Schedule and Tentative Agenda for the February Board Meeting (2/15)

Feb 7 02:07 UTC 1995

 The February meeting of the Cyberspace Communications Board is scheduled to
 take place on Wednesday, February 15 at 7:00 PM. Our normal meeting
 place, Zingerman's Next Door (upstairs), is in use at that time, so we are
 looking for an alternative site. As always, the general public is invited.

  Tentative agenda for the 2/15/95 board of directors meeting:

     Initializing gavel - srw - less than 1 minute
  1. Welcome new and returning board members        1 minute
  2. Election of officers for 1995                 15 minutes
  3. Treasurer's report - danr -                    5 minutes
  4. 501c3 Committee report - rcurl                 5 minutes
  5. Computer Rehabilitation committee - rcurl -    5 minutes
  6. Publicity committee - mta ??                   5 minutes
  7. Technical committee report - 
                steve,popcorn,mdw,srw,gregc        30 minutes
  8. Verification for Usenet use  - chelsea        10 minutes
  9. HVCN followup discussion - danr, scg, srw      5 minutes
  a. Dungeon related expenses - mostly to Gregc    10 minutes
  b. Registered Agent - danr                        5 minutes
  c. New business -                                 5 minutes
     Terminating gavel - chair -          less than 1 minute

I retired the Dungeon item and Public Access Terminal item.

 Please post other things that you think should be included.
 As always I am sure there are things I have left out.

Also we have the question of the venue, which would seem appropriate to
discuss here. AACS WinSIG is meeting at ZND(U), so where should we meet?
Last time, we met at Amer's on State Street. I found the air breathable
down in the non-smoking section where we met, but it was an annoying
atmosphere to go through to get there. One person has refused to meet
there for this reason, and more than one other has shared my distaste
for the upstairs smoke. Has anyone got any bright ideas for an alternative?

response 2 of 33:

Feb 7 04:10 UTC 1995

I can contact the People's Food Coop and the ICC to see if either of
their meeting spaces is free that evening.

response 4 of 33:

Feb 7 07:12 UTC 1995

(For the record, it is a "resident agent" at a "registered office",
despite my file of the state law being named /u/rcurl/registered.agent.)

response 6 of 33:

Feb 8 07:09 UTC 1995

I have duly noted the change to "resident agent". I have also removed
Chelsea's name from the verification item.

response 8 of 33:

Feb 8 23:43 UTC 1995

I'd like to have a slot for considering a motion to create the Grex
Newsletter (Grex News?).

response 10 of 33:

Feb 9 11:45 UTC 1995

Another agenda item:  Liaison with ICNet.  I'd like to bow out --
most of the need for communication with ICNet seems to be over
technical issues regarding the link, so I think it would make more
sense for the liaison person to be one of the people who is
directly involved with link maintenance.

response 12 of 33:

Feb 10 16:47 UTC 1995

I called the People's Food Coop to see if we could use their meeting
space.  They said to talk to Carol on Monday (she's not in today).
(She's the general manager).  Then I called the ICC to see if we could
use their meeting space.  We would need a letter from their education
committee, which meets weekly on Wednesdays, plus a refundable $25
deposit, to meet there.  This might be a possibility for future months,
but not this month.

Would it make sense to choose a big, not-too-busy, local restaurant
that's walking distance from campus and hold the meeting there?
The Great Wall could work, or Shaharayar (which is open 'til 11pm every
day).  Should we ask first, before meeting there, or just show up?
I'd like to ask permission first, but I hesitate because I think it
could be difficult to communicate with non-native speakers of English
at these places.

Any thoughts?  I think Monday is too late for a decision; would like
to have a place selected before then.

response 14 of 33:

Feb 11 07:24 UTC 1995

ANy of these places are OK with me. If people are going to order food,
I'll bet no advance warning is needed. Otherwise, I dunno.

response 16 of 33:

Feb 11 15:42 UTC 1995

I am backing away from 14 now. I don't think restaurants with regular
waitservice would be pleased if we hogged their tables for so long,
even if we did order food.

The library requires that the meeting finish up around 8:45 --
We are usually still going strong at that point.

response 18 of 33:

Feb 11 20:17 UTC 1995

Rob and I had dinner at Shaharayar last night, and I asked if it would
be OK for us to meet there on Thursday.  They said it would be fine.
I talked to Abraham; he said to call ahead to remind him.  I said
there would be about 12 people in our group.

response 20 of 33:

Feb 12 12:09 UTC 1995

If the restaurant is amenable, it sounds good to me.

Another agenda item:  JCC Sale.  I received a mailing from them -- the
next one is on March 26.

response 22 of 33:

Feb 12 14:53 UTC 1995

I'd vote for Shaharayar.  It would give me a chance to sample their food
and chances are that it closes earlier than Washington St.  I *don't*
want the board meeting to last until 2 am. :-)

response 24 of 33:

Feb 12 17:36 UTC 1995

All of those options seem OK to me. I can wait until tomorrow to decide.
Personally I prefer Shahrayar's food to Washington St., but Rob's
comment rings true to me as well.