The Open Computing Facility at the University of California Berkeley

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

 II. Old Business
      A. Status of Purchases

 III. New Business

II. Attendance

Name Login Bod Kenneth Nishimoto kennish yes Richard Dunn dunnthat yes David Walthall land yes Jennifer Snider jenni yes Alan Coopersmith alanc yes Rune Stromsness runes yes Elaine Chao chaos yes John W. Percival percival yes

III. Minutes

 A meeting for the Board of Directors for the Open Computing Facility

at the University of California was called to order at 6:42 p.m., on October 23, 1996, in 51 Evans hall. The General Manager was in chair, and the Secretary was present. The General Manager reported that he has still not heard from the campus Telecom services. The phone line in 67a Barrows Hall should be turned on in two to three weeks, however. The General Manager also talked to an ex-alumni now working for Veritas. The OCF might qualify for Veritas' donation program, which would involve donating file system software. In exchange, Veritas would like to have their name mentioned at some point in the Mot'd or the OCF's web page. The Site Manager reported that two of the replaced hard disks have come back, however, they have not been mounted, as there is no disk box to mount them in. The Site Manager has returned the borrowed tape drive used for the restoration of the users' home directories. One of the IPC's refuses to talk to a terminal, despite the purchase of a Mac serial cable. A staff meeting was held on Monday, October 21, 1996. The installation of the permanent network connections has not been completed. The next Help Session will be an introduction to both UNIX and the Internet. A flier will be posted Monday, October 28, 1996, if not sooner. The General and Site Managers will be holding a System Administrator's Help Session sometime in November. Another HTML Help Session is tentatively planned. The several purchases for the OCF are still suspended, waiting for more information from Kenji Hubbard. A General Meeting for the OCF will be held sometime soon during the month of November. The Board of Directors Meeting was brought to a close at 7:38 p.m. The next Board of Directors Meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 30, 1996, in 51 Evans Hall.

John W. Percival Secretary OCF Board of Directors