2019-05-12 AllStarLink Board Meeting Minutes

ASL Board Meeting Minutes

2018.05.12 – Dave Shaw

Meeting called to order @ 08:00

Meeting adjourned @ 9:21

Board members present:

Pete Elke PETim Sawyer TS

Dave Shaw DS

Mike Wolthuis MWKevin Custer KC

Absent:

Todd Lesser TL

1. Official Actions
   1. Adoption of 2019.04.28 Board meeting minutes. (Pete proposed, Tim seconded))
   2. PS made motion, KC seconded (unanimous)

1. Admin group report (MW)
   1. MW, no updates, minimal activity. MW will schedule an admin meeting
   2. Admin team focused SEAL forward.
   3. Working on recruiting additional developers
   4. No admin call for May (Mothers Day Conflict). Next Admin call will occur in June.

1. SEAL technical items (MW, TS)
   1. Per Bryan, remaining items to decommission SEAL remain with Stacy re: SSL certs synchronizations.
   2. Due to vacation plans this activity should occur late June

1. Allstar Community (TS)
   1. TS requested new node sign up or node request include the option to include a link to community.
   2. Leave list in place for now. Tim to create an announcement on the list that community is where to pose requests to the Allstarlink community.

1. Hosting resources cost ()
   1. Need generic specifications needed for any future site (MW has action)
   2. MW will work on some sort of formalied agreements with our current providers.

1. Paying for SLACK Google etc. environment (no update)
   1. DS applied for TechSoup (SLACK & Google suite).
   2. IRS letter needed to complete TechSoup application (PE with TL re requesting the IRS letter).

1. Issuing new Node numbers (TS)
   1. Announcement for the list has been created and is ready to send
   2. TS reported alpha test on portal was made available to admin’s
   3. Next action, pick a roll out date
   4. White paper is posted in wiki (done)
   5. Tim created a graph of node number issues and new user sign ups. Run rate.
   6. 1000 left in 40000 block have about 5 months of capacity left at current run rate.
   7. Peter requested a report depicting unused node numbers below 50000
   8. 2019.05.12 TS requested buy in from Admin team. (done)
   9. Announcement letter to go out (TS) proposing July 1 go live date
   10. Question re: vanity node numbers. Leaning towards responding to requests with issuing the vanity node with “A donation would be greatly appreciated” note. Get an announcement out after successful launch of NXX

1. Treasurer's report: (DS)
   1. PayPal balance: $2184.42 (2019.04.28) (latest $148.60 to Quadranet)
   2. Bank balance $?? (DS to log into US Bank account)
   3. All PayPal donations tickets have been resolved (thank you notes out)

1. RTCM FW (Trimble 4/06 Thunderbolt rollover) (TS)
   1. Systems with Thunderbolts stayed up through the rollover.
   2. TS reached out to Chuck on why didn’t it fail?

1. Repack (KC)
   1. CM119B issue, KC received formal application notes.
   2. Issues remain with CM119B support related to internal settings (work continues)
   3. Outstanding update to URIxb schematic (resistor values) by Kevin communicated to Dave K. HW issue resolved (new URI’s with CM119B need eeprom) .
   4. Coding ASL to support new features of CM119B URI is outstanding (to get transmit audio to behave the way its expected).
2. (closed) Florida Non-Profit annual report needs filing with sunbiz.org before 1-May-2019 (KC forwarded from Steve Z)
   1. (DS to look at what is needed in the report)
   2. Board to review and approve prior to filing
   3. Peter has action to contact Todd
   4. Todd confirmed the paperwork has been filed.
3. Bryan requested that we retrieve the disk from the SEAL server. KC has connection to Quadranet.
   1. Will a dd over ssl satisfy Bryan’s request?

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