-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Open Computing Facility Board of Directors Meeting 21 March 2000 Board of Directors members present: Stephen Callahan (calman) Jason Castello (castello) Eugene Chan (ceugene) Jeff Emrich (jeffe) Gabriel Gonzalez (gmg) Bem Jones-Bey (ajani) Ivan Jen (ivan) Devin Jones (jones) Wayne Kao (kaow) Eugene Kim (eek) Eddy Lu (eddylu) Stephen McCamant (smcc) Akop Pogosion (akopps) Susie Tang (suztang) Others in attendance: None. The meeting was opened at 6:50 pm. It was opened with only 11 board members present, without quorum. I. GM Report Steve says the new lab's coming along but it's unlikely that we'll get more money from the ASUC, at least now. Devin agreed with that assessment. Ivan says we have more clout with the ASUC than we may think because we could threaten that without money (like $20,000) people's web pages would get shut down which is true. Many individuals and groups use OCF web space and wouldn't be happy about that. Ivan's thinking we might do an emergency submission for more money which would have political impact because it would make the Daily Cal right before ASUC elections after spring break. The other alternative is to wait until after elections like ASUC president Patrick Campbell suggested we do to avoid political implications. Ivan noted that though that if this ends up as a political debate and we end up on the wrong side, we could end up with nothing. We do need more money for air conditioning and a faster internet feed. Air conditioning would be a pain to setup later according to Devin. Devin also said we'd lose our network connection this summer after losing our Barrows office. Steve M said we could move the servers into Eshleman, but they probably wouldn't let us. Bem says if we don't have internet before summer, everything would be down over the summer and into fall. Ivan says this would help our case in getting money from the ASUC, even if it is somewhat of a political gamble. Ivan proposed that we try to get more funding and Steve C seconded. Bem said we needed net and this was very important. Heating's not as important. We couldn't vote without quorum though. Our budget's also due soon according to Ivan. Bem said we had problems because people who bid backed out. Devin gave some examples of bidders who had backed out so it went from $17,000 to $48,000 and they used $10,000 of our money to improve the entire building. Devin said there was nothing we could do about it. Steve C's electric MP3 player starting playing weird music at this point. Devin said we need $20,000 for net, and maybe air conditioning. Without air conditioning we can't put up the TDA because it might burn up. With $40,000, we could do both. Ivan needs numbers from Ken in order to try to get us more money. We can't even afford computers and chairs. Devin's been trying to contact Richard Watson to see when he can do another fund raiser in the fall but it doesn't look promising right now. Ivan's tryi Someone called and Steve M answered the phone and said more board members were on their way to the meeting. II. SM Report Akop said nothing special had happened. Akop gave up on the spam alert about KALX because KALX said the emails they sent were only to people who wanted them. Akop ordered the Solaris 7 and 8 CDs and started setting up servers and upgrading stuff. Steve M been working on getting NIS+ working on volcano. Akop reported Luns modified the UFS dump to use SSH. III. Disk Quotas Steve M said our disk czarina Kat has been preoccupied so Steve wanted to present some quota issues directly to the board: 1. The Vietnamese Student Association The Vietnamese Student Association has two accounts, their main group one and one additional one for their culture show. It was controversial because they really shouldn't have two accounts. Susie was there when the account was initially approved and didn't understand why we didn't just up the quota on their first account. Steve M said they do their show in May and want to do audio-visual stuff but can't fit it in their eight megs of quota. Steve M said they couldn't even upload one of their test files. If it were just the DuMB, we could at most double the quota. Steve M said we could just cancel the space after May but Devin asked, wouldn't they want the stuff to show after May. Devin said it sounds really reasonable (as reasonable as these kind of requests go) and said this would support the public service mission of the university. Ivan said they'll ask for more space year after year though. Bem said we could give it to them once and tell them to archive it elsewhere if they want to do it in the 2. ceugene Bem said Ken asked him to up Eugene's quota. Jason said Eugene hosts JPEGs for the OCF in his directory. Bem confirmed this. Akop was wondering how much he wants. Steve M said he just wanted more. Devin said his overall web quota's going up since all the web stuff, including the OCF web site stuff, is under a user's web quota. Steve M said he's updated the HTML version of the constitution (not the Postscript and troff version), but he said that that was off-topic. Steve M suggested we just fix how quotas are calculated. Devin said our tradition was that staff who contribute shouldn't have rigid quotas. Akop added Jenni C sometimes runs out of mail quota because she's on the postmaster list. Akop said people who do OCF projects should have their general quotas updated. Steve M said it's not an ideal solution but it's the best one for now. Akop said he hit some errors while compiling but it was because he had run out of space. Bem said doing the home directories would be less likely to run out of Steve M said we can't do anything about the quota though since we can't vote on it. IV. Budget Stuff Steve M said it's due tomorrow though he isn't sure at what time. He's trying to figure how much many members we have: % ls /var/mail | wc 5500 Of those, 5000 are valid shells, excluding those who are sorried, and can log in Devin looked at the mail logs and calculated who can still receive mail, but Akop said that's unreliable. Steve M said some people don't use their mail but use their mail. He said 8000 people were approved since 1994 but that might be unreliable. The approve log shows 1200. A third to a fourth of those are still students. It's still hard to figure out how many student users we have. Bem said we serve a few thousand current students which is awesome, maybe 2500 total. Devin said he got similar numbers from the mail logs.. about a third of 5,000. Akop said some people don't log in and use POP mail; Devin said he accounted for that. Steve M said we aren't anticipating doing fund-raising next year so that'll get us more money from the ASUC. Devin, who's lead a lot of previous fundraising, doesn't see us doing more fund raising next year because it's a big hassle and he can't even setup a date and he's about to just give up because what the hell. Ivan said we made lots of money this year only because we were fundraising for the new lab. V. The user who Ivan approved Ivan approved an account for Danny Lee who is taking the semester off and coming back. Devin said that fits the definition of a student. Steve M doesn't know what he'd show us. Bem said he can bring in his intent to register form, or Devin said he can bring in a bill. Bem said to just let him. Devin said to just tell him to go to the CSUA. Devin and Bem said to just let him slide, but Steve M said we don't have quorum. Devin said we have 11 people (we need 12). Steve M said we can take comfort in the fact Ken is going to be dropped, Darin too. V. Location of BoD Meetings We don't have quorum so this means we're stuck in Eshleman because we can't vote out way back to Dwinelle. We started arguing about rounding up people to make quorum. Devin said the constitution says we have to round up. Steve M said we can do an email vote later on the mailing list. VI. Closing The meeting was unofficially closed and I went to the i-games thing at West Pauley. Apparently more people showed up to the meeting which hadn't been closed so we had quorum and the meeting was voted back to Dwinelle. The meeting was closed. Recorded by Wayne Kao (kaow).