2013 04 23

Board of Directors meeting Apr 23, 2013 Convened at 07:31 Held at Hearst Gym Grotto

Directors in attendance: Dara Adib (daradib) Nader Morhsed (morshed) Erica Shen (etshen) Nicole Fronda (naless) Paulina Ramos (paulinar) Nur Taraky (ntaraky) Felix Wong (faw) Kevin Fang (kfang)

== Restrict user emails ==

Dara - propose to restrict sending mail from tsunami or death (the webserver)

Loren - So opt-in email?

Dara - Yes, would be some work to implement but reduces work in long term of finding spam

Loren - Opt-in should be prominent on sign up sheet

Nader - Proposal: if user gets sorried, disable their ability to send from the two servers

Dara - Would be a lot of work to police

Dara - Most likely a lot of users sending spam

Dara - Also want to simplify mail, discontinue IMAP POP, no local storage, forward only

Queue explanation of why it is bad for ocf users to be sending spam

And also how spammers do so

== Gravatar ==

Outpouring of anger from the masses

Dara - Who has concerns about having a profile picture on our website?

Loren - Why not make it opt-in?

Kevin - I don't want my photo online

Dara - Seems like there would be 3-4 opt-outs if did profile photos online

Dara - Tabling discussion for now since Nolan, Sanjay, Timmy not here

== OCF purchases ==

Dara - we have $9000 to spend before end of semester

Dara - here are proposed buys:

Dara - dev hypervisor

Kevin - Would build a server?

Dara - Suggest Silicon Mechanics for prebuilt solution

Dara - Price limit of $2000

Dara - projector for $1000 to $2000

Dara - couch

Dara - chairs

Nader - massage chair?

Dara - No

Dara - about 15-20 replacement chairs

Dara - mini-fridge in server room

a wild tangent appears

== Wii Games ==

Dara - Discussion of buying wii games

Kevin - We have a Wii?

Dara - Will purchase if someone sends a list

Dara - swtiches

Rishi - Need to spend funds before next semester?

Loren - Yes, otherwise we may lose funding for next semester

Dara - Back to switches, should be replacing netsplit

Dara - May be able to get through a Cisco program

Adjourned at 08:29