OCF Board of Directors Meeting
                    20 October 1999

Board members present: Eugene Chan (ceugene) Devin Jones (jones) (gm) Bem Ajani Jones-Bey (ajani) Stephen McCamant (smcc) Ken Ott (kenao) (gm) Akop Pogosian (akopps) Susie Tang (suztang) Susie Kang (skang) Luns Tee (tee) Katrina Templeton (katster) (sm) Eugene Kim (eek) Stephen Callahan (calman) Kaliya Young (kaliya)

Board members absent: none

The meeting was opened at 5:10pm

Agenda: I. Reports General Manager Site Manger
II. Old Business
Startups Job Fair Staff Social III. New Business New Policies ITA colocation ITA partnerships Heller Lounge project
Future fundraising Random SM allocation End.

II. Reports

    General Manager

GM said that the day after this BoD mtg was the OCF Career Fair.
$700 worth of chicago pizza, needed people to work. 
GMs have played with web-based mail mngmnt.
GMs were to present to ASUC Senate on Heller Lounge tonight.

    Site Manager
Get a flu shot -Kat
Printer up -Luns
Apollo disks are now backed up onto tape. Need 2 SCSI cables to
set up new mail disks. -Luns        
ReReg: still needed method of verifying lists of ID's. -Luns

III. Old Business

- Startup Jobs Fair -- will fund staff social
- Staff Social moved to Sunday due to football game

IV. New Business

1. New Policies

  Luns
    they are flawed but username policy is more evil than
    games policy. 
    Username policy - makes more work for us for security,
    doesn't give users any extra abilities that they don't
    already have.
  Kat
    everybody else (csua, eecs) has a real name-based policy
  Devin, Suzie
    Names can now use #'s which is okay, and people want an
    alias across services (ie, uclink4, hotmail, ocf, et al)
  Steve C
    Name/email choice --> for user anonymity, privacy.
  Devin
    Doesn't make much more admininstration difference if names
    are based on real name or not.
    Since we have allowed name changes in the past, we should
    revise our policy now to only allow name changes to names
    that are based on realnames -to avoid people asking for
    frivolous name changes.
  Kat
    We have quorum. [implication: can vote on policies]
  Note: Will revisit this topic next week.

2. ITA colocation
ITA needs to talk at a BoD mtg, and additionally we don't
currently have a free "net tap" (physical eth0 port), that having been
given to Mars 2012 and the guy who asked for that hasn't used it yet 
for several weeks now [implication: maybe he never will?].

3. ITA partnerships

  Devin
    ITA's members would use our training. Question is, will
    they want to fundraise for OCF next year like Ken and I have
    this semester.  Do we want to involve them in our
    fundraising efforts?
  Kaliya
    They put on workshops for mostly business students. They 
    have a very different culture (than OCF). Corporate.
  Devin
    They have memberships charges. If we give them training,
    and some of their members were interested in working on 
    OCF projects, that would be good. 
    Method: by turning people from basic UNIX
    lusers into sys admins in 8wks via weekly courses, and
    also by them installing Linux at home.
    HTML-based training would be good, in general, for anyone.
  Kaliya
    Business (Haas) has good computer resources.
  Devin
    Buildling relationships is good.
  Akop
    Why not do this with CSUA ppl?
  Kaliya
    CSUA and ITA cater to niches. We are general and IT skills are
    important in today's society, so OCF is a safe place for
    anyone to learn them.
  Chalkboard
    Staff: sys admin training, for long=term OCF health
    CSUA Help Sessions: HTML, CGI, UNIX use, programming

3. Heller Lounge Project
  Devin
    Funding: ASUC, us, EECS, our career fair fundraisers.
    Costs go for infrastructure: elec, net, moving walls, new
    comps, furniture. EECS is excited about it. Thus, they can
    pay for infrastructure and get 8-10 reserved comps for 2-3
    years. EECS students: jammed labs, and students want
    one/some on SouthSide so they don't have to walk
    across scary campus at night.  Negotiations are underway
    I'll keep you updated.

4. Future Fundraising
  Devin
    IT/Information Economy career fair - Dec 1st. 
    Will need people to work it, and we will come up with
    specific tasks that people can do. Donations: with the
    influx of money in the future, we can do a lot more as
    OCF, such as: scholarships, tech training for low income
    ppl, philanthropy work, etc.
    i.e. we can adopt a Sourcechange.com model - like
    Mini-Grants. Projects looking for money and vice-versa.
    OCF can put the tasks that we want done online, and 
    capable students can earn some cache by helping us 
    maintain our system and implement new services.  Also
    students that have their own opensource projects that 
    might benefit campus can ask us to fund their efforts.
    also Work, ie ASUC and Superb stipends -- paying our
    people who put in lots of work. 
  Katrina
    This could be used for enforcing staff hours.
  Other
    GIMP-like projects

5. Random SM allocation
    $1000 for cables/etc on the fly. Eugene moved to vote on it,
    Ken seconded. Passed 3-0-2. [2 abs: Luns, Kat, as SM's
    they can't vote.]

The meeting was closed at 18:28.