-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Open Computing Facility Board of Directors Meeting 4 April 2000 Board of Directors members present: Stephen Callahan (calman) Eugene Chan (ceugene) Ivan Jen (ivan) Devin Jones (jones) Bem Jones-Bey (ajani) Wayne Kao (kaow) Eugene Kim (eek) Eddy Lu (eddylu) Stephen McCamant (smcc) Akop Pogosion (akopps) Susie Tang (suztang) Others in attendance: Brian W. Buchanan (brian@csua) Kenneth Ott (kenao) Nicholas Short The meeting was opened at 5:45 pm. Reports I. GM Report Steve M has turned in a budget request to the ASUC for $93,000. II. SM Report Akop says nothing special happened except the printer in Barrows printed lots of nonsense. Steve M says he crashed the computers by trying to plug-in a serial terminal. If you plug them in wrong, it causes the computers to mess up NFS. Steve M said he'll try not to crash the computers anymore and maybe just try out serial termainals on lab terminals. Bem says Vadium has the TDA working for the XCF under Linux, but won't share info about how to get it working. Akop says we got Solaris 8 CDs, and he said it'd be practical to run Solaris 7 on the TDA. Devin said the TDA's running some weird FreeBSD thing and he said it wouldn't be worth the trouble to use that. Bem, Akop, and Devin talked about using RAID with the TDA since we can only use two terrabytes at the time, and other student groups are taking parts of the TDA. Devin and Steve M said thinker.org doesn't expect us to host their info anymore which makes things easier for us when we're setting up the TDA. Bem said no one on staff knows BSD. New Business I. New Lab progress Steve M says the electricity is pretty much in. We're short on money. The server racks are in. Ken says we have a web page about the new lab with daily reports. Devin says the people making the lab (Tom Baker, ethernet/power guys) need constant attention. They told Devin to come by everyday. Devin asked Bem and Akop and people "with a clue" to stop by and help them. II. Revised network info Devin said he met with Monica Mac and Nolin Tong of CNS before spring break and they hated the existing infrastructure in the wiring closet (aka the women's bathroom) in the new lab. They decided that the current wiring had to be redone so Cordi's making it so the entrances to the bathrooms will be in Heller which will require making new doors and rerouting air conditioning, and we don't have to pay for it. Devin says we're going to grab a stretch of existing 10 megabit Eshleman net and drag it up to Heller. We'll only need a small amount of networking equipment (< $1000). Steve M says we might need to reclaim some IP addresses that Ken gave away. Akop's been concerned about having to create an internal subnet but Devin says we might not need to. Devin says there are also rumors that they're upgrading the Sproul Hall routers. Steve C asked when the lab will be open. Devin said we don't have money to pay for net yet. Ken says Cordi isn't volunteering to pay for it anymore like he was before. Ivan says Cordi's got his hands full with Bear's Lair. III. Reinbursements Ken says we need an ethernet hub. Akop says he needs $110 for the Solaris CDs. Devin says people just get this stuff in because the ASUC's been taking money from our account. Ken says we boght 6 boxes of Hostess cupcakes, but Steve M doesn't think we can reimburse him for that. Akop says we might need to buy more "free" Solaris 8 CDs for x86. Akop also wants a pack of 10 magnetic tapes for backups. Bem moves that we chop off Eugene's head. Eugene seconded. It passed by acclaimation (I don't think it happened though). IV. Budget Steve M says we're not going to get all the money we want from the ASUC. The budget was passed around. V. Fundraising Steve M says we probably won't get more money from EECS; Devin says he doesn't know. We spent the money they gave us; we didn't spend it on what they gave it to us for (we spend it on electricity instead of on net). Brian says he works for Desktop.com which is looking for marketing opportunities. Bem ruled out letting them put their icon on the desktop or using their web site as the default homepage. Devin says we'd have to look into the legalities of corporate sponsorship. Bem says it's easier if they just sponsor something specific. Akop said Gateway was going to make a donation but the board rejected it when they wanted Gateway.com to be the default homepage. VI. Career Fair Devin says another career fair won't happen by the end of the year because we'd have to spend a lot of time finding companies that haven't done a jobs fair this semester already, and also that companies will be upset because the students that go to jobs fairs this late in the semester are looking for internships, rather than employment. VII. Decal.org and Mars by 2002 Nicholas asked whether OCF would host the decal.org web site. It has gotten 220,000 hits on one day (that's its max). It's on a private server now but it costs too much right now and it's a big hassle to write checks. Steve M says it wouldn't take up too much space. Devin says the ASUC bought us a disk which is why we gave them a gig of web space. No one else seems to remember them actually buying us a disk though and the disk they have now was from the Sun donation. Bem says we can easily give Decal space. Steve said it'll be ok since it's not commercial and fits the OCF's general mission. Devin proposed that we host it, and grant them as much disk space as needed (currently approximately 100 megs), everyone seconded it and it passed by acclaimation. For Mars 2002, Steve says we made the decision to colocate a little hastily and we need the IP address. We're also not sure about our Barrows server room, so we're going to have to kick out Mars 2002 eventually. Devin said they could potentially host their site on OCF servers, but Brian said that'd be problematic. Devin said we can get any technology up that they need (except root), but it's likely we're going to lose our lab over the summer so we won't be able to keep Mars' computer up. Ken suggested we move the Mars computer to Eshleman. It was concluded that we should move the server to 312 or 310 until we get some 221 net and electricity in our new space. VIII. ASUC "Thingie" Steve M says we can send some people to grill ASUC candidates after the meeting. Some board members volunteered to go after hearing there'd be food there. Ken's also wondering what happened to the ASUC web site getting hosted on OCF. Akop says she hasn't logged in yet. Maybe she tried FTP'ing in before logging in. Old Business I. Death file movement Steve M says we should move the main OCF web page stuff on a file system without quotas and link it in with symlinks. That way people who work on the OCF web site won't run out on their web quota. Bem and Devin liked the idea. Akop suggested possibily nuking it and repartitioning, but no one else liked that idea. Steve M said this would fall under Akop's job description. II. Watching movies This was discussed in staff mail. Steve M said it didn't look like Ken wanted to say anything about it. III. Joint CSUA meetings Dan S suggested Thursdays for informal meetings. Some people have proposed having the joint meetings replacing our regular meetings. Bem said he should do it over food. Steve M said we'd discuss it more via email with the CSUA folks. IV. Board re-elections Ken wants to join board. Ken wanted to use secret ballot and Ben seconded. He was voted onto the board. The meeting was closed at 6:55. Recorded by Wayne Kao (kaow).