Open Computing Facility Board of Directors Meeting
Tuesday, September 26, 1995
Present at this meeting: (BoD Members denoted by a *):
Erik Muller (erikm@ocf) Rune Stromsness (runes@ocf) Dan Holliman (danh@ocf) Tony Monroe (tmonroe@ocf) Chris Williams (clw@ocf) Michael Kaminsky (kaminsky@ocf) Jennifer Snider (jenni@ocf) Alan Coopersmith (alanc@ocf)
Board members Kenji Hubbard (kenji@ocf), Charles Sinclair (sinclair@ocf), and Erik Agee (agee@ocf) were not present but were not dropped since they attended the last meeting. No one was dropped from the board after not attending the last meeting.
A quorum of 5 members (max (* (/ 2 3) 7) 5) was not achieved.
The unnoficial meeting was called to order at approximately 7:17 p.m. by General Manager Jennifer Snider.
AGENDA
- Secretary Appointment
- Announcements
- Election of Disk Use Management Board
- General Manager's Report
- Site Manager's Report
- Sparc Manager's Report
- Discussion
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Leave
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Secretary Appointment
Volunteers for the post of Secretary were solicited and one person volunteered, Rune Stromsness. As the board did not reach quorum he was not officially appointed by the Board.
- Announcements
Jennifer Snider reported on the events last week regarding the ASUC budget and the OCF's budget. She was disappointed that very few OCF people attended the meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday of last night, especially since the Tuesday BoD meeting was cancelled to allow people to attend the ASUC FiComm meeting.
The general outcome of the events last week is that the student group budgets are unchanged, so the OCF's budget is what we had expected.
- Election of Disk Use Management Board
Volunteers for the three positions on the DUMB were solicited, with only Erik Muller volunteering. Chris Williams, as past DUMB member, said that he is working on writing up guidelines for the DUMB based on past practices and decisions. This document is still undergoing review by past DUMB members.
It was decided that there should be more publicity of the DUMB elections and they should be scheduled for the next meeting which, presumably, will reach quorum.
- General Manager's Report
Jennifer found her ID!
There have been efforts made to talk to the Library, SIMS, and EECS about space for the OCF should the WEB (uh, EMF) cease to be available. There have been no enthusiastic responses. More work needs to be done in looking for future space.
There was a discussion of the relative importance of lab (console) space and machine room space. Several people said that lab space was most important, while a few thought that machine room space was equally important. Some respected staff alumni have suggested considering running the OCF from servers in a machine room if lab space is no longer available.
- Site Manager's Report
The cluster has been running with typical flakiness in the last two weeks. At the new staff meeting earlier in the evening about 10 new people showed up, they will be meeting individually with older staff members to get more clue and start answering mail, etc.
The OCF is still running off of the temporary hub, as DCNS has not finished the wiring project from this summer.
The printer is still not opperational.
- Sparc Manager's Report
The Sparc Manager was not in attendance and has been flaking lately. We got some new software from SUN. There has been progress in finding out about a possible BSDI site license for the campus. More information should be forthcoming with the involved campus official returns from vacation.
The hardware in the CSUA office needs to go somewhere before it is thrown out in the office cleaning this weekend.
- Supplemental General Manager's Report
Purchases planned or recently completed include lock-down devices, transceivers, backup tapes, colored and white paper, some generic stationary, and name tags for staff members.
- Discussion
Kenji is still working on a proposal for purchasing a pentium system with the hardware funds available.
- Leave
The unofficial meeting was adjourned at 8:40 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Rune Stromsness