Agenda: Grex Board of Directors Meeting
Tuesday, November 25th
1. 7:00 pm Opening Gavel Tap
2. Treasurer's Report
3. New Grex Update
4. Staff Report
5. Copyright Material in Users' Directories
6. Remote Access to Board Meetings
7. Schedule Next Meeting
8. New Business
9. Closing Gavel Tap
The meeting will be held at Zingerman's, 422 Detroit St., Ann Arbor.
We have the children's room reserved.
Please consider joining us - we're a pretty informal group.
So informal that we follow Roberta's Rules of Order. Don't
believe me? Come check it out!
26 responses total.
As usual, if I've forgotten anything that needs discussion please remind me. I've added two items and I'll explain what's up. We have at least one candidate running for the next board so I'd like to have some discussion on how we might accommodate a real time remote session. And is it even wildly possible we could audio stream our board meetings for those who are bored enough to listen in? The second item is to discuss what happens when copyright protected material is made public though a user's directory. We are just starting to get information about such a case involving Grex. I really don't know much more about it but it does sound like something we should address at the next meeting.
That should been, we have at least one *non-local* candidate running for the board.
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As far as I know, jp2 and myself are the twp non-local candidates running this time. I believe zingerman's have wireless access. Setting up a laptop to record and/or stream audio may not be such a big deal to implement. If anyone has a mac with a camera, the latest versions of ichat would make this pretty straight forward and also the option of video.
re 0 Please discuss the current state of all staff members during the meeting.
Only if you attend the meeting.
Todd Plesco is also a remote candidate.
I forgot about Todd! So we have three remote candidates. Very nice
Can we add registering our trademarks to the agenda, please?
Yep.
re 10 Mrs. Remmers, was my suggestion added to the agenda?
Nope.
Why not, may I ask?
It's micro-managing.
What? You mean a discussion of the rather precarious state of GreX staff does not warrant a place in the BoD meeting?
Your opinion does not an issue make. Get used to it.
I don't think he was implying his opinion made an issue, sir, but rather that it's an issue because it's important to Grex, the organisation.
re #17: See #16.
I don't think the topic entered in #5 makes the situation at Grex precarious. I agree that it doesn't belong on the agenda.
O, what, all GreX staff members are known and accounted for?
I just thought of something to add to the agenda: moving cyberspace.org from verisign over to dotster. Last year we move grex.org and it worked out fine, so I'm in favor of moving cyberspace.org and getting aay from verisign, to save money and to quit giving money to an evil company that has screwed us in the past.
Sounds good to me. I moved some domains at work from Verisign to Dotster and it went great. Verisign keeps trying to trick me into switching back with advertising emails that look like renewal notices.
Ahh, yes. This is something which bears a little looking into. I'd like staff to try to present any available information available on the impact of the switch, and if there is as little as I think there is, then we should definitely do this.
My experience was that it went seamlessly and was surprisingly painless. I personally find Dotster's domain management system easier to use than Verisign's, as well.
Moot point. The change has been authorized.
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