Sorry about the delay in posting the minutes. Had a bit of net
trouble trying to get on anything at Berkeley when I was done with typing these minutes. -K
Open Computing Facility Board of Directors Meeting
Thursday, September 16, 1993
Present at this meeting: (BoD Members denoted by a *):
Keir Morgan (kmorgan@ocf) Marco Nicosia (marco@ocf) Lars Nathan Smith (lars@ocf) Jean Yim (jyim@ocf) (new BoD member) Marcelino Enriquez (marc@ocf) ERic Mehlhaff (mehlhaff@ocf) Kenji Hubbard (kenji@ocf) David Shy (shyguy@ocf) Chris L. Williams (clw@ocf) Rune Stromsness (runes@ocf) Thomas Cheshire Moore (moray@ocf) *Johnathan W. Lin (jwlin@ocf)
A quorum of BoD members was present. The meeting was called to order at approximately 7:05 p.m. by Keir Morgan, OCF General Manager.
Absent BoD Members:
Peter Norby (norby@ocf) Julian Leong (jules@ocf) (resigned) Steve Huntsberry (steveh@ocf)
AGENDA:
o Announcements
o Site Manager Report
o UCLink Discussion
o Group Accounts
o OCF Positions
Announcements:
Keir Morgan opened the meeting by welcoming the Board and the other
OCF members present to the first BoD Meeting of Fall Semester 1993.
Julian Leong (jules@ocf) sent word that he resigned from the BoD.
Somewhere around this point, Keir asked that someone take down the
minutes of the Board Meeting. Kenji with some reluctance agreed to take down the minutes. [Gee, it's not that bad. =)]
Keir asked the Site Manager about the help sessions. Lars announced
that there will be a Introductory UNIX Help Session tomorrow at 4 p.m. in the Hogan Room on the 5th floor of Cory Hall, another one on Tuesday in 145 Dwinelle at 7 p.m. After those two help sessions, the OCF will hold help sessions on a single topic at a time, probably in conjunction with the CSUA (Computer Science Undergraduate Association) and XCF (Experimental Computing Facility). The general plan is to hold one meeting about one topic at a time in a large lecture hall (possibly 1 PSL) followed by a hands-on session down in the OCF the following week (but attending the lecture isn't a pre-requisite).
Site Manager Report:
Lars reported that the machines have been running pretty stable and
that we are getting a lot of new accounts lately. At 5 p.m. at LaVal's Pizza in Northside a meeting was held for OCF members interested in joining the ranks of staff. It went pretty well, although note was made that future meetings will be held someplace more quiet. ERic Mehlhaff was introduced as the newly appointed Systems Manager. The Systems Manager is in charge of keeping the machines running, maintenance, system upgrades, and related matters. Discussions were made about writing some documents to assist new staff members in their duties, and the persons interested in becoming staff will receive training.
UCLink Discussion:
UCLink has announced that they have stopped accepting new account
applications temporarily due to too much load on their present system. Keir noted that we can stress that the OCF still is around during this temporary situation by UCLink. It doesn't really affect the OCF in the short run, if we have a bunch of new account applications we can handle that.
Group Accounts:
In the past, the group account policy was that groups requesting
group accounts had to pay a fee of $5 every semester (and $3 during the summer). The BoD had decided to waive this fee in cases where there was a financial problem for a group. Appealing the fee is by coming before the Board and requesting such a waiver.
We have at least seven groups, not a lot of money to be collected.
The purpose of the fee was not to collect money but to make sure that not just 'anyone' requested a group account, as group accounts have to be monitored more closely by OCF Staff, etc.
Lars asked if we should waive the fee for University-recognized
groups, the interpretation of this to be left to the BoD. The Board voted 7 to 0 in favor of this motion by Lars.
OCF Positions:
Appointed positions in the OCF to be filled were: Treasurer,
Secretary, EJC (Engineers Joint Council) Rep. The elected position needed to be filled for a week's term is a position on the DuMB (Disk Usage Management Board) to replace Lars, who resigned when he was elected Site Manager at last week's General Meeting.
Keir explained that the purpose of the DuMB is to approve/disapprove
of OCF members' requests for an increase in disk quota for special projects that benefit the OCF.
Nominations for filling the one-week term were then held. Kenji
Hubbard and Tom Moore were nominated. The BoD voted as follows:
Kenji Hubbard (kenji): 2 votes
Tom C. Moore (moray): 4 votes
with one abstention.
Runes Stromsness (runes) volunteered to be the secretary and was
appointed.
A call of volunteers for treasurer was made. John Lin (jwlin)
volunteered to be the Treasurer and was appointed.
The Board decided to defer looking for a EJC Rep. until the next BoD
Meeting. Keir will attend the next EJC meeting and attend to the EJC Rep.'s duties until a EJC Rep is appointed. The EJC Rep. is our liason with the Engineers' Joint Council, a umbrella of student organization
OPEN DISCUSSION:
Jean Yim (jyim) was nominated as a new BoD member, and the Board
took a vote. All Board members present were in favor of Jean's nomination to the Board (7-0).
Keir then closed by mentioning that the next General Meeting will be
held in 120C Bechtel next Thursday at 7pm. The meeting was then adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Kenji Hubbard (kenji@ocf.Berkeley.EDU)
OCF Staff/BoD