OCF Board of Directors Meeting
       October 14, 1998

Board members present: Richard Dunn (dunnthat) (gm) Katrina Templeton (katster) (sm) Elaine Chao (chaos) (secretary) Saar Picker (saarp) Naim Busek (naimstin) Luns Tee (tee)

Other members present: Jason Cohen (jasonbc) Gilbert Lin (glin)

The meeting was opened at 6:20 pm.

Agenda: I. Welcome II. Reports General Manager Site Manager III. Old Business Chess Server IV. New Business caseinitiative.org

II. Reports

General Manager

The GM reported that he has reserved 202 Wheeler for the General 
Meeting next week.  He has also made "fun flyers," which were passed
around the room for inspection.

Site Manager

The SM reported that the rotating DNS is being scheduled for Wednesday.
She also reports that the shut-off date for the Apollos will have to
be moved to either the week before or the week after the original
planned date due to a scheduled multiple wisdom teeth extraction that
particular weekend.  She also reported that Alan suggested that we
should switch IP addresses to Exodus-owned IPs at the same time as
the Apollo shutdown.  The original IPs will respond until November 30.

III. Old Business

Chess Server

Jason and Gilbert introduced their idea of a chess server, which was
brought up last week.  The chess code will snag a port (5000) and 
listen for connections and connect players for games.  He recently
compiled the code successfully on one of the Instructional Alphas.
Close to a dozen questions were asked.

Jason explained that the program he wanted to run was a server that
would promote chess matches between those who logged on.  Ideally,
he would like to open it to the general public but could limit it
to the Berkeley campus if necessary.  He does not know what process
load it would take.  Jason also reported that it has run on a 386 
with 15 mb RAM before and so should not be too memory or processor
intensive.

Within the program, there are a number of levels of administrators
who can help add users and set variables for users.  However, there
are few top-level administrators.

After further discussion within the Board, the BoD requested that 
Jason bring in a written policy for guidelines for approving 
administrators for the program.

A vote was called by Saar (seconded by Kat) to approve the chess
server as an appropriate process to be run even when the user is
logged out.  This was passed 6-0-0 with the understanding that 
Jason would bring in the policy to the next BoD meeting.

Fire Safety Policy

The BoD reminded Kat that it would like to see a Fire Safety Policy
soon.

Web Page Design

Elaine reported that she has a proposed generic layout online.  She
asked for general feedback.

General Meeting

The BoD discussed posting flyers, how to handle it and where to flyer.
Richard said he would try and post it on the web calendar.  Saar
is going to buy pizza.  Elaine will buy 3 2-liter bottles of soda.

IV. New Business

caseinitiative.org

Kat reported that the ASUC President, Irami Osei-Frimpong, has placed
the OCF as secondary nameserver for a domain caseinitiative.org without
asking the OCF.  General consensus was not to do anything about it;
nameservice will not work if the primary nameserver goes down.  Kat
mentioned that it was politically related and that the OCF should not
get involved anyhow.

The meeting was closed at 7:14pm.