Jennifer also reported that she has been working with a HP customer service representative to get one of his clients to donate a pair of Apollo DN 5500's with 760 meg hard drives and 32 megs RAM each. Kenji mentioned he has been talking to a Sun reseller who is looking to trade a SparcStation for parts for his Apollo workstation.
Jennifer said the Sun SparcServer 4/470 promised us by NEC is still at NEC waiting for it's replacement to arrive. Ken Emery, the NEC employee who arranged the donation, is leaving NEC soon, but has left word that the machine is promised to us when it is finally taken out of service. The OCF has borrowed a 32-megabyte RAM board from the CSUA that is designed for the 4/400 series, but which ERic Mehlhaff thinks might work in our current 4/330 as well. Once the OCF finds out whether or not it is useful to us, we will talk to the CSUA about making arrangements for us to keep it, since it is currently not useful to them.
Jennifer also said the OCF's year-end report is due to ASUC soon and anyone who would like to submit something to it can talk to her about it.
Tom Cheng said he'd like the OCF to spend more time on user education. Dave Lee suggested new user orientations. Others suggested working with the dorms and CalSO to deal with new students in a more organized fashion in the fall. Shac said he would talk to CalSO since he is already coordinating activities with them for the Cal Band.
Saar brought up the way new OCF accounts are created. He said he'd like to see a system more like the way Cory accounts are created, where users telnet in to set up an account name and password, then come down in person the next day to pick up a form to activate the account. Discussion ensued on whether or not this plan was better than the current system. It was pointed out that while this could save staff time, it didn't have much benefit for the users, especially if they came down to set up an account only to find out they had to come back again the next day.
The meeting was closed at 8:35 pm. The next Board of Directors meeting will be Tuesday, May 2, 1995 in 120a Bechtel at 7 pm.
Alan Coopersmith, OCF Secretary