Item 71. Board Meeting Minutes: Oct 14, 2007
Jan Wolter (janc) Tue, Dec  4, 2007 (10:21).
87 lines, 2 responses.

 Grex Board Meeting Minutes - October 14, 2007
 
   Present:  S. Lynne Fremont (slynne) - Board Member, President
             Mark Conger (aruba) - Board Member, Treasurer
             Jan Wolter (janc) - Board Member, Secretary - Staff
             Colleen McGee (cmcgee) - Board Member
             Larry Kestenbaum (polygon) - Board Member
             Sindi Keesan (keesan)
             Jim Deigert (jdeigert)
   Telepresent:
             Bruce Howard (bhoward) - Board Member - Staff
   Absent:
             Dan Cross (cross) - Board Member
 
 Opening Gavel Tap:  7:45 pm
    Delayed by forgotten phone.
 
 Treasurer's Report:
    In September $60 income, $150 expenditures including $10 to renew
    Grex name.  Currently 56 members, 40 paid up.  Mark has been slow
    reminding people to renew this month.  Income of $60 so far in
    October.
 
 Staff Report:
    Staff has nothing to report.  Unicorn is doing stuff, policing
    vandals.
 
    There have been a lot of junk postings to the conferences.
    Reviewed membership vote 17 from 3/15/2004:
 
      An item's author, the person who originally enters an item,
      may remove that item from the system, in its entirety,
      at any time before someone responds to it using a different
      login ID.  After another person has responded, an item may be
      removed only if it violates the general policies of grex or
      of the conference it was entered in, or if it clearly abets
      criminal activity.  Examples of the former include a very
      large item that attempts to fill all available disk space,
      items posted more than once or in several conferences at
      once, repetitive items and items that contain terminal
      escape sequences.  Examples of the latter include items
      that contain social security numbers or credit card numbers.
      These examples are not exhaustive; fair-witnesses and staff
      have discretion to act in the best interests of grex and
      its users in accordance with general policies.
 
    Seems like deleting spam items would be allowed under the
    "violates the general policies of grex" clause.
 
    Some discussion of the old "intro" conference and some interest
    in reviving it.  Colleen would become become the fairwitness
    and would present it as a "best of Grex conference".  This would
    be a one month experiment.
 
    Larry moves that:
 
      (1) the default conference for new users will become intro.
      (2) a new fairwitness will be appointed for intro.
      (3) the theme of intro is "the best of grex".  It will
          contain links to active items in other conferences.
      (4) staff will revert the default conference to agora if the
          fairwitnesses become inactive.
 
    Colleen seconds.
    Passes Unanimously.
 
 Old Business:
    None.
 
 Schedule Next Meeting:
    December 2, 2007, 7:00pm.  Mark Conger's house.
 
 New Business:
 
    NEW MODEMS.  There were some problems with dialing in.  This
    turned out to be an AT&T issue.
 
    We have big modem bank.  Bill Levak (wlevak) has them.  Mark
    will talk to him.
 
    ELECTION.  Need to enter the nomination item.  Colleen will
    enter it.
 
    Colleen created "CYBERSPACE.ORG at flickr".  Another front
    porch for grex.
 
 Closing Gavel Tap:   8:50pm

2 responses total.

!janc
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(71) #1  Jan Wolter (janc)
Tue, Dec  4, 2007 (10:22).   5 lines.
 OK, this is beyond embarrassingly late.  It's so embarrassingly late, that
 we missed the scheduled date for the next board meeting, because nobody knew
 when it was scheduled for, because I didn't post the minutes.
 
 Sorry.
!tod
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(71) #2  Novichok  (tod)
Wed, Dec  5, 2007 (20:09).   1 line.
 *blush*