Item 84. Minutes of the 3/26/1997 Board of Directors Meeting Misti Tucker (mta) Sun, Mar 30, 1997 (17:36). 107 lines, 11 responses. 7:50 Gavel Banging. Item FOR: The Treasurer's Report February was a bad month for GREX financially, even excepting the costs incurred for the new computer. We lost $250. On the bright side, the phone bill was down to normal (about $426) and the number of local outgoing calls was down to a reasonalble number. We had two renewing members and no new members in March. As of this date we had 106 members, 95 of whom are paid to date (11 of the members had expired on the 15th and are still in their grace period.) A membership question was raised: Can a member donate for a second login ID and get the telnet priveleges accruing with membership for that login also, though not the second vote? The board decided that this question was to be brought to the membership in Coop. Item THE: The Computer Rehab Committee No movement to report. There seems to be little use for the sorts of computers we have except as GREX terminals. Item 3/26/97: The Publicity Report The latest news on the benefit for GREX is that the event has been extended to two nights because there were so many artists interested in becoming involved. More information is available in item 93 of Oldagora and will hopefully be linked to new agora very soon. Item GREX: The Technical Committee A phone line has died, Steve called Ameritech about it. The 670 is up and running on the net. The things still needed: * a disk for the new OS * patches * testing * a chunk of staffer time. Micropolis has called regarding a disk that GREX has in for repair, and so that disk might be available as the disk for the new OS. Staff has had a new volunteer (login nt) writing a conf. list developer. Progress has been excellent and this function may soon be available for GREXers wanting an easy way to develop their conf. lists. Thanks, nt! hotmail.com isn't currently speaking to GREX. Marcus has adopted this issue and is working on helping hotmail.com fix the problem. Scott has picked up one of the GVCs and taken it home to work on getting it running. Steve G. is putting another ethernet card (on GREX?) GREX now owns 120 legal copies of IBM DOS 5.0. Ameritech has *finally* disabled outgoing calls on GREXes modem lines. Item BOARD: The ISDN LINE DISCUSSION ISDN is currently on the back burner at ITI. Jared can't tell us exactly why, except to say that it isn't our (collective) breathe. He says to look for movement on the issue around June. Item OF: REGISTERING THE GREX.ORG DOMAIN The Board decided that since we had sufficient donations to cover the first two years cost, we would go ahead and keep the grex.org domain name. MOTION: I move that Cyberspace Communications pay to register grex.org as GREXes additional domain name. Valerie Mates made the motion. Mark Conger seconded. Motion passed 6-0-0. Item DIRECTORS: THE GREX STORE We've arranged through Rob Argy for the production of mousepads and mugs (and maybe t-shirts?) with the cool new GREX logo. We're researching the sales tax question, and must still set fair prices and determine a sales flow. MOTION: I move that Cyberspace Communications authorize the opening of the GREX Store on the GREX web page and begin the search for a store manager." Misti Tucker made the motion. Mark Conger seconded. Motion passed 6-0-0. Item MEETING: FILLING THE EMPTY BOARD SEAT MOTION: I move that Cyberspace Communications accept nominations through the end of the day on April 5, 1997 and that we open the polls on April 7 through the end of the day April 21st to fill the seat on the board vacated by Rob Henderson. Valerie Mates made the motion. Mark Conger seconded. Motion passed 6-0-0. Item : NEW BUSINESS Mark Conger may be around a month longer than he originally thought. Jan C. has agreed to take over treasurer duties for the period that Mark is away. 9:15 Gavel In attendance: Valerie Mates, Jan Wolter, Scott Helmke; Jared Mauch, Steve Gibbard, Steve Andre, Mark Conger, Misti Tucker. 11 responses total. ---------- (84) #1 Mark A. Conger (aruba) Sun, Mar 30, 1997 (18:07). 7 lines. A couple of corrections to the Treasurer's report: We had two new members in February, and quite a few renewals. We had no new members in March at the time of the meeting (though Jared became a member *during* the meeting). At the time of the meeting we did have 11 members not paid up yet, but only 7 of them expired on March 15th; the rest expired slightly earlier. ---------- (84) #2 Jenna Hirschman (jenna) Sun, Mar 30, 1997 (18:49). 4 lines. Can I get more info on the publicity event, I've nevber heard of it before, and don't read agora... for any reason ;} besides alll the responses would hardlygive me a rundown on what's actually happening. ---------- (84) #3 Valerie Mates (valerie) Sun, Mar 30, 1997 (19:48). 6 lines. Thanks Misti for posting the minutes. Nice job of dealing with the insane agenda item numbering schemen. Re 2: A band called Poignant Plecostomus has offered to do a concert as a Grex fundraiser. Dunno what you have against Agora (though I suppose this isn't the place to get into a discussion of it). ---------- (84) #4 Jenna Hirschman (jenna) Mon, Mar 31, 1997 (11:19). 1 line. (agora hs too many response items, can't keep up) ---------- (84) #5 John H. Remmers (remmers) Mon, Mar 31, 1997 (12:57). 1 line. (just looking at one item wouldn't require you to keep up) ---------- (84) #6 David Cahill (dpc) Mon, Mar 31, 1997 (16:33). 1 line. About how well did we do in March financially, Mark? ---------- (84) #7 Misti Tucker (mta) Mon, Mar 31, 1997 (19:10). 2 lines. Gleep! I have those notes and forgot to include them. I'll get them posted as soon as possible -- certainly by the end of next weekend. ---------- (84) #8 Valerie Mates (valerie) Tue, Apr 1, 1997 (00:58). 1 line. (That was supposed to say "scheme", not "schemen" in #3). ---------- (84) #9 Mark A. Conger (aruba) Tue, Apr 1, 1997 (01:07). 3 lines. Re #6: We did pretty well, David - I just went to the bank today (Monday) and deposited $923 which we took in in March. ($80 was earmarked for grex.org, and the rest will go into the general fund.) ---------- (84) #10 Jenna Hirschman (jenna) Wed, Apr 2, 1997 (13:35). 2 lines. (sheehs, I just wanted to know who was running it so I could ask them) ---------- (84) #11 David Cahill (dpc) Thu, Apr 3, 1997 (16:43). 1 line. Nice total deposits for March!