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Grex > Coop13 > #307: Agenda: Grex Board of Directors Meeting on Monday, January 16, 2006 | |
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slynne
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Agenda: Grex Board of Directors Meeting on Monday, January 16, 2006
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Jan 9 00:50 UTC 2006 |
Agenda: Grex Board of Directors Meeting on Monday, January 16, 2006
1. arrivals 6:30p
2. Opening Gavel Tap 7:00p
3. Treasurer's Report
4. Staff Report
5. Election of Officers
6. Old Business
7. Schedule Next Meeting
8. New Business
- discuss review steve's performance as sysadmin (requested by
eprom)
9. Closing Gavel Tap
The board meeting will be held at 7:00 p.m., at the
home of Lynne Fremont, 208 N. Grove, Ypsilanti. Anyone who
needs directions can call me at my work (734)477-1247 before 5:30p or at
my home (734)484-6852. On the day of the meeting, Bruce will most likely
be calling in on that number so if anyone needs directions, please call
my cell at (734)754-3773
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aruba
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response 1 of 27:
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Jan 10 02:42 UTC 2006 |
Let's put "Discuss what to do about mail" on the agenda.
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cross
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response 2 of 27:
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Jan 10 04:48 UTC 2006 |
How about discussion of getting rid of the idle daemon.
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slynne
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response 3 of 27:
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Jan 10 22:32 UTC 2006 |
Agenda: Grex Board of Directors Meeting on Monday, January 16, 2006
1. arrivals 6:30p
2. Opening Gavel Tap 7:00p
3. Treasurer's Report
4. Staff Report
5. Election of Officers
6. Old Business
7. Schedule Next Meeting
8. New Business
- discuss review steve's performance as sysadmin (requested by
eprom)
- Discuss what to do about mail (requested by arbua)
- Discuss getting rid of idle daemon (requested by cross)
9. Closing Gavel Tap
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cross
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response 4 of 27:
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Jan 11 02:17 UTC 2006 |
(And if the idle daemon is *not* to be removed, could we eliminate the
non-idle logout time?)
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slynne
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response 5 of 27:
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Jan 11 10:46 UTC 2006 |
Cross, if there isnt already, you might want to enter an item to discuss
this.
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cross
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response 6 of 27:
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Jan 11 14:21 UTC 2006 |
I did. I think it got ignored.
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davel
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response 7 of 27:
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Jan 11 15:35 UTC 2006 |
A pointer to the item might help.
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remmers
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response 8 of 27:
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Jan 11 16:45 UTC 2006 |
The board should set dates for the election to fill the two board vacancies.
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cross
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response 9 of 27:
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Jan 12 01:11 UTC 2006 |
Check out item 4 in oldagora, starting with response 145.
It would also be nice if the board were to discuss the (broken) logging to
utmp of ftp users. Why not turn that off, too?
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remmers
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response 10 of 27:
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Jan 12 01:56 UTC 2006 |
Seems to me that technical issues like that are more of a staff concern
than a board concern.
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remmers
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response 11 of 27:
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Jan 12 02:10 UTC 2006 |
Also re the issue of "sysadmin performance reviews" - I'm not real
comfortable with a single user request triggering one, or with
discussing personnel matters like that outside of executive session.
(See the bylaws re executive sessions.)
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cross
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response 12 of 27:
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Jan 12 06:16 UTC 2006 |
Staff didn't really have much to say about it.
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bhoward
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response 13 of 27:
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Jan 12 09:24 UTC 2006 |
I suspect they will have a lot to say about it depending on
the tone of the review.
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cross
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response 14 of 27:
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Jan 12 15:12 UTC 2006 |
(The idle daemon?)
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bhoward
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response 15 of 27:
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Jan 12 16:19 UTC 2006 |
Sysadmin performance reviews.
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cross
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response 16 of 27:
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Jan 12 16:26 UTC 2006 |
Oh, I wasn't referring to that. I was more interested in the discussion
about whether to keep the idle daemon.
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slynne
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response 17 of 27:
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Jan 12 17:23 UTC 2006 |
Agenda: Grex Board of Directors Meeting on Monday, January 16, 2006
1. arrivals 6:30p
2. Opening Gavel Tap 7:00p
3. Treasurer's Report
4. Staff Report
5. Election of Officers
6. Old Business
7. Schedule Next Meeting
8. New Business
- discuss sysadmin performance (requested by
eprom)
- Discuss what to do about mail (requested by arbua)
- Discuss getting rid of idle daemon (requested by cross)
- Set dates for the election to fill the two board vacancies
(requested by remmers)
9. Closing Gavel Tap
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slynne
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response 18 of 27:
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Jan 12 17:24 UTC 2006 |
I think remmers is right and we should not discuss individual staff
member's performance in open session. Therefore, I have changed it to a
more general discussion. If we need to discuss an individual, we should
go to an executive session.
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mcnally
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response 19 of 27:
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Jan 12 18:27 UTC 2006 |
I'd like to suggest an item of business for the agenda.
I think the Board should ask staff (or, specifically, whichever staff
member is in actual physical possession of them..) what the proposed
plan is for dealing with the memory modules removed from Grex. I fear
that verifying and/or replacing those has slid onto the back burner,
or perhaps off the stove entirely.
Memory modules are cheap enough that I think the board should just
consider buying a pair of new ones and installing them. The two
suspect modules can then be held for testing and presumably one or
both of them will test bad, at which point they can be replaced under
warranty (if that's still possible) or discarded. If one tests good
it can be held as a hot spare.
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cross
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response 20 of 27:
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Jan 12 21:19 UTC 2006 |
I'm curious if anyone tried reseating them before declaring them bad.
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slynne
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response 21 of 27:
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Jan 12 21:28 UTC 2006 |
Agenda: Grex Board of Directors Meeting on Monday, January 16, 2006
1. arrivals 6:30p
2. Opening Gavel Tap 7:00p
3. Treasurer's Report
4. Staff Report
5. Election of Officers
6. Old Business
7. Schedule Next Meeting
8. New Business
- discuss sysadmin performance (requested by
eprom)
- Discuss what to do about mail (requested by arbua)
- Discuss getting rid of idle daemon (requested by cross)
- Set dates for the election to fill the two board vacancies
(requested by remmers)
- Ask staff what the proposed plan is for the removed memory
modules from Grex. (requested by mcnally)
9. Closing Gavel Tap
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mcnally
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response 22 of 27:
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Jan 12 21:47 UTC 2006 |
re #20:
> I'm curious if anyone tried reseating them before declaring them bad.
I hope not.
Once a problem has been diagnosed with a DIMM, testing somewhere other
than the production machine seems the most prudent course of action,
especially considering the intermittent nature of the crashes.
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aruba
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response 23 of 27:
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Jan 12 23:15 UTC 2006 |
Sorry to keep adding things; I'd also like to discuss the PC-Weasel card at
the board meeting. Should we try to talk the makers into selling us one, or
should we look for an alternative?
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mcnally
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response 24 of 27:
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Jan 13 01:35 UTC 2006 |
I vote alternative. Perhaps it was once a great product but I think
we should shy away from orphaned hardware.
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