I. Agenda

I. Reports
    A. General Manager
    B. Site Manager
    C. Help Sessions

II. Old Business

III. New Business

II. Attendance

Name: Login: Bod: John Percival percival yes Richard Dunn dunnthat yes David Walthall land yes Kenneth Nishimoto kennish yes Jennifer Wray deery yes Rune Stromsness runes yes Alan Coopersmith alanc yes Jennifer Snider jenni yes Elaine Chao chaos yes George Gong gong yes Jen-Ting Tony Hsiao jthsiao yes Steve Martinot marto no

III. Minutes

A Board of Directors meeting for the Open Computing Facility for

the University of California at Berkeley was called to order at 6:45 p.m. October 16,1996. The General Manager was in chair, Alan Coopersmith (alanc@typhoon), and the Secretary was present. The General Manager reported that two of the damaged hard disks have been shipped back to the vendor at a cost of $34.45. The third hard disk will be shipped as soon as the other two are returned, as not to void the warranty for the third disk. The OCF is no longer an official CS group, although this does not affect the OCF very much, it will affect the Help Sessions ability to get 306 Soda Hall. A professor with the Geophysics department wishes to donate a Sun 4/110. Also Chuck Tomasi wishes to donate an Apollo DN5500 with a 760mb hard disk, and 32mb of RAM. The OCF will have to pay shipping. The Site Manager reported that the users home directories have been backed up from the August 13th tapes onto death.berkeley.edu. Several people who got accounts after the August 13th backup still do not have home directories, however, those that did get accounts after the disk faliure still have home directories. Some people will still have problems with their accounts as the registry does not reflect the current status of their home directories. The mot'd has been adjusted to reflect the current situation, and problems with pine have been fixed. The Help Sessions Czars reported that about forty people attended the October 15 help session on HTML. The next help session will be an introduction to both UNIX and the Internet, and will be held on October 29, 1996. Both the General and Site Managers will be holding a Help Session on system administration, and the Solaris operating system. Staff is HIGHLY encouraged to attend. The status of the OCF's purchases was discussed during Old Business. The OCF is still waiting on Kenji regarding the purchase of the four tape autoloader. Kenji states to have found a cheaper vendor, and is looking into pricing for the Board. Ken has found a vendor selling the UPS' for about $55 cheaper than what the Board agreed upon, and will research the matter further. The meeting was brought to a close at 7:14 p.m. The next Board of Directors meeting will be held on October 23, 1996, at 6:30 p.m. in 51 Evans Hall.

John W. Percival percival@ocf.berkeley.edu Secretary, OCF Board of Directors