The Open Computing Facility at the University of California at Berkeley

I. Agenda

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

 II. Old Business
      A. Dead Disks
      B. Reliability

 III. New Business

II. Attendance

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

III. Minutes

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

University of California at Berkeley was called to order at 6:41 pm October 9, 1996 in 51 Evans Hall. The General Manager, Alan Coopersmith (alanc@ocf), was in chair, and the Secretary was present. The General Manager reported that DCNS has confirmed the placement of the OCF's seven permanent network connections. Installation is to be completed by next week. The OCF has access to the UCSEE's library, where two Sun IPC's were recovered, while the ownership of a third IPC is still in question. The original packaging was found for the damaged disk drives, and they were promptly shipped off to the vendor. The General Manager also printed many updated account forms reflecting the OCF's current situation. The Site Manager reported that mail is still being delivered manually, and will continue until the tapes containing the last backup are restored to death.berkeley.edu. Kenneth Nishimoto (kennish@ocf) held Monday's staff meeting, and announced that the OCF has another staff member. Kenji contacted Keir, who promised two Sun SPARC- 2s, as well as several Sun IPCs. Also, the KALX station director stated that she would air the OCF's public service announcements. The script designed for the user poll is almost finished, however, it has not been installed. Andrew Swan suggested to the Site Manager that the user pool would not reflect the majority of the user's wishes, but, only those users with something to gain by having the old data restored. Considering this statement, the Site Manager decided against installing the pool. Kenneth Nishimoto, one of the Help Session Czars, reported that attendance to Tuesday's help session was about twenty-five to thirty people. The session ran about ninety minutes in duration. Next Tuesday's help session will be on an introduction to HTML. The Help Session Czars also reported that the OCF will be able to post fliers with University approval throughout many areas of campus. During Old Business, Jennifer Snider moved to: "forgo data recovery in favor of getting disks replaced, and inform the users of the Board's decision." The motion passed with eight in favor, zero not in favor, and two abstaining. Also during Old Business, Rune Stromsness moved to: "buy two UPS with software necessary to run the devices effectively, up to a maximum of $1,100 including tax, and shipping and handling." The motioned passed with eight in favor, zero not in favor, and two abstaining. After a short discussion on restoring links to the OCF web page on the University web pages, the meeting was brought to a close at 7:30 pm. The next Board of Director's meeting is scheduled for October 16, 1996, at 6:30 pm in 51 Evans Hall.

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