The OCF BOD Minutes!!!!! (From 9/24/92)

More people than usual showed up to the BOD meeting this time.

These people came:

emarkp (general manager) kmorgan (site manager) peterm (me) runes kinshuk clw shyguy psb changyes euphrasi anniem (And some other people. I apologize if I missed you.)

NEW BOARD MEMBERS: The following people were unanimously elected to the Board of Directors: anniem chaynges

(welcome to the board!)

WHAT WENT ON

Kier Morgan (The site manager) started out with a discussion of the status of the OCF here's a digest:

STATE OF THE OCF:

 THE NEW ACCOUNT SITUATION!!!!!
 The registry is still screwed, despite heroic efforts by kmorgan
so NO NEW ACCOUNTS!

 kmorgan is still working on the problem (cross your fingers!)

 we have 4742 accounts on the system
of which 264 are 'sorried' (can't use their account)
and these people are probably going to be deleted, at the
discretion of kmorgan.

 bigbang is fixed!!!!
 lightning is still screwed, but will be fixed!

 Dave Friedman is trying to get us a new printer,
 Emarkp is working on extending our service contract

 The CSUA disk is still up in the air.
emarkp and changyes will go to the next CSUA meeting
to try to get them to give us their disk.  (We need the
space!!!!)

THE DISK MANAGEMENT BOARD:

A lot of you people may now know it, but at the last general

meeting, it was decided to create a 3 person committee to oversee the distribution of disk waivers. (Disk waivers allow people with worthy causes to use more than 1Meg of disk space.)

emarkp, the general manager, said that he wants to invite people

to become members of this committee. He is looking for people who will be responsible about granting disk waivers. If you're interested, email him.

The POLI-SCI TA fiasco:

Well, most of you probably don't know this, but a certain (unnamed) political science TA decided that he (she?) was going to have his students turn in their homework by email. He instructed them to get an OCF account for this purpose. Most of his students had slight problems getting an OCF account, because we cannot add users right now. The TA decided to solve this problem, by having some innocent victim (also unnamed) distribute his password to the students in his section. I.e., several of his students were using ONE person's account to turn in their homework. The management here took exception to this: the OCF policy strictly forbids more than one user to use an OCF account, unless it is a duly registered and approved group account. Their illicit group account was turned off. A temporary group account was made for them, but emarkp decided that that, too, was against OCF policy, because only the Board of Directors can allow a group account to be created. Their group account was also turned off.

The final disposition of this matter is as follows: emarkp thinks it is unreasonable for us to create a group account for this TA when 300+ people are WAITING to get an account on the system. He is willing to create an account for them, after they have gone to the BOD for approval, and when space on the system allows.

I think all the essentials of the board meeting were covered here, except that psb was NOT elected to the board. A lot of other stuff went on, but most of it is absolutely irrelevant.

People are welcome to solicit my opinions of what went on (peterm@cory).

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