Item 61. Minutes of the April 22, 1996 Board Meeting Steven R. Weiss (srw) Sat, Apr 27, 1996 (12:38). 144 lines, 0 responses. Minutes of the Meeting of the board of Cyberspace Communications Held on Monday, April 22, 1996 in the Cafeteria of ITI, on Hubbard Road 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:37 PM Board Members present: Scott Helmke (scott), President Mark Conger (aruba), Treasurer Steve Weiss (srw), Secretary Valerie Mates (popcorn) Misti Anslin (mta) Rob Henderson (robh) Steve Gibbard (scg) Others present: Rob Argy (ajax) Corey Rydholm (laotzu) STeve Andre' (steve) Arnold Barr (adbarr) 2. Treasurer's Report Mark reported income of $1893 in March, and expenses of $1775, and indicated that so far, April has been a slow month for donations, totaling only $195.50. 3. 501(C)(3) Committee Report Mark reported no progress 4. Computer Rehabilitation Committee report Also no progress. Arnold said that an ALPS printer is available from HVCN. 5. Publicity Committee Report Misti reported no progress. We discussed possible future approaches to local publicity by using press releases, taking note of how HVCN is successful in this manner. 6. Technical Committee Report * We lost a memory board. It was the one that had failed last year, and Greg had "fixed". We dropped down to 96MB from 128, and dropped the ptys from 64 to 48. The board had just been restored, by using a board from "gramps", the old sun-3, and so we are back to 128M and ptys were restored back to 60, but not 64. * One of our 2400 modems has stopped functioning. It has either died or need reprogramming. Scott wants to take a look at it, and will get a chance in a week or so. * There is a software problem which causes telnetd processes to accumulate. * We had several crashes. One was caused by the OS leaking m blocks. After two solid weeks of uptime the system failed because it had run out. We may need to reboot every week or so to avoid this problems. The other crashes were caused by the flaky memory, prior to our recognizing that fact, and removing it from service. * Marcus is working on helping the MSN people understand what they need to do to fix their firewall. Mail from the Microsoft Network is running afoul of some firewall problems at MSN. * We need to install and test out Marcus's new telnetd. It has logic to implement a wait queue when the max has been reached of users connecting over the internet. * We're still looking for new modems that can support "dumb mode". The batch we bought are a newer model than we realized, and do not support it. The ones we want are hard to find. We're calling around still. If we cannot find them, these are our options: (1) buy them used (2) buy Motorola modems (3) Get phones that won't dial out. Scott may be able to swap some modems. * Installation of the two new phone lines that we ordered to extend the hunt group went badly. The installer said on Saturday that they did not have enough copper in the cable. On Monday it was installed, but Ameritech added them to the hunt even though we weren't ready. this caused some open ringing situations until it was resolved. * Switching from 7-E-1 to 8-N-1 is waiting for the terminal server to be usable. * Hierarchical home directories will speed up directory searches of /home, but its implementation is waiting for mdw's broken hard disk to be repaired or replaced by the manufacturer. We need a note in the motd to warn users that this change will be coming. * There was a patch released for the Apache web server 1.0.3 by the Apache group. We have applied it. * A new pine/pico/pilot has been installed as newpine and newpico (and pilot). If there are no problems reported, it will replace the current one soon. 10. Newsletter Report Misti reported that we have been getting requests for the newsletter, despite the fact that no one has volunteered to write stories. 11. Auction Committee Valerie and Rob (H) reported no progress so far, but that they expected things to get started shortly. 12. Coop FW Policy The board did not agree to take any action on this question. 13. The Communications Decency Act - Pending a decision on the validity of this legislation from the courts, and in light of the Government's stated lack of intention to prosecute while the case is being decided, there is no board business to conduct on this question. We are following the proceedings of the court case on line. 14. New business. * Although no formal action was taken, it was the sense of the board to appreciate the following: (1) Thanks for bringing the chocolate-chip cake to the board meeting. (I believe it was Arnold who brought the cake.) (2) Thanks to HVCN, and Arnold in particular, for involving us in the Logon @ the Library night at the AADL. (3) Thanks to srw for giving up his birthday to be there. * Robh announced that the intro conference is set up and working. 15. The meeting was adjourned, but I failed to note the exact time. I believe it was shortly before 9:30. Respectfully submitted, Steve Weiss (srw@cyberspace.org), Secretary