!dpc Item 257. Minutes of the Grex Board of Directors Meeting of March 18, 2005 David Cahill (dpc) Fri, Mar 25, 2005 (10:26). 78 lines, 6 responses. Attending Board Members: bhoward (by speakerphone), dpc, gelinas, mary, polygon Non-Attending Board Members: vanloons, slynne Attending Non-Board Members: aruba, remmers The March 18, 2005 meeting of the Grex Board of Directors was called to order at 8:12 p.m. at the home of John and Mary Remmers, 19 Westbury Ct., Ann Arbor. Treasurer gelinas presided in the absence of slynne, who was ill. There was no contact with vanloons, who has moved to India. Treasurer's Report: Gelinas said that at the suggestion of a Board member, he had approached aruba about being assistant treasurer, and aruba had agreed. They had met the previous Sunday and brought the books up to date. The treasurer's report for the months of January and February is posted on line. Aruba summarized the report. About $300 had come in this week. Aruba has asked Corecom to cancel our contract. Dpc moved to appoint aruba as assistant treasurer, with the same system access as the treasurer, and polygon seconded. The motion was passed unanimously. Dpc moved to approve gelinas, slynne, janc, and aruba as signers on our Bank of Ann Arbor account. Mary seconded. The motion was passed unanimously. Mary reported that as of March 1 we have cancelled our insurance policy, and that we will be getting a rebate. Staff Report: The Pumpkin is empty. Grex has been up 13 days. It rebooted itself the day we moved out of the Pumpkin. There was a discussion of people sending out e-mails from Grex trying to get people to reveal their eBay passwords. Also, someone had posted a private chat log in the Agora Conference, and no action had been taken on removing it. Aruba reported that he had received a message from a ten-year user saying she was not renewing because of spam. The staff is working on the problem, but nothing has been accomplished yet. Polygon said he was astounded that for some organizations spam was an insuperable problem, but that others were not affected. Remmers said that there was a new version of exim out, with instructions for connecting to Spam Assassin. Remmers said he was willing to try to get exim to work with Spam Assassin, but he had no experience. Dpc said that it was good remmers had no experience, since he would not be carrying prejudices around with him. Aruba said that spam is contributing to the erosion of the system, and it was a big priority for us. Schedule Next Meeting: The Board set its next meeting for Tuesday, April 19, at 8:00 p.m. at the Remmers'. The Board discussed connectivity options for that meeting, in the hope that vanloons can be reached. The Board gave a big "thank you" to all who helped on the move out of the Pumpkin. The Board gave a special "thank you" to jdeigert and keesan. New Business: With regard to the fact that a call from western Washtenaw to our new system is now a long distance call, the Board was told it would be expensive to arrange a forwarded line. Mary wanted to know if we still had a problem. She said a couple of the users from western Washtenaw who had been dialing in are now on-line. Dpc said it was not cost-effective for us to do anything further. Mary said that we have gained Willis and a few other communities on the east side of Ypsilanti as areas where dialing in is now a local call. She said she would look into placing an ad in a Willis newspaper announcing a free conferencing system. With regard to connectivity at the next meeting, mary said she had researched how we might connect so that both remote callers can hear each other. She said we might possibly use iChat through Tiger, the soon-to-be released upgrade to Mac OS X. The meeting adjourned at 8:52 p.m. 6 responses total. !naftee ---------- (257) #1 Arc! Sin! Weld! (naftee) Fri, Mar 25, 2005 (13:13). 1 line. What about the responses which were deleted from the Co-op conference ? !scholar ---------- (257) #2 By the way, this item has been archived offsite so you cannot erase it. (scholar) Fri, Mar 25, 2005 (13:42). 1 line. Re. 0: Actually, action HAS been taken to remove the "private" chat log. !naftee ---------- (257) #3 Arc! Sin! Weld! (naftee) Fri, Mar 25, 2005 (14:48). 2 lines. I thought a scholar like you would avoid using the passive voice in such a context :( !micklpkl ---------- (257) #4 Mickey (micklpkl) Sat, Mar 26, 2005 (01:23). 12 lines. >>>Gelinas said that at the suggestion of a Board member, he had >>>approached aruba about being assistant treasurer, and aruba had agreed. Thank you both for stepping up to tackle this important task, and notably to Mark for continuing his service to the membership. Joe, I personally appreciate your tireless support of the system, as well. Nice work, both of you. I'm curious --- do either of you know how much paypal is charging Grex for our donations? I used to know the percentage, but now I can't find it, and I want to include that much more, so Grex gets the total amount, y'know.... !aruba ---------- (257) #5 Mark A Conger (aruba) Mon, Mar 28, 2005 (11:14). 5 lines. Mickey - The fee is currently 30 US cents plus 2.9%. So to get the amount you need to send to Grex so that the Grex receives exactly $60, solve x - 60 = .30 + .029x to get $62.10 !scholar ---------- (257) #6 By the way, this item has been archived offsite so you cannot erase it. (scholar) Mon, Mar 28, 2005 (11:15). 1 line. STOP IT< ARUBA.