• AnnualMembersMeeting2024

Location: NodeLuckyLabNW
Date and Time: Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Scribe: JasonBergstrom
Roll Call: RussellSenior,MatthewKlug,JasonBergstrom,TedBrunner,SteveTree

Agenda

• Node Notes:

  • JasonBergstrom restarted snmpd on NodeBeulahLand and NodeRerun

  • NodeMississippi - more nodes than usual unreachable

  • NodeAnnapurna - Russell and Ted replaced gateway (Firebox M300, eth0 failed) replaced with Russell's spare (swapped sim card) multiple ethernet ports did not work at all in testing

• AnnualMembersMeeting

  • Election of two members of the BoardOfDirectors

    • Two-year terms of RussellSenior and TedBrunner are expiring

    • Currently only nominations (Nominate others, as desired!) to fill these seats are:

      • RussellSenior

      • TedBrunner

    • Election by vote of Members:
      • Two names per ballot
      • Two people with the most votes, win
  • Amendment of bylaws:

    • Modify ByLaws to specify zero annual member fee?

    • Revisit MembershipAgreement (BoardOfDirectors vs BoardOfAdvisors)?

    • <add proposals here>

  • Any new business:

    • <add new business here>

Notes

• Node notes:

  • NodeAnnapurna - Russell ordered a replacement M300, but appears to be an M200 (different CPU), complaining to seller ordered a replacement

  • NodeMississippi - Russell cycled the bullet, but did not come back up, unknown issue at this point

• Knod was being hammered by bots, Russell restarted apache

• Russell closed US Bank account, cashiers check to OnPoint. Russell downloaded past statements from US Bank ($15,630.49 including FuTels)

  • Sub-account is possible, but can we get FuTel specific checks

• AnnualMembersMeeting:

  • No additional nominees were brought forward

  • All present gave consent to renew RussellSenior and TedBrunner to be on board of directors

  • Discussion about ByLaws:

    • Russell will review membership agreement, so we can sign off on it
    • Russell will locate the Articles Of Incorporation

    • We will give 30 days notice of ByLaws updates and board meetinng (first in-person meeting in September?)

      • Russell suggests we could just modify the membership requirements to remove the membership fee

• Concluded AnnualMembersMeeting at 7:55pm

• OleErrson - Interested in grants, Umpqua still has affordable/technology as focus, but not a large grant offered

• Is the AfroVillage check taxable? Russell will first talk with Nandani. Then do we need to pay taxes sooner?

• Arden Hamfest recommendation for radios, also discussion about how good Arden mesh network is
  • decent bandwidth in some areas, Arden software is 100Mb as opposed to several K in packet radio
  • non-commercial use, except for first-person operator

  • DigiPi - MeshPBX (astrix)

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