Open Computing Facility Board of Directors Meeting of Feb. 11, 1993

Present at this meeting (BoD Members marked with an *)

 Keir Morgan ([kmorgan|gm]@ocf) *Mark Nolte (marko@ocf)
 Jean Yim (jyim@ocf)         Julian Leong (jules@ocf)
 Peter Mardahl (peterm@ocf) *Cynthia St. Haynes (chaynges@ocf)
*Jonathan W. Lin (jwlin@ocf)     Terry Yeung (terryy@ocf)
*Lars Smith (lars@ocf)       David Shy (shyguy@ocf)
*Peter Norby (norby@ocf)    *Mike "Mark" Lee (mlee@ocf)
 George W. Herbert (gwh@ocf)     Evil ERic Mehlhaff (mehlhaff@ocf)
*Rune Stromsness (runes@ocf)    *Chris Williams (clw@ocf)
*Kinshuk Govil (kinshuk@ocf)     Marco Nicosia ([marco|sm]@ocf)
 Partha S. Banerjee (psb@ocf)

New Board of Directors:

Nobody wanted to be voted onto the Board of Directors at this meeting.
If you are interested in becoming a member of the Board and helping
to determine the future of the OCF, feel free to join us at any OCF
BoD meeting! Even if you are not interested in becoming a member,
BoD meetings are open to the public, and the OCF membership should
feel free to attend and make their voice heard.

Secretary:

It was decided that the position of Secretary is un-needed at this
time, so Marco will take the meeting minutes.

Reregistration:

Yes, it's that time of year! Reregistration didn't work out last 
semester due to software failure, so we are going to try again this
semester! This semester, the software has been re-written and is
hopefully more reliable.

Keir mentioned that he definitely wants a table on Sproul this go
around. Last semester, we had people, but no table! A brief
discussion on whether or not we would like to ask for the use of 
one of the Sproul terminals ended up in a decision that a paper
method is much more practical. (Mentioned at this point: David
Friedman is still working on obtaining a list of registered students
from Sproul which can be used in junction with the approve program
and future reregistrations.)

Both the Site Manager and the General manager highly advised an
In-Person reregistration instead of an electronic reregistration.
The BoD readily agreed.

The meeting went on to cover the timing of reregistration. Last
semester, the BoD decided on too short a period and had to extend it
later. Two basic timing schedules were suggested:

    - 2 weeks of regular re-registration followed by:
      2 weeks of reregistration in which the users who have
      not reregistered are in some way notified (the site
      manager will figure out how this notification will
      be implemented.) followed by:
      2 weeks during which the accounts will be sorry'd and
      at the end of this period, the accounts will be backed
      up onto tape.
    - 4 weeks of straight reregistration, at the end of which
      the accounts will be turned off and backed up to tape
      at a time which I did not manage to write down.

In addition, several other proposals were bandied about. Discussion
on how to restore accounts from tape ensued. It was eventually
decided that any major decisions on this were not necessary since 
the number of people who show up to have their accounts restored
from tape was too small last semester to be significant.

In a 9 - "irrelevant" vote, the first schedule was passed (2/2/2.)
(At this point, Cynthia Leigh St. Haynes (chaynges@ocf) took off.)

Therefore, the donation drive will start next Tuesday.

Donation Drive:

As a SISG (Student Initiated Service Group) we can have a donation
drive, according to the General Manager (Keir Morgan (kmorgan@ocf))

Staff and other authorized people can accept money which will be
turned over to either the Site-Manager or the General-Manager for
safe keeping. All donators will get a receipt for their donation,
which is tax-deductible. Although we would prefer checks, it is
possible that the people who collect the money will take cash and
write a check of their own. Keir Morgan (kmorgan@ocf) mentioned that
we hope to buy a new piece of hardware (not Apollo!) with the
donation money and that our final purchase must be reviewed by ASUC.

Do we want to run the donation drive in conjunction with the
reregistration? Keir Morgan (kmorgan@ocf) mentioned that the donation
drive requires some paper work that must be done with the ASUC which
may not be done in time for the donation drive.

Marco Nicosia (marco@ocf) said that he will tell the staff to
mention the donation drive to every user AFTER that user has already
reregistered to avoid confusion. Otherwise, users might think that
they must make a donation in order to be reregistered. This allows
at the very least, a good way to publicize the drive and prompt
donations.

(On a side track: Keith Bostic has given us some machines, there
 was an argument over whether or not we actually want these
 machines. Peter Norby (norby@ocf) eventually cut off the argument
 by pointing out that we were arguing over machines that we did not
 even have yet!)

Printer Quotas:

We have working printer quota software, Evil ERic Mehlhaff
(mehlhaff@ocf) and Keir Morgan (kmorgan@ocf) wrote software that
utilizes the fact that the printers actually return how many pages
they have printed. A long time ago, it was calculated that we could
afford 100 pages per user per semester, so the BoD decided to limit 
every user to only 100 pages per semester after which the
Site-Manager will decided how the user can regain printing
privileges (probably will charge 5 cents per page.)

The Disk (Usage) Management Board:

This is the committee that approves/denies disk waviers to users
who wish to apply for disk waviers so that they may use more than 
the normal one megabyte of disk per user. The OCF needs a new DuMB
for this semester!

Keir Morgan (kmorgan@ocf) announced that we will elect a new DuMB
for this semester at the next BoD meeting. It is a three person
committee, and according to Keir, it is an equal opportunity (for
most people) selection process.

Site-Manager's Report:

We continue to add accounts at a good rate. Maelstrom and Planecrash
now have 660 Megabyte drives. //maelstrom is really soda's old disk
and is to be used for development of X11R5 ONLY. //planecrash is
going to be used for even MORE accounts! In addition, hailstorm is
now partnered to planecrash.

The new account forms seem to be working well, especially the second
page help page. Approve is goofing up once in a while, Marco Nicosia
(marco@ocf) is continuing to hack on it and will make a minor
modification to the account form, a "Created?" check box.

At this point, we resorted to eating the Doughnuts and Bagels/Cream cheese supplied by the General Manager/Site Manager.