Garnison7 20090128
Friday, January 30, 2009
Present: Tanya, Doris, Nuss, Foo, Jan.
Apologies: Oliver, Pablo
Meeting opened: 20:00.
Tech
- drupal/evolve to go to candy
- base to be killed.
- doris will get the PAID file
- delete resellers accounts
- recreate LDAP, apache
- CAcert:
- VM is offered for their test server.
- there is no work, they have sysadms.
- apparantly not resource intensive
- up to the tech team to decide coz they have to work with it
- idea behind CAcert is good / aligned for sonance
- suggested: a membership: all agree!
- Our President to contact CAcert local admin Philipp G and discuss
- the Famous File:
- 5 payments in
- new members…
- 6 people said “I’m Out”
- need to have personal responses with the people otherwise they will find it too harsh.
- How many members, place your bets, take your best shot!
- Doris: 25
- Tanya: 23
- Matthias: 31
- Stefan: 30
- Iang: 40
Boring Administration
- new board elected…
- Doris is trying to get the bank account under control
- we have only got the access to online banking,
- we still need the bankomat card from Simon.
- Board agrees we need the card, and non-board members lose access to accounts.
- Phones: it is proposed to cancel both phones, they are no longer required
- Board agrees, cancel the phones.
- Phones 2: the old board said that the people who used the phones had to pay for their use after Resonance. However a rechnung was never generated. Should we
- send an invoice?
- forgive and forget?
- send big men over and beat it out of them with a stick?
- Board decides to forgive and forget.
- Pay Simon Kogler’s invoice of 83 euros?
- Board agrees. But
- What about the change to the verein statutes?
- address
- board list
- need to notify that we are charging members
- Charging members:
- and then we need to do the accounting of the memberships
- we need to put this in quickly because there is a fine
- Doris will chase paperwork for next wednesday
- Doris has books at home, and a consultant and a course on legal structures.
Interesting BYI
- Contributions!!!
- First contribution announced by Doris– bernadette
- First contribution announced by Stefan:
- Rebecca Loyche from Iceland rebeccaloyche.com
- (nuss reads out idea)
- Blogs Admin wordpress
- Doris asks for a login
- Nuss is now “site admin” and can handle all blogs.
- procedure is: mail nuss and ask for a user added.
- 2 contributions now have to be entered in to blog posts
- Doris can edit all blog entries
- Doris should edit and add bernadette’s contribution
- Not as a regular feature but to get Doris up to speed
- Nuss wants to redesign the layout
- a grid, a few lines, can see the different ideas….
- should happen soon… but nuss is involved with other project.
- PR:
- invitations are mainly private
- as soon as we have the website, spread a call publically
- netznetz, international,
- hard to write personal emails because the project changed when I had to write out the personal email!!!!
- it became more objective .
- we wait until nuss says website is ready
- we want 6 or so ideas up there already to make it exciting
- now it’s time for prior players to put up the ideas … jan, doris, binsh
- Doris, nuss are writing emails privately, still more to do
- languages, video
- use wordpress blog upload
- has Apache limit: can be lifted
- idea should appear in whatever language the person wants
- BBCODE is available for multi-language and other languages
- we just need an example
- nuss to send an example
SolidarishEconomy
- Nuss met with SolidarishEconomie person
- we can do live live BYI
- it is HUGE location and audience …
- think about a beamer? We need
- Stefan has phone number.
- 21nd Feb, 17:00 – 18:00
- what do we choose? Meta-BYI or Live-BYI?
- nuss: people don’t do lectures or workshops, but open to question of what?
- jan: we could do 4 BYIs????!!!
- doris: we can ask bernadette, and doris wants to do hers too.
- 2-3 ideas would fit in an hour, no more
- plan for Live-BYI
- Who would be an MC? nuss is not necessarily around
- Tanya could be MC … but only if whipped!
- Do we need a summary done in a sense of theory? Nuss: it is not an academic wrap up.
- No, Tanya wraps up.
- Doris: do a skype hookup with Iceland?
- Jan: anytime tech gets involved, it gets messy and silly.
- Doris: ok, delete my suggestion.
- Jan: I have deleted your suggestion.
Flights
- Flying people in
- not on the agenda
- nuss: I thought about it…
- I rather changed my mind, I think this phase will be virtual
- as there is only virtual … it makes less sense to fly people in
- best to schedule these people & flights for resonance
- release budget for other things
- all agreed.
Meeting closed 21:30, with general comments of “very successful meeting” Cheers!