Jennifer also told the Board that Kenji & Alan would like to have the OCF buy some Apollo manuals soon, but need to get prices for them still. She then pointed a large, cake-encrusted knife at the secretary and told him to get caught up on the minutes soon. He promised to do so RSN.
The two 1.0 gigabyte drives ended up costing $1145 for good quality IBM drives. Kenji asked the board for an additional $250 to buy the remaining 2.0 gig drive the board authorized, since the remainder of the original $2000 allocation would not be enough to cover it. The board voted unanimously to allocate another $250.
Erik Muller presented the proposed revision to the electronic voting Bylaw he had been asked to write. His proposal was to change this:
5. Resolutions by the Board of Directors can be put to a vote electronically. When putting a resolution to the Board in this manner, all Board members must be included in the request for votes. To pass an issue this way, at least half of all the Board members must agree. If the motion fails to achieve a majority within seventy-two hours of being called to such a vote, the motion fails. The results of the vote will be posted in role call form.to this:
5. The Board of Directors may vote electronically on matters of immediate importance. When putting a resolution to the Board in this manner, all Board members must be included in the request for votes. To pass a resolution, at least half of all the Board members must agree within seventy-two hours. Within forty-eight hours of the request for electronic voting, any board member may vote to postpone the matter until the next regular Board meeting for further discussion. If the motion fails to achieve a majority of the Board within seventy-two hours of being called to such a vote, the motion fails. The results of the vote will be recorded by the Secretary and posted in roll call form.
The board discussed Erik's proposal and decided to rewrite it as this:
5. The Board of Directors may vote electronically on matters of immediate importance. When putting a resolution to the Board in this manner, all Board members must be included in the request for votes. The objection to an electronic vote of any one board member within 48 hours of the initial request is sufficient to postpone the matter until the next regular Board meeting for further discussion. If the motion fails to achieve a majority of the Board within seventy-two hours of being called to such a vote, the motion fails. The results of the vote will be recorded by the Secretary and posted in roll call form.
Kenji moved to accept the revised version as the new electronic-voting bylaw. The board voted 10-0 to approve the change.
Tom Waung reported that Ari is still working on the user reregistration software, and is currently shooting for a summer completion date.
Jennifer reported that Marco Nicosia & Brion Moss moved some of the OCF Sun 3 hardware stored in the XCF office to the CSUA office, but the CSUA has asked us to find another home for it soon.
She said that when she spoke to Marco about this matter he asked her why the Board is not working on his Pentium proposal and said he thought the board has no vision. Kenji asked why Marco hadn't told the board this himself.
Jennifer said that the people porting NetBSD to Apollos has asked if we could give them some hardware to help in their porting effort. While the board agreed that having an Apollo version of NetBSD would be a good thing for the OCF, they wanted to know what hardware was needed before agreeing to anything.
Jennifer brought up a complaint the OCF recently received about a user who was being ``fingered'' by someone on another system that she had obtained a court order to keep from contacting her. The user complained she was being harassed by his fingers and asked the OCF to stop him. It was pointed out that while finger can be used to monitor someone's location, it's generally not a form of communication, any more than just looking someone up in a phone book is. The general consensus of the Board was that it wasn't really any of our business, and that if she wanted to do something she would have to contact the administrators of the other person's system or whoever was responsible for enforcing the court order.
Jennifer reported that an OCF user recently insisted on paying $8 for printing 150 pages on our printers, and that the OCF had recently bought compressed air for cleaning the machines. She was asked if this was helium, and said that it wasn't, but she could arrange for tanks of nitrous if the OCF really needed them. The board couldn't think of any use other than livening up board meetings, so the matter was dropped.
The meeting was closed at 8:14 pm. The general meeting will be Tuesday, April 25, 1995 in Sibley Auditorium (Second Floor of Bechtel Hall) at 7 pm.
Alan Coopersmith, OCF Secretary