Item 52. Non-Minutes of the Non-Board Meeting of June 14, 1994 John H. Remmers (remmers) Wed, Jun 15, 1994 (07:46). 101 lines, 4 responses. The Cyberspace Communications Board meeting scheduled for Tuesday, June 14, turned out to be a non-meeting due to the lack of a quorum. Hence no actions could be taken. However, several individual and committee reports were presented and discussed. The following is a summary of some of the reports, based on memory and very sketchy notes by Steve Weiss and myself. Anybody who attended the meeting please feel free to add clarification and corrections. The non-meeting was not called to order at approximately 7:40 p.m. The gavel was not banged. Board members attending: Steve Weiss (srw) [chair], John Remmers (remmers) [secretary], STeve Andre (steve), Mike Smerza (morel). Board members absent: Rane Curl (rcurl), Meg Geddes (meg), Dan Romanchik (danr) [treasurer]. Others attending: Mary Remmers (chelsea), Rob Henderson (robh), Patti Snyder-Rayl (pegasus), Bill Rayl (snark), Carl Miller (carl), Valerie Mates (popcorn), Misti Anslin (mta), Marcus Watts (mdw). (some of those listed attended only part of the meeting) 1. Treasurer's report (popcorn for danr) - There are $924 in pledges for the disk drive fund. Other June income is $478 so far at mid-month. June may be a record month, as a large number of membership renewals are coming due. 2. 501(c)3 report - none given, due to rcurl's absence. 3. Computer Rehabilitation committee - ditto. 4. Publicity committee (mta) - Misti plans to have a short manual available at the time of the JCC sale, to be sold at cost, at the sale and subsequently via Ben Franklin's mail. She is soliciting suggestions on what should be included. 5. Hypertext committee (srw, carl) - Srw's development efforts on the grex "activities page" are at a standstill due to lack of available time on his part to devote to it. Carl has been adding home pages for various users. Robh volunteered to learn html and help with the development efforts. 6. Internet Access policy noncommittee - Srw indicated that he thinks that the on-line discussion at a standstill and that it may be time for the noncommittee to meet and formulate a policy proposal based on the input given so far and any additional input people may care to give. 7. Technical committee (steve) - The old Sun-2 boot Eagle is now a dedicated 320 mb news partition. The loaner 130 mb SMD disk from gregc is now back on line and holds the /var and /var/spool/mail partitions. These plus two SCSI disk constitute Grex's current disk configuration. The maximum number of simultaneous telnet logins has been reduced to 24 until the new disk is installed and additional swap space can be added. New disk: A disk enclosure box to hold the new disk has been ordered. This is felt to be necessary for temperature reason, and also provides room for further expansion in the future. This adds $180 to the overall cost, partly compensated for by the fact that the price of the disk itself has gone down since the fund drive began. Total cost of the disk, enclosure box, cable, and controller will probably be $1319. If deliveries occur on schedule, the disk could go online as early as the middle of next week. 9. Dungeon Issues - There has not been much progress on the move due to STeve's busy-ness on technical matters. However, he has been looking into prices for needed ventilation material. a. Proposal to add Carl to staff (popcorn) - Adding Carl Miller to staff would facilitate his work with lynx and his mail activities. It was the consensus of the board and staff members present that this would be a reasonable thing to do and that under current and past practice a formal board vote would not be required. There was some discussion of what is the definition of "staff" and whether a more formal policy on staff appointments is needed, to what extent the board should be involved, and to what extent the staff appointment process should be public as opposed to handled internally by existing staff. There are several components (membership in group "staff", access to the staff conference, belonging to the staff mailing list, root access, etc) that are more or less independent and can be conferred separately. Staff appointment procedure will be an agenda item for the next board meeting. b. June 26 JCC sale (remmers) - Remmers has rented a table but does not have time to organize the sale itself. Valerie and Misti will be co-organizers. c. New business - Valerie presented a proposed t-shirt design featuring the "Galactically boring" slogan. The non-meeting was not adjourned at about 10 p.m. Informally but respectfully submitted, John Remmers, Sec'y