Minutes/2021-11-05
From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
Present: RL, JE, TM
- Administration
- JE - comp.infosystems.gemini
was created on Monday, 25 October at around 20:00GMT. Many news servers (especially commercially operated services like Google Groups) are not picking up the new group automatically.
- TM to contact Panix to tell them to carry the group.
- JE - comp.infosystems.gemini
- Publicity/outreach
- JE - working on a series of online videos on Usenet to be eventually turned into a short course
- Infrastructure
- JE - suggestion for the creation of an official Big-8 YouTube channel. Agreed that JE could create the channel and send encrypted credentials to TM and RL.
- STUMP
- JE - E-mail from Owen Rees of the uk.* hierarchy regarding merging his changes into the official STUMP distribution. Owen will be determining to what extent this is feasible and getting back to us.
- Misc
- JE has cancelled his appointment on 19 November and so will be able to attend that day's meeting after all
- TM gave apologies for the meetings on 26 November and 3 December
- Agreed to cancel the meetings on 24 December and 31 December
