Minutes of the Open Computing Facility Board of Directors Meeting of 1-22-90

The meeting came to order at 7:11pm.

Attendees: Case Larsen Parta Banerjee Sean Rouse Brian Harvey Adam Richter Shelly Louie Dan Efron George W. Herbert Robert Cullmann Adam Glass Drew Dean* M. Scott Clark * denotes member of board

Meeting with Hardyck on 1-29-90 (Brian Harvery only) -What publicity ? - we have ~700 account -New HP/Apollo contact

Brian Harvey would like to see more accounts, and Partha gave him an update on OCF progress and our infastructure problems. Letter going out to Humanities TA's to try to get some more users by Adam Richter. In response to lack of WYSIWIG editor, Adam Richter said "Let them use emacs !"

OCF budget will be sent to the XCF this week.

Agreement to get a press release out this week.

It was noted that OCF advertising has been paid for with personal money, prehaps explaining its dearth.

Dan Efron offered to donate 5 copies of _Practical_Guide_to_UNIX

The lack of regular OCF-CCS-IST communication was noted.

The DWB, NFS, and sources are on hold due to lack of disk space, and legal issues stemming from the takeover of Apollo by HP.

The BoD meeting time for this semester discussion was deferred to next week when people will know what their schedules are like. Brian Harvery can make meetings on Monday or Wednesday evenings.

Brian Harvey will attempt to talk to Nory to get cooperation of WebAsst's checking IDs for new OCF accounts; the OCF will pick up the forms from them.

Tutorial - Long discussion of whether to hold tutorials in a classroom or the WEB -- it was decided to hold tutorials in the WEB biweekly Saturday at noon starting this week until the end of February.

People who volunteered to sign the registered group form in 102 Sproul: Case Larsen, Robert Cullmann, Adam Glass, George W. Herbert [Note I (Drew Dean) was the fourth signer at approx 2:30pm. 1-23-90]

Hans Reiser arrived at 9:00pm. He gave an update about his meeting with Prof. Fateman. Hans left at 9:05pm.

News Flash: Person who mangled Hans' paper was found quietly and appropriate (non-public) steps taken.

Scott Clark leaves for Knob's at 9:15pm.

Meeting adjourned at 9:30pm.