UC Berkeley Open Computing Facility Board of Directors' Meeting Thursday, 14 April 2005 ATTENDANCE ------------------------------ aoshi brando dima elliot geo jerjou jkit kaisenl kwt mattfong novakyu yury AGENDA ------------------------------ GM: (None) SM: 8150 Update Early lab closing Berkeley ACLU CalLUG CalDay Disk Array Maintenance Kit bkp BLSA/CLSJ mailman Alumni EECS mysql & hozing solaris & death cpfeyh's x86 server OPENING ------------------------------ 7:26pm meeting opens GM: Money from ASUC elections is coming. Still no fixed printer. SM: Large Printer (8150DN) TSW lost our paperwork Dima re-faxed paperwork. Small Printer Wants a maintenance kit that costs $300 Lab Closing Dima met w/Xavie. Xavie recommended open Bancroft door. They will talk with Lavonia? There are meetings of the people who are in charge of the space. We should go to these meetings. CalDay Should we table w/CSUA? Disk Array People are meeting Friday night @ 10pm Merge services and home, move to disk array Death down for 6 hours CSUA Mail Backup They're not working yet. CalLUG Their room and hardware is gone. Getting New Hardware Dima talked to Harvey Harvey recommended talk to McCreadie of IST Dima drafted e-mail Talked to Mullaley of INST, Mullaley said he'd let us know if old hardware became available. bkp Xanga Tracker project Is hozing CPU usage Has been asked to move already He hasn't responded? mp3s and wmv are using 60% and 17% of our bandwidth respectively Users using OCF for business? Google advertisements People are profitting off of our space aoshi: there's a campus policy requiring such sites to meet six points. Requires review by office of trademark management or somesuch. Yury: report them to that office and let them decide whether the site is in violation or not. aoshi: UC facilities (i.e. we) must have chancellor's approval. aoshi: We need a policy, ours aren't clear. jkit: What if I'm a tutor, or I have a band, are you guys going to kick me off? aoshi: What about resumes? brando: there are outside websites for hosting commercial stuff. brando: In this case, case by case basis, warn, then sorry for google ads aoshi: we need rules for this "commercial at discretion of ?" jkit: do we reserve right to refuse service? sponsors? money per click? honor policy? brando was going to update constitution and bylaws yury: table for 1 week, next bod vote on what kind of policy aoshi: there is hella requirements for changign constitution must happen before general mtg, etc. Bandwidth monitoring how? aoshi: grep + analog? jerjou: at least all we need is a rule to be able to shut down the people *who we know* are hozing we don't have any liability? disclaimer? we have a policy that you're not allowed to post copyrighted works constitution is old and shitty allocation of limited resources what's on the account form? GM responsible for policy brando+frank will handle? problem statement don't police copyright until notified? impact reserve right to terminate no bandwidth rules jjlin has mp3 list? tabled Policy Brando will work with frank to update policy Done before finals? More general meetings? jkit: you can just declare things as general meetings electronic votes won't work Excess Cash? we might have $1k, $1500? at end of semester buy extra paper, toner? pay for printer? server? main kit $300 backup printer is useful to have spare? what can you get for $300? HP4050N = $1500 nowadays OCF is hardcore use aoshi at least $1000 6422 ppm, reliability? cost benefit analysis? tsw should take 2 days? printer not major issue hopefully printer ready by next week jkit: add headphones yury: speakres not speakers! BLSA/CLSJ are they the same? blsj publishes clsj blsa dude says they get separate asuc funding if good enough for asuc, good enough for us! osl reg they are separate under osl the issue was two accounts + 2 virt hosts Mailman we will offer this services, let users have acct if they want it Mysql hozing all tables owned by mysel do quotas on table may be fuck up tables? ask jjlin? soft limits + hard limits if you go over your quota and mysql gets corrupted is it your fault? table corrupt or transaction? yury: hard transaction limit is 1mb we want quota track put mysql in services/ merge? solaris vs. freebsd 8 password bad dima has soalris 10, don't go freebsd notify users passwords have to change solaris 9 more cooperative than 10 upgrading death we have no equiv to death in hardware not an issue on death let death be death+war are locked down login servers yury: make eveyrone upgrade to 8 chars in advance? solaris is made to run on sun hardware cpfeyh's new server tell them it will be mysql recruiting motd lecture announcements aclu tell them options ask them to ask campus orgs maintenance night 10pm tomorrow night war going down tomorro wnight ocf going donw gm will e-mail ocf CLOSING ------------------------------ yury/nova close