[H-GEN] My nomination for President

[Russell Stuart]

On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 11:35 +1000, David Seikel wrote:
> The servers are best left in whatever colo they reside in, and not
> dragged to meetings.  The software and paperware collection was too big
> to drag to meetings on a regular basis last time I checked.

The server is now a Virtual Machine, running somewhere in the US.  Where
it runs may change, but it is unlikely to ever be a physical machine
again.

> When we did upgrade the meeting equipment, I was pushing to replace the
> box usually known as hydra (the computer at the front that is the
> meeting router and proxy) with something much smaller.

This has been done.  The new box is a router running OpenWrt.  The only
downside is, last I knew (meeting before last) no-one (literally) knew
the password to it.

> The second thing is that there has been an on going procrastin.... er
> project to install some library software so that members can see online
> what is in the library and request the librarian to bring it to the
> next meeting to borrow, and track those loans.

I didn't explicitly say it, but I think the library is dead.  No one
brings it along to meetings, and no one seems to care that it isn't
there. Probably because it is easier to just look up whatever
information you want on the Internet.

My personal view is we should just give away whatever is in the library,
and dump anything left over.  However that is just my view, and I not
going to do anything unless a clear majority of the members pushes for
something.  If you decided you didn't want it any more, I guess that
would force the issue.