From chaos@godzilla.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Mon Nov 11 19:20:49 1996 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 14:07:36 -0700 From: Elaine Chao chaos@godzilla.EECS.Berkeley.EDU To: percival@OCF.Berkeley.EDU Subject: minutes.9-5-96
Board of Directors, September 5, 1996
Attendance:
Kenneth Nishimoto (kennish) * John Percival (percival) * Michael Constant (mconst) * Elaine Chao (chaos) * Rune Stromsness (runes) * Dave Friedman (davidf) Alan Coopersmith (alanc) * Jennifer Snider (jenni) * Erik Agee (agee)
No quorom was achieved.¶
The meeting was called to order at 7:20pm.
Announcements The next General Meeting is 8pm next Thursday, in Sibley Auditorium.
General Manager's Report The budget has been approved, the OCF being allotted $11,750.
The GM said that the lockbox should be mounted soon; someone needs
to get bits for the drill. However, Jennifer reminded the GM that she
had a push drill. The GM made arrangements to drop off the lockbox.
Alan asked if something was being done about the Chancellor's
committee on WWW policies. Elaine asked if he could elaborate a little
more for the members who weren't there to hear it at the CSUA politburo
meeting that Tuesday. The Chancellor's committee on WWW policies sets
policies on WWW for campus sites. However, this committee does not have
a student representative. Alan suggested that we write a letter.
Whether to write our own or to write a group letter was discussed; the
GM decided to draft one for the OCF on her own, and have Alan proofread
it.
Help Sessions: Ken reported that 306 Soda seemed to be the best room.
Planning and room reservations will be done tomorrow. Jenni heard that
the XCF had 347 Soda.
Site Manager's Report Jenni and Alan reported that 67A Barrows lost power again. A lighting technician was sent, but went back to get someone else when she heard that it was a circuit. The Sparcs were unaffected; all of the Apollos except locusts went down. As a result, Jenni and Alan brought the machines back up to a point where there is now balanced power outage across the circuits.
Bigbang and avalanche still have active accounts.
The plan is to keep more Apollos down in the interest of all the
power problems lately.
Michael reports that the user database and approve will be working
in a week. The source is on apocalypse in /opt/local/source/mconst/db.
approve.test will ask for bug reports in case of failure.
Rereg concerns were brought up by David. The main question was,
"How long do we keep files?" 30, 60, 90 days after the semester? David
lectured on the limits of "niceness" so that people would be encouraged
to reregister. The point of POP-users, especially those who have never
logged in, was brought up, and those who log in using FTP and WWW.
Sparc Manager's Report Elaine asked Jenni to report in the light of the SpM's absence.
Jenni reported that while she was gone for the weekend, nfsd on
typhoon crashed. It ended up wedging war and apocalypse. Mail ended
up going to maleficent, the backup mail server. This stopped Tuesday
morning, when Elaine rebooted typhoon. Unfortunately, someone hit the
break key on maleficent, and so Jenni rebooted it.
Jenni also reported that Kenji was not around.
Software: The password files are out of synch; Jenni can't seem
to find Kenji's source code. The quota software is almost done, but
Jenni doesn't like the user interface. She also reports that it needs
better error messages.
Pestilence: Nothing is being done with it at the moment; it still
will not boot.
POP is not working quite right. POP processes crash every now and
then. War, thankfully, can keep up on backlogged mail.
Old Business Since Kenji is not here, no business.
New Business The item of the quotas was brought up, but there was no quorum.
General Discussion Jenni blew away mail.old from plague. mail.old was about 510 MB. She has now stored all of the accounts from hailstorm onto plague's disk.
The possibility of no SM and GM candidates for the next meeting
prompted suggestions for bigger turnout and more publicity.
The meeting was closed at 8:30pm.