Folks, As many of you have noticed, GTALUG's mailings and website were down since Dec 17th. This was the result of the operations/executive failing to act in a timely manner after Chris's passing. A payment was missed, and our server was shutdown by the hosting provider. Over the holidays an attempt was made to recover the account, but we came under the mistaken impression that the server had been deleted. And so we focused our efforts on recovering DNS and establishing a new server from our regular backups. We have great thanks to express to Hugh Redelmeier. A steadfast volunteer and contributor of our community. Uncoordinated with the board, he reached out our provider and offered to pay the bill. Successful by-passing our misunderstandings, hotfixing the situation, and bringing us back on-line. He will be compensated for an out of pocket costs. Speaking personally, these are hard times. I as I've returned to help bridge the gap from Chris's passing, I've found to many functions and knowledge and pool in to few people and was not being effectively taught to new contributors. We failed to get enough visibility into our areas of risk. We failed to effectively communicate with our community via our other social media channels about our situation. I'm personally working with the current board to full on-board our lastest board members. Establish handbooks for the various functions and roles. In the past, the board was just the voting head of a rotating group of some 10-15 individuals that contributed and attended the executive meetings. If you want help spread the load, or be involved in how the group functions. Please see and consider joining the operations mailing list. https://gtalug.org/mailing-list/#operations Meeting Minutes of the Executive meetings can be found here: https://board.gtalug.org/ Executive / Board Meetings have always, and continue to be open to attendance from our community. -- Scott Sullivan Wearing the Hats of, A Director & Secretary