Item 69. Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting of July 13, 1993 John H. Remmers (remmers) Tue, Aug 10, 1993 (10:34). 70 lines, 9 responses. Board members present: Valerie Mates (popcorn) [chair], John Remmers (remmers) [secretary], Steve Andre (steve), Meg Geddes (meg), Mike Smerza (morel), Marc Unangst (mju). Board members absent: Dan Romanchik (danr) [treasurer]. Others attending: Rob Henderson (robh), Russ Woodruff (power), Mary Remmers (chelsea), Greg Cronau (gregc), TS Taylor (tsty), Misti Anslin (mta), Marcus Watts (mdw). The meeting was called to order by ceremonial gavel-banging at 7:32 p.m. In the absence of Dan Romanchik, the treasurer's report and system planning committee item were skipped. Technical Committee (steve, mju, gregc, tsty): o We have a new tape controller that will work at 1600 bpi. This means faster backups. o The Sun 350 from Paul Haas is up and running with 12 mb. memory. INN is running on it. It can be connected to the PC route box. We need a larger disk (SCSI) for it. It will not be suitable as the main Grex machine due to limitations on expandability, but could be used as the "news" machine. o We have been assured of donations of some used Sun 3/260 machines from Computer Sciences Corporation. They are an order of magnitude faster than Grex's current Sun 2 and consume less power. Actual transfer of the machines awaits completion of internal processing by CSC -- the hard disks need to be certified as erased. o Greg has installed GNU tar, which may be used instead of the "dump" program for backups in the future. o More frequent system reboots have eliminated kernel panics. 501(c)(3) status (popcorn): Valerie has ordered new 501(c)3 forms and will spearhead the effort of filling out and submitting them. Grex move (steve): M-Net's current space will probably be available for Grex to move into should we wish to do so. The primary advantage will be better access to the hardware than is possible at Grex's current location, Communications Electronics. Regardless of where Grex moves, the type of phone service to use will have to be decided -- Centrex is a possibility. Marc Unangst's departure: A special election will be held to fill the Board seat that Marc will be vacating. To replace the Usenet News feed that Marc now provides, there are several possibilities that are under investigation, although Meg indicated that netmeg is not in a position to be a news provider. Publicity Committee (mta): o The pocket guide to Grex has been completed. o The next Public Access TV spot for Grex has been scheduled for July 30. STeve has volunteered to appear. New business: There is a system on the internet with domain address cyberspace.com, which could cause confusion (e.g. misdirected mail) with Grex's cyberspace.org address. Someone will contact the post- master at cyberspace.com to alert them to the situation. The meeting was adjourned by ceremonial gavel banging at approximately 9 p.m. Respectfully submitted, John Remmers, secretary