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Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Cyberspace Communications
November 15, 1995
(/) The meeting was called to order at 7:46 PM by Valerie Mates.
In attendance were Valerie Mates (popcorn), president,
Steve Weiss (srw) Secretary, Dan Romanchik (danr) Treasurer,
STeve Andre' (steve), Steve Gibbard (scg), and John Remmers (remmers).
Rane Curl (rcurl) was absent.
Observers present were Mark Conger (aruba), Mary Remmers (chelsea),
Jan Wolter (janc), Jeff kaplan (kaplan), and Rob Henderson (robh).
(-) Treasurer's Report
Dan reported that we had a great month last month, at $800, but we're
not having a good month this month, with $170 so far. New memberships
and renewals appear to be a feast or a famine, showing great variation
from month to month.
(\) 501(C)(3) Committee Report
This was not given, because Rane was not present.
(|) Computer Rehabilitation Committee Report
This was not given, because Rane was not present.
(.) Publicity Committee Report
This was not given, because Misti was not present.
(,) Technical Committee Report
1. Steve reported a reboot of Grex that occurred in the last month in
which we lost the primary superblock on the disk. The immediate result
was that all of /home (all user directories on the system) vanished. All
was not lost, though, because we were able to reboot using one of the
many backup superblocks, which saved the file structure.
2. The Sun-3 hardware has been pretty stable.
3. The Sun-4 Project -- installation of the software has been
proceeding. There are still more packages to install. The kernel blocks
were worked out conceptually at the last staff meeting, and will be
written soon by srw (with help already given by mdw, and to be given by
gregc).
There was a security patch we installed which broke things and had to be
backed out. Greg Cronau is looking into this more deeply.
4. Phone lines for ttyh6 and ttyh8 vanished one day for 3 hours. STeve
called Ameritech and determined that they were doing cable work.
5. Phone line report - The staff phone line is to be installed and
Ivars's line is to be installed, taking advantage of the free
installation offer from Ameritech.
6. STeve investigated the prospects of repairing the 32MB memory card
which went flaky on us last summer. There is a repair place which will
repair it for $280 and offer a one year warrantee. This is somewhat
attractive, because our source has them (used) for $325 with no
warrantee. Also, he is out of them at the moment.
(;) Newsletter Report
The polls will close 11/30 and the winning newsletter name will be
determined.
(:) Grex Manual
Danr admitted that he has put the project on the back burner, because he
has become very busy with real work.
(x) Deceased User Policy
Srw (with editing help from several others) moved, and scg seconded:
Motion: "Staff will honor requests to permanently reserve an account of
a user who has died."
There was much discussion of the merits of this motion. Some (mary
Remmer, John Remmers) felt that the board was being manipulated into
taking action where no action was warranted. Others argued that the
motion was merely a codification of the way staff would have acted
anyway, and that it would reassure the users who were upset by the lack
of a policy.
The vote was 4-1-1 with Remmer against, and DanR abstaining. The motion
PASSED.
(y) Trademarking the Newsletter Name
This was deferred in the agenda.
(z) Trademarking the name "Grex"
There was some discussion, which concluded when scg agreed to inquire
further at the law office he works for, and the item was tabled
until next month.
(y) Trademarking the Newsletter Name
This item was tabled until next month.
(?) New Business
1. Valerie pointed out that Grex had been deliberately powered down
again at the breaker box. Our security clamp had been removed. This
situation is being described on-line. NO action was taken.
2. Valerie reported progress in the process of finding an ISP who
can provide us with better internet connectivity.
Contact has been made with Isthmus, Merit, RustNet, MSen, and NetDTW.
Negotiations are proceeding, and some details were discussed, but
they are being withheld from the minutes because of the possibility
of disclosing confidential offers.
(!) Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 9:11PM
Elapsed time 1 hour 25 minutes
Efficiency: 1.5059 lines of meeting minutes per elapsed minute.
Respectfully Submitted,
Steven R. Weiss, Secretary
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