OCF Meeting 10/17 8:14pm

Meeting begins

Directors in attendance: CHRISTOPHER B KUEHL Dara Adib FIONA TANG KEVIN YANG PENG MATTHEW JAMES MCALLISTER MICHAEL CHING CHEN RISHI NITIN KAPADIA Sanjay Krishnan TARA SHEIDA REZVANI TAKESHI MOCHIDA Timmy Zhu WILLIAM HO XINGHUA DOU

Guests: GURUBALA SRIDHARAN KOTTA JEE HEE MICHELLE KIM NICHOLAS DANIEL IMPICCICHE Ranjeet Singh

• Updates

  • OCF has joined ESC
    • Can participate in initiatives and visibility to other engineering student groups
    • Cardkey access to reservable rooms in Bechtel
  • APC surge protector recall
    • Arrive 1/2014
  • Google Apps transition
    • OCF is not eligible for Google Apps for Education
    • After a commentator noted that OCF could use Google Apps for Nonprofits, OCF is testing it out
    • Technical complexity is probably solvable
    • Virtual mail hosting still hosted completely by OCF
    • The problem with existing setup is not just receiving spam, but sending spam (especially when sent by webapps we host)
    • [discussion continues]

• Agenda

  • Gravatar
    • Provide a human face to OCF, so we don't appear as a service desk
    • [blogging about historical opposition to Gravatar]
  • Saturday event 4-7pm
    • Unix workshop? Social event?
    • decided on picnic at Big C
  • Joint Staff Hours
    • Come into effect next week

Meeting adjourned at 9:02pm [meeting devolved into emacs vs vi talk]