Jennifer also arranged to get the OCF office's second phone line disconnected. Marco asked if it was okay to start publicizing the remaining phone number (643-0700) to the OCF's office. Jennifer said she saw no problem with that. The office currently contains a Sun 3/50, two Sun monitors, two Eagle hard disks, a VT100 terminal, 3 telephones, 2 1200 baud modems, and parts for the OCF's Stellar computer.
Tara asked about the mail Andrew Swan had forwarded to the Board mailing list. A user from netcom was complaining that an OCF user was harassing them by posting "Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah. Ad Naseum!" as a followup to their ads in a newsgroup. Alan said that this same netcom user had earlier threatened to sue the OCF for libel over statements in the newsgroups, but had backed down when the OCF user agreed to cancel the offending posting. The board decided that the article being complained about didn't sound much like harassment, and that we wouldn't take any action against our user at this time.
Amee reported that she got the Sparc IPC the OCF loaned her to boot under SunOS 4, but the current development version of BSD/OS for the Sparc won't boot on that PROM revision level yet (but it should be fixed to do so later this week, possibly even later that night). She also said she needs a currently registered student to help her talk to IS&T's software licensing people about arranging a campus site license with BSDI.
Marco told the board that the campus holds a site license for Solaris 2.4 for Sparcs, but not for x86's -- however, they will consider a license if they get enough requests for one.
Kenji reported that the OCF now has a 32 meg SBUS memory card so that our Sparc 2 can be expanded to 96 megs of RAM.
Marco told the board that he and Norby plan to have a Sparc2 running by Wednesday as a ftp/gopher/www/print server for the OCF.
Jennifer mentioned that the OCF budget will be considered by FiComm sometime between March 6 and 10. While preparing the budget request, she had to list all the donations the OCF has recieved since last summer, which came out to just over $20,000 worth of used computer hardware.
Tara asked if the OCF was still planning on doing user reregistration soon. Alan reported that of the four people who had started working on software, no one had a finished, working program yet, but Tom Waung & Ari Zilka had volunteered to take over the software and hope to have something done in the next couple of weeks.
Jennifer announced there will be a General Meeting on March 14, 1995 at 7 pm in Sibley Auditorium. She asked if there was any pressing business for the OCF to discuss next week since we don't have a room reserved for it, due to the ILP conference. The board members couldn't think of any, so there will be no board meeting next week.
The meeting was closed at 8:10 pm. The next meeting will be Tuesday, March 14, 1995 in Sibley Auditorium (2nd Floor of Bechtel Hall) at 7 pm.