OCF Board of Directors Meeting Thursday, 11 March 2004

BoD For This Meeting: eleen - present jkit - present elliot - present adrian - present yehfang - present rahat - present hkim - present akamike - absent phlee - present kaisenl - present

members total: 10

required for quorum: 7

Attendance: jimmy - jkit eleen - eleen mike - mbh patrick - phlee george - geo elliot - elliot hui - huiran harry - hkim yeh - yehfang patrick - cpfeyh david - remlluf devin - jones oren - rahat kaisen - kaisenl joydip - joydip shiva - shivab adrian - adrian luns - tee

BoD For Next Meeting eleen jkit elliot adrian yehfang rahat hkim akamike - 1 absence phlee kaisenl geo shivab joydip mbh

members: 13

required for quorum: 9

GM MESSAGE - Paper - We got it! - Budget - Eleen's been working on it

SM MESSAGE - REMINDERS TO STAFF - Write your name on the account approval - If the user changes the username (e.g. the first name doesn't work out) then make sure you document the change on the form! - People have made duplicate accounts in the past! - Don't let them do this! - Check fist!

NEW BUSINESS - ASUC Elections - April 13, 14, 15 - General hours: 8am to 10pm every day. - Devin's coordinating - We plan to try to set up.
- We need 2 people on call during any given moment during the day. - If we can get full coverage on all three days it's "really awesome" - Need people for set-up/take down - It's grunt labor - Put machines in backpacks, bring them to dorms, take them - We need at least 2 people and people for opening and tear-down - Reasons to volunteer - Possible that OCF gets cash - We get brownie points from ASUC - Which possibly results in more $$$ - It makes people happy! - Two Types of Job: - Technical Troubleshooter - Need 2 people on-call at any given moment during day - MINIMUM of 2 - Need to be contactable, dispatchable - e.g. swap in laptop, troubleshoot network, etc. - Between 8am and 10pm - Setup and Teardown Stations - Requirements - Need to be "technically savvy" - Need to be familiar with computers - It's like home networking, hooking up ethernet. - Job Description - Physically set up networks at different locations - Need 1 person per polling station - Times - Setup: 7am-9pm - Midday Move: 3:30pm-6pm - Teardown: 10pm-11pm - RECRUITMENT - The list of recruited people is online at: - http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/elliot/cgi-bin/wiki.pl - CLEANING! - Just kidding! - BUDGET - - We've been ASUC sponsored for the past 14 years - i.e. the lifetime of OCF - Two years ago: $26,000 - Last year we got $19,000 - Requested more, got an extra ~$850 - Daily operations cost: - $11,000 for the year. - Phone - Paper - Toner - We're requesting money for after-hours staffing: - Last 10 weeks of semester - CSO watch lab - Hours? - $17/hr - Pay us for staffing on weekends - 10am-6pm - $10/hr - Total cost: - ?? - We're requesting money for a webcam for "security reasons" - Cost: ~$270 - Dlink DCS 1500(?) - It has infrared! - Other Requests: - Software - Adobe Creative Suite - Educational price: $399 - Suggested: - MS Office - Tex(t?)Office - IF YOU HAVE MORE PURCHASE REQUESTS, E-MAIL STAFF@OCF - Submit details, costs. - Getting a projector - For educational use - Or movie nights - cost: $1800 - Disk Array - $10,000 - Huge ide/sci array - 3.5 terabyte disk array - Our current array: - we have 99% usage on mail spool - - We're very close to having a crisis - More RAM? - Fullmer: as our RAM gets older it gets out of date and not available. Basically, it gets more expensive, not less.

SCHEDULED DOWNTIME - total downtime of everything, servers included. - During Spring Break - Date TBA - If you have specific objections to specific dates, e-mail: - rahat@ocf.berkeley.edu

• BOD ELECTIONS
  • geo - unanimously elected
  • joydip - unanimously elected
  • shivab - unanimously elected
  • mbh - unanimously elected
• Adrian motions to close
• Geo seconds

MEETING IS CLOSED!