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Ocf minutes 2004 02 26

Open Computing Facility Board of Directors Meeting

26 February 2004

BoD for Tonight: eleen - present jkit - present elliot - present adrian - present yehfang - present rahat - present joydip - 2nd absence hkim - present akamike - present phlee - 1st absence kaisenl - present shivab - 2nd absence

members total: 12

members required for quorum: 8

members present: 9/12

Quorum Achieved!

Present but not on BoD for Tonight: geo cpfeyh

Present Total: 11

BoD for Next Meeting: 1 eleen 2 jkit 3 elliot 4 adrian 5 yehfang 6 rahat 7 hkim 8 akamike 9 phlee - 1 absence 10 kaisenl

members total: 10

member required for quorum: 7

GM MESSAGE - Short power outage yesterday 10:40pm - Printer wasn't working - Derek was working on it, rebooted it this morning - Working fine now. - If printer stops working again, call Eleen, or Jimmy. - If doors are locked, call building ops. - SM MESSAGE - Someone donated an old Gateway - No USB, AT Keyboard (not PS/2) - No network card - Oren: Should we do anything with this computer? - Jimmy: I'll call Devin and see what's up.

NEW BUSINESS - Eleen, Jimmy to have meeting with CSUA - Attempt to set up mutual agreement with CSUA - Such that, in the case of service outage - OCF can write about OCF downages on the CSUA webspace - CSUA can write about CSUA downages on the OCF webspace. - We could maybe also have redirects, such that in the case of an outage, browsers will be automatically redirected to alternate site (at CSUA for OCF, at OCF for CSUA).

  • Classes that want usernames with numbers
  • Devin has asked if we can set up some class accounts
    • This is ordinarily fine.
    • However, these class accounts want numbers in the user name.
    • Numbers in the user name are not ordinarily allowed.
    • The account is otherwise completely normal.
    • They want mcb100 and chem130
  • Yeh: Don't the classes already get their own space from the official Berkeley servers?
    • Kaisen: The sites capabilities they get are really bad.
    • Jimmy: The departments have had miscommunication issues with the official Berkeley people who provide webspace.
  • Eleen: Why should they get this exception? Could we just modify the general rule?
  • Eleen: How much harder is it to make an exception?
    • Jimmy: An extra 5 minutes.
  • Eleen: Do they know the other options?
    • Jimmy: Devin was talking with them, he most likely told them about the other options.
  • Jimmy: The exception is a violation of our policy.

  • VOTE FOR ALLOWING CLASSES TO HAVE NUMBERS IN NAME:

    • Fails unanimously.

  • Acrobat Reader

  • User requested Acrobat Reader installed on Heller Lab

  • OpenOffice

  • Discussed installing OpenOffice on Windows machines.

  • Our PowerPoint reader installations are not-full featured.

    • OpenOffice may somewhat fix this?

  • Budget Request

  • Eleen has to submit a budget request to ASUC
    • OCF asks them for an amount of money that would cover everything we could possibly want.
    • ASUC gets back to us regarding the amount they're willing to give us.
  • Devin sends suggestions:
    • More RAM for Dells
    • Buying more systems
    • New printer
    • Projector
    • Devin doesn't want to give us his
    • Software
    • Webcam
    • Patrick: Why a webcam if the lab is only open 5 hours per day?
    • A BIG LIST OF STUFF, FILL THIS IN!
  • Possibility of paying CSOs
    • People who sit in the OCF during normal hours and after hours to monitor the lab's security.
    • Could cost up to $7000/semester?andidates' platforms
    • Contact Daily Cal to publicize our situation.

  • Heller Lab vs. The Lounge -- ultimate combat

    • we have put a lot of work into this lounge, we don't want to see it locked away and unusable while ASUC figures out what they want to do with Heller Lounge.

  • Random Interlude:

  • Adrian goes off to help Oren fix things.

  • Adrian Motions to Close Meeting

  • Kaisen Seconds

MEETING ENDS!

Go home!