Minutes/2024-08-02

Present: TM, RL, MM

• Board membership
  • All three members of the board (JE, RL, TM) having discussed and voted on the matter of enlarging the Board by e-mail, the meeting formally welcomed Marco Moock as a new member. Marco's appointment will be announced in the usual places once all his accounts are set up.
  • TM to arrange for wiki, IMAP, SMTP, and shell access for MM.
  • MM to send his SSH and OpenPGP public keys to TM.
  • RL to create a big-8.org e-mail forwarder for MM.
  • RL to add MM as an additional moderator those groups already moderated by the Board.
• 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 re status of gateway. MM to review the relevant e-mail correspondence in case he wants formulate any concrete recommendations that the Board could then discuss and pass on to the moderator.
  • rec.radio.broadcasting
    • RL to ask the volunteer moderator to respond by 15 August, after which time we will proceed with the RFD.
  • comp.os.plan9
    • Agreed to drop the matter if the volunteer does not respond by 15 August.
  • news.newusers.questions and news.announce.newusers
    • RL wrote to Kathy to ask how the FAQs are licensed and which of these should be regularly posted. Awaiting a response.
    • RL asked ISC to update the moderator submission address, and they have done so.
• Infrastructure
  • RL fixed the PHP error reports from the backup script.
  • RL investigated the cryptic "web updated" e-mails about the TLS certificate script, and believes this is simply a default success message indicating that no action was taken.
  • GigaNews responded to TM's abuse report with a fairly generic message about taking steps to reduce spam. In fact, the flood TM had reported was not spam, but it was agreed not to pursue this matter further unless the problem recurs.
• Software/funding
  • TM: No update yet on GPG signing best practices on Savannah
  • Thunderbird 128 contact deferred pending correspondence with Julien re INN.
  • TM pinged Julien re funded contributions to INN. Agreed that we could consider a smaller proposal to NGI0 Commons if there is no response, or a negative response, by 15 August.
• Misc
  • TUGboat article: RL has produced a short (300-word) draft. The meeting discussed some possibilities for expanding it with additional text and screenshots, and for MM to contribute. Agreed that RL would continue to work on the draft and circulate it when ready for review and further contributions.
  • Agreed to cancel next week's meeting in light of MM's unavailability and TM's possible unavailability.