Minutes/2021-05-21

Present: TM, JE, RL

• Publicity
  • Reddit AMA
    • Agreed to schedule for next Friday from 21:00 to 22:00 CEST.
    • Agreed to keep in touch on Jitsi during meeting to coordinate who is answering which questions. Video call to start at 20:45 CEST.
    • JE to advertise on news.groups, alt.fan.usenet , and r/Usenet
    • RL to advertise on Twitter
    • TM to advertise on Facebook
    • TM to produce advertising blurb.
  • Open Collective Newsletter
    • JE found internal documentation about the newsletter but this seems to be for the administrators; JE to get in touch with Pia about getting featured per her suggestion
  • Open Collective merchandise options
    • JE reported he couldn't find the merchandising page we discussed before. But it should be possible to use any company for T-shirts, etc.
    • JE reported that direct PayPal payments to our Open Collective are complicated/expensive as the system is in beta; it would be better to find a company that would pay directly into our European Open Collective account. JE to try to find one that does SEPA payments.
• Administration
  • Dead groups survey/removal
    • JE: Report on past procedure/policy pending
• Infrastructure
  • RL reported that our PGPMoose setup on Panix has warned us that our own "List of Big Eight Newsgroups" post on news.announce.newgroups is a "possible forgery" due to an incorrectly formed X-Auth header, and that this appears to be a recurrence of the problem we discussed from 21–27 September 2020. RL wrote to Russ Allbery but has received no response yet; will write to Todd now.
  • TM reported on Paul Schleck's suggestions on news.groups about the Board's activity.
  • Paul also wrote by e-mail to alert us to a problem with news propagation on Panix from 7 to 12 May. This explains the delay in the Board's recent announcement to news.announce.newgroups.
  • Paul also alerted to us to an offer by Panix of resources for STUMP development.
  • TM to reply to Paul and to write to Panix asking for details.
  • RL wrote to the uk.* folks regarding the STUMP fork and is awaiting a response
• Misc
  • JE: no response from Ronda Hauben