Item 108. Board Meeting Minutes - February 15, 1995 Steve Weiss (srw) Thu, Feb 16, 1995 (01:01). 173 lines, 3 responses. Minutes of the February 15 meeting of the Cyberspace Communications, Inc. Board of directors. The meeting was held at the Washington Street Station Restaurant. Entered by Steven R. Weiss (srw) The Meeting was called to order by srw at 7:15. Board members attending: srw[acting chair], remmers[secretary], danr[treasurer], steve, rcurl, popcorn, scg Others attending: chip, chelsea, carl, treelawn, mdw. 1. The new board members (srw[returning], popcorn[returning after a year], and scg[new]) were welcomed. 3. Treasurer's report. Danr reported that we received $654 in dues, $17.50 in T-shirts and mugs. Danr noted that moving expenses, etc. are catching up with us. Danr said that we don't have to file a tax return if our income is less than $25000. He agreed to follow up with the accounting aid society. 2. Election of Officers (delayed until all 7 members were present) For chair, nominated were popcorn(by popcorn) and srw(by steve). The voting was a dead heat 3 vs 3 with 1 abstention. A second vote was taken, and popcorn won by 4 to 2 with 1 abstention. srw handed the gavel to popcorn. For treasurer, danr was the only nominee. He accepted, and will continue as our treasurer. For Secretary, remmers and srw were nomimnated. The voting went 5 to 2 in favor of srw, and remmers handed the minutes to srw. [that's why I am posting these, in case you didn't notice] 4. 501c3 committee Rane wanted to know the consensus if the board as to whether we want to apply for 501c3. There was much discussion on the benefits and hazards of obtaining 501c3 status. The sense of the board was that we did want to go on and begin the process of filling out the forms. 5. Computer Rehabilitation Committee Rcurl reported that we received no new computers nor did we give any away. Danr has arranged for some gear but it has not materialized yet. 6. Publicity We have no publicity committee since Misti resigned. Valerie will enter an item asking for a local publicity chair. STeve Andre' will figure out what the cost would be of resuming sending out the pamphlets. 7. Technical Committee * The MOVE Staff os happy. There are no leaks. The temperature has been fine. We will need to add some ventilation before the warmer months. There are still lots of little things to do, such as get a latch for the door, replace the fluorescent light, and measure the electrical usage. * Phone Lines Line noise still plagues us. We have problems with Ameritech that are causing this. In particular there is an intermittently bad cable on W Liberty, and Ameritech has run out of spare wire pairs. * 8 mm tape drive This has been installed. It works great. We are taking dumps much more often than ever before, and they are fast (10 MB per minute). * Gryps This is our new router. A 386 PC running BSD unix. Initially it was running NetBSD, but this failed under heavy load causeing frequent reboots which took the link down for 5 minutes. Now it is configured using FreeBSD, which is a similar OS, but it is much more stable. It is not perfect though. Most of our current internet connection problems are now due to the fact that we have stopped using a dedicated line at ICnet. Instead we are in the pool with their other customers. This has caused a loss of reliability of the net link. We really need to go back to a dedicated line at ICnet. STeve will be discussing this with Ivars. * Miscellaneous The Sun-3 is rathe stable. We still have the disk problem, but it is minor. 8. Verification Policy There are actually 3 separate issues, (1) Voting, (2) Internet, and (3) Usenet. Issues still unresolved are (1) What is acceptable ID, (2) What are the rules for protecting access to the ID information. (That is, who gets to see it, and under what circumstances.) John Remmers volunteered to attempt to make sense of what is posted on-line and put together a summary. This issues will be considered at the next board meeting. 9. HVCN (Huron Valley Community Network) srw reported that the HVCN technical committee met. A. Dungeon-related Expenses STeve reported that the gryps project came in $90 over budget, mainly because of the extra disk we bought for it. The 8mm tape was $200 under budget. The Dungeon move costst are not perfectly known yet, but it appears that we will wind up about $200 to $300 over budget. B. Resident Agent srw moved that danr become Grex's resident agent with his home address listed as our registered office. popcorn seconded, and the motion passed unanimously. C. Grex Newsletter Steve moved that Cyberspace Communications Inc. authorize an official newsletter for Grex. scg seconded and this proposal passed unanimously with 1 abstention. D. ICnet contact. John Remmers has been acting in this capacity, and felt that it was unnecessary beureaucracy. We agreed to abolish the official ICnet contact. An ICnet item is to be created in the staff conference, to contain information regarding relations with ICnet. E. JCC sale The next JCC sale is 3/26. Steve moved that the board authorize remmers to rent a table at the JCC sale. popcorn seconded, and the proposal passed unanimously. There is a new clause in the JCC contract that prohibits the sale of adult software and authorizes the JCC to remove people they consider objectionable. The board found this clause objectionable, and will complain to the JCC, F. New business The following new business items were discussed briefly, because the restaurant was trying to close at this point. * Should we get a guest account? * A separate phone line to gryps to permit staff to manage the system better for security and emergencies. No action was taken on either of these items. Adjournment took place a few minutes after 10 PM. ----------