Item 108. Minutes of the Cyberspace Communication Board Meeting of Monday, Aug 26, 1996 Steven R. Weiss (srw) Sat, Sep 7, 1996 (16:28). 128 lines, 2 responses. Minutes of the Cyberspace Communication Board Meeting of Monday, Aug 26, 1996 Held in the basement food court of the Michigan Union. 1. The meeting was called to order by Scott Helmke at 7:38 PM Board members present: Scott Helmke (scott), President Mark Conger (aruba), Treasurer Steve Weiss (srw), Secretary Valerie Mates (popcorn) Misti Anslin Delaney (mta) Steve Gibbard (scg) absent: Rob Henderson (robh) Others present: Marcus Watts (mdw), STeve Andre' (steve), Jeffrey N.C.(coyote), Jan Wolter (janc), Paul Southworth (pauls@locust.cic.net) 3. Computer Rehabilitation Committee Scott reported that it was incredibly quiet if not totally silent. Flem and dang are interested in holding stuff and working on PCs. There was some discussion, instigated by srw, of changing the purpose to providing computers primarily to make it possible for people who could not otherwise access Grex to do so. Currently the purpose is to provide computers to worthy causes, but with no specific purpose stated. 4. Publicity Committee Misti reported that she has several fliers available but because of personal commitments will not be distributing them until next month. Misti expressed interest in taking rehabilitated computers to Ronald McDonald House, and said she would be willing to head a committee to work on this. 5. Technical Committee Hardware issues: * The hardware has been relatively stable. * The APC power supply was taken off-line because it failed. * Grex's link check script is resetting Gryps too often, and needs work. * Gryps still fails quite often, and may need a new power supply. It is unknown if this is adding more failures to the software-induced ones. * Last Thursday we had a brown-out. Steve reported frequency variations in the power as well. * Modems -- STeve will put 2 more modems on-line this week. We have phone lines waiting for them. Software issues: * Marcus added a slightly better version of sendmail (better diagnostics). * STeve re-linked elm with shadow libraries (newelm) * There is a new bash shell, fixing a security hole. * Srw noted that fewer occurrences of FTP are trying to list out /home or /var/spool/mail. Perhaps our warning messages are having an effect. * Marcus's Micropolis disk drive is expected back from the manufacturer. We plan to borrow it to reorganize /home to be hierarchical once it is available. * Srw said plans are being finalized to install Backtalk on Grex. There were some authentication and permission-related issues to be figured out. These were holding up our plans. Now that we think we know how to install it without compromising the security afforded by our shadow system, we will be installing it soon. (Nothing has been installed yet, though.) It will used for testing before it is given access to any live conferences. 6. Auction Committee Valerie announced that $1164 has been bid. These amounts have been partially collected. Most of those present thanked popcorn and robh for the effort they put into making the auction a big success for Grex. 10 the first. Intro conference This agenda item was entered to discuss the question of whether the intro conference should become the default conference. There was some discussion on this question. Srw suggested that it should become the default conference. Mta suggested that there should still be a choice. The question was tabled until the next meeting with the idea that discussion would continue in coop. 10 the second. Grex Needs to Move Paul Southworth from CIC was present, and participated in discussions of the possibility that Grex could be connected to the net through their equipment. There is no firm offer, but it was understood that we need to put together a document for CIC explaining the reasons that Grex should be connected. This idea is combined with the idea that we could perhaps lease some space in the ITI building. STeve Andre' will be following up on that question. 11. Centrex Phone Service STeve Andre' said that his investigations showed that it will be cheaper given our current phone line count. MOTION: (scott,mta) Moved that we approve changing our phone service to Centrex, pending STeve Andre's approval of the terms. PASSED 6-0-0 12. New Business No new business was brought up. 13. Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 9:58 PM. --------- Respectfully submitted, Steven R. Weiss, Secretary