OCF General Meeting
         November 30th, 2000

Board members present: Bem Jones-Bey (ajani) Akop Pogosian (akopps) (sm) Brett Cannon (bac) Eugene Chan (ceugene) Patrick Feyh (cpfeyh) (co-gm) Andrew Cheng (drew) Eugene Kim (eek) Gabriel Gonzales (gmg) Ivan Jen (ivan) Jeff Emrich (jeffe) Jiong Shen (jshen) John C. Tsai (jtsai) Stephen McCamant (smcc) (co-gm) Stephanie Hou (stephou) Suzie Tang (suztang)

Board members absent: Stephen Callahan (calman) Jeremy Lin (jjlin) Wayne Chan (wyc)

The meeting was opened at about 7:15pm

Administrative Details

There were no volunteers to take minutes, so by the
note-taking rotation, Suzie Tang was conscripted.

The timing of the remaining meetings for the fall semester was
discussed. Bem motioned that the meeting on December 7th
should be the last, and Brett seconded. The measure passed
with three abstentions.

The presentation by Jubilee Restoration was put off, because
their representative was not present.

Reports

General Manager

Patrick has started to look into getting phone service for the 
lab. The current plan is to have a campus-only phone out in
the lab, and a phone that can call out in the server room.
It appears that all we'll have to pay is the usual Pacific
Bell charges, so phone service may no be as expensive as we
were worried. We'll try to get have the lab phone be our
historic 3-0700 number.

Patrick bought some mice from the ASUC students store to
replace some of the broken Gateway mice. Andrew wants to get
replacements for the broken mice from the Gateway Country
store in downtown, but he needs the paperwork from the
donation. He says Ken said he gave the papers to Stephen McC,
who denies any knowledge.

Our initial estimate for air conditioning from the campus
capital projects group was $38,000, which is more than
expected, in part because it includes the cost of drilling
through the concrete floor slab to connect to a condenser unit 
in the basement. Because this exceeds the amount we raised
from the ASUC, we'll either need to find another funding
source, or find a more cost-effective cooling scheme.

Site Manager

Akop hasn't done much since the last meeting, since he was out 
of town for vacation. Our networking switch arrived from
Gateway, but he hasn't yet had time to set it up.

Old Business

Collecting SIDs

Relaying a suggestion from Luns, Stephen McC. said that we
could make it easier to run rereg in the future if we
collected users' student ID numbers to use in verifying their
registration status. To do this, he believes we'd need to
obtain the users' permission on the account form. The reasons
for rereg were discussed, and it was agreed that it was not
currently a high priority. No action was taken.

Reserving Workstations

Several staff members discussed the problems that can occur
when users leave the lab while using a computer, and then
expect to have it available when they return. There was some
discussion on how long it was acceptable for users to be gone, 
with some suggestions that no time at all be allowed. The
difficulties of user education were mentioned. Bem motioned
that Eugene K. be allowed to create signs informing users
about this issue. Eugene seconded, and the motion carried
unanimously.

Virtual Hosting

Akop asked about our policy requiring virtual-hosted web pages 
to carry a button linking to the OCF. He hasn't yet started to 
enforce it; Eugene C. has made a button, but Akop hadn't seen
it. Akop is also considering changing the web server log
format to record which virtual host was used on any given
transaction, but he's worried about increasing the already
sizeable space used by web log files.

New Business

Staff Meetings

It's been suggested that the OCF return to having staff
meetings separate from the Board of Directors meetings, to
have discussions of more technical topics and reduce the
length of BoD meetings. Akop suggested that these take the
place of one BoD meeting a month, but it was decided that it
was too early to schedule meetings for next semester. Bem
moved to table this subject until next semester, and Suzie
seconded.

Referendum Fundraising

In discussions with Arian White of the ASUC, it was suggested
to Ken the we attempt to raise money with a referendum on the
ASUC elections ballot, creating a new student fee going
directly to the OCF. Ivan explained how such a measure would
work, including what it would need to pass. If we asked for
one dollar from every student, we could raise about $27,000 a
year, but one drawback would be that the ASUC might be less
likely to allocate us money from their budget. This issue too
was tabled.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:36pm.