From 128a-3cl@WEB.Berkeley.Edu Wed Apr 19 12:08:40 1989 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 89 12:08:06 PDT From: 128a-3cl@WEB.Berkeley.Edu To: ocf@widow Subject: OCF BOD Minutes for Apr 13 (finally)

After a long wait...

Minutes of the OCF meeting Thu. Apr 13, 1989 (happy birthday to me)

Members Present: Robert Cullham Partha Banerjee Marc Hertlein Gretchen Stude Sean Rouse Antony Courtney Adam Glass Cimarron Taylor Jeff Wallace Drew Dean Dave Sharnoff Adam Richter Peter Shipley

Members Absent: none (amazing, isn't it?)

Guests: Shelley Louie Case Larson (see minutes) a few others

The meeting was called to order at 6:10

Discussion:

Apollo Bought by HP
Doesn't affect our donation.
Drew asked if we could trade Apollos for HPs.
Dave said it will probably restrict any additional material.
After further discussion, the issue died.

Perrenial Issues
Policies still need work, but this issue was tabled after later
   discussion that concluded that policy 6 should be adopted
   (3,4,5 were adopted earlier)
Ettiquete document was lost by Adam Richter, could someone e-mail
   him a copy.
By-laws don't need work (currently).

Cluster Status
Machines will be shipped Friday, April 21 and installed during the
first week of May.  Our rep said that he should give us a copy of X.

Intro Document
Gretchen brought coppies of a sample command help sheet (good work)
and asked that each bord member to comment it and return it to
her at anytime.

UCSEE Picnic
Partha reminded people to play Ultimate at the Picnic on Saturday.

New Board Member
Case Larson asked to join the board.  The board decided to vote by
secret ballot.  Shelley Louie counted.  Case was accepted 12-1.  
(this now makes 14 BOD members, quorum is now 11)

Accounts
Shelley asked "Who gets accounts when the machines arrive?"
A discussion followed.  The topics covered...

* Give accounts to everybody but warn them that there is no support
  nor guarentee of stability.
     Decided that this was bad becuse people will still complain,
     people will get in the way of setting things up, and staff won't
     have the time to deal with it.  Decided that normal users will
     have to wait until X is up and running and a make-account
     program is running.

    * Have only one account, but have it open to everyone who wants to
  help.
     Decided that this was bad because everyone using "root" would
     create problems

* Give out accounts, but only to those who will help set up the
  cluster.
     The board agreed but this opened up a different discussion.

    It was eventually decided that...

    Until further notice, the OCF will only give out accounts to
    qualified people who are chosen by the OCF Decision Making Process
because they want to help set up the cluster.


Staff
Discussion about who is on staff and how is staff chosen followed the
Accounts discussion.  After (far too) much discussion, the board
decided that staff shall be chosen by the OCF Decision Making
Process.  Poeple interested in becoming staff should talk to
Peter (the OCF Apollo Site Manager).

The meeting adjourned at 7:15 pm.