From cc-sec@cory.Berkeley.EDU Tue Feb 6 17:07:35 1990 From: cc-sec@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Adam Glass) To: ocf@ocf.berkeley.edu Subject: minutes for 2/5/1990 Date: Tue, 06 Feb 90 17:07:37 PST
Minutes for the 2/5/1990 meeting
of the
Open Computing Facility
Board of Directors
Meeting convened at 7:20 in 1015 Evans due to CS prelims in 608-7.
Officers attending: Partha S. Banerjee Case Larsen Adam Glass
Directors Attending: Robert Cullmann George William Herbert Mark Hertlien Adrian Ho Adam Glass Peter Kimpl Boyd Montgomery Mike Brodhead Shelley Louie Drew Dean
Guests: Cimarron Taylor
On 2/5/90, the Open Computing Facility opened a checking account at Wells Fargo. Upon learning that the monthly fee was six dollars, there was heated debate over whether or not we could afford it. The OCF treasurer maintained that we could, and was opposed by everyone. It was agreed that the OCF treasurer would research this issue for the next meeting.
Various BOD members donated money.
Cimarron Taylor from the Postgres group stated that they wanted a group account to test the Postgres distribution. Postgres paid the appropriate fee. He responded to disk space concerns by saying that he didn't expect to actually port it, just test the distribution so disk space would be temporary. The account will be created as requested.
The Computer Science Undergraduate Association, represented on this issue by Robert Cullmann asked if the OCF could lend the CSUA a machine to replace Soda.berkeley.edu while its being repaired. Various technical issues were discussed regarding the exact configuration of such a machine. Further investigation of this issue will be complete for the next BOD meeting.
Robert Cullmann announced that Morgan Milligan of WSS had told him that after the current OCF machines in the WSS were taken care of that they would no longer be doing hardware support for the OCF. Supposedly this means they won't ship machines for us. He also said that they wanted 'their' machine back. It was argued that if they're not going to do anything for us, then we shouldn't give it back to them at all. Even if we do, there was talk of ransacking it for parts first.
It was announced that SR 10.2 of the apollo operating system arrived. Case Larsen stated that he was waiting for backups to be done before starting the upgrade.
The issue of charging for printer usage was debated and resolved. It was agreed that the OCF would install a system by which you would pay x number of dollars for y number of pages printed starting in 3 weeks assuming all relevant issues can be resolved. An alias will be installed for comments on this policy, along with a /etc/motd request for comments. These comments will be reviewed at the next BOD meeting. Also to be resolved are technical issues involving the quota implementation and page counting.
The matter of typhoon's keyboard was discussed. The three options were disconnect the keyboard, monitor, etc, leave it in DM, or running with X. It was agreed that the machine would run DM but would have a note on it saying "Do not use unless no other machines are available".
It was mentioned that a canine was in the OCF during the previous week. It was agreed that this problem is Web admin's.
It was mentioned that the OCF will be sending the George Herbert and Adam Glass to the EJC meeting on Tuesday at 6 or 7pm. Adam Glass has just realized that he has lots of work to do and wonders if someone could take his place.
Freeing disk space on the OCF was discussed. Framemaker and others will go.
Minutes compiled by Adam Glass, flames to root@athena.berkeley.edu