Minutes for the OCF Board of Directors Meeting March 30, 1998 The meeting was called to order at 6:13 PM. Board members attending: Dan Stangel (stangel), Jennifer Snider (jenni), Luns Tee (tee), Elaine Chao (chaos), George Gong (gong), Richard Dunn (dunnthat) Others attending: Alan Coopersmith (alanc), Saar Picker (saarp) REPORTS GM: Still intending to fax list to Excess & Salvage. Still trying to get information about selling toner cartridges SM: (by interim SM, jenni). Shut down machines quite a bit over Spring Break for backups and disk tuning. Upgraded the mail server. armageddon will be off the OCF roster for the next 3 weeks so it can be an ASUC voting machine. One of the elevators in Eshleman was fixed, allowing us to move equipment again. Treasurer: Nothing to report HS: Planning meeting on 3-31 at 5 PM in CSUA lounge to discuss next years HSs. The cycle should finish in the next few weeks, and will repeat. The Intro to Unix sessions will be delayed to coincide with our Grand Opening. EJC: Nothing to report OLD BUSINESS New purchases - After some discussion about previous discussions: MOTION: tee motioned that the OCF allocate funds for the following equipment 1 4-tape autoloader @ $2730 + tax + shipping 3 Ultra/5 upgrades of @ $1620 + tax + shipping current OCF machines For a total of ~$8700 The motion was seconded, and passed unanimously The GM agreed to get an official price quote from Sun. Server colocation policy - dunnthat again presented a draft to the board. After a few minor changes: MOTION: chaos motioned the OCF adopt the server colocation policy as written by dunnthat. The motion was seconded, and passed 5-0-1. dunnthat will send the final copy to the BOD mailing list ASUC voting - The software program has been delayed, since the ASUC cannot obtain a Scantron machine. We will kept it until needed by the ASUC. The GM spoke to Rand Wacker about getting a list of valid SID numbers for validation during voting. The board decided that the final decision about our participation in the voting process should be made by the SM. Printer in 217 Eshleman - After some fiddling, Luns managed to eliminate the jamming problem. However, a missing piece in the paper tray forces the printer to treat out-of-paper errors as paper jams. Note to staff: If this happens, open and close the lid of the printer to fix it. NEW BUSINESS Tapes - jenni pointed out that the OCF needs more tapes to do regular backups. She agreed to bring a concrete backup schedule and a firm estimate for tape prices to the next meeting The meeting was closed at 7:06 PM. Minutes prepared by Richard Dunn (dunnthat)