Minutes of the Dec. 20, 1995 Board Meeting

Dec 22 03:33 UTC 1995

Minutes of the meeting of the Cyberspace Communications Board of Directors
December 20, 1995 at 7:30 PM in the cafeteria of ITI on Hubbard Road in AA.

Directors present:
  Valerie Mates (popcorn), President
  Steve Weiss (srw), Secretary
  Dan Romanchik (danr), Treasurer
  Rane Curl (rcurl), John Remmers (remmers),
  STeve Andre' (steve), Steve Gibbard (scg)
  
Public present: 
  Rob Henderson (robh), Scott Helmke (scott),
  Misti Anslin (mta), Marc Conger (aruba),
  Marcus Watts (mdw), Stuart Reynolds (stui).
  
The agenda items are identified according to the tags assigned in the posted
agenda. Yes, they are streets in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

[Beakes]  The meeting was called to order at 7:46 PM by Valerie Mates.

Since a newcomer was present (stui, from Abbotsford, BC, Canada) we went around
the table and identified ourselves.

[Kingsley] The Treasurer's Report -

  Danr posted the numbers online as usual. He described the month as
  "mediocre", with $400 coming in and $350 out, but GregC got reimbursed for
  several months of hardware expenses, an amount slightly in excess of $1100.
  
[Lawrence] The 501(c)3 Committee Report - Rane's priorities have changed,
  so that he feels that he should hand this project off to someone who will
  be able to spend the necessary time on on it. A check was made to see if
  anyone present wanted to volunteer, but no one raised a hand.
  
[Catherine] The Rehabilitation Committee Report - Rane needs to move the 
  hardware to a site where it can get worked on.
  
[Ann] Publicity Committee Report - Misti and Stuart showed off the "Handbooks"
  with the color cover. Misti explained that the final version would be done
  on different paper, which should result in better colors. The handbook was
  handed around the table for inspection. Misti said the first run would be
  100, and should be ready Monday. It will be sent out to those who specially
  request it, and will be available at the JCC sale. The cost of printing them
  will be about $1 each.
  
[Huron] The Staff Committee Report - 

  (STeve) Staff line is now installed, but it is noisy. Once it is usable the 
  next step is to get a serial card for Gryps. We already have a modem for it. 
  That will set the stage for the final phase, a Grex console hack so that 
  Grex can be rebooted from Gryps.
  
  (STeve) Grex crashed 3 times in 24 hours - twice it acted like a cold boot.
  Marcus thinks it might be a memory problem.
  
  (srw) Sun 4 Progress: Kernel blocks are done, awaiting the rebuilding of
  the kernel, which will be done when GregC and Srw can get together. The 
  remaining major items besides this are Picospan, and the security patch that 
  failed.  Marcus announced more progress on Picospan, and we are anticipating 
  that it will be up and working shortly. GregC is still looking for a bug fix 
  for the security patch that introduced a serious bug, and was backed out. 
  This search is hampered by the fact that Sun has asked ftp sites carrying 
  these patches to stop carrying them. (see stui's comments below in 
  "New Business".)
  
  (STeve) announced that he purchased two 32 MB memory boards for $450, which
  is $50 less than what was allocated for one. This brings Grex's owned memory
  for the Sun-3 to 128MB (maxed out). These boards will be used in the Sun-4
  when it goes on-line, and Marcus's board will be returned to him. The Sun-3
  will still be able to function on 4 8MB boards, at 32MB when it takes on
  Usenet news. Also, we need to change out the fan in the SCSI box when we
  switch to operating Grex on the Sun-4.
  
[Washington] Newsletter Committee Report - Misti announced that the newsletter
  staff had agreed on an 11x17 format, folded in half. At this point they
  are working on stories, but have none finished.

[Liberty] Root and Dungeon Keys for Steve Gibbard - At the last staff meeting, 
  the staff voted to extend their recommendation to offer root access and keys
  to the dungeon to Steve Gibbard.
  
  Motions (srw,popcorn) The Board authorizes root access and dungeon key
  to be given to Steve Gibbard (scg).
  
  After minimal discussion a vote was taken, and the motion PASSED 6-0-1,
  with Steve Gibbard abstaining.

[William] Election of Officers for the 1996 Board - The question of whether 
  this election would be meaningful was discussed at length. Eventually it 
  was decided to wait until the first meeting of the next board.
  
[Jefferson] Selecting a New Meeting Time - Since all 7 of the members of
  next year's board were present, a poll of them was taken to find a meeting
  time that they could all attend. There was unanimous agreement to meet
  on the fourth Monday of each month. The next meeting was scheduled for 
  January 22 at 7:30 at the ITI cafeteria.
  
[Packard] New business -

  (stui) suggested that he might be able to use his Sun connections back in 
  BC to help, and Srw suggested that stui send mail to GregC for the details.
  
  (stui) mentioned that there were some people he knew in BC who would be
  willing to test the security of the Sun-4 after we have installed our
  kernel blocks and security patches. These people charge for this service
  normally, but he suspected they would do it gratis for a worthy cause.
  
  (stui) Mentioned that he does HTML programming and offered his services to
  Grex. Srw indicated that he, Robh, DanR and others are also competent in 
  this area, but that we appreciated his offer. 
  
  (STeve) complained that his dungeon key is wearing out.
  
  All of the above items were informational, and no official action was taken
  on any of this new business.
  
The meeting was adjourned at 8:48 PM.


Respectfully submitted, 

Steven R. Weiss, Secretary.
  

response 2 of 82:

Dec 25 13:41 UTC 1995

Merry Christmas, Christopher.  :)

response 4 of 82:

Dec 25 21:48 UTC 1995

Though at least those were numeric.  :)

response 6 of 82:

Dec 26 19:11 UTC 1995

Well, given that the street order was a bit off for Ann Arbor as well, I don't
think it gave us Ann Arbor people any big advantage either.  Also, I wonder
how important the "numbering" is, anyway.  We generally speak of things in
terms of what they are about, rather than what "number" they had, and we go
through them in the order they are in on paper, so the numbering there is also
irrellevant.  Besides, those who can make it to hte meetings are generally
Ann Arbor people anyway, and it's rather hard to participate in a meeting
without being there.  I really don't see how the street names, or any other
numbering sequence that doesn't contain ANSI codes to do weird things to the
text following it, will make reading the agenda or the minutes any harder.

response 8 of 82:

Dec 28 07:10 UTC 1995

  There have been odd "numbering" schemes for agenda items as long as
I can remember, and they're not always decipherable without some study.
I don't see the big deal of whether it's Ann Arbor-based or not.

response 10 of 82:

Dec 29 08:59 UTC 1995

Occipital
Parietal
Frontal
Temporal
Sphenoid
Ethmoid
Nasal
Superior Maxillary
Lachrymal
Malar
Palate
Inferior Turbinated
Vomer
Inferior Maxillary

response 12 of 82:

Dec 29 22:07 UTC 1995

Agendas are too important to be left to programers! <adbarr's assertion>

response 14 of 82:

Dec 30 06:40 UTC 1995

Bones of the head, as listed in a book that would under pending
legislation be considered illegal material online.

response 16 of 82:

Jan 1 21:58 UTC 1996

        Arnold had the right of it. I would like to be able to use a
WORKABLE numbering system when referring to items, be it alphabetic,
roman numeric, arabian numeric, or a reverse on any of those.

response 18 of 82:

Jan 2 02:35 UTC 1996

I've never had any problems with valerie's ordering systems.  This all might
be a moot point, anyway, as we weill probably have a new chair in 1996.

response 20 of 82:

Jan 2 02:39 UTC 1996

If I am elected chair, I plan to  use the resistor color codes.

response 22 of 82:

Jan 2 09:31 UTC 1996

Oh, I don't know, I like *both* suggestions from #19 and #20. :-)

response 24 of 82:

Jan 2 19:11 UTC 1996

I've heard of primitive cultures with just three numbers: one, two, and many.