Add public minutes for 2024-11-22 MGM

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+title: Monthly General Meeting, November 2024
+author: amdj
+excerpt: >
+    E-mail retention, general secretary election, abuse mitigation
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+
+## Proposition and motions
+
+### Retention/pruning of ticketing system e-mails
+
+Some e-mails that end up in our ticketing system are already explicitly
+covered under our [privacy policy][privacy]; for example, e-mails about
+project registration and group contact changes are described as being kept
+around for as long as the project exists.
+
+However, our privacy policy does not describe what happens to every kind of
+ticketing e-mail we could receive. At the moment, it merely states that we
+will review any such data collected by other means yearly and discard it if
+it is no longer required.
+
+Staff discussed a few ideas about which kinds of e-mails should have
+different retention periods, and whether and how we should automate our
+ticketing system to purge tickets entirely rather than requiring manual
+review.
+
+[privacy]: https://libera.chat/privacy/
+
+### General secretary proposal
+
+During [a previous MGM][prevmgm] the staff decided to revisit the position
+of an organisational general secretary once a proposal for the position
+existed and could be reviewed.
+
+That has since occurred, and this meeting elected a general secretary.
+
+[prevmgm]: https://libera.chat/minutes/2024-09-27-public
+
+## Other questions
+
+### Should we load HURT?
+
+Staff discussed loading an IRC server abuse mitigation module which would
+have required clients connecting from specific IP address ranges to login
+to services before they were allowed to interact with the rest of the
+network. This would be an alternative to our existing SASL-only IP address
+range restrictions, which don't let clients talk to services and so
+present the catch-22 of needing an account but not being able to create
+one.
+
+However, it was decided that this module is not suitable for the network,
+and an alternative proposal is now being worked upon.