OCF Board of Directors Meeting Thursday, 12 February 2004 BoD For Tonight: eleen - present jkit - present laotzu - absent elliot - present adrian - present shenliu - absent yehfang - present rahat - present joydip - present hkim - absent akamike - present phlee - present Present 9/12 Present: Mike (akamike) Shiva (shivab) Elliot (elliot) Oren (rahat) Kaisen (kaisenl) Adrian (adrian) Yeh (yehfang) Joydip (joydip) Patrick (phlee) Eleen (eleen) Jimmy (jkit) Present: 10 Present and on BoD: 9 Quorum Achieved BoD For Next Meeting eleen jkit laotzu - one absence elliot adrian shenliu - one absence yehfang rahat joydip hkim - one absence akamike phlee kaisenl shivab ------------- Quorum achieved, meeting starts Eleen opens the meeting GM Message - Nothing much is up, except e-mail - Eleen brought in new toner that she bought, it's next to the old toner - The building's open now - Staff hours are commenced. If you write your name on the page, it's a commitment; please follow through, or if you can't, edit the staff_hours file and note your upcoming absense SM Message - Yesterday jkit and jones updated quotas - New Quotas are twice as large as old ones: - Home: 200mb - Web 120mb - The person who was going to donate a computer failed to do so, but said would come back next weekend. - We should be getting two new computers. - Devin wants to put some Linux on the new systems and give the systems to student groups who don't have resources. - Eleen suggests a raffle of them - Adrian: There's a nonprofit in Berkeley that is selling 10 systems via Craigslist - Oren: there is one Dell sitting in the server room, Devin says it has a purpose. There are four Dells in Eschleman Old Business? - None reported New Business: - Cal Retirement Center Network - Requests that OCF supplies accounts for their users - Their users are retired staff or faculty. - They get UCLINK, some student discounts, etc. - They can be identified by their IDs - Quick review of policy changes from spring general meeting. - We don't know how many potential new users this includes. What kinds of resources is this? - Where do you draw the line between alumni staff/faculty, and student alumni? - If we do it for this alumni organization, how can we say to other alumni organizations? - Would the center create the accounts themselves? Or would they asks us to create thousands of accounts? Our approval system isn't automated. - Oren: There should be at least minimal barrier to entrance; it should take at least some effort to get an account. - This organization is making money off their services...services that we would be contributing to for free. - Mailing list: - Brian Carver supports the idea because of cases like professors who have given a lot of work and years of their live to the school and just want some webspace. - Joydip: It's difficult to try to differentiate worthy alumni from unworthy alumni; for example, we don't discriminate for/against certain categories of *current* student/faculty/staff - Eleen: we've talked of different account types; could this make accomodating more people easier? - Oren: Our technical support abilities are also very taxed. - Eleen: authentication issues: we always need to do password changes and such in person. If they're retired and distant it is difficult. Unknown Staff Stuff - Does anyone not know how to do stuff? - Not really - Read your staff e-mail for lots of good stuff! Projects - WEBSITE REDESIGN - The website design! It needs to be redesigned and prettier. - Devin made a new design and sent it out over break - People were working on it - Shiva: What needs to be on the website? - Eleen: Everything that needs to be on a new site is already on the old site; base your new design off the old site. - There's a webdesign user group. It may need updating. - If you have website ideas you can send them to jkit or eleen - Shiva: People can submit general ideas for websites and then we can break up the project and distribute it. - Jimmy: An important component of that is figuring out logical places tosubdivide up the project. - DOCUMENTATION - the wiki! "a customizable webspace" - already filling in - put your knowledge in it, - look for knowledge there! - send out link to wiki: - http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/[tilde]elliot/cgi-bin/wiki.pl - CLEAN UP THE SERVERS - Jimmy: It'd be nice if the servers had an organized structure. LDAP would be cool. People should get into this stuff..and ideally do it for me. - Patrick: The campus uses LDAP too - Joydip: the iLamp there's no flashing question mark (the usual mark of harddrive failure). - Jimmy: sometimes ifyou're really lucky you'll get the flashing question mark - Patrick: the CD-ROM drive won't open up - Joydip: The firmware reports only one ATA device, the CD-ROM drive. We should stick a new hard drive in there. - Patrick: I know how to do that! I just need screwdriver, etc. - Oren: We're out of IPs, which is why the Macs aren't on the network. - Eleen: So what's the plan? - Patrick: I'll see if the harddrive is salvagable. [Patrick becomes endowed with responsibility] Our Mac People: phlee, joydip SOCIAL IDEAS age/b-day eleen 02/16/83 jkit 05/06/83 phlee 11/26/82 joydip 9/28/82 yehfang 8/28/82 adrian 7/10/82 rahat - pass kaisenl - 9/24/84 akamike - 1/6/82 elliot - 11/04/83 shivab - 10/05/80 SOCIAL IDEAS - food - games - watching movies - anime - rent a projector - pool hall - LAN party - Jimmy: We should play charades *right now* - Oren: We have Warcraft 3 installed on multiple Gateway machines. Did you guys know this?! - Online games? - Games that don't require CDs - TyperA - Jimmy: "We should play 'clean the lab', or 'who can clean the lab fastest?' or 'whoever loses the next game cleans the lab!'" - Potluck? ANYONE WANT TO JOIN BOD? - Kaisen and Shiva join BoD by majority - Adrian motions to close - Seconded by Mike and Patrick Meeting Closes!