Minutes for the General Meeting held on 5/5/97
The following people attended the General Meeting: David Walthall (land), Richard Dunn (dunnthat), Chuck (ckiong), George Gong (gong), Steve Martinot (marto), Kenneth Nishimoto (kennish), Rune Stromsness (runes), Elaine Chao (chaos), K Johnson (joke), Alan [nalA] Coopersmith (alanc), and Jenni Snider (jenni).
The meeting was called to order at 7:47pm.
The General Manager(s) announced that the Board of Directors purchased Ultras (from Sun and Integrix). They also opted to get the free source code for SunOS.
The Site Manager turned off Lightning, BigBang, and Avalanche due to the extreme heat in 67a Barrows. The reregistration process is now complete, however, many of the UCB Staff members failed the reregistration process for unknown reasons. The UPSs went crazy Saturday night at about 4 in the morning. They began using backup power instead of the wall current. It was deemed likely that the heat caused the malfunction. There is a staff meeting Monday 5/12/97 in a room TBA.
The EJC Representative announced that whomever wants to be the EJC Rep next year should talk to Elaine Chao as soon as possible.
The Group George Rep had nothing to say.
The Eshleman Space Request was filled out by Alan [nalA]. The ocf offered various and sundry things to get 515 instead of 310. The topology of Eshelman was discussed and it was determined that 310 and 515 not only exist on the same floor, but the rest of Eshleman is a vast, dark void. Only a single rope connects 310 and 515, which is incidentally attached to the ceiling (presumably of the floor that they both occupy, but possibly the top of the building). It is likely that it was designed this way to make it simpler to draw on a single sheet of paper.
No one has talked to Percival about the purchased back-up tapes yet.
Rune motioned that "we have summer." It was seconded. Elaine voted for summer by cartwheeling across the stage. David voted against it by duck-walking while kicking across the stage. Therefore, the motion failed, 1-1. The ocf will not "have summer."
Rune, George, and Alan were not voted against for the summer Board of directors.
Alan [nalA] proposed that the summer board be give authority to spend as much of the budget as it deems necessary. The motion failed 4-5. Rune proposed that the summer board be authorized to spend up to $2000 on memory and other purchases and up to $1000 on network connections if needed. This motion passed 8-0.
The following were the names proposed for the new machines and the votes they received. Each person present was allowed three votes.
bangpsb 5 xcf 4 csua 4 ebola 3 conquest 2 midterm 2 hurricane 1 d`oh 1 fallout 1 meltdown 1 sacrifice 1 famine 0 final 0 I'll 0 pass 0 Invasion-of-the-body-snatchers 0 Jenni 0 Alan [nalA] 0 TWA 0 Valujet 0 asuc87 0 asuc88 0 pms 0 baldness 0 huh 0 duh 0 A 0 B 0 beavis 0 butthead 0
The meeting was closed at 8:15pm.