Open Computing Facility

Minutes of the March 14, 1995 General Meeting

Agenda


Attendance

Active Members Present:
Others Present:
None.

The meeting was called to order at 7:25 pm in Sibley Auditorium by Jennifer.

General Manager Report

Jennifer reported that Nevin forwarded to the Board e-mail list information on a grant program from a Business School class for small non-profit organizations. It was unclear from the information though how much of the $10,000 total money the OCF could recieve.

Jennifer also mentioned that the OCF's budget request for next year was turned in two weeks ago, but the ASUC Finance Committee hearings on the budget requests were delayed until April by the new elections schedule. Also, the second line in our Eshelman office is supposed to be disconnected soon, which should lower our current phone bills.

Site Manager Report

David reported that new accounts were still being created on a regular basis. He also discussed a proposed plan to put all disk quota violators on one disk so that when they fill the disk and crash the server, they don't affect users who are behaving themselves.

Engineering Joint Council Report

Saar reported that the EJC has many social activities we can participate in if we choose to, as well as fundraising opportunities when Cal Day happens on April 28. They would also like us to clean out our Bechtel desk soon so that the Space Sciences Group can have it.

Other Business & General Discussion

Jennifer asked Ari to report on the status of reregistration software. Ari said the server was still in progress and the client side was partially done. He and Tom expect to have something ready to run by next week, but they want to make sure they do it right.

Jennifer reminded the members of the Disk Management Board that they should respond to requests within 72 hours and mentioned that since no one can find the rules under which the DMB operates, she'd like to rewrite them at next week's board meeting.

David reported that the Sparc 2 Marco Nicosia and Peter Norby promised to set up two weeks ago was not up yet, but was ready to go as soon as the name ("famine.berkeley.edu") was registered by DCNS. It was asked what the machine was going to be used for. Alan said that he thought it was going to be a print, ftp, gopher, and www server, but that neither Marco nor Peter had contacted the people in charge of the ftp, gopher, or www servers to discuss moving them over to the new machine.

The meeting was closed at 7:50 pm. The next Board of Directors meeting will be Tuesday, March 21, 1995 in 120a Bechtel at 7 pm.