Item 88. Minutes of the August 23, 1995 Board Meeting. Steve Weiss (srw) Sun, Aug 27, 1995 (03:33). 109 lines, 0 responses. Minutes of the meeting of the board of Cyberspace Communications, Inc. August 23, 1995 at the Michigan Union Food Court 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:14 PM by Valerie Mates. Board members attending: Valerie Mates (popcorn), President, Steve Weiss (srw), Secretary, Steve Gibbard (scg), Rane Curl (rcurl), John Remmers (remmers). Absent: Dan Romanchik (danr) Treasurer, STeve Andre (steve). Public in attendance: Mary Remmers (chelsea), Jeff Kaplan (kaplan), Kevin Powell (kpowell). 2. Treasurer's report: not given (danr was absent) 3. 502(c)(3) committee report - Rane Curl reported that there was no progress. 4. Computer Rehabilitation Committee Report - Rane Vurl reported that Rob Argy (ajax) would be taking over where T. S. Taylor (tsty) left off. 5. Publicity Committee report: not given (Misti Anslin (mta) was absent) 6. Technical Committee Report: STeve was not present, so this report was initially given by popcorn and srw, and later refined when more information became available. STeve came just before the meeting ended and clarified a few points. * The SUN-4 is now up. It is running SunOS 4.1.3 at Greg's house. * The CD-Rom we bought for it does not work. It may be replaceable. We used a borrowed one to get this far. * The 325MB disk has heat problems. It should be replaced. Staff requested by email the sense of the board regarding this question, so that a replacement unit could be purchased before this board meeting. At this time the board did not know whether the staff had purchased a replacement. Motion: (srw,popcorn) The staff is authorized to spend up to $350 to purchase a 540 MB hard drive and emclosure for the SUN-4 project. This motion passed unanimously 5-0. * Mary Remmers (chelsea) expressed concern that the board was conducting business by email instead of in the open. * Grex went down last night because the power was cut at the breaker box by a tenant. * Our electrical work is done. The plug sockets were rewired and a wire was routed through a joist. Greg Cronau and Marc Unangst did the bulk of this work. Later in the meeting, when STeve Andre' and Marc Unangst arrived, there was more information on technical issues, as follows: * Marc Unangst is going to locate the set of patches needed to achieve the proper security level for SunOS 4.1.3 on the SUN-4. * Greg has already compiled the GNU bin utilities, perhaps 15% of the software needed for it. It will need to be placed on the internet, and we are awaiting that to begin letting other staffers set up the remaining software. * Some of the tougher parts yet to do are the installation of the Shadow Database and programs that use it, the kernel patches, Picospan and NewUser. * The 540MB disk (which we approved earlier in the meeting) has been purchased. 7. Verification Policy - STeve Andre (steve) was absent, and had not posted anything further. John Remmers (remmers) said he would try to find the older material we had, and post it again to get discussion going again. 8. Newsletter Report - John Remmers will start the runoff vote. (I may have missed something said here, if so I apologize and hope that Rane can fill in whatever I might have missed.) 9. Grex Manual - not given (danr was absent) A. GrexOhio - The group of Ohio Grexers, known as GrexOhio, has requested permission to use the name Grex. there was discussion of the question of granting the use of the name "Grex" to this group. Some concern was expressed about where the money would go that they collected as dues. Rane wanted to adopt a club charter policy to cover this kind of organization. We compromised on a resolution which grants the authority, for the time being. Motion: (rcurl,srw) The organization "GrexOhio" is permitted to ose the name "Grex" in their name "GrexOhio", pending the adoption by the Cyberspace mmunications, Inc/ board of an associated club charter policy, to which GrexOhio will be required to adhere. The motion passed unanimously 5-0. B. New Business - Steve Gibbard suggested that we use (tm) signifying a common-law trademark on the name Grex in our official documents. Steve Weiss (srw) questioned whether it was a "trade marl" or a "service mark". Valerie Mates (popcorn) said she will bring information on the various registration options to the next meeting. Steve Weiss (srw) discussed a new Web-based conferencing application which he plans to construct to be compatible with Grex's existing picospan conferences. He calls this system "WebSpan" and it is currently being discussed in coop (item 70). C. The meeting adjourned at 8:55 PM