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Board Meeting Minutes - February 15, 1995
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Feb 16 06:01 UTC 1995 |
Minutes of the February 15 meeting of the Cyberspace Communications, Inc.
Board of directors. The meeting was held at the Washington Street Station
Restaurant.
Entered by Steven R. Weiss (srw)
The Meeting was called to order by srw at 7:15.
Board members attending: srw[acting chair], remmers[secretary],
danr[treasurer], steve, rcurl, popcorn, scg
Others attending: chip, chelsea, carl, treelawn, mdw.
1. The new board members (srw[returning], popcorn[returning after a year],
and scg[new]) were welcomed.
3. Treasurer's report.
Danr reported that we received $654 in dues, $17.50 in T-shirts and mugs.
Danr noted that moving expenses, etc. are catching up with us.
Danr said that we don't have to file a tax return if our income
is less than $25000. He agreed to follow up with the accounting
aid society.
2. Election of Officers (delayed until all 7 members were present)
For chair, nominated were popcorn(by popcorn) and srw(by steve).
The voting was a dead heat 3 vs 3 with 1 abstention.
A second vote was taken, and popcorn won by 4 to 2 with 1 abstention.
srw handed the gavel to popcorn.
For treasurer, danr was the only nominee. He accepted, and will
continue as our treasurer.
For Secretary, remmers and srw were nomimnated.
The voting went 5 to 2 in favor of srw, and remmers handed the
minutes to srw.
[that's why I am posting these, in case you didn't notice]
4. 501c3 committee
Rane wanted to know the consensus if the board as to whether we want to
apply for 501c3. There was much discussion on the benefits and hazards
of obtaining 501c3 status.
The sense of the board was that we did want to go on and begin the
process of filling out the forms.
5. Computer Rehabilitation Committee
Rcurl reported that we received no new computers nor did we give any
away. Danr has arranged for some gear but it has not materialized yet.
6. Publicity
We have no publicity committee since Misti resigned. Valerie will
enter an item asking for a local publicity chair. STeve Andre' will
figure out what the cost would be of resuming sending out the pamphlets.
7. Technical Committee
* The MOVE
Staff os happy. There are no leaks. The temperature has been fine.
We will need to add some ventilation before the warmer months.
There are still lots of little things to do, such as get a latch
for the door, replace the fluorescent light, and measure the electrical
usage.
* Phone Lines
Line noise still plagues us. We have problems with Ameritech that
are causing this. In particular there is an intermittently bad cable
on W Liberty, and Ameritech has run out of spare wire pairs.
* 8 mm tape drive
This has been installed. It works great. We are taking dumps much
more often than ever before, and they are fast (10 MB per minute).
* Gryps
This is our new router. A 386 PC running BSD unix.
Initially it was running NetBSD, but this failed under heavy load
causeing frequent reboots which took the link down for 5 minutes.
Now it is configured using FreeBSD, which is a similar OS, but
it is much more stable. It is not perfect though.
Most of our current internet connection problems are now due to the
fact that we have stopped using a dedicated line at ICnet. Instead
we are in the pool with their other customers. This has caused a loss
of reliability of the net link.
We really need to go back to a dedicated line at ICnet. STeve will
be discussing this with Ivars.
* Miscellaneous
The Sun-3 is rathe stable. We still have the disk problem, but it
is minor.
8. Verification Policy
There are actually 3 separate issues, (1) Voting, (2) Internet, and
(3) Usenet.
Issues still unresolved are
(1) What is acceptable ID,
(2) What are the rules for protecting access to the ID information.
(That is, who gets to see it, and under what circumstances.)
John Remmers volunteered to attempt to make sense of what is posted
on-line and put together a summary. This issues will be considered
at the next board meeting.
9. HVCN (Huron Valley Community Network)
srw reported that the HVCN technical committee met.
A. Dungeon-related Expenses
STeve reported that the gryps project came in $90 over budget, mainly
because of the extra disk we bought for it.
The 8mm tape was $200 under budget.
The Dungeon move costst are not perfectly known yet, but it appears that
we will wind up about $200 to $300 over budget.
B. Resident Agent
srw moved that danr become Grex's resident agent with his home
address listed as our registered office.
popcorn seconded, and the motion passed unanimously.
C. Grex Newsletter
Steve moved that Cyberspace Communications Inc. authorize an official
newsletter for Grex.
scg seconded and this proposal passed unanimously with 1 abstention.
D. ICnet contact.
John Remmers has been acting in this capacity, and felt that it was
unnecessary beureaucracy. We agreed to abolish the official ICnet contact.
An ICnet item is to be created in the staff conference, to contain
information regarding relations with ICnet.
E. JCC sale
The next JCC sale is 3/26.
Steve moved that the board authorize remmers to rent a table at the JCC
sale.
popcorn seconded, and the proposal passed unanimously.
There is a new clause in the JCC contract that prohibits the sale of
adult software and authorizes the JCC to remove people they consider
objectionable.
The board found this clause objectionable, and will complain to the JCC,
F. New business
The following new business items were discussed briefly, because the
restaurant was trying to close at this point.
* Should we get a guest account?
* A separate phone line to gryps to permit staff to manage the system
better for security and emergencies.
No action was taken on either of these items.
Adjournment took place a few minutes after 10 PM.
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