Re: Change to data center offering at 77 Sundial, Manchester, NH: Please read

2015-07-15 Thread Ben Scott
Hello, I am the current technical contact for GNHLUG (liberty.gnhlug.org/216.177.7.157). Your message has been forwarded to our Board and we are discussing actions. I will get back to you soon. Thank you. On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Maura Mahoney mmaho...@firstlight.net wrote:

Re: wiki spambot registrations

2013-08-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: I've noticed that bots are registering users in the wiki http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Main/WebStatistics Yah. It's always happened, but there seemed to be an increase in the rate relatively

Re: Video of meetings

2011-08-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com wrote: Doing it well enough for anybody to want to watch is tricky. Doing it well is hard, agreed. But in this age of shaky, grainy, noisy YouTube videos, doing it good enough is becoming more viable. I've done some

Re: Video of meetings

2011-08-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: *YouTube*? Heck--after growing up on *movies* like `The Blair Witch Project' and *TV shows* like `Battlestar Galactica', all with liberally-applied `MTV-style' camerawork, I find anything that's *not* shaky and

Re: Video of meetings

2011-07-25 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: ... if GNHLUG meets the requirements for this program ... It does not: This donation is available to nonprofits with 501(c)(3) designation... It finally happened. People had been threatening for years

Meeting notes from Sat 3 Oct 2009 Board Meeting

2009-10-05 Thread Ben Scott
My notes from the Sat 3 Oct 2009 Board Meeting are now online: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Organizational/OrgMeet2009OctNotes Additions/corrections are welcomed. Edit the wiki page, or post comments here, and I'll enter changes. -- Ben ___

Re: Lunch prior to bored meeting?

2009-10-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:  Anyone care to join me for lunch prior to the meeting? Don't everyone speak up at once. ;-) I guess it's the Red Arrow at 12 noon. See ya tomorrow! -- Ben ___ gnhlug-org

Board Meeting - Sat 3 Oct - 1 PM - Manchester Library West

2009-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
, Manchester, NH Time: 1 PM to 2:30 PM Can attend: * Ted Roche * Heather Brodeur * maddog * Mike Kazin * Ben Scott Cannot attend: * Shawn O'Shea No response: * Bill Sconce -- Ben ___ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Board Meeting - Sat 3 Oct - 1 PM - Manchester Library West

2009-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@tedroche.com wrote: - please add items to discuss, bearing in mind we're going to try to be done in 80 +/- 10 minutes. Something to keep in mind is that most of this stuff can be discussed on gnhlug-org. We don't *need* a meating (meatspace

Lunch prior to bored meeting?

2009-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
Anyone care to join me for lunch prior to the meeting? There's lot of fine eating establishments in Manchester, from mainstream to local fare, formal to casual to *way* casual, and all genres: Italian, American, Mexican, Asian, pizza-and-subs, etc. There's even a classic old-school diner --

Sat 3 Oct - GNHLUG Board of Directors Meeting??

2009-09-21 Thread Ben Scott
Proposed: GNHLUG Board of Directors Meeting, Saturday, October 3rd (first weekend in Oct). Time TBD, pending responses from others. We're required to have two of these a year, and this will be our first for 2009. The following people are Directors: Jon Anderson Hall Heather A Brodeur

Re: GNHLUG bored/org meeting for 2009

2009-09-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Ted Rochetedro...@tedroche.com wrote:   Okay, how about: Afternoon of Sat 26 Sep ... BarCamp Manchester. Sheesh. I should have played the lottery instead of picking meeting dates. How about the 5th Thursday in October? That's further out than I'd like.

Re: GNHLUG bored/org meeting for 2009

2009-09-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:  Afternoon of Sat 19 Sep, location TBD, exact time TBD. Crud! That's Software Freedom Day! I sure can pick 'em, can't I? Okay, how about: Afternoon of Sat 26 Sep, location TBD, exact time TBD. Week following SFD

Re: Fwd: User group leader conference in Boston, May 2nd

2009-04-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:31 AM, David Berube djber...@berubeconsulting.com wrote: Is there any objection to my going to this? I'm ex-chairman, not current chairman ... I have no objection, and wouldn't even if you *were* the current chairman or anything else. GNHLUG is not at war with

Re: Gaming SIG

2009-04-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com wrote: Is there a proposed charter for it? (or mission statement, or anything by which we can determine its success or effectiveness) Note that meet monthly will do, but I'd like to see something! To my knowledge, nothing beyond

Re: [GNHLUG] Merrilug Meeting March 19th Canceled

2009-03-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: I do not know when I will be able to reschedule it.  I will have to discuss that with the other organizers. MerriLUG/Nashua is *wide open*, so if you're available to do it, e.g., Thr 16 April 2009, I'm sure that would

Re: PremiumMemory.com offers GNHLUG a sponsorship

2009-01-27 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Ted Roche tedro...@tedroche.com wrote: Sponsorship would consist of providing giveaways at the meetings (flash drives) ... They tell you what sizes? If they're smaller than 1 GB, they're prolly just trying to get rid of old stock they can't sell at any

Re: SFD Tomorrow - list of things

2008-09-20 Thread Ben Scott
If anyone is reading this at this late stage... I should arrive around 10:30 to 11 ish. On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Arc Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if anyone else can bring one for a work table in the back that'd be great (Ben?) I'm bringing my 6x2 foot folding table. Chairs:

gnhlug-jobs mailing list moderation

2008-09-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 2:29 PM, a message from Courtney Homer [EMAIL PROTECTED] was posted to the gnhlug-jobs mailing list. It had no Linux-related content. She quickly followed up with an apology to the list-owner address, saying she mistakenly sent her message to the wrong list. That list

Re: gnhlug-jobs mailing list moderation

2008-09-11 Thread Ben Scott
[reply to multiple messages] On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And it was an on-topic post, in the sense it was for a computer technician. The list charter is quite explict about requiring Linux. If someone wants Dice.com, they know where to find it. :)

Re: SFD volunteers in Concord, NH

2008-09-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Arc Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They're going to unlock the electric box for us in the morning so we'll have an outlet to use for laptops (for burning extra CDs, etc). Sweet. I'll have that Dell Vostro 1700 with me. Now we just need to hope for a dry

Bank account rejected again

2008-08-24 Thread Ben Scott
Thursday evening, I picked up the bank paperwork from Heather. Yesterday (Saturday 23 Aug), I brought it to the bank. Alas, they rejected it again. While I had visited the bank only two days before our last board meeting, the absence from the meeting of one of our officers again meant the

Re: Bank account rejected again

2008-08-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Arc Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never heard of anything so rediculous, you should only need 2 signatures from the organization (usually president and treasurer) at most and a signature card should be more than sufficient. The paperwork consists of

Re: Mobile power supply WAS: Re: SFD volunteers in Concord, NH

2008-08-18 Thread Ben Scott
This is off-topic for the gnhlug-org list, which actually has a topic charter. We aim to keep signal-to-noise ratio high, and signal on this list is organizational efforts. Tech discussions should go to -discuss. Indeed, I posted about this there. This has been a public service message

Software Freedom Day GNHLUG web page created

2008-08-17 Thread Ben Scott
For those interested, I created a page for Software Freedom Day on the GNHLUG web site: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/SoftwareFreedomDay This can be used for both announcing/coordinating upcoming efforts, as well as chronicling past ones. Somewhat sparse right now. If people

SIG requirements (was: Board meeting...)

2008-07-14 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, which problem are we solving by imposing a regulatory structure on SIG's? The one where the Board of Directors is responsible for actions undertaken by the Legal Entity they represent. One of the unfortunate

Re: Board meeting July 31st?

2008-07-14 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to have the board get together for a meeting. Thursday July 31st is the fifth Thursday of the month. How would that work for everyone? Works for me. Ben and Bill may also have updates. I should. -- Ben

Board meeting July 31st - location

2008-07-14 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd welcome a suggestion on location. We held the last one at the Hopkinton Public Library in Contoocook, which was an hours commute from Nashua and Hanover and Portsmouth. Hopkinton is more centrally located geographically.

Re: SIG requirements (was: Board meeting...)

2008-07-14 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My statement about Anyone... could claim... was in reference to the idea of having an established policy of letting anybody who wants to be part of GNHLUG. (You're treating that sentence in isolation, AFAIK, we've always had (at

Re: SIG requirements (was: Board meeting...)

2008-07-14 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps it's worth figuring out then whether a SIG/whatever ought to be a subunit of GNHLUG or merely affiliated with it ... Certainly, if a group doesn't want to take advantage of any of the things the Legal Entity

Re: Ubuntu SIG

2008-07-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Arc Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the BBQ on Sunday the topic of starting an Ubuntu SIG under GNHLUG was discussed, Jon said the next step would be posting this here. I'm not sure how I feel about this. Well, I guess I feel conflicted. Anything that

Small office server install-fest (was: ben's linux server setup talk)

2008-05-19 Thread Ben Scott
For our viewers just joining us: My recent presentation at CentraLUG on Setting up a Linux small office server taught me that there is a lot of material -- too much to cover in two hours. So when Bill and Llyod asked me if I could repeat my talk at DLSLUG, that quickly morphed into discussion

Re: Can't make the board meeting

2008-04-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Michael Kazin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm afraid I am being sent on a week-long work trip to Nebraska and won't be able to make the meeting on Tuesday. Sorry to hear that. Have fun in Nebraska. Well, okay, try not to get trapped there. This puts us

501(c)(3) again (was: SwaNH meeting postings)

2008-04-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think GNHLUG wants to establish its own 501c3 status for several reasons, but we're trying to understand if there is an umbrella or sponsor situation we'd benefit from passing through. Legal advice is on its way... I'd

Re: SwaNH meeting postings

2008-04-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does that go to -discuss or -announce? IMO: Send to -discuss, or maybe not at all. It's not Linux or FOSS or GNHLUG or particularly NH. We're not obligated to forward everything that comes to our inbox. Full Disclosure:

Location for GNHLUG Board Meeting (was: How about 29 Apr ...)

2008-04-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could show up too. Is it still planned for Manchester? We don't have a location pinned down yet. Manchester was being entertained, but I don't have a specific venue. Do we have any Manchester residents who might be

Re: Location for GNHLUG Board Meeting (was: How about 29 Apr ...)

2008-04-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.manchesternh.gov/CityGov/LIB/RoomBooking.html Good find. I'd say Hunt Room at Main Library seats 15 is our best bet. (It appears West Branch is closed Tuesday evenings.) I still think it would be best if a

How about 29 Apr for the GNHLUG Board Meeting

2008-04-02 Thread Ben Scott
Well, we've had an overwhelming lack of response to the query for suggestions. So: How about the evening of Tuesday 29 April for the first board meeting of 2008? Starting at 6 PM, and hopefully ending by 8 PM. It's not the fifth Thursday, but it's close. Location TBD. -- Ben

Re: 503(c) stuff

2008-03-14 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Ed lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe it is fair to say this is like dejavew all over again. I think the reason we have so much deja vu over and over again is that we keep getting told we should do things, but don't actually know *how* to do them. None

503(c) stuff (was: First 2008 GNHLUG Board Meeting)

2008-03-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Ed lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The hard part of the process is not the legal part, but the organizational and planning work needed to have the information and projections needed to complete the application. Indeed, and that's really I'm talking about: I

Re: 503(c) stuff (was: First 2008 GNHLUG Board Meeting)

2008-03-13 Thread Ben Scott
Carole, First, thank you for replying! An experienced voice is desperately welcome here! :) (And Bruce, thank you for bringing this to Carole's attention -- I was hunting for her email address when I got your reply.) On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Carole Soule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: 503(c) stuff (was: First 2008 GNHLUG Board Meeting)

2008-03-13 Thread Ben Scott
The following is directed more to the general group, rather than Carole in particular. On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Carole Soule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably $750 to the IRS when the application is submitted (this fee entirely depends on the organization income for the last 4

March MerriLUG/Nashua meeting

2008-03-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings Marc! Just wondering if you've decided on whether or not you want to have another go at your GNHLUG MySQL talk this month (Thr 20 Mar)? I've sent mail to Marc twice (22 Feb and 3 Mar), and never heard back

Rescheduling the MySQL talk

2008-02-21 Thread Ben Scott
Hi Marc, Sorry to hear you have fallen sick. I hope you feel better soon. Assuming you haven't concluded that offering to speak at GNHLUG is bad luck, would you like to re-schedule to next month, Thur 20 March? -- Ben ___ gnhlug-org mailing list

Re: MerriLUG Greeter

2008-01-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Jan 17, 2008 12:45 PM, Jim Kuzdrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't make it to the dinner or the meeting at Martha's tonight. Someone should commit to arriving for dinner by 6PM to greet the first timers. FWIW, I should be there around 6ish (although the way this day's been going my car

Re: January MerriLUG - Python

2007-12-31 Thread Ben Scott
On Dec 31, 2007 12:13 PM, Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a bit surprised by this. I know I get quickly frustrated with technical presentations that don't get to some meat. Yah. That. At the same time, I can see where Jim is coming from. There's simply no way you'll be able to

Re: January MerriLUG - Python

2007-12-31 Thread Ben Scott
On Dec 31, 2007 12:34 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm adding gnhlug-org to the recipients of this message ... P.S.: Kent posted his preliminary notes here: http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/stories/00020.html -- Ben ___ gnhlug-org

DLSLUG meeting 3 Jan 2008?

2007-12-27 Thread Ben Scott
Hi Bill! Happy Hanukwanzmas! Do you, by any chance, already have the next DLSLUG meeting (Thr 3 Jan 2008 on the normal schedule) planned out? I'm trying to get the Jan calendar filled in. Thanks, -- Ben ___ gnhlug-org mailing list

Re: MerriLUG 20 December

2007-12-01 Thread Ben Scott
[Author's note: The following is all strictly In My Opinion. I don't speak for anyone but myself.] On Dec 1, 2007 7:56 PM, Jim Kuzdrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. Taking a chance on getting the lecture room at Martha's for free is risky. We would not know until the last minute. What

Re: Preliminary notes for 3 Nov 2007 Org Meeting

2007-11-26 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 26, 2007 3:43 PM, Rob Lembree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Organizational/BoardNotesAutumn2007 Just getting around to reading this. Sorry. No need to apologize. Heck, you weren't even there -- I'm glad other people care, too! :) My wife's not

Re: NC Shows Salem report

2007-11-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 19, 2007 8:40 AM, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, Ben, when's the next show and what would you like to show? Just to be clear: This wasn't my idea and I'm not volunteering to run it. I volunteered to do some recon because I still had a pre-paid NCS entrance ticket from back when

Re: NC Shows Salem report

2007-11-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 19, 2007 9:33 AM, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I knew that and was poking fun. I knew that, too, but others might not. :) I guess one question I have is one of audience. Were these people who wouldn't know of Open Source or want and not know how to get a distro of

NC Shows Salem report

2007-11-18 Thread Ben Scott
Hi all, At the last Board meeting, the idea of having a table at one of the local computer markets was raised again. One question was whether such markets are obsolete in this day of web vendors. So I volunteered to hit one and report what I found. The Northern Computer Shows

Re: NC Shows Salem report

2007-11-18 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 18, 2007 9:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you think this is representative of fill-in-your-show-here? I see no reason why not. This is supposedly NCS's biggest and best show, according to their website. Having flashy Linux things at a table might help attract customers to the

Re: Analyze This!

2007-11-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 8, 2007 3:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I used to do that Debian thing too. :) Please keep the distro wars off this list. They're off-topic. (We actually have a topic charter for *this* list, so we can say that.) http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org -- Ben

Re: Analyze This!

2007-11-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 9, 2007 1:17 PM, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My FC6 distro let me install it with yum install python-BeautifulSoup, funky capitalization and all... Interesting. I see that, too, in extras. The package does not appear to exist in CentOS (RHEL), nor the rpmforge repository for

Re: Analyze This!

2007-11-08 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 8, 2007 7:19 AM, David J Berube [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. I'm assuming there's no Ruby, so I'll have to write it in Perl or Python or something. Thanks to the beauty of YUM, Ruby 1.8.1 is now installed on liberty. :) Python 2.3.4 is also present. It appears, however, that

Re: [Fwd: Re: Analyze This!, was: Re: Attendance: A business-like approach]

2007-11-07 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/7/07, Jim Kuzdrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be possible, in the new Wiki, to add a column in the Resent Events table for the attendance? ... There's one in the present table. Titled How many. At least one of us is confused. :) Even better, could that table get at

Re: Meeting procedure (was: Preliminary notes)

2007-11-06 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/6/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new at this chair assignment, so I'd welcome any tips. Yah, me too. :) I see reviewing the agenda, that I missed the centralug item. Yah, that was one. Of course, we're *all* at fault for forgetting that one. :) If there were some

Re: Meeting procedure (was: Preliminary notes)

2007-11-06 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/6/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Specifically: The statement that the board can meet and make decisions, provided a quorum exists, despite the absence of one or more members/officers. Wow. I didn't know that was a debatable issue. I didn't think so, either, but it was

Re: Bank account

2007-11-03 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/3/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... the pace of change in plans may be indicative of a lack of requirements. :) The requirements haven't really changed since this started. In all seriousness, I think it's mostly indicative of how much banks suck. In fairness, delays

Preliminary notes for 3 Nov 2007 Org Meeting

2007-11-03 Thread Ben Scott
I just finished listening to the audio recordings of today's board meeting -- and you thought sitting through it *once* was rough! ;-) I typed up notes on what was said, and put said notes on the website. Please review: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Organizational/BoardNotesAutumn2007

Re: Preliminary notes for 3 Nov 2007 Org Meeting

2007-11-03 Thread Ben Scott
I've now also added the audio recordings I made. http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Organizational/BoardNotesAutumn2007 I encoded using the Speex speech CODEC, which is FOSS. http://www.speex.org/ There was already a package for it on my Fedora 6 box (possibly from a third-party

Re: Preliminary notes for 3 Nov 2007 Org Meeting

2007-11-03 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. Does this license apply only to board meetings, or does it extend to our LUG meetings and mailing lists, too? Sure! -- B ___ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Bank account

2007-11-02 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/2/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For clarification, I set up an account for Linux International, not GNHLUG. Oh. Thanks for catching that, Dave! Okay, new new new new plan: Baring crisises at work (which are depressingly common), I will call Ocean Bank today, and

Re: Bank account

2007-11-02 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/2/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, new new new new plan: Baring crisises at work (which are depressingly common), I will call Ocean Bank today, and see what they can tell me over the phone. And I will re-instate my plan to swing by Citizen's on the way to the museum

Re: Bank account

2007-11-01 Thread Ben Scott
Service Credit Union does not offer accounts to organizations (only individual people). So that's out. :-( I called Citizen's Bank. I was basically told that I have to come in to get more information. And because all banks keep absolutely freaking useless hours, I can't do anything about

Re: Bank account

2007-11-01 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/1/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just set up a non-profit account with Ocean bank: Kerist. I've been pulling my hair out for a month trying to get this done, battling incompetent reps, inconsistent answers, we don't do that, and general confusion. Then you go and do

Re: Bank account

2007-11-01 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/1/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not ask about checks that needed two signatures. I have never used these in an organization. I rely on the treasurer ... That was my thinking as well, but the rest of the board seemed to think that two signature checks would be

Re: Bank account

2007-10-31 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/30/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google says it's 14.4 mi from Martha's Exchange to the Salem location. I think we need to define 'near'. Up here, 14.4 miles is called 'neighbor'. :) There's some kind of space-time discontinuity that runs along the North-South line

Re: Bank account

2007-10-29 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/29/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see St. Mary's bank has branches in the Manchester-Nashua corridor only. You don't need to tell me! :-) (I live in Dover.) I don't know that there can be a small bank with locations all over the state - a bit of an oxymoron...

Sat 3 Nov org meeting is almost here

2007-10-29 Thread Ben Scott
Crap, it's almost meeting time. Times flies like an arrow. So, like, this telephone museum thing. Is the plan that interested parties (is anyone interested aside from me?) just show up around 10 AM? Who else is gonna be there (so the earlier arrivals can know to wait for the later ones)?

Re: Bank account

2007-10-28 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/27/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I did some searching on locations for Citizens ... At some of the recent Org Meetings, the choice of bank has been discussed. There was definite consensus for avoid big banks. The reasoning behind that decision was somewhat

December meetings close to 25 Dec

2007-10-27 Thread Ben Scott
Hi people! I was looking at the December calendar, and I noticed that a couple of our regular meetings are rather closed to the US Secular Shopping Holiday. Namely: * MerriLUG (Nashua), Thr 20 Dec * PySIG (Manchester), Thr 27 Dec Do we want to consider canceling/rescheduling/altering

Bank account

2007-10-19 Thread Ben Scott
I spoke to a rep at St. Mary's Bank (http://www.stmarysbank.com/) about their Community Checking account package. * Interest bearing at 0.30% APY * It should be okay that we are registered with the state but have not yet applied for Federal non-profit status * They do offer two-signature checks

Re: Board minutes for November 3rd board meeting

2007-10-18 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/18/07, Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get the minutes for our past meetings posted prior to that meeting. Is there something I can do to help you get them ready? No. Can you at least post your incomplete notes online somewhere (to this list, a web site,

Re: Board minutes for November 3rd board meeting

2007-10-18 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/18/07, Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My notes are in an engineering notebook written by hand ... *Oh.* For some reason, I thought you were keeping them on a laptop. My bad. I do not see how anyone can help with decoding handwritten notes. OK. How about you transcribe them?

Re: GNHLUG Board meeting, November 3rd?

2007-10-17 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/17/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to hear that. We'll take good notes and let you (and everyone else) know what we get done. ... should we get anything done. That reminds me, I need to call the bank. HHOS. -- Ben ___

Nashua MerriLUG meeting planning

2007-10-17 Thread Ben Scott
Heather, Jim, Ted Roche has agreed to bring his traveling CSS roadshow to Nashua next month (15 Nov). So we've got next month lined up. *phew* :-) Heather, I know you're bogged down at work, do you need any extra help with tomorrow's meeting? -- Ben

Re: Apathy considered harmful (was: Off-list conversations...)

2007-10-15 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/15/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't matter. No one else answers anyway. Looks like I'll have to call the rest of the board to find out if they'll join us. I have been answering back on each and every query about the dates. Ted did say you and I were the only

Apathy considered harmful (was: Off-list conversations...)

2007-10-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/12/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't matter. No one else answers anyway. Looks like I'll have to call the rest of the board to find out if they'll join us. I see this as a big problem. If we can't even find the time to let you know if we can find the time to meet, how

Re: Off-list conversations considered harmful

2007-10-09 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/9/07, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can understand the desire to float an idea among friends and like-minded individuals ... And almost the entire group is more than a few friends and like-minded individuals. I guess that's where my disconnect is. To me, the free and open

Off-list conversations considered harmful

2007-10-07 Thread Ben Scott
Greetings fellow gnhlug-org subscribers! I have noticed a trend in the usage of this list (gnhlug-org), in that many people seem to exhibit a very real reluctance to use it. On many occasions I've been included in a manually-addressed conversation that seemed appropriate for this list. In

MerriLUG Thr 18 Oct will be Charlie Farinella on vinyl to digital

2007-10-04 Thread Ben Scott
I'm pleased to report that Charlie Farinella has agreed to repeat his presentation on transferring audio records from vinyl LP to digital media for the Thr 18 Oct meeting of MerriLUG/Nashua. I'll update the website. Jim, you're still handling the mailing list announcements, right?

Re: Attendance: Measuring progress

2007-10-04 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/4/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're also correct that the sampling size is very small and the number of dimensions of analysis relatively large. I think the above is a key point. I believe there are far too many variables compared to our sample size to achieve deep insight

Re: Could advertising backfire?

2007-10-04 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/29/07, Jim Kuzdrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seems to be a strong drive to just rush out and advertise while skipping the work of identifying your target population ... Perhaps a better term would be publicizing. More specifically, there are two ways I can think of to increase

Oct MerriLUG/Nashua meeting?

2007-10-02 Thread Ben Scott
Hi Heather, In the past, you had asked me to check-in with you if we got within a few weeks of a Nashua meeting and nothing had been made public. We'll, I'm reminding you. :) Do you need help lining up a speaker or anything like that? -- Ben ___

Re: Legal entity types

2007-08-28 Thread Ben Scott
On 8/28/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will admit that GNHLUG is where just about everything is free, but USENIX does a lot of good work I don't think anyone was disparaging USENIX; just pointing out that many of their activities are different from ours, so their legal

Re: Other 501c3s?

2007-08-26 Thread Ben Scott
On 8/24/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The UVCIA is a 501(c)(3) as well ... Are you sure? The web page says 501(c)(6): http://www.uvcia.org/history -- Ben ___ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Legal entity types

2007-08-23 Thread Ben Scott
On 8/23/07, Ed lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are lots of issues that preclude a simple answer to this question, but here are my initial thoughts. Thank you, Ed, for that very informative post! First, the absolute easiest way to do this is to become an affiliate of Carol's

Re: Legal entity types

2007-08-22 Thread Ben Scott
On 8/22/07, Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GNHLUG itself will presumably *not* write letters or try to persuade officials of anything. In the past, people have said that being a real organization would allow us to have people go before law- and policy-makers and say, We're here

Re: New Thread: What To Do Instead?

2007-08-20 Thread Ben Scott
I, too, think that a practical demonstration of Linux/FOSS radio applications would be uber-cool and very appropriate, for both the ham community and the FOSS community. Unfortunately, that is way far out of my area of expertise, so I'm not going to sign up to run it. However, should some other

Software Freedom Day - Sat 15 Sep

2007-08-15 Thread Ben Scott
Software Freedom Day 2007 Saturday 15 September (one month from today) http://softwarefreedomday.org/ I'm thinking getting involved in this would be a nice replacement for my efforts at hamfests. Maybe others would also like to chip-in. Anyone else teetering on the edge of volunteering who

Re: Mini Presentation?

2007-08-10 Thread Ben Scott
On 8/10/07, Flaherty, Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume this isn't a discussion I would have on-list, but who does one talk to about presenting? We're pretty informal. Most of the local coordinators are listed on the web site, and you can contact any of them about speaking.

Membership fee policy

2007-08-09 Thread Ben Scott
I was cleaning up various parts of the website, and that included the MembershipFeePolicy page. I added a couple comments, and then Ted posted some good points. Since I know even fewer people pay attention to that part of the website than this list, and wiki's are cumbersome for discussion

Re: Notes for 31 May GNHLUG Board Meeting?

2007-08-08 Thread Ben Scott
On 8/8/07, Christopher Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 01:28:39PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 8/8/07, Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... but the original should be something like ReST. What's ReST? Restructured Text. http://docutils.sourceforge.net

FYI: Web site overhaul - Legal entity/non-profit status

2007-08-07 Thread Ben Scott
FYI, I've been overhauling the section of the website that deals with our status as a legal entity. Additional contributions welcomed. http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Organizational/LegalEntity -- Ben ___ gnhlug-org mailing list

Re: Notes for 31 May GNHLUG Board Meeting?

2007-08-07 Thread Ben Scott
On 8/7/07, Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is just as an aid to organizing, not for any official record. (It *is* an official record, BTW.) I was referring to this particular application of your notes, not in general. In other words, an unofficial version can be used for

Re: Notes for 31 May GNHLUG Board Meeting?

2007-08-07 Thread Ben Scott
PDF uploaded to TWiki. http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Organizational/SpringSummit2007Notes Once the final version is released, I'll take the time to translate the PDF text into TWiki text. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-org mailing list

Board meeting - Thr Aug 30 (?)

2007-07-23 Thread Ben Scott
So... the idea was that the next GNHLUG bored board meeting would happen Thr 30 Aug. Can the bored board members and other interested people make it for that date? Have we all done our homework? (I know I haven't.) Maybe start giving some background processing time on /dev/brain to

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