remmers
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Minutes of the Board Meeting of March 19, 2006
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Mar 27 16:15 UTC 2006 |
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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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(none)
The meeting adjourned at 7:40pm.
Respectfully submitted,
John H. Remmers, secretary pro tem
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