Item 28. Grex Board of Director’s Meeting, October 27th Anne Perry (mooncat) Mon, Oct 27, 2003 (21:50). 59 lines, 15 responses. Attending: mary*, other*, lhbunkie, gelinas*, remmers, flem*, mooncat* and aruba*. (* = board member) 1, Opening gavel: 7:00 2. Treasurer s Report- delayed. 3. Staff Report/Next Grex Update: Remmers and Gelinas attended the recent staff meeting. There was discussion regarding Next Grex and it was decided that a 3 month timeline was reasonable. Kip is going to set up a web Bugzilla to track the progress/problems with setting up NextGrex. There wasn t a discussion of changing the location of NextGrex from JanC and Valerie s home to the Pumpkin. Janc will be installing the most recent release of the OS. Kip was also trying to finalize documentation of mail- Cross has been doing some work on his own. Cross will be leaving us at the end of January for at least three months- based on the timeline NextGrex hopefully will be up and running by that time. Gelinas has been working on Pine, but the work will have to be redone. Packet filtering is as ready as it ever will be. 2- Treasurer s Report: In September we took in $287 and spent $425- another loss, our bank account is down to $3,80. There were three new members in September. In October we have so far taken in $545 and spent $424. There have been five new members so far for October. There are 82 members, 81 are paid to date. Our Centrex account expired 10/21. They did switch the next day, so we are down to four lines. Initially a trunk hunt was not set up for the first line, but was for the other three. That problem has since been fixed (after Mark called SBC today, Mary and Other tested the fix at the meeting). Clarifications: the Grex bank account has been droping slowly over the past couple years. The membership took a sharp decline about two years ago- going from around 100 member to right around 80. Since that time membership has been holding steady at around 80. 5. Schedule next meeting: We came up with three potential dates: Tuesday November 25th, 7:00 pm Tuesday December 2nd, 7:00 pm Tuesday December 9th, 7:00 The meeting will be held, as usual, in the Kid s Room at Zingerman s Next Door. 6. New Business: None. 7. Meeting adjourned at 7:35 pm. 15 responses total. ---------- (28) #1 Mark A Conger (aruba) Mon, Oct 27, 2003 (22:49). 1 line. Thanks Anne! The bank balance at the end of last month was $3,800. ---------- (28) #2 Eric R Bassey (other) Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (01:21). 1 line. All of those dates work for me. ---------- (28) #3 Mary Remmers (mary) Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (08:45). 8 lines. Zing's had our first choice of dates available so the next BOD meeting will be on Tuesday, November 25th, 7:00 pm, in the kid's room. Cute, Anne. That ? in the item title was in response to my question about whether it's a directors meeting or a director's meeting or even a directors' meeting. See what fun these thing are and don't you wish you were there? ;-) ---------- (28) #4 Joseph L Gelinas (gelinas) Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (08:48). 2 lines. (I somehow missed that discussion. It's a "Board Meeting", and the Board is "of Directors") ---------- (28) #5 Eric R Bassey (other) Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (09:25). 3 lines. I'm inclined to agree, that it is a "Board of Directors Meeting" Somehow I, too, missed that discussion. ---------- (28) #6 S M (mynxcat) Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (10:40). 2 lines. Do you have connections to Grex at the Kid's room? You guys take your laptops there? ---------- (28) #7 Eric R Bassey (other) Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (11:16). 2 lines. There is a wireless router which Zingerman's may make available (for an as-yet-undetermined cost). ---------- (28) #8 Mark A Conger (aruba) Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (12:04). 3 lines. THe answer is yes, other and sometimes others bring their laptops, but no, we have never had a connection to Grex during the meeting. But it's possible we could get a connection, as Eric suggested. ---------- (28) #9 S M (mynxcat) Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (13:11). 3 lines. I was confused, because the minutes said something about mary and other testing the hunting capability. It sounded like it was tested at the meeting. ---------- (28) #10 Joseph L Gelinas (gelinas) Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (13:13). 2 lines. They used cell phones. Both dialed 971-3000, one after the other, and both got simultaneous modem tones. ---------- (28) #11 Kip DeGraaf (kip) Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (23:26). 5 lines. Actually the wireless access at Zingerman's Next Door is free. You have to ask nicely. Elph Morgan is taking care of it. Jared Mauch has a nice form available at http://wireless.nether.net/zing.80211b that you can send to Elph. ---------- (28) #12 Eric R Bassey (other) Wed, Oct 29, 2003 (00:22). 1 line. I've sent a quick note inquiring about access. ---------- (28) #13 S M (mynxcat) Wed, Oct 29, 2003 (12:12). 1 line. Oh. Thanks gelinas ---------- (28) #14 Kevin Albaugh (albaugh) Thu, Oct 30, 2003 (14:05). 2 lines. Since "$3,80" could be a European way for writing "$3.80", that could have been a serious matter! :-) ---------- (28) #15 Anne Perry (mooncat) Thu, Oct 30, 2003 (18:46). 2 lines. Heh, gladly it was just a silly human trying to type too quickly who erred.