Item 71. Minutes of the May 29, 1996 Board Meeting Steven R. Weiss (srw) Sun, Jun 2, 1996 (20:55). 118 lines, 12 responses. Minutes of the meeting of the Cyberspace Communications Board of Directors Wednesday May 29, 1996 in the Cafeteria of ITI on Hubbard Road. 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:31 PM Directors present: Scott Helmke (scott), President Mark Conger (aruba), Treasurer Steve Weiss (srw), Secretary Rob Henderson (robh) Misti Anslin (mta) Valerie Mates (popcorn) Steve Gibbard (scg) Others present: John Remmers (remmers), STeve Andre' (steve). Jan Wolter (janc) 2. Treasurer's report. Mark Conger produced the treasurer's report for the month of April, which is posted in the coop conference as item 64. We failed to cover our monthly expenses again. It was not a good month. Mark also indicated that May was probably not going to be a particularly good month either. 3. 501(C)(3) Committee Report Mark Conger reported that there was nothing to report. 4. Computer Rehabilitation Committee Report Rane was not here. Nothing has happened that Scott knows about. Dan Gryniewicz (dang) has been added to the mailing list. 5. Publicity Committee Report Misti reported that there was nothing to report. She explained that she is still in need of a computer. Then she'll be putting up fliers. 6. Technical Committee Report * The system is running well * It needs rebooting once a week to avoid encountering problems stemming from cumulative activity. * Modems are a problem. o We can no longer locate old-style GVC modems new, although we can find used ones. o The new ones are good but don't support "dumb mode" o STeve indicated that it was his opinion that we should "bite the bullet" and use them. o Alternatives include used GVCs, switching to another brand (STeve believes Motorola modems use the Rockwell chip set. * We have a new CPU card. o It is now running Grex, and the battery works much better on this one. o The plan is to use the other one on our second machine, for Usenet. * Groovy (terminal server) problems o We are planning to put groovy on "boxpwr" so it can be power-cycled remotely. o We still need to contact IOLan. o Greg Cronau (gregc) still has the manuals. * STeve reported that the dungeon floor is collapsing. It needs some hydraulic cement. * Valerie said that the idle zapper program (untamo) should be installed within the next week. This should help a little with the "out of ports" problem. * Jan Wolter reported that the "Web New-user" (WNU) program will be turned on real soon now. * We need to buy an additional phone fanout box. * During the last month on one occasion, the mail queue filled with mail that was not getting delivered. 10. Newsletter Report Misti reported that there is nothing to report. Misti has no computer. 11. Auction Committee Report Valerie Mates and Rob Henderson reported that the auction is proceeding nicely. $583 is the total of the offers so far on auction items. The rights to wield the Grexbat will be offered for auction, but this has not been factored into the total yet. Valerie pleaded for additional participation in the auction. 12. Communications Decency Act A decision is expected soon in the court case. There was nothing to discuss at this time. 13. tel/write, etc. "yes" and "no" files There was a great deal of discussion of the social implications of both "yes" and "no" files. There was no conclusion reached. 14. New Business. (At this point your Secretary had to leave the meeting. Valerie volunteered to take the notes for the remainder of the minutes, and she should post her portion in this item.) Respectfully submitted, Steve Weiss, Secretary (71) #4 Valerie Mates (popcorn) Thu, Jun 6, 1996 (02:36). 45 lines. Here are the minutes from the rest of the meeting (New Business)... * There will be a city meeting on Tuesday 6/25 to discuss the building code problems in Grex's room (fire door needed and ceiling too low). One of the landlords paid money for us to appeal the building code decision at this meeting. He needs photos of Grex's room and articles about Grex for the hearing. * Should Grex move? Maybe we should place an ad in the paper describing our needs. People don't advertise spaces of the type that we need. * STeve Andre reported that Gregc found a good deal on ethernet and memory cards. Marcus's memory card may be able to be installed in the Sun 4, which would make Grex a 160 megabyte machine. Steve will test this. Scott moved, and Valerie seconded, that the board authorize $100 for an extra 32 megabyte memory card to use either to increase Sun capacity or as a backup. Passed: 6,0,0. * Rob asked for opinions on the Intro conference. Valerie volunteered to write a wrapper program to put around bbs to ask users whether they prefer their default conference to be Agora or Intro. We will re-evaluate the success of the Intro conference in 3 months. * STeve Andre will keep talking to Internet service providers, looking for a deal that Grex can afford. * Steve Gibbard suggested holding board meetings in the Michigan Union in the summer, instead of at ITI. Random people seemed to be a lot more likely to show up at meetings in the Union than at ITI. The sense of the board was that meeting at the Union would be OK. * Mark reminded the board that we've been planning to find someone to be a Membership Chair. Valerie volunteered to enter or revive a co-op item to find a membership chair. Mark will contact the bank to ask how we can receive payments from users in India, and also to find out if we can accept credit cards. * Valerie asked what the board thought about joining the People's Food Co-op's discount program. The sense of the board was that this should be an agenda item for the next meeting, not a New Business item. 15. Final Gavel Pounding The meeting was adjourned at 9:35pm. ----------