2015 12 01

OCF Board of Directors Meeting 2015-12-01 Meeting is called to order at 19:11.

Directors in attendance: - jvperrin - slobo - nspatel - kevinma - shasan - wml - zdong - tianrui - shaurya - ldw - kuoh - tnn - lilulu - willh - kpengboy - tmochida - mattmcal - ckuehl - nickimp

Non-directors in attendance: - trliu

Directors not in attendance: - peterwu

  • Today is the last BoD meeting
  • It would be peterwu's last BoD meeting
  • Deciding on the meeting time for BoD next semester over Winter Break
  • Some freshmen haven't had their Phase 2 yet
  • LAN parties during dead week
  • Sunday: staff
  • Monday: Berkeley CSGO
  • Getting licenses for CSGO for new staff (by GM fiat)
  • User quota is raised to 5GB
  • We have enough disk space (there's 1.5TB sitting around unallocated as of now, and additional disks are cheap anyway)
  • Without objection, this motion is hereby agreed to
  • lilulu: what's the reason?
    • nickimp: WHY NOT????
  • Raise usernames to 12 characters?
  • People agree there is interest to looking into the technical feasibility of this
  • nickimp proposes amendment to raise to 16 characters
    • Passes with majority "voice vote"
  • Open/Closed sign?
  • People walking by are angry that the OCF closes at 9 PM and there are still staff inside
  • LED or a simple sign?
    • nickimp: a LED sign Looks Cool and Differentiates us
    • Looking at Adafruit 64x32 RGB LED matrix, 6mm pitch
    • BoD votes unanimously to allocate $150
  • Who will set it up?
  • Decorations?
  • Posters
    • Stallman: 6 ✗
    • Plan 9: (almost) everyone ✓
    • GNU not Linux: 4 ✗
    • Kill your zombie process: 1 ✗
    • I love open source: ~15 ✓
    • Linux kernel architecture: all ✓
    • Must print yourself
    • Debian logo: 0 ✗
    • Collage of FOSS software at OCF: all ✓
    • Better debian poster: all ✓
    • Vim cheat sheet: all ✓
    • Free culture poster: 0 ✓
    • Should do Four Freedoms poster instead
    • Toy story poster: ? ✓
  • Jessie doll??
    • lilulu: it's weird and creepy, no one would get it
    • Not buying
  • Daiso xmas tree
  • Miscellaneous items
  • DeCal is not happening
    • nickimp: "Thursday talks" are generally more effective
    • Someone with serious interest can resurrect
  • Probably tabling at Calapalooza (it happens in spring, right?), not urgent to recruit new staff

BoD is PROROGUED at 20:07.