OCF Board of Directors Meeting
24 January 2000
Board members present: Stephen Callahan (calman) Eugene Chan (ceugene) Eugene Kim (eek) Stephen McCamant (smcc) Ken Ott (kenao) (co-gm) Akop Pogosian (akopps) (acting sm) Katrina Templeton (katster) (sm)
Board members absent: Devin Jones (jones) (co-gm) Bem Jones-Bey (ajani) Suzie Tang (suztang)
Others present: Jeff Emrich (jeffe) Ivan Jen (ivan) Wayne Kao (kaow) Marco Nicosia (marco)
The meeting was opened at about 5:45pm
Proposed Constitutional Amendment
Stephen McCamant presented the board with a proposal for an
amendment to update the constitution's non-discrimination
clause:
Current language:
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7.1 Nondiscrimination
The OCF shall not discriminate in any way against any person
by race, color, religion, marital status, national origin,
sex, age, sexual orientation, handicap, college major or
political activity.
Proposed new language:
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7.1 Non-discrimination
7.1.1 In Accord with Berkeley Campus Regulations
The OCF shall not restrict membership or otherwise
discriminate in any way against any person or group on the
basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex,
physical or mental disability, medical condition
(cancer-related or genetic characteristics), ancestry,
marital status, age, sexual orientation, citizenship or
status as a covered veteran (special disabled veteran,
Vietnam-era veteran or any other veteran who served on
active duty during a war or in a campaign or expedition for
which a campaign badge has been authorized).
7.1.2 Fields of Study
The OCF shall not restrict membership or otherwise
discriminate in any way against any person or group on the
basis of college major or field of study. However, this
section shall not be construed as restricting the OCF from
providing separate facilities for different uses, as long as
the availability of such facilities is proportionate to
demand among the OCF's current and potential users.
7.1.3 Political Activity
The OCF shall not restrict membership or otherwise
discriminate in any way against any person or group on the
basis of political activity.
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No action was needed on the amendment; it was just presented
to the board in accordance with the requirements of the
constitution for amendments, and will be voted on at the
upcoming General Meeting.
Startups Jobs Fair
Progress continues on the 2/2/2000 High-Tech Startups Job
Fair. Ken explained that the fair is being produced in
association with CollegeHire.com (itself a startup), who is
helping to pay for promotion. Ken asked for help in choosing
things to buy and give away as prizes for submitting resumes
at the fair; some things that were suggested included an
iMac, a Rio MP3 player, and a Playstation or Dreamcast video
game console.
Ivan Jen asked whether buying prizes was a useful way to
promote the fair, since we might attract a lot of people who
aren't really interested in getting jobs with our
companies. Ken went on to explain that the prizes would be
open only to students who had submitted resumes, which
should reduce the incentive for abuse. There was also an
inconclusive discussion of how to run the raffle. Also in
the OCF's budget for the event are several days worth of ads
in the Daily Cal and pizza and drinks at the event.
New (Heller Lounge) Lab
Devin and Ken met with ASUC officials and our new Project
Manager on Friday and again on Monday. We've been delegated
some control over the installation of electricity, which
should help the project go faster. There was also some
discussion of how much to staff the new lab; we certainly
won't be able to supply staffers 24 hours a day, but we may
be able to make up for it by provide more help information
for users, both on and off line.
Other
There was a short discussion of the current colocation
agreement between the OCF and the Mars by 2012 student
group. According to our latest colocation policy, Mars by
2012 must reapply to continue the arrangement each semester,
but it was decided that that issue should be left to the
new board elected at next week's General Meeting. The
arrangement was supposed to be temporary, while Mars by 2012
secured departmental sponsorship, but we haven't heard if
they've accomplished that. Akop suggested that we should
only provide colocation to groups that are actively looking
for another place.
Akop also suggested two web projects that would be
beneficial to the OCF -- one is a system (perhaps based on
HyperMail) to archive mail sent to the staff@ocf and or
admin@ocf lists, which could perhaps become a sort of
trouble ticket system, which would keep track of problems
from users and prevent problems from `falling through the
cracks'. Another idea was a software map, which would list
the various software, such as text editors and mail readers,
available on the OCF, along with links to documentation and
external program websites.
Finally, Ken suggested that a useful feature for the OCF to
have would be the capability to upload and manipulate files
with a web interface, which could allow users to set up a
web site without needing to learn too much about Unix.
After users become more skilled with the web interface,
however, we could have the system automatically give them
hints about how they could get things done more quickly from
the command line.
The meeting was closed at about 7:00pm.