Board of Directors Meeting

Directors in attendance: anddone bryli jyxzhang kdr kian kmo ncberberi njha rjz rmxu ronitnath

Quorum for this meeting is 8

Meeting Started at 19:16

Minutes

https://notes.ocf.berkeley.edu/nNtjT-w0QvOBiNMEDE5qfw?both

Change BoD to Monday

SUGGESION: move next semester? kdr: Maybe make BoD and staff meeting on separate days, there should be more time for BoD; too many time for purchase requests; RESOLVED: keep BoD on Wednesday

Keycard Access

Firedoor related stuff

Opstaff

rjz: Keycard reader arriving next Monday, can produce something by next monday kdr: not informed with anything happening besides being yelled at once kmo: Saturday close at 1 kdr: purchase request took 2 weeks, would be good if possible to be shortened, opstaff meeting 1400-1430 tomorrow will discuss/conducted it; information on DD/cheque pickup rjz: DD details rmxu: we had one keycard reader why purchase another one rjz: can’t find the original one ncberberi: new one is better

Diversity

kmo: diversity may involve asking people to BoD ncberberi: should advertise BoD, as this is important for getting involved with the OCF ncberberi: increase web accessibility for those who are not tech-oriented

University affairs

NCBERBERI discussed meeting with Sarah kdr: who does the number go to? ncberberi: not sure ronitnath: the person gave OCF the number does not know where the number goes to NCBERBERI discussed upcoming meeting with Bahar, in re having more people on the after hours list NCBERBERI discussed mandatory Senate presenattion on Oct 27th NCBERBERI discussed STF: no followup since last week ronitnath: Senate is going on, can discuss with them now ncberberi: referendum deadline November

Finance

Service

jyxzhang:lab printing is resuming, remote printing is “scraped”

NCBERBERI discussed mirror issues rjz: IO usage dropped, mirrors fine for now but disks’ diagnostic unpromising, does not indicate immediate failure, they are new drives njha: opstaff keycard reader: estimate of shipping rjz: this Saturday

NCBERBERI discussed HPC issues anddone: Kerberos issue, can locate issue but how to fix is unknown

NCBERBERI discussed bullseye update rjz: networking service issue, can turn off duplicate record detections; UI problem: Debian 11 theme applies a while later after user login

NCBERBERI discussed RT jyxzhang: new staffers doing a good job, RT good

NCBERBERI discussed staff hours ncberberi: do we think there are a lot of people looking for staff hours (omitted) ncberberi: give prior notice if unable to attend scheduled staff hours kdr: training people to be able to do staff hours could be the priority, a lot people may not feel comfortable doing staff hours themselves ncberberi: there are documentations, don’t need much expertise (IT IS DISCUSSED that recovering breached websites require root)
rmxu: documentations are not searchable ronitnath: not anymore, new.ocf.io ncberberi: need to construct the new website ronitnath: hopefully by the end of this semester it will be up and running

RONITNATH discussed RT resolving ronitnath: bystander effect: problem is train people to resolve RT: having a small number of new staff resolve all tickets in one day with one veteran staff leading jyxzhang: don’t force people to do RT because OCF staff is a volunteer-esque ronitnath: would be better involved in committee work if tell people “you are in this committee, now do relevant work”?

Communications

Industry & Alumni

kmo: workstore this Saturday, still meeting on Friday, mech store going on; short on alumni please help out, there is overwhelming number of RSVP

DeCal

Buy Sheet

Quorum is 8 - Surgical masks: 1. kdr: we only have N95, not surgical masks 1. rmxu: why are we giving people masks 1. njha: quantity and brand APPROVED with majority vote - Supermicro A+ Server 1. anddone: do we need gigabit network/server 1. njha: we have distributed storage, 1. RJZ explained hard drive 1. njha: buy sheet entry 499, returned APPROVED with majority vote rmxu: when to expect to get it? njha: probably end of semester? don’t really know

NCBERBERI announced adjourn of this BoD Meeting on 20211013 2005 PDT

Meeting Adjourned at 20211013 2005 PDF

Notetaker: rmxu