The Minutes of the OCF General Meeting of March 19, 1992
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Those attending: Adam Richter (GM) Kinshuk Govil Eddy Karat Alan Coopersmith Chris Jain Chris Williams Leigh Haynes Peter Norby Dan Wallach Partha S. Banerjee Sean Welch David Paschich
Adam Richter opened the meeting with a multimedia presentation (he talked while we watched an overhead projector) on the OCF's organizational structure. Brian Harvey was nominated for Faculty Sponsor and was unanimously approved.
Adam continued the meeting with a discussion of where the OCF is and where it was going. David & Partha debated whether the OCF should have an ideology or a mission. Adam described his visions of the OCF's purpose and what he was doing as General Manager to promote them. Adam reported on his meeting with IST Vice Provost Curtis Hardyck to discuss getting donations to the OCF. Adam is working with Hardyck to get the OCF an opportunity to make a presentation before the Chancellor's Campus Computing Policy Board.
Adam then opened the meeting to questions and discussion about what the assemblage thought of what the OCF was doing and what they thought it should be doing better. Leigh suggested making revisions to the User Policy document and it was decided that people would comment on revisions and report to the next board meeting. Partha brought up the subject of getting more publicity for the next General Meeting and discussion followed on the subject of getting more people involved in the OCF. Discussion also ensued on what the OCF should be doing to make the computers more usable and Adam suggested that people try the Andrew Toolkit demo. (To run the demo on one of the OCF's X-windows consoles, run the following commands: xhost + xset fp+ /usr/X11/lib/fonts/andrew finger run-demo@atk.itc.cmu.edu )
Very little was decided except that Adam and the Board should look into various things and that there needed to be more people at the next General Meeting. (Although Partha was able to agree with both Sean and Dan at seperate points during the meeting.)
-Alan Coopersmith
alanc@ocf.berkeley.edu
Secretary, OCF Board of Directors (secretary@ocf)