OCF Board of Directors Meeting 24 January 2000 Board members present: Stephen Callahan (calman) Eugene Chan (ceugene) Eugene Kim (eek) Stephen McCamant (smcc) Ken Ott (kenao) (co-gm) Akop Pogosian (akopps) (acting sm) Katrina Templeton (katster) (sm) Board members absent: Devin Jones (jones) (co-gm) Bem Jones-Bey (ajani) Suzie Tang (suztang) Others present: Jeff Emrich (jeffe) Ivan Jen (ivan) Wayne Kao (kaow) Marco Nicosia (marco) The meeting was opened at about 5:45pm Proposed Constitutional Amendment Stephen McCamant presented the board with a proposal for an amendment to update the constitution's non-discrimination clause: Current language: ---------------- 7.1 Nondiscrimination The OCF shall not discriminate in any way against any person by race, color, religion, marital status, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, handicap, college major or political activity. Proposed new language: --------------------- 7.1 Non-discrimination 7.1.1 In Accord with Berkeley Campus Regulations The OCF shall not restrict membership or otherwise discriminate in any way against any person or group on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, physical or mental disability, medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics), ancestry, marital status, age, sexual orientation, citizenship or status as a covered veteran (special disabled veteran, Vietnam-era veteran or any other veteran who served on active duty during a war or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized). 7.1.2 Fields of Study The OCF shall not restrict membership or otherwise discriminate in any way against any person or group on the basis of college major or field of study. However, this section shall not be construed as restricting the OCF from providing separate facilities for different uses, as long as the availability of such facilities is proportionate to demand among the OCF's current and potential users. 7.1.3 Political Activity The OCF shall not restrict membership or otherwise discriminate in any way against any person or group on the basis of political activity. ---- (End of amendment) No action was needed on the amendment; it was just presented to the board in accordance with the requirements of the constitution for amendments, and will be voted on at the upcoming General Meeting. Startups Jobs Fair Progress continues on the 2/2/2000 High-Tech Startups Job Fair. Ken explained that the fair is being produced in association with CollegeHire.com (itself a startup), who is helping to pay for promotion. Ken asked for help in choosing things to buy and give away as prizes for submitting resumes at the fair; some things that were suggested included an iMac, a Rio MP3 player, and a Playstation or Dreamcast video game console. Ivan Jen asked whether buying prizes was a useful way to promote the fair, since we might attract a lot of people who aren't really interested in getting jobs with our companies. Ken went on to explain that the prizes would be open only to students who had submitted resumes, which should reduce the incentive for abuse. There was also an inconclusive discussion of how to run the raffle. Also in the OCF's budget for the event are several days worth of ads in the Daily Cal and pizza and drinks at the event. New (Heller Lounge) Lab Devin and Ken met with ASUC officials and our new Project Manager on Friday and again on Monday. We've been delegated some control over the installation of electricity, which should help the project go faster. There was also some discussion of how much to staff the new lab; we certainly won't be able to supply staffers 24 hours a day, but we may be able to make up for it by provide more help information for users, both on and off line. Other There was a short discussion of the current colocation agreement between the OCF and the Mars by 2012 student group. According to our latest colocation policy, Mars by 2012 must reapply to continue the arrangement each semester, but it was decided that that issue should be left to the new board elected at next week's General Meeting. The arrangement was supposed to be temporary, while Mars by 2012 secured departmental sponsorship, but we haven't heard if they've accomplished that. Akop suggested that we should only provide colocation to groups that are actively looking for another place. Akop also suggested two web projects that would be beneficial to the OCF -- one is a system (perhaps based on HyperMail) to archive mail sent to the staff@ocf and or admin@ocf lists, which could perhaps become a sort of trouble ticket system, which would keep track of problems from users and prevent problems from `falling through the cracks'. Another idea was a software map, which would list the various software, such as text editors and mail readers, available on the OCF, along with links to documentation and external program websites. Finally, Ken suggested that a useful feature for the OCF to have would be the capability to upload and manipulate files with a web interface, which could allow users to set up a web site without needing to learn too much about Unix. After users become more skilled with the web interface, however, we could have the system automatically give them hints about how they could get things done more quickly from the command line. The meeting was closed at about 7:00pm.