Open Computing Facility

Board of Directors

Minutes of the February 7, 1995 Meeting

Agenda

Attendance

Board Members Present:
Others Present:
Members Absent:
The meeting was opened at 7:15 pm in 120 Bechtel by Jennifer. She asked for volunteers to be Secretary for the semester. Alan was the only volunteer and was appointed to the position.

Old Business

Marco's Pentium Proposal

Marco asked if everyone had read his recent post to ucb.org.ocf which contained a better explanation of his plan than he gave at last week's meeting. Since very few people had read it, it was decided to table the issue until next week. Marco encouraged everyone to read his post and to discuss the matter in the newsgroup before then.

Bylaw Changes (Weekly Meetings)

At last week's General Meeting it was pointed out that the Board often has weeks in which there is nothing to discuss, so it was proposed at that time that Board meetings be changed to every other week. After some discussion on the exact wording, the following change was proposed to section 2 of the OCF Bylaws:

Change:
The OCF Board of Directors shall meet weekly.
To:
The OCF Board of Directors shall meet at least once every two weeks while the OCF is in session.

The change to the bylaws passed by a 11-0 vote.

General Manager Report

Jennifer went to Bechtel last week to register the OCF as a member of the Engineer's Joint Council and to reserve rooms for the Board meetings. She reserved 120A Bechtel every Tuesday evening for the rest of the semester, except for March 14 and April 25 when she reserved Sibley Auditorium for possible General Meetings, and March 7 when both Bechtel and Soda rooms were already completely booked for a conference. She also reminded OCF people who had keys to the EJC office last semester that they were supposed to be turned in at the end of the semester, and the people in Bechtel are wondering where they are.

Jennifer announced that people with outstanding receipts from last semester need to turn them in to her in the next week if they want to be reimbursed.

The OCF's SISG Mid-Year Report has not yet been turned in since Jennifer had not yet recieved some of the necessary information from Marco. The budget proposal for next year is also not ready since the Board has not yet decided on Marco's proposal for buying Pentiums with it.

Site Manager Report

David Shih reported that he shut down the whole cluster last Saturday night for hard disk maintenance work, except for flood whose hard disk is still broken. He also announced a change to staff policy that allows any staff member to accept an application for a group account (previously only the site manager was authorized to do so).

Elections/Appointments

Disk Usage Management Board

Elections were held for the Spring Disk Usage Management Board. Jennifer explained that this committee of three OCF members hears requests from OCF users for waivers of the OCF's Disk Quota policy. Nominations were then opened. Marco nominated Chris and Alan, both accepted. Nevin nominated Marco, who declined, and himself. No one else wanted to run, so the nominations were closed. Since there were only 3 candidates for the 3 slots Jennifer asked for objections to these 3 becoming the D.U.M.B. for Spring semester, and no one objected.

Engineering Joint Council Representative

Jennifer asked for volunteers to be the OCF's representative to the EJC. She mentioned that Nevin had already said he would continue in the post he has held the past two semesters. No one else expressed an interest in the job, so she re-appointed Nevin to the position.

General Discussion

Tracy asked for the status of the OCF's printer software. Alan said staff is trying to fix the OCF's currently buggy software, and it was mentioned that Rachel Yotter's currently-in-progress XCF project is printer software that the OCF may be able to use as well.

Nevin announced he had no EJC report to give since an emergency caused him to miss the EJC meeting. David Shih said he went and there was nothing to report on. Nevin also mentioned that he has been talking to someone who may want to donate some 386 PC's to the OCF and he will let the Board know how that turns out.

Election of New Board Members

Jennifer asked if anyone wanted to join the Board. Erik Agee and Tara Bloyd said they did, and were added to the Board with no objections.

The meeting was closed at 7:37 pm with a reminder that the next meeting will be Tuesday, February 14, 1995 in 120A Bechtel at 7 pm.