Open Computing Facility (OCF)
Board of Directors (BoD) Meeting Minutes
9 October 2003
Table of Contents
- Attendance
- In Attendance
- Board of Directors as of this Meeting
- Board of Directors as of next Meeting
- Minutes
- General Manager (GM) Message
- Printing
- Fundraising
- Site Manager (SM) Message
- Status Report
- Policy for Old Accounts
- Potential Electricity Bills to OCF
- ASUC Funding Bill
- Spare Equipment Going to Math Department
- Barrows Lab Cleaning
- ASUC Satellite Lab
- Implementing Log and Spam Assasin Server
- New Staff
- BoD Elections
- Closing
Attendance
In Attendance
name (login)
Board of Directors as of This Meeting
| name (login) |
attendance |
notes |
| Akop Pogosian (akopps) |
present |
|
| David A Fullmer (remlluf) |
present |
|
| Devin Jones (jones) |
absent |
|
| Eleen Chiang (eleen) |
present |
|
| George Wu (geo) |
present |
|
| Jimmy Kittiyachavalit (jkit) |
present |
|
| Elliot Block (elliot) |
present |
|
| Jun Kitagawa (kitajun) |
absent |
tonight is second consecutive absence |
| Nicholas Joseph Stahl (njstahl) |
absent |
|
| Charles Patrick Feyh (cpfeyh) |
present |
|
| Solitaire MacIan (sajmm) |
present |
|
| Yonathan Asfaw (yonathan) |
present |
|
| Patrick Henry Lee (phlee) |
absent |
|
Statistics:
- total members: 13
- needed for quorum: 9
- present: 9/13 (69 percent)
- absent: 4/13 (31 percent)
Board of Directors as of Next Meeting
| name (login) |
notes |
| Akop Pogosian (akopps) |
|
| David A Fullmer (remlluf) |
|
| Devin Jones (jones) |
one absence going into 10/16/03 |
| Eleen Chiang (eleen) |
|
| George Wu (geo) |
|
| Jimmy Kittiyachavalit (jkit) |
|
| Elliot Block (elliot) |
|
| Nicholas Joseph Stahl (njstahl) |
one absence going into 10/16/03 |
| Charles Patrick Feyh (cpfeyh) |
|
| Solitaire MacIan (sajmm) |
|
| Yonathan Asfaw (yonathan) |
|
| Patrick Henry Lee (phlee) |
one absence going into 10/16/03 |
| Will Orson Harris (wharris) |
|
| Paula Balciunaite (balciun) |
|
Statistics:
- total members: 14
- needed for quorum: 10
Changes to Board of Directors:
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Meeting Minutes
Opening
Quorum achieved, meeting opens
General Manager (GM) Message
Printing
The printer's still counting pages wrong. One double-sided
sheet counts as two pages, and one single-sided sheet also
counts as two pages.
Fundraising
Keep/start doing it!
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Site Manager (SM) Message
Status Report
Akop Pogosian (akopps) has been fixing things
in the background, such as our mail servers.
Policy for Old Accounts
- We don't provide service to expired
student groups.
- We don't close old individual accounts
unless the user asks us to.
- We do not speak of rereg.
- We do provide service to old individual
accounts, if the user can prove their identity
(e.g. for changing passwords).
- There has been talk of starting an
opt-in system, where all users have to renew
their account each semester or else it's terminated.
This system has not been developed.
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Electricity
- Building Operations People:
- Tom Baker
- Richard Watson
- John Rolly(sp?)
- When we first moved in, there was talk
of signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
with Building Operations
- We never signed any MoU with
building operations.
- We do have a MoU with the ASUC Auxiliary
authorizing us to use Heller Lab.Currently, ASUC pays for OCF's large
electricity bill
- Now, Building Operations wants
to potentially charge OCF for electricity
- We use a lot of electricity, the bill
would be expensive.
- No staff should sign anything from anyone,
they will jump at any chance (legitimate or otherwise)
to charge us. If someone inadvertantly signs away
our money, even if s/he is not authorized to, it
could still be very difficult to get our funds back.
- Electricity bills are calculated according to equipment
generalizations, not our actual usage
- Even if we tried to save electricity,
it wouldn't reduce our bill--we'd have
to get rid of some of our equipment and
wait until the next time they recalculate
our inventory.
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Funding
- Devin Jones (jones) and Eleen Chiang (eleen) went to
the ASUC to try to get more funding
- An ASUC bill was written up on Monday, cosigned by David A Fullmer (remlluf)
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Spare Equipment Going to Math Department
- Sun monitors are in Heller Lab, but hey
need to go back to Barrows. Charles Patrick Feyh (cpfeyh)
plans to move monitors back later this night (10/09/03).
- Ultra1 machines are still in Barrows, but they
need to go to the math department.
- Sun monitors eventually need to go to the math department.
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Barrows Lab Cleaning
- The Cart is still in Barrows.
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ASUC Satellite Lab
- The OCF is now committed to providing
five of our Dells and one printer to the
ASUC. We're to set up a secondary cluster
in Eschleman.
- Devin Jones [jones@OCF.Berkeley.edu]
has been negotiating with ASUC regarding this setup.
- David A Fullmer [remlluf@OCF.Berkeley.edu]
also has info.
- They want their cluster ASAP
- We should tentatively do it
within about two weeks
- It might be useful to build the ASUC's cluster
before our funding bill gets to their table,
that way they may have a more favorable outlook
towards us.
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Implementing Log and Spam Assasin Server
- Akop Pogosian (akopps) thinks using two (ideally)
or one Dell as a syslogd server and spamd server would
significantly reduce the load on war.OCF
- the server would run a minimal
install of Debian Linux (stable) with
the server daemons. Wouldn't need XWindows
or NIS+ integration or anything, would
be fairly standalone from our network.
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New Staff
Paula Balciunaite (balciun) wanted to join staff,
Bem Ajani Jones-Bey (ajani) volunteered to teach/set up
her account for staff.
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BoD Elections
Will Orson Harris (wharris) and Paula Balciunaite (balciun)
elected to BoD
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Closing
Eleen Chiang (eleen) motions to close and Jimmy Kittiyachavalit (jkit) seconds
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