Ocf minutes 2005 03 10

UC Berkeley Open Computing Facility Board of Directors Meeting Thursday, 10 March 2005

ATTENDANCE:¶

jkit griffin elliot brando frank yury novakyu jerjou adrian kaisenl dima

OPENING:¶

Opens 7:25pm

TECHNICAL:¶

HARDWARE MAINTENANCE

Yury replaced power supply on Earthquake
No one's called Dell re: Cataclysm's power supply.
There's a motherboard in the server room that Frank needs to take to DHL.
There's a dead Dell in the server room that needs a power supply.
There's an ASUC system that's busted, possibly because of power supply.

REPAIR SESSION - Install Lilypond - Record documentation for OCF compiling procedures

EXTRA PRINTER - Dima is bringing a printer back from the 2nd floor of Eschleman to OCF. - HP 4150

BERKELEY MODEL UNITED NATIONS:¶

BMUN - Delegates will be printing a lot - Using their own toner/paper - We're not obligated to provide support

BMUN SCHEDULE - FRI: 19:00-22:30 - SAT: 09:00-12:00, 13:00-17:30, 20:00-23:00 (DANCE) - SUN: 09:00-12:00 - Drop in if you have time.

BMUN GUEST ACCOUNT - no shell access, but does have windows access - Printing quota has yet to be fixed - Account needs to be tested

BMUN LAB ACCESS - If you're having problems getting past the guard, call Gene, say you're OCF.

BMUN MISC. - Don't count on free food.

POLICY:¶

FLEET

Non-affiliated person complained and asked for info to be taken offline. Then the person whose info was on the site asked for that old info to be taken offline.
jjlin sorried FLEET
Dima unsorried FLEET
Arguments:
The guy thought the bio of him was misleading.
He has something invested in it, whereas nobody else does?
FLEET's gone, no one else can take it down, and there's a request for it to be taken down, whereas there's no counter-request for it to stay up.
It's FLEET's responsibility to get back to us, and they haven't.
They're #1 on google.
- That's doesn't necessarily mean anything.
They didn't ask for the entire site to be taken down.
It's censorship.
There's no security hole.
they're not OSL registered
- but you can't sorry them on a non-registed grounds b/c of it would be discriminating against them specifically (while other unregistered groups get away with it.)
- rereg? not an option
griffin motions to table
yury seconds

ACCOUNT NAMES - Why aren't there arbitrary user names allowed? - Doesn't appear to be an explicit reason now, though there may have been one in 1989 - Might not need a reason - Precedent/tradition - Makes OCF look more professioal - Don't want to get into business of judging names - 99% of people immediately comply with "has to be based on your real name" - Why are we more restrictive than CalMail? - Run out of namespace? - We can make exceptions if people are truly out of namespace - Is the purpose to avoid offensive names? - Flip the argument, is there any reason why we should allow them anything? - (i.e. are they really intrinsically entitled to whatever they want) - Can handle on case by case basis? - Let SMs handle it - Current policy is not well defined.

NETIQUETTE - jerjou: be nice in e-mails - jkit: doesn't matter what you say, but how you say it

KEEPING OCF OPEN DURING EVENTS - Frank/Brando/Dima will talk to publications about keeping OCF open during MCL events.

PAPER QUOTA INCREASES - 2 Schools of Thought: 1) Let them have it 2) We are poor, don't let them have it

Jerjou: Many requests don't even have reasons.
Adrian: Print logging?
Novakyu: Most people don't know how to check the queue and their quota
Adrian: I currently give them 50, and tell them if they need more they might need to go to W&MF
Frank: So agreement, give them 50
Jerjou: Even for nontrivial, academic reasons?
Brando: Everything else is up to discretion
[Discussion of how rollovers are difficult]

ASUC ELECTIONS:¶

ASUC ELECTIONS - APR 4-6 (Tu-Th) - Kaisen + Dima are free WED. - jkit, Randy and mattfong have signed up w/cpfeyh to manage. - adrian has indicated interest to cpfeyh

dima motions ot close yury seconds