Minutes/2024-10-04
From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
Present: MM, TM
- Administration
- comp.sys.wearables
- Still waiting for Greg Pfeil to confirm that he's now set up to send approved posts to this group.
- comp.protocols.dns.bind
- No response yet from moderator to MM's correspondence.
- rec.radio.broadcasting
- No response yet from the volunteer moderator.
- comp.os.plan9
- No further progress on MVI draft. TM/RL to revise and post when possible.
- news.newusers.questions and news.announce.newusers
- RL has posted announcements in news.groups.proposals and on Announcements about our taking over these groups. TM to make the corresponding posts on Twitter/X and Facebook.
- Status of periodic posting script: no report yet from RL
- RL has posted announcements in news.groups.proposals
- comp.lang.asm.x86
- The MVI has attracted some replies.
- RL is continuing to correspond with the volunteers.
- comp.sys.wearables
- Infrastructure
- Status of cron jobs for offsite backups: no update from RL yet
- Status of automatic security updates: MM has enabled this
- Status of remote monitoring: no progress yet but MM will investigate soon
- GoDaddy account: TM logged in and found everything is still under JE's name. Details seem to be correct, and JE is still paying for the account.
- Status of fail2ban: no progress yet, but MM will investigate soon
- Software/funding
- TM: No update yet on GPG signing best practices on Savannah
- Thunderbird 128 contact deferred given Julien's comments on INN.
- TM still to respond to Julien.
- OTF IFF/NGI0/Sovereign Tech Fund: no further updates
- Misc
- TUGboat article: TM revised and expanded RL's draft with help from RL and MM, and then submitted it.
- Paul Schleck proposals: no further progress
- DigiCAM25 (a.k.a. BDCAM25): TM asked the organizers for a hybrid online/in-person setup, and for the panel to take place in the afternoon in London (morning in Washington and Manitoba). Organizers confirmed both requests shouldn't be a problem and would be discussed at their next meeting.
