Minutes from the 11/18/98 Grex Board of Directors Meeting

Nov 20 22:26 UTC 1998

In attendance were:
Scott Helmke (scott, Secretary), Jan Wolter (janc, President),  Mark 
Conger (aruba, Treasurer), Misti Tucker (mta, Board), STeve Andre' 
(steve), Valerie Mates (valerie, Board), Sindi Keesan (keesan), Steve 
Gibbard (scg, Board), Jennifer Kriegel (jiffer)

204  Initial Gavel Pounding - janc
The meeting was gavelled to order at 7:53 pm.

212  Treasurer's Report - aruba
a. $656 in,$586 out in Oct.  November is a good month so far, 3 new 
members. 

b. Grex store no activity (how to get stuff sold?  Scott will enter 
motd, mta will do Agora item.  Jiffer showed up, will be taking stock to 
upcoming events).  

c. Auction data has been mostly reconstructed (from archive account 
getting nuked).  Set up meeting w/ Accounting Aid Society for next week. 
 Auction has more items to be entered.

46  Publicity Committee - mta
a. Misti: nothing to report.  Would be willing to design more flyers, if 
some people would volunteer to distribute them.

b. STeve has been investigating what countries we get users from...we 
are global.

c. Ann Arbor Observer will have an article in Dec. about Grex/M-net.

d. Arborweb is still displaying Grex ad.

130  Technical Committee - staff
a. Grex was rebooted today by Valerie, after 35 days up.  Hardware has 
been very reliable.  STeve may be able to buy spares at a *very* good 
price.

b. Grex might need another disk soon. 

c. Scott has started on PPP for local dialins, may need some help w/ 
authentication from Grex. 

d. Valerie wrote a CGI script to display the list of members (Web 
display)

e.  Janc has picked up a heavy duty SCSI enclosure from n8nxf for Grex.

198  Money Market Accounts - aruba
Some discussion occurred online.  Would be good to get more return on 
savings, but more work to set up.  Aruba needs to do some investigation 
(same bank would be good).   Some concern about FDIC insurance, 
complexity, etc.

108  New Business - all
Pumpkin cleaning?  Need to get rid of old hardware.

4  Final Gavel Pounding - jan
Meeting was closed at 8:59 pm.

response 2 of 12:

Nov 20 22:56 UTC 1998

I think a pointer to the item should suffice.

response 4 of 12:

Nov 21 20:47 UTC 1998

   We think that it might be reasonable for people to connect to Grex
via PPP as they would to their ISPs, such that you could have a
graphical connection to Grex, as well as POP and some other things.
This would mean that you'd be able to telnet to Grex from you
r machine, use Netscape to use Backtalk for conferences, Eudora 
for mail, and all that.  Net access to the rest of the net would
be disabled, or be disabled for all but members.

response 6 of 12:

Nov 22 04:55 UTC 1998

   I wouldn't have believed that a month ago, butI do now, after
talking to some folks who I'd given some fliers to a couple of
months ago, I see that there are indeed people out there who
don't understand that there *can* be something other than what
Windows does.

response 8 of 12:

Nov 22 14:31 UTC 1998

Our dialup lines might provide a cheaper alternative if their ISP
account isn't for "unlimited hours". Also, they'd be free of net
lag. I'd be interested in trying this and seeing how it works out.

response 10 of 12:

Nov 28 06:55 UTC 1998

I look forward to providing our email service to local users in such a 
way that the mail client runs on their own machine. This is a 
prerequisite for that. 

response 12 of 12:

Dec 10 12:03 UTC 1998

Do you mean verification? It isn't, not for incoming connections.