04.13.94

     Open Computing Facility Board of Directors Meeting
        Wednesday, April 13, 1994

Present at this meeting: (BoD Members denoted by a *):

Marco Nicosia (marco@ocf) Jean Yim (jyim@ocf) Peter Norby (norby@ocf) Chris Williams (clw@ocf) Rune Stromsness (runes@ocf) Kenji Hubbard (kenji@ocf) Chris G. Demetriou (cgd@ocf) Eric P. Lee (leeep@ocf) Steve Martinot (marto@ocf) Jennifer Snider (jenni@ocf) Ari Zilka (ari@ocf) Marcus Edward Lauer (melauer@ocf) Eric Mehlhaff (mehlhaff@ocf) Thomas Waung (twaung@ocf) Rachel Yotter (raytrace@ocf) David S. Shy (shyguy@ocf) *Nevin Cheung (nevman@ocf)

No board members were not present but were not dropped since they attended the last meeting. Lars Nathan Smith (lars@ocf), Andrew Swan (aswan@ocf) and Amy Baron (amee@ocf) were dropped from the board after not attending the last meeting.

A quorum of 6 members was achieved.

The meeting was called to order at approximately 7:14 p.m. by General Manager Nevin Cheung.

AGENDA:

  • General Manager's Report
  • Site Manager's Report
  • IST Report

  • Ether taps

  • General Manager's Report: The last ASUC meeting went well. The check requests to reimburse Keir and to pay the CSUA for Bob are in the works. IBM will be here next Wednesday for the BoD meeting to talk about the possible machine donation/loan. We are working on getting receipts out for some hardware donations.

  • Site Manager's Report: Not much of note has happened. The sendmail.cf's have been fixed on the new disks. The 3rd registry on Monsoon is working well. We've been experiencing finger flooding to flood from hera.eecs.
    There is some discussion as to whether or not monsoon should allow remote logins. It may also cease to be a color machine. Plague has been having some disk integrity problems.

  • IST Report: Rune reported about a meeting he had with VP McCredie. VP McCredie is interested in getting feedback on various computing issues from students. Some of these include possible computer orientations for students in the beginning of the fall semester and recommended or required computer purchases for undergraduate students. Anyone with ideas/comments/suggestions should give them to Rune or directly to VP McCredie.

We are working on trying to get some machine space when CS moves out of Evans Hall this summer. MSME is supposed to get the room that CS uses now (508-11). The eventual outcome is unknown at this time.

VP McCredie says he is still very open to working with the OCF on something that is "important but not critical". Exactly how this would take shape or happen is unknown.

  • Ether taps: The status is still pending, we will try to get them installed as soon as possible.

Rachel Yotter (raytrace@ocf) and Kenji Hubbard (kenji@ocf) asked to be added to the BoD. They were approved unanimously.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:42

Respectfully submitted,

Rune Stromsness