Hi Friends, Sorry for missing the board meeting yesterday. Since it was only announced a day ahead, and I happened not to be online Thursday, I just didn't see it in time. Looking at

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings

it doesn't indicate that the meeting is held (a) monthly (30 days) or (b) every 4 weeks, or (c) first Friday of every month, or (d) other. It just gives the date of the next meeting. If we could set it up on any kind of regular routine, we could individually set up reminders locally. This might be even better than posting a custom time/date for me (as well as doctormon). Because I might forget to look at that page. But if I have a reminder popping up on my own desktop, I won't miss that! But the best reason for setting a regularly occuring meeting time/date, is that no one has to remember to remind everyone else.

I've read the transcript, and just wanted to fill in a couple of issues about the forum. First, regarding the suggestion to use HostGator as a host (I guess was suggesting because it could be no cost), if I typed 10 lines of no-no-no-no-no-no-no- it wouldn't be enough! Correct, nothing is overtly blocking on the forum project. While OSUOSL has still not given us a firm "yes" or "no", we've been operating as if it's going to be yes (while still looking at other options). Specifically we're waiting for 1 or 2 things. Technically, OSUOSL has asked me for the size of the attachments folder (the one that's outside of the DBs), which I've asked Courtney for (twice now, and I guess it's time for a 2nd reminder). Presumably they need that before they could give us a firm "yes" or "no" on hosting the forum. However, they seem to be having some internal problems (personnel-wise, I think), and they seem just as happy to wait as long we're content to wait. It would be nice if Courtney could give us the first set of DBs and whatever other files are needed, so we could practice installing. As soon as he does that, we can inform OSUOSL about the size of that file (because that file will be included in what Courtney sends us). However, I suspect that OSUOSL can get a general enough idea about how much space we'll need, without knowing the specific size of that file. I think it's more their internal issues that is holding up the "yes" or "no". And the way it's going with Courtney's response time, we might get an answer from OSUOSL before we get the first backups. And that wouldn't be a bad thing, because then Courtney could securely load everything directly. My next action item is to send Courtney another reminder, which I'll do shortly. Mihaela, my server has just been upgraded, and now I could give you your own access (without sharing mine). You might be able to figure out how to give him secure access to a single directory. I can see how to give him FTP access to a single dir, but I still think there is a need for security (SFTP or SSH) and I don't see that. But you might understand something that I don't. Plus, my host gave me an OK on setting up a new domain or sub-domain, so we could even test it live. Although if you'd still rather do it yourself locally, that's fine too. But I wanted to mention the new options.

Apologies for missing the meeting, brynn