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