Message 50: From mehlhaff@ocf Thu Dec 3 10:10:14 1992 Subject: Minutes of the OCF BOD meeting on 11/19/92 (109 lines)

    Minutes of the OCF Board of Directors Meeting 
    on Thursday, November 19, 1992

Meeting called to order at 7:15 OCF members present: Chris Demetriou (newly elected general manager) Keir Morgan (site manager) Board Members: Peter Mardahl, Kinshuk Govi, David Shy, Chris Williams, Cynthia 'Leigh' Haynes Other OCF members: Terry Yeung, ERic Mehlhaff, Andrei Coganman

First order of business: drafting Eric (me!) to do the minutes

Keir then moved that we eat the donuts he brought. This was unanimously 
accepted, and everyone was given a donut.

Site Manager's Report: Keir said that the OCF's plagued with lots of disks filling up, corrupting their filesystems. Nothing too major outside of that. We had to deal with a user who was disturbing a lot of people by posting misleading 'news' items to a newsgroup.

General Manager Reports: Chris has been persuing some interesting contacts about donations of some better hardware to the OCF. More details will come if we get something concrete.

Keir also mentioned he had contacted some people about donations.  
Basically, the campus HP representative will give us a 'discount' on their 
upgrade path.  Unfortunately, we couldn't really afford even that.

Other Business:

We discussed for a few minutes why Chris doesn't have a hat. Since he 
wouldn't comment, we had to speculate, and after a few minutes, this 
subject was dropped...

We did a review of the help session that took place last week, before the 
General Meeting, and discussed possible ways to improve future help 
sessions.  Some suggestions that came up:

Borrowing the CSUA Bat to assist in controlling the flow of the session.
Emphasizing that users should get or at least read one of the many fine 
    books on UNIX that are available at local stores or in local libraries.
Chis: "I'm for stepping on people that ask stupid questions."  We reminded 
    him that this was not the CSUA.
Reasonably regular short unix/OCF help sessions, to be small scale, down 
in the OCF,  where demonstrations can be done.
Handing out short (2 page?) documents, sort of like the newuser information,
    to new users (and anyone else that might find them useful).
Mentioning the regular UNIX help sessions which ar currently run by TCS in 
the hogan room, and guiding users to them.

(This reminded us: Chris needs to talk to TCS about getting TCS to turn on access to the OCF from their dialups again).

Review the XCF help sessions, and draw from them more.  Andrei characterized
    the last one as 'Bill & Ted' trying to explain UNIX -- kind of fun!
Make sure to stick solidly to a schedule -- the last one failed pretty badly
in this respect.
Make sure that the demonstration 'account' is properly setup beforehand.

The Status of the OCF Printers: We talked about the status of the OCF printers. They had stopped understanding postscript, which Chris thought we could fix with some dip switching... (As a side note, work after the meeting did manage to fix most of the printer hardware bugs -- the rest should be fixed soon)

Donation Drive: This is on hold until the new disk from the ASUC funding shows up. This will give us enough room for about 500 users. It won't really allow for an increase in disk quotas, but might let us be a bit looser about the quota enforcement.
There still is a some money left over, but probably not enough for another 660 megabyte disk.

We discussed the possibility of acquiring unused machines from the university. It could happen...

UC Relay: Supposedly, the campus will at sometime soon, setup UC relay, to server as a common mail site for all the berkeley campus community. We discussed and/or speculated on the status of the UC Relay, and how it might impact upon the OCF: It's vaporware, basically. Don't expect it in the next 3 months at least. Even if it does get set up, it won't have any of the really useful capabilities of the OCF: it'll be text only, accessible only through remote logins; it'll basically only be useful for mail -- probably only a half meg of mail or less; and will be most useful for forwarding to another site (like the OCF!). What would be really useful for those resources would instead be some kind of address database for all the people on campus. But this probably won't happen.

End of Meeting: Having basically run out of things to discuss, and because the meeting was risking running into the Simpsons, we adjourned promptly at 8:00 PM.

The Next OCF Board meeting is Thursday, December 3, in 120 Bechtel, 7:00 PM. All users are encouraged to attend and participate -- it's not just for the Bored Members.

ERic mehlhaff, mehlhaff@ocf.berkeley.edu OCF staff, printer-czar, games-keeper, ftp-dude, and general busy-body