10.21.98

     OCF General Meeting
       October 21, 1998

Members present: Richard Dunn (dunnthat) (gm) Katrina Templeton (katster) (sm) Elaine Chao (chaos) (secretary) Naim Busek (naimstin) Luns Tee (tee) Mike Howard (mikeh) Andrew Afram (andrew) J. Csirik (csirik@math) Saar Picker (saarp)

The meeting was opened at 6:08 pm.

Agenda: I. Welcome II. Intro III. Reports General Manager Site Manager IV. Old Business V. New Business Tape Drive 67A Barrows

III. Reports

General Manager

The General Manager said that most of his report was in New Business
and decided to defer until then.

Site Manager

The Site Manager reports that the rotating DNS is currently working
and that mudslide is up.  IP conversions have started in Eshleman.
The third Ultra 5 is installed as armageddon.  Alan updated bind.
The rest is covered in New Business and was deferred until then.

IV. Old Business

No old business to discuss.

V. New Business

Tape Drive

Kat and Luns reported that the tape drive broke and is not fixable.
They suggested that the OCF buy a new tape drive.  Saar mentioned
that he was still working on obtaining the tape robot from IS&T.
The general membership discussed approximate numbers for tape drives.
Mike mentioned that if the OCF found a good price, the CSUA would
be interested in the information.  Resolved by general consensus that
more information would be gathered about current prices and that the
issue would be discussed at the next week's Board of Directors meeting.

67A Barrows

Jack McCredie sent a mail to the GM saying that IS&T would like the 
room back in the next two months.  After serious discussion and 
deliberation, the general membership decided to ask McCredie and IS&T
to help the OCF find alternative space.  The GM was asked to schedule 
an in-person meeting with Jack McCredie.

The meeting was closed at 7:04pm.