In attendance were:
anothy, paul, phil, ges, ck, ste, plus, dan (by phone) & michael (by phone).
tal came early, weighed in on the agenda items, and left before the meeting
started. mikea arrived after the 4th minute was recorded.
The meeting started at 8:55pm.
2003-0605-00 Thanks to Cosym for it's support for the Collective in
it's infancy, as it bids us farewell.
2003-0605-01 Tal and/or our current website maintainers will move site
maintenance from CVS to Twiki. See http://www.bactram.com/twiki
or http://twiki.org for more info.
2003-0605-02 The Collective will provide Dan with $120 ($10 from each of us)
and he will provide us with a system running FreeBSD, that we
can move the various Collective services to. He has offered to
absorb any addition cost to obtain the system.
2003-0605-03 The Collective has decided we must continue our search for a
new name for the Collective. We would like to move away from
having "what" in the name, and it's agreed we don't want
"geek" in the name either.
2003-0605-04 After discussion we've developed a set of newly identified
requirements that the Collective's financial tracking program
must meet. They are: transaction id numbers, transaction
receipts, ability to display an exploded (per person) version
of all compound transactions, the periodic recording of
checkpoint balances, and password protected secure web access to
the program. Also, the standard finance tools shall only
provide an append only interface for modifying the data. Any
other changes to the data shall be limited to exceptional
circumstances and require documented rationale and Collective
approval for any such change. Additionally, some members feel
the following are requirements, but there is not yet a
consensus regarding them: that the exploded view of compound
entries be stored as the authoritative data to be used in
subsequent calculations, and that the periodic balance entries
should also be entered into the main transaction log as
authoritative data.
2003-0605-05 Those members who so desire, are encouraged to develop or
identify tools that meet the requirements of the prior minute
and present them at the next meeting for discussion and
possible approval.
2003-0605-06 Phil will discontinue the phone line in the basement.
2003-0605-07 It is decided that everyone will continue to enter their
transactions into O, using either the command line or email
interfaces, until the above stated requirements are met.
Anothy will send out instructions on how to access 9srv and
bank, and how to use bank via the command line and email
interfaces. He will also ensure everyone has a working
9srv account. He will do this within 24 hours.
The meeting was adjourned at 12:07am.
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