Open Computing Facility 
General Meeting
Spring 2004
2004/01/29

BoD Meetings: Thursday Nights at 7pm
(105 Dwinelle)

Jimmy the (New) Site Manager Will Be in Heller Lab at 6pm Thursdays

Faculty Sponsor
- Brian Harvey still faculty sponsor

General Manager Elections
- Eleen nominated by jkit
	- Patrick seconds nomination of Eleen
- Unanimous election of Eleen

Site Manager Elections
- Eleen nominates jkit
	- Devin seconds nomination of jkit
- Jimmy unanimously elected to SM.

Other Directors - Appointments
SM can appoint people unless GM, BoD
oppose
- Disk Management
- Print Managment
	- phlee appointed
- Postmaster - [De Facto Postmaster = Luns]
- Secretary
	- Elliot appointed

Old Business
- Oren has spent much time fixing back room and making it look pretty and usable.
	- Please don't do anything bad to the back room.

New Business
- Policy
	- User Membership
		- Policy was devised when we were using official campus networking
			- We had to comply with official campus rules
		- Policy was devised 15 years ago
		- The current policy says the following are eligible for an account:
			- Current staff, faculty, students
		- Campus has slackened up a lot
		- We're on ASUC Network
			- We don't have to follow campus rules as strictly
			- They have private agreement to allow non-campus people
				to use network
		- What has been suggested:
			- We change policy to reflect what actual user base is.
		- The Current Situation:
			- Most of our user base is alumni, because we haven't
				expired accounts since about 1997.
		- smcc has suggested changes:
			- Add eligibility to an extended group: (see )
			- Add eligibility of those people that used to be part of the
				extended group (let people keep accounts).
		- Devin adds the following suggested eligibilites:
			- People who are normally given benefits of employees
			- Such as spouses/domestic partners of student, faculty, staff
			- (The current employee would have to be currently eligible
				for the spouse to be eligible)
			- Individuals from the community who volunteer with the OCF.
		- There's been talk of expiring inactive accounts after a couple of years.
			- This may happen as well.
		- Constitution vs. Policy
			- We can give OCF resources away through policy alone.
			- Membership is decided via constitution
			- Membership only affects election to office.
		- Constitution is silent on policy changes?
		- Devin moves that we change policy in manner just discussed
			- Matt seconds.
			- Vote Done by Hands
			- Vote succeeds unanimously
		- Someone suggests a guarantee of at least 2 years for alumni accounts.
	- Quotas
		- Current Policy
			- Allows up to 5 megs of space
				- (For regular space, mail, etc.)
				- "Basically this is just retarded."
					- "There doesn't need to be a limit in policy"
			- smcc suggests policy change:
				- "A uniform limit" for all users for space, mail, etc.
				- The idea is that we don't need to change policy
					every time we change quota.
				- Ability to request a waiver from uniform limit
			- Devin adds suggestion:
				- "Or at discretion of site manager"
			- Policy change (of smcc and jones) passes
- Heller and the New Lab
	- Devin, Jimmy, Eleen and Building Ops met on Monday
	- Library is moved back to 7th Floor Eschleman
		- 24 Hours after the 6th week of school
		- There are 4 Dell computers there from us,
			internet only
			- No OCF account login ability
			- Oren reports they have MS Office
				- We need to remove this.
		- Publications is in charge there
			- They asked for only webaccess
			- No printing
	- ASUC Eschleman 2nd Floor Cluster
		- Are the computers that got moved to 7th floor
		- But the printer is still on the 2nd floor.
	- Heller Lab in MLK
		- Closed indefinitely
			- Check back in two weeks.
			- Eleen is working on it.
		- Doors are locked.
			- We can get ourselves some openable doors and locks
		- We would need to get ourselves some security
		- We're waiting on David Fullmer, who needs to do some work.
		- There's a possibility that Heller Lab will remain closed
			throughout Heller Lounge construction.
			- e.g. until next Fall
		- We're not sure when we can get the lab open.	
		- There are limited keys we posses
			- We can set up specified days to open up the lab.
			- If you want an account you can e-mail staff@OCF.Berkeley.edu
				- Set up an appointment to come open up office
					and make account.
	- They're talking about turning Heller Lounge into multimedia
		entertainment lounge.
Miscellaneous
	- jkit introduces BoD and BoD Meetings
	- Nobody needed a new account
	- Recruiting new staff
		- Talk to Jimmy, e-mail him, sm@OCF.Berkeley.edu.
	- Don't need to post office hours at the current time.
	- If you want to approve accounts, contact jimmy or eleen.
	- Use IRC! irc.ocf.berkeley.edu

Devin Motions to Close Meeting
Matt Seconds Movement. 

Meeting Ends!  A new semester begins!