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28 March 2024

22 March 2024

  • 22:3622:36, 22 March 2024 diff hist +2,068 N Minutes/2024-03-22Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|comp.sys.wearables}}, {{news|comp.protocols.dns.bind}}, {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}}, {{news|comp.os.plan9}} *** No further updates. ** Moderation status of {{news|news.admin.technical}} *** Ivo Gandolfo has agreed to take over as moderator and says he has the requisite technical resources in place. He will write to Russ Allbery to ask whether he would serve as a backup moderator. Agreed to wait for further news from him. ** {{news|comp.pro..." current

18 March 2024

  • 22:2522:25, 18 March 2024 diff hist +977 N Minutes/2024-03-15Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|comp.sys.wearables}} *** No further updates. ** {{news|comp.protocols.dns.bind}} *** No further updates ** Removal of {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** No further updates. ** Moderation status of {{news|news.admin.technical}} *** No further updates. ** Proposal to revitalize {{news|comp.os.plan9}} *** No further updates. * Infrastructure ** Mail server *** RL still to work on getting the webmail and admin front-ends working again. * Software..." current

8 March 2024

  • 20:3520:35, 8 March 2024 diff hist +1,330 N Minutes/2024-03-08Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|comp.sys.wearables}} *** RL to ping Greg Pfeil as necessary. ** {{news|comp.protocols.dns.bind}} *** Dan Mahoney, the mailing list administrator, replied to RL confirming that the news gateway broke a while ago, but he's not sure why. He says the list will be moving to new mailing list software and is not sure whether it will support the news gateway. He would like to find a solution that preserves the gateway and is investigating this. ** Re..." current

5 March 2024

  • 18:2318:23, 5 March 2024 diff hist +2,405 N Minutes/2024-03-01Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|comp.sys.wearables}} *** The Board received an e-mail report that this moderated group is not working. RL contacted the moderator, Greg Pfeil, who indicated that he intends to continue moderating the group. RL has been helping him on technical issues. ** {{news|comp.protocols.dns.bind}} *** The Board received an e-mail report that posts to this moderated group from its established mail-to-news gateway have not been showing up since 2020. It'..." current

29 February 2024

27 February 2024

26 February 2024

  • 23:4223:42, 26 February 2024 diff hist +1,128 N Minutes/2024-02-23Created page with "* Administration ** Removal of {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** No further communication from volunteer moderator; RL to ping ** Moderation status of {{news|news.admin.technical}} *** Scott Hazen Mueller has confirmed that he did not seek or find any replacement moderators his groups. *** Marco has confirmed that he is interested in posting to {{news|news.admin.technical}}. *** The Board agreed to issue an MVI for {{news|news.admin.technical}}. TM to handle this. **..." current

15 February 2024

  • 18:4118:41, 15 February 2024 diff hist +2,297 N Minutes/2024-02-15Created page with "* Administration ** Moderator volunteer for {{news|soc.history.war.world-war-ii}} *** TM posted the announcement of the new moderator. ** Removal of {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** TM has posted a follow-up to the LCC indicating that the matter is on hold pending further discussion with the volunteer. *** RL has been continuing to discuss the moderation setup with the volunteer. ** Moderation status of {{news|news.admin.technical}} *** Scott Hazen Mueller has respond..." current

12 February 2024

9 February 2024

  • 22:5222:52, 9 February 2024 diff hist +2,573 N Minutes/2024-02-09Created page with "* Administration ** Moderator volunteer for {{news|soc.history.war.world-war-ii}} *** TM still to post the announcement of the new moderator. ** Removal of {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** After the call for votes was issued, the Board received an e-mail from someone volunteering to take over as moderator for the group. JS discussed this with Paul Schleck, and as a result of this discussion TM wrote to the volunteer for further information on their background and pla..." current
  • 22:3822:38, 9 February 2024 diff hist 0 Minutes/2024-01-19fix typo current

26 January 2024

  • 22:2422:24, 26 January 2024 diff hist +1,315 N Minutes/2024-01-19Created page with "* Administration ** Moderator volunteer for {{news|soc.history.war.world-war-ii}} *** The Board had offered to announce the new moderator; Bixby has confirmed that this can now go ahead, since the moderation system is working. TM to post this announcement in the same venues as the MVI. ** Removal of {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** TM posted the LCC on 2024-10-15. Voting period will be from 2024-10-20 to 2024-10-27. ** {{news|news.admin.technical}} *** Marco Moock w..."
  • 22:1322:13, 26 January 2024 diff hist 0 Announcementsfix copy-paste error

17 January 2024

15 January 2024

29 December 2023

  • 16:2516:25, 29 December 2023 diff hist +471 N Minutes/2023-12-29Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|comp.os.plan9}} *** No response yet from proponent. Agreed to defer. ** Moderator volunteer for {{news|soc.history.war.world-war-ii}} *** Moderator reports he will be signing up with Panix ** Removal of {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** No comments yet on 2nd RFD. Agreed to defer. * Misc ** Agreed to change the regular meeting time to Fridays at 15:00 GMT/BST due to a conflicting appointment for TM Category:Meeting minutes for 2023" current

24 December 2023

22 December 2023

8 December 2023

  • 16:0916:09, 8 December 2023 diff hist +393 N Minutes/2023-12-08Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|news.newusers.questions}} and {{news|news.announce.newusers}} *** RL has continued importing the FAQs into the wiki ** {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** TM has posted a revised draft of the RFD, and it has been attracting some discussion. * Misc ** Agreed to cancel next week's meeting since TM has a conflicting appointment. Category:Meeting minutes for 2023" current

1 December 2023

  • 17:5517:55, 1 December 2023 diff hist +4,873 N Nan:2023-12-01-rfd-rec.radio.broadcastingCreated page with "<pre> From: Tristan Miller <tmiller@big-8.org> Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups.proposals Subject: RFD: Remove rec.radio.broadcasting Followup-To: news.groups.proposals Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 11:47:52 EST Message-ID: <ukd2fs$1ue60$1@dont-email.me> Archive-Name: rec.radio.broadcasting This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated newsgroup rec.radio.broadcasting. Newsgroups Line: rec.radio.broadcasting Discussion of global domesti..." current
  • 17:5317:53, 1 December 2023 diff hist +95 Announcements* 2023-12-01: RFD: Remove rec.radio.broadcasting
  • 17:2917:29, 1 December 2023 diff hist +318 N Minutes/2023-12-01Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|news.newusers.questions}} and {{news|news.announce.newusers}} *** RL has started importing the FAQs into the wiki ** {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** TM send a draft RFD to PS and RL. He will revise it in accordance with their comments and post it. Category:Meeting minutes for 2023" current

24 November 2023

  • 17:3117:31, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,524 N Minutes/2023-11-24Created page with "* Administration ** {{news|news.newusers.questions}} and {{news|news.announce.newusers}} *** RL has finished setting up the moderation system for these groups and will post to them an announcement that we are the new moderators. *** Revision and wikification of the FAQs still TBD ** {{news|soc.history.war.world-war-ii}} *** The moderator reports further progress on the moderation system. ** {{news|rec.radio.broadcasting}} *** TM has reviewed the past correspondence with..." current

17 November 2023

12 November 2023

10 November 2023

3 November 2023

27 October 2023

14 October 2023

13 October 2023

  • 15:2315:23, 13 October 2023 diff hist −63 Board:Agenda for next Board meetingNo edit summary
  • 15:2315:23, 13 October 2023 diff hist +1,586 N Minutes/2023-10-13Created page with "* Administration ** RFD for comp.lang.go *** Result: Group will be created. RL has posted the result on Usenet and the Board's website, and has notified the ISC. ISC have created the group and RL has confirmed that it is now appearing on many news servers (but not, as expected, Google Groups). The group is already seeing some activity. ** Moderator volunteer for {{news|soc.history.war.world-war-ii}} *** Discussion continuing in {{news|news.groups.proposals}}. The Boa..." current

6 October 2023

  • 15:2115:21, 6 October 2023 diff hist +1,056 N Minutes/2023-10-06Created page with "* Administration ** RFD for comp.lang.go *** Voting by e-mail underway; voting ends tomorrow. RL to post the result and inform the ISC at the conclusion of voting. ** Moderator volunteer for {{news|soc.history.war.world-war-ii}} *** The Board has been monitoring the discussion in {{news|news.groups.proposals}} and communicating with the prospective moderator, Bixby, on technical and procedural issues. RL to ask Bixby when he'd be ready to take over moderation. ** {{new..." current

29 September 2023

25 September 2023

22 September 2023

18 September 2023

15 September 2023

25 August 2023

18 August 2023

11 August 2023

  • 16:0116:01, 11 August 2023 diff hist +607 N Minutes/2023-08-11Created page with "Present: TM, RL * Administration ** RL has posted to {{news|news.admin.net-abuse.usenet}} to ask about cancels, cancelbots, and other technical anti-spam measures currently in use ** No further communication from proponent of the RFD for comp.lang.go; TM to ping the proponent in a few days * Infrastructure ** E-mail from Paul Schleck noting that {{news|alt.fan.usenet}} has finally been added to Panix's news server * Publicity ** E-mail from Paul Schleck with a sample .n..." current

4 August 2023

  • 15:1415:14, 4 August 2023 diff hist +315 N Minutes/2023-08-04Created page with "Present: TM, RL * Infrastructure ** RL has discovered that the webmail's upgrade script wants to uninstall system packages that are in use (e.g., our web server). Since none of the active Board members currently use webmail, it was decided that RL would simply deactivate it. Category:Meeting minutes for 2023" current

28 July 2023

  • 19:2319:23, 28 July 2023 diff hist −51 Board:Agenda for next Board meetingNo edit summary
  • 19:2219:22, 28 July 2023 diff hist +2 Minutes/2023-07-28No edit summary current
  • 19:2219:22, 28 July 2023 diff hist +1,009 N Minutes/2023-07-28Created page with "Present: TM, RL * Administration ** {{news|news.groups.proposals}} received a group creation RFD; while having the correct structure, TM rejected it because it contained extraneous and incorrect information. TM wrote to the proponent to explain what needs to be removed or corrected, and to encourage resubmission. * Infrastructure * TM upgraded the Web server's OS to the latest current LTS release. Again, this was necessary in order to upgrade MediaWiki, which was on a..."

21 July 2023

14 July 2023

  • 15:4815:48, 14 July 2023 diff hist +1,277 N Minutes/2023-07-14Created page with "Present: TM, RL * Administration ** {{news|comp.dcom.telecom moderator}} change announcement *** Still no response from Bill Horne; PS wrote to us to draw our attention to an..." current

7 July 2023

30 June 2023

23 June 2023

16 June 2023

6 June 2023

2 June 2023

  • 15:2315:23, 2 June 2023 diff hist +1,510 N Minutes/2023-06-02Created page with "Present: TM, RL * Website ** E-mail from Bill Horne reporting some broken links to landfield.com on our wiki. RL volunteered to fix the broken links and to reply to Bill Hor..." current

26 May 2023

  • 15:2115:21, 26 May 2023 diff hist +1,116 N Minutes/2023-05-26Created page with "Present: TM, RL * Infrastructure ** E-mail received from Google regarding a suspicious login attempt to a Google account tied to one of the Board's e-mail addresses. JE sent..." current

19 May 2023

8 May 2023

28 April 2023

22 April 2023

19 April 2023

18 April 2023

15 April 2023

13 April 2023

15 March 2023

17 February 2023

3 February 2023

27 January 2023

21 January 2023

13 January 2023

30 December 2022

16 December 2022

25 November 2022

18 November 2022

11 November 2022

3 November 2022

21 October 2022

7 October 2022

  • 18:0518:05, 7 October 2022 diff hist +1,732 N Minutes/2022-10-07Created page with "Present: TM, RL * Administration ** TM: Still helping Salahuddin with {{news|comp.os.linux.announce}} issues. * Infrastructure ** mail.big-8.org status checks e-mails *** TM..." current

3 October 2022

30 September 2022

26 September 2022

23 September 2022

16 September 2022

9 September 2022

2 September 2022

  • 15:1915:19, 2 September 2022 diff hist +505 N Minutes/2022-09-02Created page with "Present: TM, RL Apologies: JE * Administration ** TM received a reply from Todd McComb indicating that the moderator change request for {{news|comp.os.linux.announce}} was c..." current
  • 09:4709:47, 2 September 2022 diff hist +414 N Minutes/2022-08-26Created page with "Present: TM, JE, RL * Administration ** TM has not yet written to ISC to follow up on the change of moderator request. Will do so tonight, and also get in touch with Salahud..." current

19 August 2022

12 August 2022

8 July 2022

27 June 2022

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