Item 351 by (cross) Dan Cross entered Wed, Sep 17, 2014 (21:37) as: Minutes for BoD meeting, Wed, Spt 17, 2014. Minutes from Grex BoD meeting, September 17, 2014: * Call to order at 20:46 + Rollcall: kentn, walkman, cross + Determination of Quorum: We have a quorum (3/5 members present) * Approval of minutes from last meeting. + kentn moves that we approve minutes from last meeting - Approved unanimously * Schedule next meeting. + November 12 proposed as next meeting date. + Agreed as next date. * Treasurer status + Postponed due to lack of treasurer attendance + tod sent tsty an email about forms; no response as yet * Archivist + mary resigned years ago. + Main duty is to post minutes (put a textfile into a directory) + cross moves to eliminate the position, have board secretary copy into the appropriate (web-accessible) place. - Motion passes unanimously * Database access for users + Some users have asked for this. + The blocker is staff time to set it up as a service. + We currently don't promise any real level of service - How does that interact with offering database access? - (We don't want to get into the business of being a service provider) + Tabled for now. * Coop/Agora fairwitness. + Katie resigned; Walter has resigned for all intents and purposes + Kent has been rolling conferences + Do we need to appoint a fairwitness/cfadm? - Cross proposes that we do not: we should spend the minimum amount of time necessary to not break the service on conferencing. - To what extent is conferencing necessary for governence? | Kent points out that there is nothing saying that is how it must be done. + walkman points out that hardly anyone uses it, it's not broken, so don't fix it. + Will leave it to staff: walter left instructions. - Takes about an hour; mostly re-reading the instructions. + We'll leave this as status quo. + Cross committed to posting three items last meeting, but has not done so. - He apologizes and will try and find time to do that. * Grex hardware/software + Pinged Tony for the status of the VM for converting to FreeBSD + We will move to FreeBSD - Do we want to stay on a VM? + Not in any hurry to move because things are pretty stable. * Services/Applications Grex should offer + cross wants to become attractive to the DIY world (hackers, open source, makers, etc) + kentn notes that in terms of validations, the majority are from outside of the US + We still get college and other courses requesting student accounts periodically + walkman asks how we intend to advertise this? * No treasurer report * Staff report: + cross reports All systems normal at this time. * Walk-in business + None. * cross moves to adjourn at 21:35 + motion passes unanimously + We are adjourned. Respond or pass?