Subject: UCC Committee Meeting Minutes
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 13:03:00 +0800
X-Venue: loft@cameron-hall.gu.uwa.edu.au
X-Observation: How quickly these minutes date...
X-Present: [JEB] (James Bromberger - Pres.), [NTU] (Nick Bannon - Sec.),
	[DJL] (David Luyer - Vice Pres.), [K?Y] (Kym Yeap - Fresher
	Rep.), [SD:] (Sophie Divliaev - OCM), [DUC] (Duncan Sargeant -
	OCM), [YAK] (Ian McKellar), [SGD] (Terry van Heygen), [MJH]
	(Mikolaj Habryn), [RNS] (Robert Slater), Leighton Heynes, [TDH]
	(David Manchester - HWO).

Machine reports:
  marlin: New libraries have been installed, except for X ones.

  starfish: Luyer has made a new distribution for it, which could be
    installed soon.

    Could become an X11R5 server, to make our Labtam xterms happy, even
    without a software upgrade.

  manta: To be a user machine.

  Coke machine: Happy.

Incoming mail:
  Letter from MicroSloth: Reply to our begging letter. "Go away. We've
    spent our money for this year".

  DIALix work experience offer: Nothing has happened.
  ACTION: [YAK]: Mail to list again about it.

UCC 22nd Anniversary: ACTION: [SGD] to organise, and recruit as
  necessary.

New PC: [DUC] can lend us 16MB of RAM for it.

Wheel: Add [YAK] now.
  [SGD] has done a year long course on UNIX at TAFE
  [YAK], [TDH], [DUC] and [SGD] to be added into wheel. David Basden to
  be considered later.

Backups: A new Zip drive would cost us $350...

General Business:
  Chaired committee meetings: We like the idea, and think we should have
    them. As to details... erm... put that off until next week.

  Meeting times: No time is clearly better than 1pm Mondays at the
    moment. Don't change them for now.

  New UCC Project: Write a revolutionary new distributed network filing
    system, conforming to the UCC's demanding standards of efficiency
    and reliability. We could call it... FITHFS!

    Less ambitiously... Resurrect "remind".

  Machine usage plan: [COM] proposed a comprehensive plan for task
    sharing amongst UCC machines. Much food for thought.

    Marlin and moray could be made identical, and each be able to take
    over the other's tasks at short notice. Only one need be outside the
    firewall to do it - we can streamline things so that only a few minor
    edits and a reboot are required to change IP number.

    Should the new, faster, mackerel that we've spent money on upgrading
    have user logins and user processes? Probably not, if it's going to
    be an NFS server.

    The new Cisco terminal server - axolotl - can run about all the dumb
    terminals we want.

  Outing: Go and see "Hackers" when it's released.

  Old accounts: It is now May - they're usually locked in March and
    purged in April.

    Delete old accounts, archive significant contents in case the owner
    wants them back?

    ACTION: Do something on this front on Friday night.

  Cleanup: Immediately after exams? It's quite urgent.

    Cans are still being left lying around.

    Make sure a cleanup doesn't clash with Terracon.

    Various work days in general will be organised after exams.

  Purchase policy: Should we have an amount of petty cash available for
    HWO's? Need to get other's opinions, eg that of the Treasurer. Mail
    people about the idea.

    UCC won't pay for useless items.

    A petty cash fund could be kept in a locked box, perhaps in the
    machine room. It could be bolted to starfish (or the fridge) to
    decrease theftability.

    We'd need a good key lock, or a changeable combination lock. A key
    could be left in a "safe" place - unprotected in the machine room
    wouldn't qualify. A locksmith can give us a lock to match a given
    key - if we already have to required number of copies, this would
    probably be close in price to getting another lock and multiple
    copies.

    Many things have been bought personally, and paid for in coke credit
    - a "dispense EFT" (electronic funds transfer) could be handy.

    We should take advantage of auctions.

    ACTION: [SGD] to find out who has keys.

  Transceiver: ACTION: [SAF] to buy a new transceiver for mulloway.
    (Cost is $92, ex-tax)

  Mulder's PSU: Needs to be fixed.

  Shenton Park: We need an inventory of its contents...

Meeting closed: 1:59pm