2019-06-24 AllStarLink Board Meeting Minutes

ASL Board Meeting Minutes

2019.06.24 – Dave Shaw

Meeting called to order @ 18:00 PDT

Meeting adjourned @ 19:29 PDT TL motion, PE seconded.

Board members

Present:

Tim Sawyer TS

Dave Shaw DS

Todd Lesser TLKevin Custer KCPete Elke PE

Absent:

Mike Wolthuis MW

1. Official Actions
   1. Adoption of 2019.05.19 Board meeting minutes. (Pete made motion to adopt, Tim seconded)
   2. PS made motion, KC seconded (unanimous)

1. Admin group report (MW)
   1. MW not available, no updates, carry to next meeting.

1. SEAL technical items (MW, TS)
   1. Per Bryan, remaining items to decommission SEAL remain with Stacy re: SSL certs synchronizations.
   2. TS, an updated list of to-do’s has been created in gdrive.

1. Allstar Community (TS)
   1. TS lots of traffic
   2. 300-600 views per day. Good SEO.
   3. TS encouraged everyone else (on the board) to join in.

1. Hosting resources cost (2019.06.24 open)
   1. Need generic specifications needed for any future site (MW has action)
   2. MW will work on some sort of formalized agreements with our current providers.

1. Paying for SLACK Google etc. environment (TechSoup 501c3 validated)
   1. DS applied for TechSoup (Next steps)?
   2. DS will investigate slack discounts via techsoup or just 501c3.
   3. DS to investigate how to apply for Google via TechSoup.

1. Issuing new Node numbers (TS)
   1. Getting low adoption of NNX testers.
   2. PE: Optional make people to subdivide when new nodes requested.
   3. PE requests we hold off supporting 440xxx node numbers for now.
   4. PE lets carry this topic for further discussion of vanity numbering.

1. Treasurer's report: (DS)
   1. PayPal balance: $2195.40 (2019.06.24)
   2. Bank balance $463.71 (2019.06.24)

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. New developer will work on code changes necessary for re-pack to support for CM119B chip.

1. (closed) Florida Non-Profit annual report needs filing with sunbiz.org before 1-May-2019 (KC forwarded from Steve Z)
   1. TL completed Sunbiz submission
   2. DS submitted IRS documentation
2. 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?
3. New business:
   1. Moving meeting back to Sunday @08:00 PDT