The meeting was called to order by Larry Kestenbaum at 7:15pm. Board members attending: Larry Kestenbaum (polygon), Mark Conger (aruba), Jan Wolter (janc), Joe Gelinas (gelinas), John Remmers (remmers), S. Lynne Fremont (slynne). Lynne indicated that she was not feeling well and attended via speakerphone rather than in person. John volunteered to substitute for her as minute-taker. Treasurer's Report (aruba) ------------------ We broke even in February. There were two new members. Mark speculated that a decline in membership renewals may be due partly to the mail problems - people are not checking their mail and thus not seeing the renewal reminders. We have already broken even for March. There are no new members so far this month. Membership is the lowest it has been since 1994. We are still meeting expenses because our costs are way down since the move to ProvideNet. Staff report (gelinas, janc, remmers) ------------ Jan is actively working on a blogging interface to backtalk. Much remains to be done. It may be ready to demo in a week or so. The idle daemon has been turned off for several weeks now. There do not appear to be major problems. Outgoing mail is still turned off for newusers. This was intended to be a temporary measure until mail limits are implemented. It is not clear what the implementation status of this is. Old business ------------ PC Weasel: No progress in acquiring this. The person in charge is hard to reach. Former staff member Jeff Kaplan (kaplan) lives near ProvideNet and has volunteered to be available for emergency visits to the site, e.g. to do reboots. At the last meeting, the Board voted to add him back to staff for this purpose, subject to staff approval. John volunteered to follow up and see about getting Jeff added to ProvideNet's list of people authorized to access the Grex server. Schedule next meeting --------------------- The next meeting will be April 18, 7pm, at slynne's house. There was brief discussion of whether it is necessary or desirable to meet every month, since the bylaws require only bimonthly meetings. New business ------------ (none) The meeting adjourned at 7:40pm. Respectfully submitted, John H. Remmers, secretary pro tem2 responses total.
Thanks John! That speakerphone is an interesting thing. It would be hard to take notes while using it because when more than one person is talking, it is hard to tell exactly what is being said.
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