Minutes of the Board Meeting of December 21, 1994

Dec 22 22:02 UTC 1994

Minutes of Cyberspace Communications Board of Directors Meeting, 12-21-94

Initializing gavel:  The meeting was called to order at 7:15 p.m.

    Board members present:  Steve Weiss (srw) [chair], Dan Romanchik
    (danr) [treasurer], John Remmers (remmers) [secretary], Rane Curl
    (rcurl), Mike Smerza (morel).  (STeve Andre
    (steve) arrived later in the meeting.)

    Board members absent:  Meg Geddes (meg)

    Others attending:  Misti Anslin (mta), Steve Gibbard (scg), Rob
    Henderson (robh), LeAnn Guyton (leann), Valerie Mates (popcorn),
    Mary Remmers (chelsea), Mark Unangst (mju), and a new user (didn't
    get his name).

There was no announced agenda, although it was understood that the primary
purpose of the meeting was to discuss means to resolve the problem of the
failure of the Board election to achieve a quorum.  After extended
discussion of the problem and means to deal with, the following was
moved:

    Motion (?, ?):  That a new election for the board of directors
    be held commencing January 15, 1995, to run for 15 days.

      Passed 5-0-1.

        In favor:       steve, srw, danr, rcurl, morel
        Abstaining:     remmers

The remainder of the meeting was devoted to committee reports and one item
of new business.

    Computer Rehabilitation Committee (rcurl):  Grex has given away its
    second computer.  Rane read an appreciative letter from the family
    that received it.

    Dungeon move (popcorn):  mdw, scg, kentn, mdw, carl, and popcorn have
    been doing work preparing the dungeon for the move.  The wiring has
    been completed.  Valerie noted in particular that Carl's contributions
    of time and skill have been invaluable.

    Technical committee (steve):

      o Following the demise of a power supply in one of our Supra modems,
        we received new power supplies for *all* of our Supra modems,
        gratis, from Supra.

      o Marcus installed sendmail, replacing smail.  This has resulted in
        greatly improved system performance.

      o Grex is now running on 64mb of memory.  32mb is borrowed from Marcus.

      o Marcus installed a new and much faster version of finger.

      o Marcus has built a new version of lynx (2-3-6), which is now under-
        going testing.

      o John R. installed gcc (GNU C compiler) version 2.6.2.  STeve
        mentioned that this version has been found elsewhere to be
        reliable.

      o Valerie has installed new versions of figlet, pico, and pine.

      o The problems with losing files on the new disk are not gone, but
        are greatly lessened.  Marcus has speculated that this is because
        of the reduced load averages since the installation of sendmail.
        Scheduled reboots every three days appear to be optimal in
        avoiding system crashes.

      o We have not gotten the new ROMs for the Sun to work.  At this
        point it is not clear whether or not this was due to faulty
        installation.  Testing will continue.

    
    New business:

      STeve indicated that inasmuch as 486 motherboard prices have been
      falling drastically, a 486 motherboard for the PC route box could
      be had for $90 to $100 more than the amount already authorized for
      a 386, and would yield substantially better performance and
      functionality.

        Motion (srw, rcurl):  That a maximum of $220 be authorized for
        the purchase of a 486 motherboard for the PC route box.

        Passed unanimously (6-0-0).

The meeting adjourned at about 9:30 pm.

                                        Respectfully submitted,
                                        John Remmers, secretary

response 2 of 14:

Dec 22 22:19 UTC 1994

I believe I moved to hold the new election, but with the commencing
data blank. The blank was filled with 15 January before the motion
was adopted. I don't recall who seconded.

With respect to the Computer Rehab committee report, an Xmas card from
the recipient family was passed around, and I read from a report from
TS Taylor on his delivery and setup visit to the family.

response 4 of 14:

Dec 22 23:23 UTC 1994

   The time I tried it the Sun wouldn't work.  I only tried installing
it the one occaison there at CE.  We need to try it on another Sun-3, such
that we can beat on it and make sure it isn't imporperly installed, etc.

response 6 of 14:

Dec 23 06:38 UTC 1994

I was the seconder of Rane's motion.
Thank you for the minutes, John.

response 8 of 14:

Dec 24 21:29 UTC 1994

Hmmm, well, i +did+ pop in-and-out ... at least I +think+ it
was I who did that ... tough to tell sometimes.

response 10 of 14:

Dec 26 01:43 UTC 1994

 ....i spent an extra 11 seconds .....

response 12 of 14:

Dec 31 01:45 UTC 1994

I read them, too.  I even found all of the archived minutes and read them! 

<nephi wonders if everyone is thinking that he is *really* weird now>  8*)

response 14 of 14:

Feb 10 09:12 UTC 1995

I thought all of it was interesting.  With every line, I learned more about
the personalities and the history of Grex.  It was almost as if I was there.