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denise
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October Meeting Minutes
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Nov 12 20:34 UTC 2008 |
October 2008 Board Meeting Minutes
Present: STeve, aruba, unicorn, tsty, mary, remmers, denise, and by
conference call: cross and cmcgee
Meeting called to order at 7:25 pm.
FINANCE REPORT: August and September -income $13.00
-outgo
$110.00
Current balance is approximately $6,100
Question came up if all board members are paid up in membership dues...
Three are paid up, 3 are not. Bylaws state that the treasurer
will
need to email board/members; those that aren t paid up need to be by
the new business of
the next meeting. If not paid up, board will make a decision in
what to do.
BUSINESS
Phone line usage/costs: Question about how many phone lines should we
have at this time since there is only a small percentage that
actually use these lines.
1/3 of our monthly costs are for the phone lines but only about
0.5
percentage of
users are actually using the 2 lines.
Is this a non-issue right now since money is not a big issue
right now;
part of our mission is to provide public support.
Mission: What IS our mission at this point and if/when would we want to
address any changes to the mission?
We talked a bit about the stability of the system. At one point a few
weeks ago when the system was down, other provide.net users were
also offline at the same time.
Dan installed a program that at least for the time being, newusers would
be limited on what and how much they can access at one time.
Discussion included:
-Is this something we want to do for the long term?
-Do newusers know what the limitations are?
-How and who will do the moderating/validating?
-How do we let the newusers know how to get the restrictions
lifted?
Along a similar theme:
-Most/All other systems have policies about not letting problem
users
stay. How are they going about this?
-What are some of the other web-bsed things that we might want
for Grex? -What do people come to Grex for?
-BBS?
-other shell useage?
-computer hardware?
-Marketing-->What do people want, can we survey people, would
they
want to share this information? See what commands are used most
often?
Three levels of users discussed last year
-we should review this item for further discussion.
-[Again] How and at what point will discipline be implemented?
-Setting standards
-How to make policy
-Automate a log system to see what things [new]users do...?
We should meet again within a few weeks to further review and discuss
these various issues .
Next meeting will be held at my house in Ypsi on Sunday, November 16th
at 7pm.
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tsty
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response 1 of 50:
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Nov 13 01:14 UTC 2008 |
good report ... next meetingt conflicts w/60 mins ... tape time.
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tsty
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response 2 of 50:
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Nov 13 01:22 UTC 2008 |
btw, since the resh shell has been started .. ther ahve been 463
newusers ...
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denise
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response 3 of 50:
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Nov 14 23:37 UTC 2008 |
Just as a reminder, the next board meeting is scheduled for this Sunday
evening at 7 pm at my place in Ypsi... I know the agenda hasn't been
posted but then, I haven't heard of any cancellations for the meeting,
either.
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mickeyd
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response 4 of 50:
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Nov 15 23:09 UTC 2008 |
What I want to know is how many 'resh' newusers have been 'validated', if any.
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cross
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response 5 of 50:
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Nov 16 01:55 UTC 2008 |
Surprisingly few have requested it, actually; a good number of those that have
were validated early on, but truth be told, I've been incredibly busy the last
week and a half to two weeks and there's a backlog right now.
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denise
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response 6 of 50:
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Nov 16 16:48 UTC 2008 |
This evening's BoD meeting will be postponed due to flu among board
members. The future meeting date will be posted as soon as we know when
that will be.
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tsty
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response 7 of 50:
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Nov 16 23:41 UTC 2008 |
hmmm, good that i checkded .. might hae gottne flu .. no,wiat,got the shot.
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tsty
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response 8 of 50:
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Nov 22 01:54 UTC 2008 |
any new sked in mind?
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denise
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response 9 of 50:
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Nov 22 17:23 UTC 2008 |
Nope, not yet.
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tsty
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response 10 of 50:
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Dec 7 20:07 UTC 2008 |
might be intersting to try to get a meeting in before the electoins
adn./or christmas...
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tsty
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response 11 of 50:
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Jan 24 03:40 UTC 2009 |
january is seep[ing into history .. hwo about a february new-board meeting?
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denise
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response 12 of 50:
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Jan 24 21:48 UTC 2009 |
We probably should have a meeting sometime in the near future.
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tsty
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response 13 of 50:
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Jan 28 07:12 UTC 2009 |
who calls a meeting, prexy?
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cross
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response 14 of 50:
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Jan 29 14:34 UTC 2009 |
Yes, I believe so.
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tsty
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response 15 of 50:
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Feb 21 18:18 UTC 2009 |
earth to prexy? come in please. among other things i'm trying to spend real
dollars (not credit) on grex - i promised!
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tsty
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response 16 of 50:
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Mar 13 14:54 UTC 2009 |
maybe 15 mar09 .... after 1800 hrs? where?
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denise
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response 17 of 50:
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Mar 15 14:00 UTC 2009 |
Hmm, I think today could be short notice for some people!? How about
planning on another Sunday evening sometime soon?
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cross
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response 18 of 50:
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Mar 15 14:11 UTC 2009 |
We've been trying for months now!
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denise
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response 19 of 50:
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Mar 15 14:14 UTC 2009 |
Well, today isn't a good day for me. I'm going to be spending at least
part of the day with my dad and some of my family It's the first
anniversary of when my mom died and I know my dad had a hard time during
the holidays with my mom gone... My brother's going to be picking me up
soon, so it's kind of late for me to change plans.
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cross
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response 20 of 50:
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Mar 15 14:15 UTC 2009 |
*sigh* I understand if you have other commitments.
On the other hand, maybe the other board members who *are* available should
try and do SOMETHING today just go get us all on the same page and schedule
a real meeting.
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denise
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response 21 of 50:
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Mar 15 14:25 UTC 2009 |
That'd be fine, getting some others together today, if possible. If that
ends up happening, post something--so if I'm home and available, I might
be able to attend.
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tsty
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response 22 of 50:
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Mar 15 16:57 UTC 2009 |
we'd (royally speaking) like to have ans many sattendees as possoible, of
course, and/but also we need a location.
last time the emeeting was at pet/smoke free denises' home.
my place is neither (unfortunatly). maybe .. just an idea ... a pot luck to
go along with/before the board meeting?
i cna;t volunteer anyone's place but i can voolunteer the potluck idea.
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denise
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response 23 of 50:
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Mar 15 23:49 UTC 2009 |
A potluck could work if people are interested; if nothing else, people
can feel free to bring snacks to share.
I skimmed through the various items here and in the staff conf. a little
while ago but now I forget which item had some other possible dates for
discussion [was next Saturday one of the days asked about?]... If we
could get a couple possible dates, I can double check with my housemate
to make sure he won't be needing the table space. Weekends
[Friday-Sunday] would be best, generally speaking.
We may want to discuss some of this in mail for people that aren't
active in these conferences [I'm not sure how often aruba and STeve are
here]. If/when we do use mail, just for the record, I don't use grex
mail due to the hundreds/thousands of spam messages...
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cross
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response 24 of 50:
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Mar 16 00:05 UTC 2009 |
resp:23 I can't do next Saturday; I've got friends visiting from out of
state.
I haven't seen either steve or aruba online in a long time. I was hoping we
could get them to come arond a bit more, but perhaps not. Email would be the
best way to get a hold of them; the 'board-talk' mailing list (which is
restricted to posting from board members) would be the best way to get a hold
of most people, and *should* have addresses that people actually read, not
Grex.
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