Minutes for the OCF Board of Directors Meeting March 9, 1998

The meeting was called to order at 6:30 PM

Board members attending:

Dan Stangel (stangel), George Gong (gong), Ahilan Anantha (ahilan) (SM), Jennifer Snider (jenni), Richard Dunn (dunnthat)

Others attending:

Saar Picker (saarp), Alan Coopersmith (alanc)

ITEMS OF IMPORTANCE:

• There was not a quorom of BOD members.
• Since the GM was not present, the SM (Ahilan Anantha) acted as chair.

REPORTS

GM: (by proxy) Spoke with Excess and Salvage about removal of old equipment. Needs some staff members to help record inventory numbers for E and S. No progress on Cal Day. Brought in an answering machine for OCF use. stangel and Adrian Thomas (athomas) are working on advertising for Grand Opening.

 jenni brought up the issue of an OCF policy in the event
 of a fire in Barrows or Eshleman.  The SM agreed to make
 some decisions regarding this by next meeting.  The issue
 of insurance was also brought up, namely:  Do we have any?

SM: Lab still not open. Much of the excess equipment has been moved from 217 Eshleman to 67a Barrows. The machine lightning was replaced, and video cards were replaced in 2 other machines.

Treasurer: Budget submitted electronically to ASUC.

HS: Moved to 1 PSL for last week only. Coming up are multiple sessions on various levels of HTML.

EJC: E-week is April 13-18. The OCF is planning to have an account creation booth during the festivities.

OLD BUSINESS

Printer in 217 Eshleman - saarp reported that the rates should by $40 + $30/hr for on-site repair. It was also mentioned that WHSG would need an IOC number to do the work. dunnthat volunteered to talk to Lavonia about getting an IOC number.

New hardware - alanc and jenni again presented prices for various workstations. The board discussed various issues, including whether to purchase servers vs. consoles, whether PCs would be acceptable as console machines, and the ability to secure whatever machines were bought. The decision was again postponed.

ASUC voting - In order of the OCF to handle the electronic voting, we would need a secure machine and web server to check registration. The SM agreed to consider the OCFs ability to do this. It was also mentioned that the OCF consider asking the ASUC to fund the purchase of a secure server certificate for use in voting.

Server colocation policy - The draft was again passed out and commented upon. Decision delayed until quorom can be achieved.

NEW BUSINESS

No new business

BOD DROPPINGS

Katrina Templeton (katster) was dropped from BOD

The meeting was closed at 7:22 PM.

Minutes prepared by Richard Dunn (dunnthat)