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** There was a hiccup that affected the church admin's Internet | ** There was a hiccup that affected the church admin's Internet | ||
** Regardless of the source, there was a meeting with Reverend Ronnie, and the decision was to become independent | ** Regardless of the source, there was a meeting with Reverend Ronnie, and the decision was to become independent from the rest of the building and have our own server closet | ||
** [https://mobilecitizen.org/ Mobile Citizen] - rather affordable at $120/year | ** [https://mobilecitizen.org/ Mobile Citizen] - rather affordable at $120/year | ||
** Concerns about ham radio | ** Concerns about ham radio |
Revision as of 11:27, 15 March 2023
Time and Location
- Date
- Called to order at Michelle pm by 7:36
- Members present: Phil, Obi, Don, Matt, Kevin, John, Michelle, Gabe, Matthew M., Jared, Brian, Ken
- Members remote:
- Others present:
- Quorum
- Quorum met? Y
Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes
Recognition
- Gabe and Daniel for researching alternative Internet hosting
- Karen for past donations
New Members
- Jared and Matthew M.
- Jared's got a background in mechanical engineering. Along with Matthew M. wants to investigate the CNC mill. (Mach 3 is apparenty the standard software controller for CNC mills.) Lives close.
- Matthew M. is a Nix OS Linux fan (and the Nix package manager in general), hosting sesssions on its use at the space. Also does home automation, etc. Lives close.
Old Business
- The phone: Again a vote for an old-school hardwired landline.
- Brian suggests connecting to smart phones to create a phone tree
- Don says we used to have a phone for $10.00 / year with a dial tone, but no one paid the bill and it appears to have gone away
- Gabe says people use Discord to request entry, if they know about it.
- Don will reach out this week to Jamie who will probably know about the phone.
- Michelle likes Discord for a bit of security over a buzzer: It's more likely people won't be strangers. But alternatives / backups worth consideration.
- Web changes:
- Remove "get a server account"
- Onboarding documents for new members.
- Michelle is hoping to find time to work on this during the coming week.
- Electronic lock
- Preventative mainenance
- 1.5v AA batteries replaceable with a screwdriver.
- Git repositories
- Rockville Science Day
- Make it a field trip instead of a tabling event.
- Sunday, April 23, 12:00 - 5:00
- Announcements will be sent to various destinations seeing if we want to make a coordinated group trek to the event.
New Business
- Board elections
- Bylaws: Board of Directors
- Michelle stepping down but will support incoming board members
- Matt S. is hitting the term limits
- Vice-president is a two-year position (at least): In training for president
- President: Obi
- Vice-president: Gabe
- Treasurer: ??? (Tristan put his name in the hat but may not be able to do it.)
- Matt will assist incoming treasurer, and says it's not too bad
- Dues, donations, expenses, bank account, slides, (occasional hiccups like bank mergers, church interactions, etc.)
- Logon monthly to check bank, CoinBase, and PayPal accounts, physical trips to the bank to deposit checks
- Taxes: Fill out Form 990 - which is simple
- Watch business license and donations license: DON'T let them expire! It becomes an expensive problem if they expire.
- Secretary: ???
- At-large 1: Split between Don and Brian (Good to have a amateur radio liasons.)
- At-large 2: Michelle
- Slate: Obi, Gabe, Don/Brian, Michelle APPROVED
- Campaign to recruit members for the unfilled positions.
- Internet
- There was a hiccup that affected the church admin's Internet
- Regardless of the source, there was a meeting with Reverend Ronnie, and the decision was to become independent from the rest of the building and have our own server closet
- Mobile Citizen - rather affordable at $120/year
- Concerns about ham radio
- Plan to keep connected to the church's system while stress-testing the new system
- In-house experts seem to have solutions to potential glitches. Getting cooperation from a service provider can be tricky, when it comes to hosting servers that are accessible externally.
- Static IP difficult / impossible. Possibly use something like DuckDNS
- An alternate hotspot provider but mobile citizen looks better Calyx Institute.
- Gabriel says: CISPES is the other group at the church that pays for their own connection.
- Tentative testing: ```Approved```
Member Reports
President's Report
Vice President's Report
Treasurer's Report
- Finances are healthy though they could use work:
- Bitcoin which was lost was found thanks to Tayeb
- COVID helped us on the rent and is still giving us a great deal
- The church accidentally paid our insurance for the year and needs to be reimbursed
- Not a lot of slack for unexpected minor catastrophes, let alone major ones.
- Need seven or eight more members in order to become more solidly stable and possibly grow the coffers.
Secretary's Report
Director-at-Large Reports
Gabe
John
Adjournment
Adjourned by at Michelle by 20:57