Item 30. Minutes of the Board Meeting of Feb 26, 1996 Steven R. Weiss (srw) Sat, Mar 2, 1996 (02:01). 143 lines, 3 responses. Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of Cyberspace Communications, Inc. held on 2-26-96 at the ITI Cafeteria on Hubbard Road in Ann Arbor 1. The meeting was called to order by Scott Helmke at 7:40 PM In attendance: Scott Helmke (scott), President Mark Conger (aruba), Treasurer Steve Weiss (srw), Secretary Rob Henderson (robh) Steve Gibbard (scg) Misti Anslin (mta) Absent: Valerie Mates (popcorn) Others present: Rob Argy (ajax) Carson Rizor (carson) Drew Lanagan (drew) STeve Andre' (steve) Since Rob Argy had to leave early, we agreed to discuss the agenda out of order. The JCC sale and the Rehabilitation committee items were discussed first. 10. The JCC Sale Rob Argy again volunteered to coordinate our efforts to raise money by selling surplus equipment at the JCC sale. The Sale will be held on March 24. We discussed the number of tables we could best use, and settled on renting two. Motion: (scott,srw) To approve the rental of two tables at the JCC Sale. Motion passed by a vote of 5-0. (mta not voting, as she had not yet arrived). 4. Computer Rehabilitation COmmittee Rob Argy reported that there are still 5 or 6 PCs and 2 printers. These machines are waiting for Rane to contact recipients, and waiting for storage to move them out of Rob Argy's apartment. 2. Treasurer's Report Mark Conger reported that we are having a pretty good month of February. In Jan and Feb together he reported expenses of $991 and income (dues plus T-shirts) of $1034. For the modem fund drive we have $505 collected, which is enough to replace our 2400 baud modems. We don't know yet about the price for new GVC modems. STeve Andre' was supposed to be looking into this. 3. 501(C)(3) Committee Report Mark Conger hasn't talked to Rane Curl yet about picking up the project. 6. Technical Committee Report * STeve announced that he had located a source of new GVC modems on the West Coast. The price would be $90-$95 per modem. * We are still having problems with mysterious reboots. There appear to be cycles of this, and it is not correlated to temperature. * The other hardware is functioning normally. * 8mm DAT tape drive needs to be cleaned. We need to find a tape cleaning kit for it. * Sun-4 o Greg has fixed the Jumbo Disk Patch o The disk thrash test has completed without any sign of the disk bug o We are scheduled to move the computer to the dungeon on Wednesday. * The mail program "mh" was zapped by the disk bug, but we didn't have a backup for it. It had to get rebuilt. Marcus has done this. 11. Coop login Screen The board discussed the situation with the Grex Login Screen. A rough consensus was that the fairwitnesses should resolve this between themselves, with input from the Grex community. 4. Publicity Committee Report Misti Anslin reported that the manual "Wizard in Training" is available. It will have a black and white cover rather than the promised color cover, until the next release. This is because of problems with the color printer. These will be mailed on Thursday to the 12 new members (plus anybody who sign up in the next two days). Misti will be coming to the Mar 24 JCC sale with fliers for Grex. 7. Newsletter report. Misti Anslin reported that no new submissions have been received, so there has been no progress. 12. Commercial Use of Grex There was a substantial amount of discussion of this question. Various people discussed past practices of limiting commercial use, and others expressed a desire to permit incidental commercial use. The consensus of the board seemed to be that (1) Serious commercial use of Grex is discouraged (2) Incidental commercial use of Grex is acceptable No motion was made, and no action was taken. This item was not tabled though. The board was having trouble establishing on a policy on this question. 13. CDA Scott Helmke reported that he had attended Arbornet's meeting at which the effects of the CDA were discussed. Scott reported that David Cahill expressed a very optimistic viewpoint on the effect the CDA would have. Steve Gibbard wanted the board to take no action until the CDA is enforced. Rob Henderson concurred. Scott Helmke, Steve Weiss, and Misti Anslin expressed that they would like to have a policy in advance that Grex would comply with the portion of the law being enforced. Without more agreement, no motion was offered. We decided that it would make sense to continue this discussion in coop. Scott Helmke agreed to enter the item, and board members were encouraged to post their opinions. 14. New Business Carson Rizor raised the question of Kenn Capman's (wolfmage) offer to perform a magic show to raise funds for Grex. Valerie Mates has the packet of information about this, and Carson volunteered to look into it further. He will get the packet from Valerie when she returns. The meeting was adjourned at 10:00 PM. Respectfully submitted, Steve Weiss, Secretary