel Tap

#4 of 27 by cross on Wed Jan 11 02:17:25 2006:

(And if the idle daemon is *not* to be removed, could we eliminate the
non-idle logout time?)

#5 of 27 by slynne on Wed Jan 11 10:46:19 2006:

Cross, if there isnt already, you might want to enter an item to discuss
this.

#6 of 27 by cross on Wed Jan 11 14:21:46 2006:

I did.  I think it got ignored.

#7 of 27 by davel on Wed Jan 11 15:35:22 2006:

A pointer to the item might help.

#8 of 27 by remmers on Wed Jan 11 16:45:09 2006:

The board should set dates for the election to fill the two board vacancies.

#9 of 27 by cross on Thu Jan 12 01:11:35 2006:

Check out item 4 in oldagora, starting with response 145.

It would also be nice if the board were to discuss the (broken) logging to
utmp of ftp users.  Why not turn that off, too?

#10 of 27 by remmers on Thu Jan 12 01:56:01 2006:

Seems to me that technical issues like that are more of a staff concern
than a board concern.

#11 of 27 by remmers on Thu Jan 12 02:10:39 2006:

Also re the issue of "sysadmin performance reviews" - I'm not real
comfortable with a single user request triggering one, or with
discussing personnel matters like that outside of executive session. 
(See the bylaws re executive sessions.)

#12 of 27 by cross on Thu Jan 12 06:16:00 2006:

Staff didn't really have much to say about it.

#13 of 27 by bhoward on Thu Jan 12 09:24:15 2006:

I suspect they will have a lot to say about it depending on
the tone of the review.

#14 of 27 by cross on Thu Jan 12 15:12:06 2006:

(The idle daemon?)

#15 of 27 by bhoward on Thu Jan 12 16:19:28 2006:

Sysadmin performance reviews.

#16 of 27 by cross on Thu Jan 12 16:26:36 2006:

Oh, I wasn't referring to that.  I was more interested in the discussion
about whether to keep the idle daemon.

#17 of 27 by slynne on Thu Jan 12 17:23:34 2006:

Agenda: Grex Board of Directors Meeting on Monday, January 16, 2006
 
  1.  arrivals 6:30p
  2.  Opening Gavel Tap 7:00p
  3. Treasurer's Report 
  4.  Staff Report
  5. Election of Officers
  6. Old Business
  7. Schedule Next Meeting 
  8. New Business 
     - discuss sysadmin performance (requested by
     eprom)
     - Discuss what to do about mail (requested by arbua)
     - Discuss getting rid of idle daemon (requested by cross)
     - Set dates for the election to fill the two board vacancies 
(requested by remmers)
  9. Closing Gavel Tap

#18 of 27 by slynne on Thu Jan 12 17:24:58 2006:

I think remmers is right and we should not discuss individual staff 
member's performance in open session. Therefore, I have changed it to a 
more general discussion. If we need to discuss an individual, we should 
go to an executive session.

#19 of 27 by mcnally on Thu Jan 12 18:27:14 2006:

 I'd like to suggest an item of business for the agenda.

 I think the Board should ask staff (or, specifically, whichever staff
 member is in actual physical possession of them..) what the proposed
 plan is for dealing with the memory modules removed from Grex.  I fear
 that verifying and/or replacing those has slid onto the back burner,
 or perhaps off the stove entirely.

 Memory modules are cheap enough that I think the board should just
 consider buying a pair of new ones and installing them.  The two
 suspect modules can then be held for testing and presumably one or
 both of them will test bad, at which point they can be replaced under
 warranty (if that's still possible) or discarded.  If one tests good
 it can be held as a hot spare.

#20 of 27 by cross on Thu Jan 12 21:19:39 2006:

I'm curious if anyone tried reseating them before declaring them bad.

#21 of 27 by slynne on Thu Jan 12 21:28:37 2006:

Agenda: Grex Board of Directors Meeting on Monday, January 16, 2006
 
  1.  arrivals 6:30p
  2.  Opening Gavel Tap 7:00p
  3. Treasurer's Report 
  4.  Staff Report
  5. Election of Officers
  6. Old Business
  7. Schedule Next Meeting 
  8. New Business 
     - discuss sysadmin performance (requested by
     eprom)
     - Discuss what to do about mail (requested by arbua)
     - Discuss getting rid of idle daemon (requested by cross)
     - Set dates for the election to fill the two board vacancies 
(requested by remmers)
     - Ask staff what the proposed plan is for the removed memory 
modules from Grex. (requested by mcnally)
  9. Closing Gavel Tap

#22 of 27 by mcnally on Thu Jan 12 21:47:26 2006:

 re #20:  
 >  I'm curious if anyone tried reseating them before declaring them bad.

 I hope not.

 Once a problem has been diagnosed with a DIMM, testing somewhere other
 than the production machine seems the most prudent course of action,
 especially considering the intermittent nature of the crashes.

#23 of 27 by aruba on Thu Jan 12 23:15:30 2006:

Sorry to keep adding things; I'd also like to discuss the PC-Weasel card at
the board meeting.  Should we try to talk the makers into selling us one, or
should we look for an alternative?

#24 of 27 by mcnally on Fri Jan 13 01:35:27 2006:

 I vote alternative.  Perhaps it was once a great product but I think
 we should shy away from orphaned hardware.

#25 of 27 by bhoward on Fri Jan 13 05:43:09 2006:

It would be good if someone could do some research on alternatives
in advance of the meeting so we can talk specifics.

I would volunteer myself but I'm a little pegged with other systems
work between now and then.

Any takers?

#26 of 27 by slynne on Fri Jan 13 13:57:52 2006:

Agenda: Grex Board of Directors Meeting on Monday, January 16, 2006
 
  1.  arrivals 6:30p
  2.  Opening Gavel Tap 7:00p
  3. Treasurer's Report 
  4.  Staff Report
  5. Election of Officers
  6. Old Business
  7. Schedule Next Meeting 
  8. New Business 
     - discuss sysadmin performance (requested by
     eprom)
     - Discuss what to do about mail (requested by arbua)
     - Discuss getting rid of idle daemon (requested by cross)
     - Set dates for the election to fill the two board vacancies 
(requested by remmers)
     - Ask staff what the proposed plan is for the removed memory 
modules from Grex. (requested by mcnally)
     - PC Weasel card and/or alternative (requested by aruba)
  9. Closing Gavel Tap

#27 of 27 by jesuit on Wed May 17 02:16:02 2006:

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