Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:02:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jennifer Tsoi <jentsoi@OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
To: bod@OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Board of Directors Minutes, 22 September 1999

BoD minutes, for your approval.  Corrections/comments welcome.  If there
are no corrections/comments, I'll post this to ocf-announce on Friday.

Jen
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                OCF Board of Directors Meeting
                        22 September 1999

Board members present:
	Eugene Chan (ceugene)
	Devin Jones (jones) (gm)
	Bem Ajani Jones-Bey (ajani)
	Yosen Lin (yosenl)
	Stephen McCamant (smcc)
	Ken Ott (kenao) (gm)
	Susie Tang (suztang)
	Luns Tee (tee)
        Katrina Templeton (katster) (sm)
        Jennifer Tsoi (jentsoi)
        
Board members absent:
        Stephen Callahan (calman)
	Wendy Hwang (wenhwang)
	Susie Kang (skang)

Others present:
	Kaliya Young (kaliya) 

        
The meeting was opened at 5:10pm

Agenda:
	I.   Welcome
	II.  Reports
		General Manager
		Site Manger
	III. Old Business
		Web hosting policy
	IV.  New Business
		New staff training
		Upcoming events
		Other/publicity
	V.   Announcements
		Board meeting times
		Board drops
	VI.  Go Home

II. Reports

	General Manager

	Devin and Ken report that lots of miscellaneous/random things
	happened in the past week.  The OCF was featured in a DailyCal
	article on 14 September 1999.  There was an ASUC bill, SB27,
	introducted at a Senate meeting that stipulated that the OCF 
	must move out 5 days after said bill passed.  Devin and Ken
	attended this meeting, and convinced the committee otherwise.
	The bill was struck.  While this bill did not pass, we still
	should get a timeline going for moving out of 217 Eshleman and
	into 310/312 Eshleman.  Ken proposed that we shut off some
	of the less used DECs by 9/22, and by the first week of October,
	move about 1/2 of our stuff into the new space.  Devin and Ken
	also submited a proposal to get the 24-hour lab space at
	Heller Lounge.  They are also working on trying to get the
	UC Seal to use on our website.  As for donations, they have
	emailed Inktomi for a software donation.  Devin also mentioned
	that there is a possibility of large amounts of hardware donations,
	from the Tertiary Disk Array Project (headed by Professor
	Patterson), and from the Network of Workstations Project (headed
	by Professor Culler).  However, the OCF will need to come up
	with some good proposals for their use to be able to beat out
	some other campus groups who are also trying to get that donation.
	
	Site Manager

	Kat had nothing to report.
	
III. Old Business

	Web hosting policy

	More than one student group has approached the OCF this semester
	wanting *.berkeley.edu web addresses.  The Board agreed in 
	principle that this was a good thing and that it was a service
	that we should definitely consider providing.  However, the OCF
	needs to get some recognition for providing this service.  A more 
	formal policy will be drafted up next week.  Issues that need to 
	be dealt with include: for whom do we provide this service, and
	what type of recognition we should pursue.
		        
IV. New Business

	New Staff Training

	Some ideas were tossed out regarding what is the best method
	for knowledge to pass from old staff to new staff.  Ken suggested
	the idea of a "new staff binder," where information for new
	staff (such as instructions on how to approve accounts, how
	to deal with user problems, etc.) could be stored.  Devin
	suggested more formal training, where some of the old staff
	could do "training sessions" for the new staff on a rotational
	basis.

	Upcoming Events

	9/23 - Student Activities Fair, 10a-3p, upper Sproul Plaza.
	Ken asked for signups to help sit at the OCF table during
	those hours, and some Board members signed up for various times.

	10/21 - Start-up Job Fair
	Devin said this was an event where small, pre-IPO companies come
	to campus one day and relax, chat, and eat pizza with any students
	who drop by.  If anyone knows any pre-IPO start-ups who may want
	to particpate in this, or if you want to help out Devin in 
	organizing this event, contact gm@ocf  For more info on the fair,
	please see:
		http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/jobsfair/startup.html
	
	Staff socials
	Ken suggested the idea of a staff social so that all staff can
	get to know one another.  Locations suggested for such social:
	LaVals's Pizza, Raleigh's.

	Flyering
	Ken hopes to hand out some new posters and flyers next week
	for flyering and posting in various places (DCs, campus buildings,
	etc.).

V. Announcements

	Board meeting time
	The Board decided that meetings shall take place on Wednesdays
	at 5:00pm, location TBA.  We will work on finding a permanent
	room for the meetings.

	Board drops
	The following were dropped from the Board of Directors for
	two consecutive weeks absence:
		Wendy Hwang (wenhwang)
		Susie Kang (skang)

The meeting was closed at 6:00pm.