response 1 of 22:

Apr 21 12:09 UTC 1999

Please indicate in this item anything else that should go on the agenda.

Remarks:

(1) I've added a new regular agenda item: Chairman's Report. This
    doesn't mean that the chairman will necessarily have anything
    to report, but it's a fairly standard agenda item for other
    bodies in which I've served. I've thrown it in so that if the
    chair actually does have something to report, there's a slot
    for it.

(2) The "Future Planning" item is an outgrowth of item:87 - the
    "Plan the Budget Meeting" item. The sentiment emerged there that
    long-range budget planning would be premature until there's a
    long-range hardware plan in place. The purpose of this agenda
    item is to discuss planning for hardware upgrades and budget
    implications thereof. Input from the technical staff is eagerly
    solicited.

(3) The numbering of agenda items is a continuation of the numbering
    in the previous agenda (see resp:85,23), in which the item numbers
    were 8, 216, 5624, 229, 21, 554, 14412, 374720. Again, a mint-
    condition woodla goes to the first person to deduce the rule used
    in generating the sequence. Some HINTS: I'm not sure that the
    sequence is infinite, but I'm sure it's plenty long enough for
    years and years of monthly agendas. No number appears more than
    once in the sequence. It's best to think of it as a mapping on
    the positive integers, with 1 mapping to 8, 2 to 216, 3 to 5624,
    etc. Thus, for the current agenda, 9 maps to 231. A short computer
    program that executes in O(1) time could be written to generate the
    (N+1)st term of the sequence from the Nth.

(4) I apologize for the misspelling of "gavel" in the last item.

response 3 of 22:

Apr 21 14:04 UTC 1999

For your "Future Planning" item:  people might use this as a time/place to
report social, legal or technological changes that might affect how Grex
operates.  Future scanning is a way to be ready for change, rather than
respond to it.

response 5 of 22:

Apr 21 14:50 UTC 1999

Re resp:3 - Social and legal factors are important - and worrisome
sometimes - but are a bit broader than what I had in mind for this
agenda item. I think we need to have a hardware upgrade plan so that we
can budget for it.