UC Berkeley Open Computing Facility Board of Directors' Meeting Thursday, 14 April 2005

ATTENDANCE

aoshi brando dima elliot geo jerjou jkit kaisenl kwt mattfong novakyu yury

AGENDA

GM: (None)

SM: 8150 Update Early lab closing Berkeley ACLU CalLUG CalDay Disk Array Maintenance Kit bkp BLSA/CLSJ mailman Alumni EECS mysql & hozing solaris & death cpfeyh's x86 server

OPENING

7:26pm meeting opens

GM: Money from ASUC elections is coming. Still no fixed printer.

SM: Large Printer (8150DN) TSW lost our paperwork Dima re-faxed paperwork. Small Printer Wants a maintenance kit that costs $300 Lab Closing Dima met w/Xavie. Xavie recommended open Bancroft door. They will talk with Lavonia?

    There are meetings of the people who are in charge of the
        space.  We should go to these meetings.
CalDay
    Should we table w/CSUA?
Disk Array
    People are meeting Friday night @ 10pm
    Merge services and home, move to disk array
    Death down for 6 hours
CSUA Mail Backup
    They're not working yet.
CalLUG
    Their room and hardware is gone.
Getting New Hardware
    Dima talked to Harvey
        Harvey recommended talk to McCreadie of IST
            Dima drafted e-mail
    Talked to Mullaley of INST, Mullaley said he'd let us know if
        old hardware became available.
bkp
    Xanga Tracker project
        Is hozing CPU usage
    Has been asked to move already
    He hasn't responded?
mp3s and wmv
    are using 60% and 17% of our bandwidth respectively
Users using OCF for business?
    Google advertisements
    People are profitting off of our space
    aoshi: there's a campus policy requiring such sites
           to meet six points.
    Requires review by office of trademark management
        or somesuch.
    Yury: report them to that office and let them decide
          whether the site is in violation or not.
    aoshi: UC facilities (i.e. we) must have chancellor's
           approval. 
    aoshi: We need a policy, ours aren't clear.

    jkit: What if I'm a tutor, or I have a band, are you guys
          going to kick me off?
    aoshi: What about resumes?
    brando: there are outside websites for hosting commercial
            stuff.
    brando: In this case, case by case basis, warn, then sorry
        for google ads
    aoshi: we need rules for this
    "commercial at discretion of <whomever>?"
    jkit: do we reserve right to refuse service?
    sponsors?
    money per click?
    honor policy?
    brando was going to update constitution and bylaws
    yury: table for 1 week, next bod vote on what kind of policy
    aoshi: there is hella requirements for changign constitution
        must happen before general mtg, etc.
Bandwidth monitoring
    how?
    aoshi: grep + analog?
    jerjou: at least all we need is a rule to be able to shut down
        the people *who we know* are hozing
    we don't have any liability?
    disclaimer?
    we have a policy that you're not allowed to post copyrighted
        works
    constitution is old and shitty
    allocation of limited resources
    what's on the account form?
    GM responsible for policy
        brando+frank will handle?
    problem statement
        don't police
        copyright until notified?
    impact
    reserve right to terminate
    no bandwidth rules
    jjlin has mp3 list?
    tabled
Policy
    Brando will work with frank to update policy
    Done before finals?
    More general meetings?
    jkit: you can just declare things as general meetings
    electronic votes won't work
Excess Cash?
    we might have $1k, $1500? at end of semester
        buy extra paper, toner?
        pay for printer?
        server?
        main kit $300 
        backup printer is useful to have spare?
        what can you get for $300?
        HP4050N = $1500 nowadays
        OCF is hardcore use
        aoshi at least $1000
        6422 ppm, reliability?
        cost benefit analysis?
        tsw should take 2 days?
        printer not major issue
        hopefully printer ready by next week
        jkit: add headphones
        yury: speakres
        not speakers!

BLSA/CLSJ
    are they the same?
    blsj publishes clsj
    blsa dude says they get separate asuc funding
    if good enough for asuc, good enough for us!
    osl reg
    they are separate under osl
    the issue was two accounts + 2 virt hosts

Mailman
    we will offer this services, let users have acct
    if they want it

Mysql hozing
    all tables owned by mysel

    do quotas on table may be fuck up
    tables?  ask jjlin?

    soft limits + hard limits
    if you go over your quota and mysql gets corrupted
    is it your fault?

    table corrupt or transaction?

    yury: hard transaction limit is 1mb
    we want quota track
    put mysql in services/ merge?

solaris vs. freebsd
    8 password bad
    dima has soalris 10, don't go freebsd
    notify users passwords have to change
    solaris 9 more cooperative than 10

    upgrading death
        we have no equiv to death in hardware
        not an issue on death
        let death be
        death+war are locked down        
    login servers
    yury: make eveyrone upgrade to 8 chars in advance?
    solaris is made to run on sun hardware

cpfeyh's new server
    tell them it will be mysql

recruiting
    motd
    lecture announcements

aclu 
    tell them options
    ask them to ask campus orgs

maintenance night
    10pm tomorrow night
    war going down tomorro wnight
    ocf going donw
    gm will e-mail ocf

CLOSING

yury/nova close