Garnison7 20090128

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!