Minutes of the OCF board of directors meeting, 1989 March 16.

Board Members Attending: Partha S. Banerjee Rober Cullmann Adam Glass Marc Hertlein Adam J. Richter David Muir Sharnoff Gretchen Stude Cimarron Taylor

Board members absent: Ron Woan Antony Courtney Drew Dean

Guests: Shelley Louie Daniel Efron

The meeting, scheduled for 6:00pm, reached quorum around 7:30pm.

There will be no meeting on the 23rd due to Spring break.

During the break, we hope to get a lot of work done in preparing the information packet for new users, particularly new users from outside the traditional computing community. Everyone is encouraged to help in this effort, and also encouraged to send mail to ocf@widow about what they're up to so as to minimize the duplication of effort. If you do produce anything, please bring it to the next meeting so that we can all critique it ("GroupThink").

We would like to have the following in our information packet:

- One page listing and describing the meat and potatoes unix
  commands.  E.g., "mv", "cp", "logout."
- Some information on the unix text editors.
- A brief tutorial on how to log in and so on.
- A tour of the window system (possibly merged with the tutorial?)
- Synopsis of the OCF political structure.
- Pointers for more information, including:
+ A bibliography.
+ A plug for the CSUA library.
+ Information on help sessions.


The minigrant deadline has passed as of the time the writing

of these minutes (Friday night). In case, funds from the minigrant must be specifically budgetted for things that support the research project.

We will have an Apollo system administration class at the

first OCF board meeting following the Spring elections meeting. Attendees need not be board members; but, by holding the class at the board meeting, we can insure that the bulk of the board membership will be exposed to it. The class will be announced at the spring elections meeting and also posted to ucb.org.ocf.

New text has been appended to OCF bylaw four.  Bylaw four now

reads as follows (with the next text capitalized).

    Any director missing two consecutive regularly
    schedule meetings will be removed from the Board,
    REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE MEETINGS ACHIEVE QUORUM.


The next meeting will be a 6:00pm, Thursday, 1989 March 30th.