Item 139. Minutes of the Dec. 20, 1995 Board Meeting Steve Weiss (srw) Thu, Dec 21, 1995 (22:33). 123 lines, 0 responses. Minutes of the meeting of the Cyberspace Communications Board of Directors December 20, 1995 at 7:30 PM in the cafeteria of ITI on Hubbard Road in AA. Directors present: Valerie Mates (popcorn), President Steve Weiss (srw), Secretary Dan Romanchik (danr), Treasurer Rane Curl (rcurl), John Remmers (remmers), STeve Andre' (steve), Steve Gibbard (scg) Public present: Rob Henderson (robh), Scott Helmke (scott), Misti Anslin (mta), Marc Conger (aruba), Marcus Watts (mdw), Stuart Reynolds (stui). The agenda items are identified according to the tags assigned in the posted agenda. Yes, they are streets in Ann Arbor, Michigan. [Beakes] The meeting was called to order at 7:46 PM by Valerie Mates. Since a newcomer was present (stui, from Abbotsford, BC, Canada) we went around the table and identified ourselves. [Kingsley] The Treasurer's Report - Danr posted the numbers online as usual. He described the month as "mediocre", with $400 coming in and $350 out, but GregC got reimbursed for several months of hardware expenses, an amount slightly in excess of $1100. [Lawrence] The 501(c)3 Committee Report - Rane's priorities have changed, so that he feels that he should hand this project off to someone who will be able to spend the necessary time on on it. A check was made to see if anyone present wanted to volunteer, but no one raised a hand. [Catherine] The Rehabilitation Committee Report - Rane needs to move the hardware to a site where it can get worked on. [Ann] Publicity Committee Report - Misti and Stuart showed off the "Handbooks" with the color cover. Misti explained that the final version would be done on different paper, which should result in better colors. The handbook was handed around the table for inspection. Misti said the first run would be 100, and should be ready Monday. It will be sent out to those who specially request it, and will be available at the JCC sale. The cost of printing them will be about $1 each. [Huron] The Staff Committee Report - (STeve) Staff line is now installed, but it is noisy. Once it is usable the next step is to get a serial card for Gryps. We already have a modem for it. That will set the stage for the final phase, a Grex console hack so that Grex can be rebooted from Gryps. (STeve) Grex crashed 3 times in 24 hours - twice it acted like a cold boot. Marcus thinks it might be a memory problem. (srw) Sun 4 Progress: Kernel blocks are done, awaiting the rebuilding of the kernel, which will be done when GregC and Srw can get together. The remaining major items besides this are Picospan, and the security patch that failed. Marcus announced more progress on Picospan, and we are anticipating that it will be up and working shortly. GregC is still looking for a bug fix for the security patch that introduced a serious bug, and was backed out. This search is hampered by the fact that Sun has asked ftp sites carrying these patches to stop carrying them. (see stui's comments below in "New Business".) (STeve) announced that he purchased two 32 MB memory boards for $450, which is $50 less than what was allocated for one. This brings Grex's owned memory for the Sun-3 to 128MB (maxed out). These boards will be used in the Sun-4 when it goes on-line, and Marcus's board will be returned to him. The Sun-3 will still be able to function on 4 8MB boards, at 32MB when it takes on Usenet news. Also, we need to change out the fan in the SCSI box when we switch to operating Grex on the Sun-4. [Washington] Newsletter Committee Report - Misti announced that the newsletter staff had agreed on an 11x17 format, folded in half. At this point they are working on stories, but have none finished. [Liberty] Root and Dungeon Keys for Steve Gibbard - At the last staff meeting, the staff voted to extend their recommendation to offer root access and keys to the dungeon to Steve Gibbard. Motions (srw,popcorn) The Board authorizes root access and dungeon key to be given to Steve Gibbard (scg). After minimal discussion a vote was taken, and the motion PASSED 6-0-1, with Steve Gibbard abstaining. [William] Election of Officers for the 1996 Board - The question of whether this election would be meaningful was discussed at length. Eventually it was decided to wait until the first meeting of the next board. [Jefferson] Selecting a New Meeting Time - Since all 7 of the members of next year's board were present, a poll of them was taken to find a meeting time that they could all attend. There was unanimous agreement to meet on the fourth Monday of each month. The next meeting was scheduled for January 22 at 7:30 at the ITI cafeteria. [Packard] New business - (stui) suggested that he might be able to use his Sun connections back in BC to help, and Srw suggested that stui send mail to GregC for the details. (stui) mentioned that there were some people he knew in BC who would be willing to test the security of the Sun-4 after we have installed our kernel blocks and security patches. These people charge for this service normally, but he suspected they would do it gratis for a worthy cause. (stui) Mentioned that he does HTML programming and offered his services to Grex. Srw indicated that he, Robh, DanR and others are also competent in this area, but that we appreciated his offer. (STeve) complained that his dungeon key is wearing out. All of the above items were informational, and no official action was taken on any of this new business. The meeting was adjourned at 8:48 PM. Respectfully submitted, Steven R. Weiss, Secretary.