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Hey all,

Help save the Earth! Remember to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle!!!

Thanks, ~Genevieve W.

04/24/2008 Earth Week BoD

Present: akit - Angel Kittiyachavalit alanw - Alan Wong gcwong - Genevieve Wong geo - George Wu gfs - Gregory Shuflin (Site Manager) gordeon - Gordon Mei (General Manager and chair) griffin - Griffin Foster jchu - Jonathan Chu kwinterl - Karl Winterling mgasidlo - Michael Gasidlo sle - Stephen Le sluo - Steven Luo

*: member of BoD

Quorum met

BoD starts 7:14PM

GM Agenda:

  • ASUC Eshleman move deadline accelerated to July 1st
  • The bill: http://www.asuc.org/documentation/view.php?type=bills&id=1198
  • OCF was not warned about this
  • The problem: unfeasible, the new room isn't ready for the servers
  • Need six months?

  • gordeon will show up at next ASUC meeting on Wednesday and talk to Fullmer

  • IST Authentication

  • How do we propose we handle this? Probably better to offer a solution to IST first.

  • need to talk to CSUA & IST about DNS

  • Accessibility

  • kwinterl wrote a draft for appeals
  • sle and gordeon just appealed for more money (printer) last Monday

  • will postpone this b/c ASUC does not give out money easily

  • Motion for monitors

  • $1760 from ASUC for 8 monitors Models:
  • Dell SP2008WFP at $284.23 (incl. tax + Calif. recycle fee) [$2273.84 for qty 8 - $1760 = $513.84 from our budget] -- 20", Glossy, contrast ratio 2000:1, 2ms response time, webcam, microphone, USB ports -- Widescreen, 1680x1050 native resolution, 0.258mm pixel pitch, brightness: 300cd/m2, 160 degrees viewing angle, VGA+DVI, 6-bit

  • Dell E207WFP at $229 [$1832 for qty 8 - $1760 = $72 from our budget] -- 20.1", Matte/non-glossy, contrast ratio 800:1, 5ms response time -- Widescreen, 1680x1050 native resolution, 0.258mm pixel pitch, brightness: 300cd/m2, 160 degrees viewing angle, VGA+DVI, 6-bit [correction from Gordon: $2056.32 for qty 8 - $1760 = $296.32 from our budget]

  • Dell Ultrasharp 2009W at $289.67 (incl. tax + Calif. recycle fee) [$2317.36 for qty 8 - $1760 = $557.36 from our budget] -- 20", Matte/non-glossy "anti-glare", contrast ratio 2000:1, 5ms response time, height adjustable -- Widescreen, 1680x1050 native resolution, 0.258mm pixel pitch, brightness: 300cd/m2, 170/160 degrees viewing angle, VGA+DVI

  • 1 5ms 800:1 matte $229ea no-adjust

  • 2 5ms 2000:1 matte $259ea height-adjust

  • 3 2ms 2000:1 glossy $254ea webcam+usb

  • straw poll on the models

  • 1 - 0

  • 2 - 8

  • 3 - 1

  • jchu: motion to allocate $600 for #2 monitors, seconded by gfs+kwinterl

  • for: 8
  • against: 0

  • abstain: 0

  • sle will talk to agent to get preferential pricing

SM Agenda:

  • Mail has issues
  • sluo: guess there is bug in simple ldap library, not sure how to fix it.

Other issues:

  • Rest of money?
  • used ~$500 today for more paper (20 cases)
  • sle: can buy new hard drives
  • we don't get money for new computers, only for computer centers/tables
  • akit: need to use by May 30th, b/c new budget can be used starting Jun 1st

  • main options: -- replacement for Dells (~$4000) -- new hard drives (~$1500-2000) -- x86 server (~$1500): for supernova, etc.

  • jchu motions for $2000 for 12 new hard drives, seconded by alanw

  • for: 7
  • against: 1

  • abstain: 0

  • sle: can buy new SAS drive for pandemic

  • benefit to users is more reliable mail...maybe.

  • each SAS drive ~$750+tax for 140 gb

  • jchu motions for $850 for new SAS hard drive, seconded by geo

  • for: 7
  • against: 1

  • abstain: 0

  • sluo motions to add sle, akit, kwinterl, griffin to BoD, seconded by jchu

  • for: 8
  • against: 0

  • abstain: 0

  • Motion to adjourn, seconded

  • all in favor
  • BoD ends 8:04PM