Munutes: Grex Board of Directors Meeting 6/27/06

Jul 11 22:43 UTC 2006

Grex Board of Directors Meeting   Minutes 6/27/06

8p   opening gavel tap

Attending: Larry Kestenbaum, Mary Remmers*, Mark Conger, Joe Gelinas, 
Jan Wolter, Lynne Fremont.    * = non board member

Treasurers Report: 
In May we took in $43 and spent our usual $150. In june we took in $150 
and spent our usual $150. There are currently 53 members with 42 paid 
up. The interest on our savings account has increased from 0.65% to 
0.75%

Staff Report
One new member asked about IRC. Staff told them that we don t have IRC. 
Maybe we could install it and have something that tells non-members why 
they cant use it. There have been no crashes since the last meeting. 
Steve Andre fixed a problem with mail and it is working for now. 

Old Business
There has been no progress on the PC Weasel. Jan, Lynne, and Larry 
agree. 

There is a lack of commitment to grex especially among staff. Mary 
asked if there was another model we could try. There is no way to have 
shell access with a different model. We would not be able to get some 
other people to maintain grex in its current configuration. If we ever 
get to a point where staff cant operate grex, we would have to consider 
reducing services at that time. We could consider an ISP based system 
where we mirror conferences which would provide a back up for the 
conferencing system in the event of a systems crash. We would have to 
invent a process to mirror them in such a way that new responses and 
items would appear in both places simultaneously. Or we could move the 
conferencing to an ISP based system and leave the shell access on the 
old machine. This might be crucial because if grex were to go down for 
a long period of time (like six weeks), people would go elsewhere and 
the community might not recover. We may want to look into seeing if 
Provide.net could provide this service for us. 

New Business
It might be time to update OpenBSD

Web Page Contest   Our current site is outdated and there has been some 
interest in a contest for a new site. The prize could be one years 
membership and we could use the vote program to allow the members to 
judge the contest. 

Moved by Lynne Fremont: We will have a website design contest. Judging 
will be done by members and the prize will be one years membership. The 
contest will be for a front page and templates for subsequent pages. 
The contest will start immediately and will be judged starting on 
August 15. Lynne Fremont will co-ordinate the contest. 

Seconded by Mark Conger. 

Motion passed unanimously


Schedule next meeting: Tuesday July 25, 2006 7:30p at Larry 
Kestenbaum s house 1726 W Stadium Blvd. (734)769-7388

Closing gavel tap: 8:45p

response 2 of 13:

Jul 12 00:34 UTC 2006

More people might be willing to be grex staff members if it wasn't such an
insular, hostile community.

response 4 of 13:

Jul 12 02:57 UTC 2006

Jeez, some board member you are!

);

response 6 of 13:

Jul 12 10:50 UTC 2006

It's really not that hostile.  OK, so some staffers (and/or some staff 
members' relatives) are mega-scratchy and obsessed with the ancient past 
Grex.  You just don't bitch or sook back - do your job, that's all that 
matters.  

For many of us, though, I suspect it's lack of time and/or interest due to 
dwindling/static policies/environment on Grex.

response 8 of 13:

Jul 12 12:19 UTC 2006

Yes, the Aug 15 deadline might be too tight. I think I will ask to
extend it at our next meeting. 

response 10 of 13:

Jul 12 20:08 UTC 2006

yay slynne !

response 12 of 13:

Jul 13 13:44 UTC 2006

Re resp:9 - Yes, IRC is restricted to members.  That was automatic,
given the way our blocks are set up.