Item 360 by (cross) Dan Cross entered Tue, Jul 21, 2015 (22:40) as: Grex BoD minutes: Tues Jul 21, 2015 Grex Board Meeting: Tuesday July 21, 2015 ========================================= Members in Attendance: cross, kentn, tod, unicorn, walkman (tod gets bumped off the call early on) * Call to order (sans tod) at 21:44 EDT - We have a quorum; tod is having technical difficulties * Approval of last meeting's minutes: - cross moves to approve the minutes - walkman seconds - passed unanimously; minutes approved * Schedule next meeting - cross proposes Sep 20 (Sunday) at 9pm EDT - (no motion, but unanimous approval of date/time) * Validation (newuser) status: - kentn had the sense we're slowing down - In 2014 (through July 21) 226 validations, In 2015 (through July 21) 178 validations, Down roughly 20% from last year during the same period - unicorn thinks that shell access in general is less of a thing - We're running an old version of OpenBSD; some users notice * We really need to move to FreeBSD * Time is an issue for all staff people * kentn updated emacs recently for a user (though we're still behind in versions) - We still get new users, but fewer seek validation * Some just want to send spam or things, so perhaps this is working as intended. - Fewer verifications (the higher level of vetting) - Perhaps the service simply isn't as appealing as it used to be. - Discussion of who uses Grex and why follows. No real answers.... * unicorn has some thoughts about what makes shell accounts interesting - will mail to some folks * Staff attrition and replacement - Walter Cramer (i) has de facto left staff, so we removed him from mailing lists to which mail was bouncing, etc. - Staff is slowing dropping off; is there anything to do here? - Bring in new people? - What excites people to be on staff? - Goes back to attracting users * Treasurer report - $1472.69 in PayPal - We no longer have access to our bank account * No one's heard from TS in a long time * It's late; we'll continue in email * cross to moves adjourn - unicorn seconds - Adjourned at 22:38 2 responses total. From (gelinas) Joe #1 of 2 in item 360 at Thu, Jul 23, 2015 (18:18): Who is still on staff? From (kentn) Kent Nassen #2 of 2 in item 360 at Fri, Jul 24, 2015 (16:20): Check /etc/group for the official staff. We occasionally get people helping without being official staff, but that is rather rare these days.