Grex Board Of Directors May 23rd Meeting Minutes

May 30 16:53 UTC 2002

Starring (in order of appearance): Mooncat*, Bhelliom, Aruba*, Remmers, 
Mary*, Flem*, Other*, a brief cameo of Eskarina, STeve* and MDW*
(* indicate board member)

1. Gavel hit at 7:10 pm

2. "I don't have anything to report" Sir Chairman

3. April wasn't a great month for Grex, we took in $250, paid $431, had 
89 members, 81 were paid up.

  Good enws! The issue of the charitable license and paperwork got 
settled, much to everyone's relief.
So far in May- we have taken in $384 and have had two new members.

4. Publicity committee reports that there are a couple items in coop 
for discussing potential ways to get new members as well as possible 
ways of advertising for Grex (T-shirts) utilizing various websites 
created for such a purpose.

5. Staff report- STeve says that very little has been going on the 
system has been very reliable, there is progress being made on the 
SPARC and I3 is up and running. Remmers has a machine to donate that 
STeve will pick up in the very near future.

6. Our next meeting with be July 18th, 7:00 pm at Zingermans Next Door 
Kid's Room. 

There was some talk of trying to change the location due to Art Fair 
occupying that same week- Manchester was mentioned and Mooncat rather 
wanted to go to England, but it was explained that a trip for the board 
to England wasn't in Grex's budget. Other possbilities were mentioned 
in case Zingermans won't let us have the room- due to Art Fair. Will 
keep you all posted.

7. New Business: A discussion of the spam filter has been going on- 
possible ideas floated- should there be an opt out feature so that if 
you actually WANT spam mail you can receive it, perhaps tools could be 
written so that individuals could have their own spam filters in place. 
Issue with that particuolar idea- who would write it? Too big of a 
problem to be worthwhile? Remmers has volunteered/agreed to take a look 
at what might need to be done in procmail for this to be implemented on 
an individual basis. Further discussion of whether the mail individuals 
block will be sent to UCE (so that Marcus can keep the universal-on 
Grex- spam filter up to date) or if it wil go into some sort of buffer 
that has an expiration time limit written in to it. The story will 
continue once more details are know.

Insurance: (discussion is occurring in another item) Aprill Agency 
drasticaly raised our annual premium- Keesan pointed Mary to a State 
Farm agent to see if we could get a better deal from her. Results being 
that State Farm couldn't cover us as an office- we have no one who 
works in the Pumpkin, they can cover us as a club. The policy the State 
Farm agent had available may not be offered next year. Price for State 
Farm was $165, or for $250 (or so) we could get more bells and whistles.

Motion made: Move to authorize Mary Remmers to purchase a renter's 
liability insurance policy for Grex for a maximum premium of $260

Motion made by Flem, seconded by Mary

All in Favor: 7, Opposed 0

8. Meeting was adjourned at 8:30 pm

response 2 of 5:

Jun 1 16:48 UTC 2002

remmers -- thanks for looking at the spam filter issue.

response 4 of 5:

Jun 1 18:40 UTC 2002

Seems reasonable.