denise
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Feb 2010 Board Meeting Minutes
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Feb 9 21:18 UTC 2010 |
Grex Board Meeting, 2/7/10
Present: gelinas*, aruba, kentn*, keesan, jim, steve*, tsty*, unicorn
[by phone]*, denise*
[* = board members; board member cross missing]
7:58 pm, meeting called to order.
-- Officer election results:
Chair [president]: kentn
Treasurer: tsty
Secretary: denise
--Staff report:
STeve summarized the hardware problems we had [he posted a summary
in, I believe, item 4 in agora].
Backups were discussed, doing remote backups for now, then in a
month or so, try doing a usb backup.
Discussed adding members to staff. gelinas moved to add tsty and
remmers to staff [with root access], denise seconded, motion passed.
Staff would like to meet with tonster to get more info before adding him
to staff.
--Next Meeting: Sunday, March 7, 6pm at Zingerman s
--Grex status and future:
What is/should be our policy of disseminating info from taped
meetings? Should discuss in co-op. tsty moved and gelinas seconded: All
grex meetings recorded for board members to use and to provide mp3
files to be available if needed for other use/dissemination, subject to
board approval. Motion passed.
What has happened to the old grex equipment? Steve and mdw have most
of it; keesan has recycled some of the old equipment. Current Inventory
includes:
-I386 Box
-external usb disk
-spare motherboard
-2 modems
-gavel? [Slynne, do you still have this?]
-speaker phone
-treasurer s records
-domain name
The board has received email from srw [steve weiss] stating that veek
has been in touch to see about using srw s photos he has to use in a
wikipedia article about grex. Does the board agree with this? There were
no objections; go for it!
Where to communicate when Grex is down? Possibilities:
-Posterous [sp?]
-M-net: people can post info on mnet but mnet will not be the
[only] place for staff to discuss info.
-twitter/facebook/myspace: looking into setting up accounts on one
or more of these.
-HVCN -doesn t work
-Check google page
Email question/item in coop posted by veek about the possibility of
using postfix/
white listing. Will be discussed in veek s item as well as with staff.
What about having personalized web domains? Will look into this, can
also discuss online. What can we do without having to involve
provide.net?
9:45 pm, gelinas moved to adjourn meeting, Steve seconded; motion
carried.
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veek
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response 4 of 66:
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Feb 10 12:45 UTC 2010 |
Re #0: so SRW didn't forget :) Regarding the personalized web URL
thing.. it could be done by creating a subdomain called
xyz.cyberspace.org and delegating authority for the subdomain to a
nameserver run on grex.cyberspace.org, so any further changes would be
local BUT this would require that staff do the initial one-time
delegation on Provide.
BUT, I'm thinking that perhaps this could wait till later - the actual
benefits being, rather marginal..
Anyway, so could we decide something for sure (even migrating to
tonster's box is okay with me) regarding Mail, MySQL and Ping/
Traceroute/NMap (i'll open a thread on this). All are very useful for
ppl using the shell.
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tsty
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response 5 of 66:
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Feb 10 16:11 UTC 2010 |
one amplificatoin about he hardware inventory ... apparently the
board-at-the-time was wholly disinteresdsted in keeping arond (or
offering to return) anyhtiikg that was not activly in-use.
keesan said she recycled a lot of it ... mdw & steve captured some that
was going to head to teh shredder .. and some hit the shredder.
i think i have that right .. at least close.
re 3 ... dunno about remmers but i don;t ahve root at this second, but
it should be coming along some time soon.
re 4 .. teh xyz.cyberspace.org was brought up sted *.org/~xyz for
persoanl sites and the board (between meeings) is considering how
to best effect the idea whilst -also- benefiting grex, i.e., some $$$.
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remmers
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response 6 of 66:
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Feb 11 21:46 UTC 2010 |
I'm of the opinion that root access should be parceled out conserva-
tively on an as-needed basis. In particular, since I don't know
exactly what I'll be doing as staff yet, I don't know if I need it.
Certain kinds of administrative tasks can be carried out without
root - for example, I didn't need it to run the recent board vote;
just needed privileged access to certain directories and files.
If I'm going to be authorized to go to Provide and hit reset,
I don't need root for that either. On the other hand, if I'm
going to fight fires such as runaway processes and the like, then
I'd need root.
I think staff needs to get together, either in person or online,
and figure out who's going to do what. Then I'll know if I
actually need root.
At the December board meeting, a staff meeting was scheduled
for early January. It didn't happen because Grex was still down
with disk problems. I think it's time to schedule another one.
If it's an in-person meeting, I'm out of town at the moment but
will be available from February 21 on.
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