Feb29 2000 bod

Open Computing Facility Board of Directors Meeting -- 2/29/2000 notes by Bem

Attendance: ajani, eddylu,kaow, kenao, suztang, smcc, ceugene, ivan, jeffe, akopps, jones, castello, eek

GM Report Signed EECS MoU Working on getting unattended processes policy into the proper places Picked up application for funding

kenao has been helping out with construction in Heller.

SM Report Did backups, need more tapes Warned the newsgroup spammer -- next time he will be sorried. May have staff orientation in March Web mail in progress -- may be some problems.

Donations: eek: donated Sparc10, 486, and Mac Quadra SAO: donated a PowerMac

Suggested that we start research on locks for machines for new lab Quotas have been incresed from 8 - 16 MB home dir.

Old Business Colocation - no more colocation until we get more resources

New Business Web virtual hosting policy Use current policy (Spring '99) If people ask for virtual hosting, give them the policy for info

Group accounts policy Change group accounts policy to allow web information instead of a .plan file. Change:

2.8) Group accounts are intended to build a sense of
community. Therefore, we also require the following information in
their .plan files:

to:

2.8) Group accounts are intended to build a sense of
community. Therefore, we also require groups to make the following
information available either in their .plan files or on their web
page:

Group_Accounts file: it should be updated by the staff member creating the group account

E-mail aliases smcc ranted for awhile it was decided that to disambiguate things; gm, sm, wheel, and bod would be split into {list}-current, {list}-extras, and {list}-all

for the moment, the current aliases would point to {list}-all, but
if we find we are using {list}-current more than {list}, then we
will change {list} to point to {list}-current.