Item 69. Minutes of the June 28, 1995 Board Meeting Steve Weiss (srw) Sun, Jul 2, 1995 (11:38). 165 lines, 0 responses. Minutes of the Cyberspace Communications Board Meeting Wednesday, June 28, 1995 Michigan Union Food Court Attendees: 6 board members (*) and 3 others. Valerie Mates *Chair Steve Weiss *Secretary Dan Romanchik *Treasurer John Remmers * Mary Remmers Rane Curl * Dave Lovelace STeve Andre' * Marc Unangst q. Valerie called the meeting to order at 7:13 PM w. Treasurer's report (danr) We took in $274 in cash from the JCC sale We received $150 in donations earmarked for the UPS Together with memberships this was a total deposit of $1196 e. 501(c)(3) Committee Report (rcurl) Rane reports that he has made progress, but that the application is not finished yet. r. Computer Rehabilitation Committee (rcurl) Rane reported that TS has 4 rehab computers for checkout. He is waiting to hear from TS. We have promised a computer to a clinic in Pontiac. t. Publicity Committee Report (mta) Not given, because Misti was not present. ( y. Technical Committee Report (Steve) deferred until later in the meeting ) ( u. Verification Policy (steve) deferred until later in the meeting ) i. Landlord Report (popcorn) Valerie reported that the zoning (use) variance passed. This means Grex doesn't have to move again. We still need to do a little electrical work (a grounding strap and cutback of some insulation) y. Technical Committee Report (Steve) ITI donated a Sun 386i. This is a 20 Mhz Sun 386 with 8 MB ram, and 90 MD HD. It runs unix, and can function as a server that does not require much CPU power. It is slower than Grex. Greg Cronau has the sun boxes in his basement. We discussed the importance of getting one of those boxes outfitted to be Grex's Sparc replacement. It is really hot in the dungeon. We discussed fan capacity. Ever since ICnet reconfigured the IP addresses on their network, we have been plagued with routing problems. These stemmed, according to ICnet, from a hard route in CICnet for Grex which was out of date. Every time the internet link to ICnet broke, ICnet's router would throw away the correct route entry for Grex, and the CICnet would reseed it with an erroneous one. It took manual intervention to fix this. We are losing 50 to 100 files each time we reboot. Dave Martinelli wrote a new update_gloria program. Jan Wolter wrote "gate" to enhance picospan to word wrap. The board expressed its appreciation to Dave and Jan for these donated software service efforts. u. Verification Policy (steve) STeve reported that this policy will have to wait until next month. o. Switch Internet Carriers (gregc?) p. WIN Report (srw and others) - these items were discussed together Steve Weiss and Valerie Mates met with Arnold Barr and Dave Cahill at the last WIN meeting. At that meeting Steve and Arnold described the ongoing efforts of HVCN to sign a contract with Isthmus Corporation. The contract was expected to be finalized soon, and would provide for HVCN to begin testing a system using Isthmus's computers. Ultimately it calls for establishment of a public access modem pool for HVCN independent of WIN, and for public use of the Isthmus/HVCN system. Steve Weiss reported that while representing HVCN Technical Committee to Isthmus he had mentioned the importance of WIN, and the desirability of establishing an ISDN connection between Grex and HVCN. This would now mean an ISDN connection between Grex and Isthmus, and could serve to provide (1) Grex access to a shared modem pool, and (2) Grex access to share HVCN's (Isthmus's) internet connection. Steve believes that Isthmus is interested in supporting WIN, not just HVCN, but reported that negotiations were deferred at Isthmus's request, until Isthmus can secure a T1 internet connection. They estimated that it would happen in July. It was agreed that it would be a good plan to ask each of the internet providers in town to provide us with their "best" price for a connection using 2 "B" ISDN channels (128K) - including any special discounts they might want to make available to a system like Grex which provides its services to the public. a. Grex Manual (danr) Dan reported that he had finished chapter 1 and started another chapter. s. Grex Newsletter (rcurl) The votes have not been counted yet for the newsletter name. When they are counted, the top 5 will be voted on again in a runoff election. 3 people have volunteered to work on the newsletter itself. They are Misti Anslin (mta) Steve Gibbard (scg) and Steve Ross (hross). It was agreed that the newletter could appear both in an ASCII and a printed format. The advantage of ASCII is electronic delivery. Most would be expected to see the newsletter in a conference, in email, or on the web. There are no printing charges for these. One advantage of a printed format is that it can be distributed as publicity at local events. d. New Business --> JCC Sale As reported by the treasurer, we made a significant amount of cash ($274). This was despite the fact that the sale was very sparsely attended. Apparently there were other sales going on in the area that conflicted or occurred the day before. There were about half as many people and vendors as usual. A special "thank-you" to Patti Snyder-Rayle (pegasus) for the donation of books to sell there. These contibuted heavily to the bottom line. A special "thank-you" to Rob Argy (ajax) for anchoring the Grex table for so long. Valerie repeated her concerns about the difficulties in getting a good volunteer to coordinate all the effort required to have a successful JCC sale. Valerie proposed replacing Grex's participation in the JCC sale with an M-Net-style auction. No decision was made. --> The AA News has a new computer reporter. The email address newsedtr@msen.com was given, but I didn't record any actual names. --> Trainee Progress - the new cfadms are now fully trained. The new party admin is ready to take the reigns when he returns. f. Final Gavel Banging (popcorn) Occurred at 8:51 PM Respectfully submitted, Steve Weiss (Secretary)