Minutes for the June Board Meeting

Jun 28 04:23 UTC 2000

Well, here's for hoping that I don't get booted off again halfway through this
entry...I was a wee bit ticked last time.

I apologize for getting this in so late...Between not having a 'puter for a
couple of weeks, plus working way too much for my own good, getting anything
accomplished has been a real trick.  But I'm trying.  :)

Minutes:  Spoon banging commenced at 7:10.  Attendants were Jessica, Eric,
Jan, Steve, Mark, John, Mary, Greg & Meg.  Late arrivals were STeve and
Marcus.

Chair: Due to the fact that he left the gavel at home, Eric announced that
        for the evening, the part of the gavel would be played by the spoon.

Treasurer:  As of the meeting, the report was not yet done, since Greg didn't
        have the information from the bank yet....it was too darn early in the
        month. We made about $100 in May, but Greg had not yet had a chance
        process all of the credit cards.  Right now we are having about 30-40
        credit cards declined every month.  Somebody did manage to use a
        credit card that was not theirs - we were notified by the person that
        the card really belonged to.  That money is being returned to its 
        proper owner.  Paypal was discussed briefly, and Jessica was going to
        do some looking into it.  Alot of our credit card usuers come from 
        Europe.

Publicity: Nothing new to report.  Eric brought up TOP - All of our publicity
        material will have "grex.org" on it.  Jessica is going to work on 
        TOP publicity - Fliers and such.

Tech: The attack on Griffus was discussed, and no damage seems to have been
        done.  Griffus is getting old, though, and needs o be replaced.  We
        do have an open BFD machine waiting to be used.  STeve has formatted
        a few discs for the development machine, but the machine hasn't been
        built yet. (sorry if this is wrong...I'm trying to decipher my 
        handwriting!)  The telnet connections dropping was due to Dorian having
        ISP instabilities.  We had gottedn a copu of contract with Voyager -
        They're going to be setting up and ISDN line until we get our DSL.

Next Meeting will be Monday, July 24.

Asset Investment Options: Greg did a bit of looking into Pax - It's not 
        insured, but it's quite stable, and not likely to lose any money. 
        There is a $250 minimum, and withdrawls must be atleast $50.  They
        do do dividend reinvestment, and we can write checks, with a minimum
        of $250 per check.  Right now we have $5400 in bank.  We thought that
        we should keep about $1500 in the bank so that we have that cushion,
        but if necessary, we can just write $250 checks to our bank account.
        Greg will deposit money into Pax as he sees fit, to get us started out.

New Bussiness: There is a system in Germany that has posted the Grex Manifesto
        word for word as their own.  The offical line is "We are amused".
        There is also is also a company that has offered to give each user of
        Grex 150 megs of space fi we give pointers to their website on Grex.
        After a bit of general amusement, Marcus offered to write them a letter
        inviting them to come in and look around, and then make the letter on
        Co-Op.  The Birthday Picnic was brought up.

Ending was at 8:10, with another spoon banging.

response 2 of 9:

Jun 28 08:11 UTC 2000

Ooh neat...  for some unknown reason, my computer makes it look like
chocolate icing.  Yummy  =)

It looks great.

response 4 of 9:

Jun 28 15:08 UTC 2000

A logo for the poster thing on the back of the projection tower and for the
slide to be projected onto the wall.

response 6 of 9:

Jun 29 19:35 UTC 2000

yes.

response 8 of 9:

Jun 30 04:57 UTC 2000

<laughs>