The Minutes of the OCF Board of Directors Meeting of April 2, 1992
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Board Members attending: (11 Members, Quorum = 7.666666....) Adam Richter (GM) Kinshuk Govil Roy S. Rapoport (SM) Nicholas Weaver Eddy Karat Peter Norby Kier Morgan Alan Coopersmith

Non-Board Members attending: George William Herbert Sean Welch Karl H. Thiessen

[Note: Hans Reiser and David Paschich have been dropped from the board for non-attendance.]

GM Report: Adam reported that he is still working with Professor Hardyck to set up a meeting with the Campus Computing and Communications Policy Board (CCCPB). The meeting will probably be sometime after Hardyck returns to campus in a couple of weeks.

Adam reported that the donation of dead apollos from ComDisco 
was almost complete, with delivery expected Friday April 3.
Nory Ison of IST has given us permission to have this equipment
in the WEB even though it is not university property.

Adam, Roy, and a couple of other OCF representatives will be meeting
with reps from HP/apollo on April 15.  We will be asking for
an extension on our service contract and as much else as they are
willing to donate.

New Business: George suggested we start a donation campaign like the successful one that was run at ucscb.ucsc.edu. Users would be asked to donate a dollar or so each (or as much as they want) towards the purchase of new hard disks. Making a donation would not give a user any special benefits (other than a "warm, fuzzy feeling" from knowing they helped the cluster) and users would also not be discriminated against in any way for not contributing.

It was decided that the OCF will soon begin accepting contributions
to a hardware buying fund.  Unless a major disk donation happens,
as soon as the fund has enough money to buy another hard disk, it 
will be used for that purpose.  The fund will stay around to buy
future hardware until the point in which there are not enough funds
to buy hardware and donations have stopped coming in, at which point
any remaining funds will be transferred to the OCF General Fund.

Exact details, including how to make donations will be announced
soon (probably after the next board meeting).

Discussion over moving the board meetings to a better time was
discussed.  A better time could not easily be defined, so it was
decided that roy would conduct a survey to find the best time.  
[To participate, send mail before Thursday to bod-meeting-times@ocf
with a list of what times you can & can't attend.]

A discussion over the relative evil-ness of sharing accounts was
held, but nothing was decided.

Kier (EJC rep) reported that the Engineering Joint Council is
preparing for the upcoming E-Week.  Among many other activities, a
number of computer companies will have reps on campus that we can
beg for donations.


-Alan Coopersmith
alanc@ocf.Berkeley.edu
Secretary, OCF Board of Directors