BoD minutes, for your approval. Corrections/comments welcome. If there are no corrections/comments, I'll post this to ocf-announce on Friday.

Jen

            OCF Board of Directors Meeting
                    22 September 1999

Board members present: Eugene Chan (ceugene) Devin Jones (jones) (gm) Bem Ajani Jones-Bey (ajani) Yosen Lin (yosenl) Stephen McCamant (smcc) Ken Ott (kenao) (gm) Susie Tang (suztang) Luns Tee (tee) Katrina Templeton (katster) (sm) Jennifer Tsoi (jentsoi)

Board members absent: Stephen Callahan (calman) Wendy Hwang (wenhwang) Susie Kang (skang)

Others present: Kaliya Young (kaliya)

The meeting was opened at 5:10pm

Agenda: I. Welcome II. Reports General Manager Site Manger III. Old Business Web hosting policy IV. New Business New staff training Upcoming events Other/publicity V. Announcements Board meeting times Board drops VI. Go Home

II. Reports

General Manager

Devin and Ken report that lots of miscellaneous/random things
happened in the past week.  The OCF was featured in a DailyCal
article on 14 September 1999.  There was an ASUC bill, SB27,
introducted at a Senate meeting that stipulated that the OCF 
must move out 5 days after said bill passed.  Devin and Ken
attended this meeting, and convinced the committee otherwise.
The bill was struck.  While this bill did not pass, we still
should get a timeline going for moving out of 217 Eshleman and
into 310/312 Eshleman.  Ken proposed that we shut off some
of the less used DECs by 9/22, and by the first week of October,
move about 1/2 of our stuff into the new space.  Devin and Ken
also submited a proposal to get the 24-hour lab space at
Heller Lounge.  They are also working on trying to get the
UC Seal to use on our website.  As for donations, they have
emailed Inktomi for a software donation.  Devin also mentioned
that there is a possibility of large amounts of hardware donations,
from the Tertiary Disk Array Project (headed by Professor
Patterson), and from the Network of Workstations Project (headed
by Professor Culler).  However, the OCF will need to come up
with some good proposals for their use to be able to beat out
some other campus groups who are also trying to get that donation.

Site Manager

Kat had nothing to report.

III. Old Business

Web hosting policy

More than one student group has approached the OCF this semester
wanting *.berkeley.edu web addresses.  The Board agreed in 
principle that this was a good thing and that it was a service
that we should definitely consider providing.  However, the OCF
needs to get some recognition for providing this service.  A more 
formal policy will be drafted up next week.  Issues that need to 
be dealt with include: for whom do we provide this service, and
what type of recognition we should pursue.

IV. New Business

New Staff Training

Some ideas were tossed out regarding what is the best method
for knowledge to pass from old staff to new staff.  Ken suggested
the idea of a "new staff binder," where information for new
staff (such as instructions on how to approve accounts, how
to deal with user problems, etc.) could be stored.  Devin
suggested more formal training, where some of the old staff
could do "training sessions" for the new staff on a rotational
basis.

Upcoming Events

9/23 - Student Activities Fair, 10a-3p, upper Sproul Plaza.
Ken asked for signups to help sit at the OCF table during
those hours, and some Board members signed up for various times.

10/21 - Start-up Job Fair
Devin said this was an event where small, pre-IPO companies come
to campus one day and relax, chat, and eat pizza with any students
who drop by.  If anyone knows any pre-IPO start-ups who may want
to particpate in this, or if you want to help out Devin in 
organizing this event, contact gm@ocf  For more info on the fair,
please see:
    http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/jobsfair/startup.html

Staff socials
Ken suggested the idea of a staff social so that all staff can
get to know one another.  Locations suggested for such social:
LaVals's Pizza, Raleigh's.

Flyering
Ken hopes to hand out some new posters and flyers next week
for flyering and posting in various places (DCs, campus buildings,
etc.).

V. Announcements

Board meeting time
The Board decided that meetings shall take place on Wednesdays
at 5:00pm, location TBA.  We will work on finding a permanent
room for the meetings.

Board drops
The following were dropped from the Board of Directors for
two consecutive weeks absence:
    Wendy Hwang (wenhwang)
    Susie Kang (skang)

The meeting was closed at 6:00pm.