Item 109. June Board Meeting Minutes Jan Wolter (janc) Sat, Jun 28, 1997 (23:11). 140 lines, 6 responses. Minutes of Cyberspace Communications Board Meeting -- Wed June 25, 1997 acting secretary: Jan Wolter (janc) ============================================================================== board members present: Mark Conger (aruba), Steve Gibbard (scg), Dan Gryniewicz (dang), Scott Helmke (scott), Valerie Mates (valerie), Jan Wolter (janc) others present: STeve Andre (steve), Dorian Kim (dorian), Rob Argy (ajax), Jared Mauch (jared), Jessica Draper (llanarth), Bill Moran (bmoran), Patrick Moran ============================================================================== ITEM "videvisoM?" -- Initial Gavel Pounding -- Valerie Mates (valerie) Meeting was called to order ITEM "Eansonag<" -- Treasurers report -- Mark Conger (aruba) Month of May: Covered expenses with $18 to spare. Income $625.83 (almost all from memberships). Debits $606.06 (phone $394.21, electric $83, rent $60, ICnet $20,...). Five new members - eeyore, mziemba, nt, polygon, tao. Ended with 94 members. (See treasurer's report for complete details) Month of June: Looks pretty good so far. Income (to date) $626 (auction $118, dues $508) One new member (to date) - mercedes Currently 96 members. We are no longer seeing excess numbers of outgoing calls on our phone bills. ITEM "nitylloyaR6" -- Computer Rehab. Committee -- Scott Helmke (scott) Nothing to report. ITEM "ociscragR$" -- Publicity Committee -- Misti Tucker (mta) No report from publicity committee. Valerie has added Grex to various bbs listings on the net. ITEM "Rlemauls>" -- Technical Committee -- STeve Andre (steve) & Company Scott Helmke (scott) has been working on getting error correcting modems configured and installed on all dial-in lines. Some people still seem to be experiencing flow control problems on the 2400 baud lines. Scott plans to move as many of the old GVCs to the slow lines as possible, since they handle slow speeds better than the new GVCs. This will leave only two 2400 baud lines with new GVCs. Users are advised to turn on error correction when using any Grex dial-in lines. Thanks Scott. Marcus has updated the password system, using better locking and a better encryption algorithm that will simplify future migration to some Kerberos style authentication system. There may still be some problems with this. Valerie made some further improvements to the change program (adding a command to change your default editor). Thanks Valerie. On the Sun 4/670: Dan Gryniewicz (dang) installed spacers to improve its cooling. Steve Gibbard (scg) and Jan Wolter (janc) tried installing two other CDC disk drives, but both exhibited the same write errors as the one currently being used as boot disk. Marcus Watts (mdw) and Jan Wolter (janc) attempted to convince the 670 to recognize an external SCSI controller card, but didn't succeed. Needed openboot documentation (since obtained). Dan Gryniewicz (dang) donated a 486 chassis for use as a SCSI enclosure, but it has only one full-height drive bay and probably isn't very useful. Thanks anyway, Dan. Jared Mauch (jared) wrote a "fake pop server" which does not provide any pop service, but does generate a message saying that Grex does not provide POP service. Steve Gibbard (scg) installed this on Grex. We have received no questions about our pop service since this. Thanks, Jared. STeve Andre (steve) reports that we have had a plethoria of vandals assaulting this system in the last month. Marcus has started work on changing the structure of the unread-mail directories on Grex to a hierarchical structure similar to that no used for the home directory structure. This should improve performance significantly, but requires that many programs (especially mailers) be fixed. Marcus has done a lot of work to get a new version of the "mail" mailer working. Dan Gryniewicz has done work on "mh". The "pine" mailer still needs work. On July 1, we will be changing all dial-in lines to 8N1 (8 data bits, no parity, one stop bit) instead of the current 7E1 (7 data bits, even parity, one stop bit). The 8N1 settings are much more widely used and it should be easier for new user to connect to Grex with those settings. Steve Gibbard (scg) has been working on the terminal server. He put another ethernet card in Gryps and put the terminal server on that ethernet, where it may be less confused by the traffic on Grex's main ethernet. He needs a serial cable to complete tests (since obtained). We need to measure the electricity used by Grex's equipment, so that we can update the amount we are paying for electric bills. Grex has been crashing more often as the temparature in the Pumpkin goes higher. The air conditioning in the building does not appear to be sufficient to keep that room cool. The dead phone line has been repaired by Ameritech, but we haven't got it into our trunk hunt again. ITEM "fuldombeT=" -- ISDN Connection -- staff The offer from CICnet is not going to materialize. Jared Mauch (jared) has offered a 128K ISDN off the T1 connection that he will have once he moves. Grex will pay for the ISDN lines themselves, and supply the equipment on both ends. This offer looks promising. ITEM "Toosocurm>" -- User File Privacy Policy -- all Staff has produced a document describing the kinds of conditions under which they might look at a user's private files. This has been discussed first in the staff conference and then in the coop conference, and has been uncontroversial. It has been suggested that the Grex board should issue a statement of principle describing our belief in the importance of privacy on the net. The board felt that wording for such a policy should be developed and discussed in coop before the board takes any action. ITEM "Uggliguma5" -- New Business -- all Auction is in progress and doing well, though not as well as last year. ITEM "Heckstmome<" -- Final Gavel Pounding -- Valerie Mates (valerie) Meeting was closed. 6 responses total. ---------- (109) #1 Valerie Mates (valerie) Sat, Jun 28, 1997 (23:56). 1 line. Thanks for taking notes and posting them, Jan. ---------- (109) #2 DV (orinoco) Sun, Jun 29, 1997 (09:40). 1 line. ---------- (109) #3 Steve Gibbard (scg) Sun, Jun 29, 1997 (13:00). 2 lines. The item numbers look like they probably came out of the genpass password generator. ---------- (109) #4 Valerie Mates (valerie) Tue, Jul 1, 1997 (00:35). 1 line. Ya. That was announced at the meeting. (Three times, actually.) ---------- (109) #5 Valerie Mates (valerie) Tue, Jul 1, 1997 (00:35). 1 line. (but all were while you weren't there) ---------- (109) #6 Valerie Mates (valerie) Tue, Jul 1, 1997 (00:36). 1 line. (I think)