Bod Meeting Thursday, November 7, 2006 Attendance: sle akit thomson aoaks geo abhi wln tony griffin gordeon mei jchu sahnn aclee dima cardi jones sluo Meeting called to order at 7:14pm Gm Message - Budget: $15697.42 ordered paper, toners, got: 2-piece luggage set free mini-fridge - aaron: to go to server room and prop sodas fridge to be rack-mounted how to spend freebies: thomson: create a raffle and pick an account form at random and give them out - free toaster from thomson caveat: have to hold the toaster down to toast toaster down: blender, stove to go - T-Shirts: griffin and gordeon are still analyzing which t-shirt design to create - Inventory: jameson has been working on getting inventory together on 1st shelf in 3rd column planned on doing it on Wed, but jameson had more important things to do: cs61c hw talk to jameson if interested in helping out - Grant Writing: thomson still working on writing grants thomson sent out an email earlier: need to act fast on NSF grant 30K (Williams), 50K (LSU) grants to other labs in the past if want a better lab -- help thomson with his tremendous english skills users: helps that most of our users are girls -- minorities - OCF Fun: veteran's weekend adventure - SF/Bowling? since no ski trip -- want to do TJ, thomson would supply 2 cars and a van full of hookers SF Zoo? Rent Bikes, then run around sf problem: not everybody knows how to bike? would like to have a thanksgiving dinner with OCF Jones Soda Pack - 4 different bottles: jones - that pack is disgusting will make a Kosher turkey -- takes too long, hence should go with chicken griffin volunteers his co-op kitchen services, and to cook; but potential time constraints due to dinner at co-op around 7 - Soda Hozers - Past 5 days from list of people signing in to get a soda With Water: 17 - jameson, aoaks, yury 13 - akit 7 - abhi Without Water: 17 - jameson 13 - aoaks 12 - yury 7 - abhi, akit Consumption by Date: 29th - 20, 30th - 24, 31st - 21, 1st - 19, 2nd - 14: total = 98 sodas consumed in the past 5 days solutions to drink hozing: griffin - create a jar and ask $.25 per beverage, staff is trustworthy dima: dig a well in the server room thomson: water cooler with 5 gallon jugs Sm Message: - Disk array still in limbo newegg still have not send the hds will need to reapply for emergency RMA as will not be able to make it ontime with current one everything pushed back - Plan on how to recover disk array: all data copied onto temporary array put image back onto disk array backup data forgot to backup first time ship disk array back databases still missing, sle will email again postgres OK homedirs are back, but for some reason an angry user from '98 still calls everyday - Mail still 13K bounces, will see over 200 messages as still sending mail out - Staff SQL needs to be repaired, as there have been some problems - Server Room Inventory will do rewiring soon, cleaning stuff up be careful when walking around -- somebody disconnected a power supply off disk array NO BIKES, NO EATING & DRINKING IN THE SERVER ROOM PLEASE - Missing Stuff by users Toyota keys, green iPod, drivers license, tons of usb keys - UPS only 1 working, the rest are real fancy surge protectors ABC program - 20-30% off new UPS, if send back the old ones Options for new UPSes $2,109 120V, 35 minute running time daisy chain ability - can expand out to more $2,800 220V, 17 minutes not upgradable our current UPSes are 2-3 years old, so batteries are probably dead lead-acid batteries maybe if get a new UPS, get new batteries for old ones sluo motions to allocate $2,500 for a new UPS, aoaks seconds who's on BOD? vote: 12-0-4 for-against-abstain -- passes General Discussion: - OCF Wiki needs updating, put information about services maybe need to separate and leave out sensitive information? akopps wants to be off mailing lists sluo offered to put akop back on staff, give passwords, but akopps is not interested potentially he's busy applying to grad schools - Devin Jones (non-paid advertisement) looking for web developers basic php ability, custom validation jones is happy to train people at least 10 hours a week to commit $18/hour dont care about work-study -- got $$$ do not put personal blogs/websites on the resume some employers do not like seeing that as may find something they dont like with a page and flip out send email to djones (at) law dot berkeley dot edu going to be working with sakai OO framework with bspace pure java will be looking at php frameworks, like Cakes da next wave also have student webmaster positions if interested in writing pure html jones will train how to move into php abhi recently hired and doing a great job does php which everybody hates pretty cool, get an office in Boalt with a whiteboard (everybody ahhhs) a cool title: Student Web Applications Developer looks good on resume jones is cool too - Discussion of OCF's Mission providing staff with walnut prawns expansion into Heller? will need a new acronym? include the mention of alumni whom we also serve, but do not mention by name sluo motions to adjourn the meeting, wln seconds meeting adjourned at 8:06pm