!mooncat Item 210. Grex Board of Directors Meeting October 22, 2004 Anne Perry (mooncat) Sun, Oct 31, 2004 (22:52). 47 lines, 13 responses. Attending Board Members: Mary, Gelinas, Slynne, Aruba, and Mooncat Attending non-Board Members: Remmers, JanC, a visitor 1. Opening Gavel: 7:15pm 2. Treasurer s Report: In Sept. we took in $301.30 and spent $377.03; there were no new members. In October (as of meeting date) we had collected $432.00 and will be spending the same $377.03 out. In the black for the first time since March. 1 new member in October, 70 members currently, 67 paid up. 3. Staff Report/Next Grex Update: Next Grex is very nearly done, as far as base needs to go live- according to JanC, a couple more weeks and we should be there. a. Currently there are a few members who are bug testing NextGrex, and Jan is fixing the problems as quickly as he can after getting notified of them. b. Mail program- may be iffy at first as far as spam is concerned- at this point we re not totally sure what spam filter will be getting used. c. Need to get some people together to work on collecting spam- filtering info. d. Also need to figure out how to manage the transition from Old to New Grex. The transition will mean that Grex will be down- but it shouldn t be down for more than a couple of days. This will also depend on how many people are involved in the transition work. e. As for Old Grex- there was a crash- Gelinas power-cycled the main machine, and all seemed okay. 4. Schedule next meeting: Friday, November 19th at Aruba s- 7:30pm. 5. Co-Location: Gelinas put the info he received in co-op. He spoke to John Allese (sp?) at Provide.net, they have space in their loft where we could house Grex. a. $100.00 for 50gb per month, 128kbps. We could negotiate for more bandwidth. b. He ll throw in the cost of electricity c. We would save money with this set-up. d. Provide.net didn t particularly care about our configuration; we wouldn t have to try to fit Grex into a rack mount or anything. e. We wouldn t need liability insurance. f. Could possibly bring in RetroGrex too. g. We will continue to look into the library as an option. h. Perhaps we could try for a move prior to the expiration of the Pumpkin lease. i. Gelinas will go back and ask some more questions. 6. New Business: None 7. 7. Closing Gavel: 8:25 pm. 13 responses total. !mooncat ---------- (210) #1 Anne Perry (mooncat) Sun, Oct 31, 2004 (22:53). 2 lines. Sorry for the delay in posting the minutes, this past week was a bit busy for me. !tod ---------- (210) #2 Tod Wilkinson (tod) Mon, Nov 1, 2004 (00:16). 1 line. Who was "a visitor"? !gelinas ---------- (210) #3 Joseph L Gelinas (gelinas) Mon, Nov 1, 2004 (00:35). 1 line. Someone who wished to remain anonymous. I don't think they use grex. !tod ---------- (210) #4 Tod Wilkinson (tod) Mon, Nov 1, 2004 (13:36). 3 lines. re #3 The last time that happened at an Arbornet BoD meeting, it turned out to be xdr. !gelinas ---------- (210) #5 Joseph L Gelinas (gelinas) Mon, Nov 1, 2004 (21:46). 1 line. I'm sorry that I was not clear: The person was introduced to us. !tod ---------- (210) #6 Tod Wilkinson (tod) Tue, Nov 2, 2004 (00:21). 1 line. "introducting: david copperfield" !mooncat ---------- (210) #7 Anne Perry (mooncat) Tue, Nov 2, 2004 (12:32). 1 line. The visitor is not a grex user. !mfp ---------- (210) #8 Glottal stop? Karate chop! (mfp) Tue, Nov 2, 2004 (14:37). 1 line. It's mooncat's kerlish "beau". !mooncat ---------- (210) #9 Anne Perry (mooncat) Tue, Nov 2, 2004 (16:16). 1 line. Kerlish? The other bit is right though- fancy that. !naftee ---------- (210) #10 Arc! Sin! Weld! (naftee) Thu, Nov 4, 2004 (02:41). 1 line. fancy schmancy !richard ---------- (210) #11 Richard J. Wallner (richard) Thu, Nov 11, 2004 (22:35). 4 lines. I think mooncat's beau should register the grex login "visitor", for he has been identified. names stick around here. :) (although how did mfp know thats who "the visitor" was when he himself wasn't at the meeting? he have ESP or something?) !mfp ---------- (210) #12 Glottal stop? Karate chop! (mfp) Thu, Nov 11, 2004 (23:21). 2 lines. I just read this item carefully. I forget exactly which hints I used, but it was fairly obvious. I'm sorry if I seemed creepy or something! !mooncat ---------- (210) #13 Anne Perry (mooncat) Fri, Nov 12, 2004 (13:10). 1 line. Nah, I just figured you were a good investigator.