Board of Directors Meeting

Directors in attendance: cooperc fydai ethanhs racheltrujillo jkuki keur abizer bzh shmaeng minos bchieng quincyhuynh dkessler yichizh jerryzhou vaibhavj jaw nint tanx mdcha awelty trliu wporr christam

Guest in attendance: andylo

Quorum for this meeting is 11

Meeting Started at 19:15

• 7577: seek out new faculty sponsor

abizer and awelty met with Scott Shenker, he seemed interested Should we possibly pursue having him as a sponsor? Abizer sent an email about other things, including some OCF-related.

• 7714

STF long term grant is due in 4 days. Will submit 1 day before due, so please make any edits within the next 3 days. Also HPC long term grant needs finished - $4500 grant, essentially for more corruptions

• 7757: GSE

We are pretty screwed for getting this done. We need to make a contract with all involved parties, we probably need to amend CASA. Basically we need to have a bunch of meetings. BoD wants to continue pursuing.

• 7861: Printing happy hour

keur wants to make our users sad, but unfortunately no one else does.

• 7809: OCF Referendum

Referendum is due tonight.

Feedback: We need an independent oversight committee.

awelty proposes: add a committee to OCF that has ex-officio positions in BoD. We already have the constitutional framework for this. We need to include the members of this committee in our executive committee (BoD), but we don't want to give them This serves as a one-week announcement that we intend to vote on this amendment.

• 7859: banning policy

CLO said the banning policy looks good. - We should allow the user to appeal the ban more flexibly (what if the next BoD minute is in 3 minutes, or in 5 years). - We should report up if the user is in violation of the UCB CoC.

awelty proposed updated language: "If the user is banned, they shall be promptly notified of the ban and given a chance to appeal the ban at one of the next three future Board of Directors meetings\" in addition to adding \"If the violation of OCF policies is additionally a violation of the UC Berkeley Student Code of Conduct, the GM will submit a report to the Center of Student Conduct"

keur asks if we want to make changes so that appeals occur online, and not in person. awelty opposes but is open to later changes.

The changes are voted on and pass.

• 7807: Elections

GM speeches:

• vacuum is a no-show. the broom fills in its place. mdcha makes a short speech on behalf of the vacuum: "The vaccum cleaner may suck, but it does not suck as much as awelty. Vote vacuum cleaner."

• awelty (paraphrased): I've been speaking with friends in and out of the OCF, and previous GMs. I think a solo GM would be best. The GM's role is subservient to BoD, and that's what's important. Nothing against abizer, but a solo GM is more accountable and able.

• abizer (paraphrased): I've also though and spoke to various people. With the growth of the OCF, there's a lot of things to be done, and it's too much for one person. This is confirmed by previous GMs. We need to split up roles more. I don't believe in hierarchies. The ideal system is one in which all active members are all perfectly capable of making decisions on behalf of the organization as a whole. Thus we should split power instead of consolidating. We have fewer points of failure and more distribution in terms of rights and responsibilities. I've been around the OCF for a long time. dkessler is the only one with a lower UID than me. I've spent a lot of time and made a lot of friends here, and I want to continue serving.

SM speeches:

• vacuum is a no-show. mdcha makes another short speech on behalf of the vacuum: "The vaccum cleaner may suck, but it does not suck as any 2-combination of dkessler, cooperc, bzh, vaibhavj, and ethanhs. Also, I've been asked to say Nazi punks fuck off. The vacuum is apparently also a left-leaning anarchist. This anarchist is red with the blood of the proletariat." (Note that the broom is indeed red.)

• dkessler (paraphrased): I won't speak on behalf of anyone else, but they're all great.

• bzh (paraphrased): I don't know everything about the OCF, but I'm excited to learn more. Next semester, we should focus on docs, which are currently bad.

• ethanhs (paraphrased): I'm also not an expert at the OCF, but I can learn quickly. I'm committed, I'm here even though I'm not taking classes this semester. Docs would definitely be good to work on. We should continue to work on project system and new member onboarding.

• cooperc (paraphrased): I'm new to the OCF. I've had an exciting semester here though. I want to do more. Honestly don't vote for me but I'd be glad to take on the role if you want. Make me DSM.

• vaibhavj (paraphrased): I'm not sure why I was nominated. I do know about things. I don't want to be SM as long as I still have access to the facilities of the OCF. I don't know what I want to do next semester, so don't say I promised anything.

Election results:

2 votes were invalid.

GM: - abizer and awelty: 18 - awelty: 4 - vacuum: 1

SM: - dkessler and bzh: 9 - ethanhs and dkessler: 5 - dkessler and cooperc: 3 - vacuum and dkessler: 0 - bzh and ethanhs: 2 - vaibhavj: 3 - vacuum: 1

GM is won by abizer and awelty. No SM ticket has a simple majority. There is a runoff for SM between (dkessler and bzh) and (ethanhs and dkessler).

Runoff results: - dkessler and bzh: 19 - ethanhs and dkessler: 6

SM is won by dkessler and bzh.

awelty present trliu with a gift of chocolates as thanks for his help and being co-GM for the end of the semester.

dkessler appoints ethanhs and cooperc as DSM. bzh confirms.

abizer and awelty appoint asai as DGM.

Meeting Adjourned at 20:20

Notetaker: cooperc