Item 78. Minutes of the February 12, 1994 Board of Directors Meeting
John H. Remmers (remmers) Sat, Feb 12, 1994 (14:48).
85 lines, 16 responses.

 Minutes of Cyberspace Communications Board of Directors Meeting, 8-Feb-94
 
 1.  Initializing gavel (srw):  The meeting was called to order at 7:50 p.m.
 
     Board members attending:  Steve Weiss (srw) [chair], Dan Romanchik
     (danr) [treasurer], John Remmers (remmers) [secretary], STeve Andre
     (steve), Rane Curl (rcurl).  Absent:  Meg Geddes (meg), Mike
     Smerza (morel).
 
     Others attending:  Misti Anslin (mta), Greg Cronau (gregc), Jeff
     Kaplan (kaplan), Valerie Mates (popcorn), Marcus Watts (mdw).
 
 2.  Treasurer's report (danr):
 
     January expenses were $322, income was $210.  February income should
     be higher as several long-time memberships are up for renewal.  Almost
     $200 has been received already.
 
 3.  501(c)(3) Committee (popcorn):
 
     Valerie will consult with Rane about getting the ball rolling again.
 
 4.  Publicity Committee (mta):
 
     Misti has in excess of 200 Grex brochures ready to mail out, but
     is awaiting a mailing list from STeve Andre so that they will not
     have to be addressed by hand.
 
 5.  Rescuer's Project (rcurl):
 
     Rane has found that large non-profit groups such as Safe House have
     no need for low-end older machines such as we can supply but know
     of other smaller organizations who may.  He distributed his draft of
     an announcement to go in the Accounting Aid Society's newsletter.
     There were several suggestions for changes; Rane will post a revised
     draft in the Coop conference for user comment.
 
 6.  JCC Sale (remmers):
 
     John will reserve a Grex table for the March JCC sale and post on
     line an announcement and solicitation of donations.
 
 7.  Technical Committee (gregc, mdw, steve):
 
     Greg's recent changes to the hardware configuration appear to have
     substantially improved reliability of the internet connection.
     A faulty power conditioner may have been partly reponsible for
     its previous instability.  Ivars had expressed some concern over
     the unreliability being perceived as a reflection on the quality
     of his service and wants to see better than 90% uptime on the Grex
     side in the future.
 
 8.  Moving, Centrex service, etc. ([all]):
 
     We enumerated the events that need to occur before move to our new
     quarters can take place:  (1) installation of the 472 tape controller
     on the Sun-3, (2) installation of the 471 SMD disk controller on the
     Sun-3, (3) integration of the Sun-2's boot Eagle into the Sun-3,
     (4) reformatting the Eagle.  The previous all need to take place at
     our current location.  In addition, (5) the floor of the new room
     should be sealed (it has been too cold to do this yet).
 
     Dan reported on his conversations with the phone company over switch-
     ing to Centrex service.  They have indicated to him that they can do
     it with two weeks' lead time.  Current price for 10 lines would be
     $225/month (up somewhat from figures we had from previous phone
     company conversations).
 
     There was discussion of moving strategy and increasing the number
     of phone lines.
 
     MOTION (steve, remmers):  To increase to 8 the number of dialin lines
     to Grex, at the time we switch to Centrex service.
 
       PASSED unanimously.
 
     MOTION (steve, danr):  To switch to Centrex service on Friday, April 1
     and complete the move over the weekend immediately following.
 
       PASSED unanimously.
 
 9.  Terminating gavel (srw):  The meeting adjourned at about 10:00 p.m.
 
                                     Respectfully submitted,
                                     John Remmers, secretary