[committee] Two questions

[David Adam]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:37:08PM +0100, Peter Cooper wrote:
> > Hi guys
> >
> > Just a quick question over my current membershi, bought late last
> > year: is it running this year? Otherwise, I can dispense whatever
> > money is required from my coke account.

We'd also really appreciate if you filled in a form, too!

> > looking for a user account on a Tru64 box to do some porting work. Is
> > there any chance that the UCC can help this guy out?
>
> Well, we have one, and we have the dev licenses. This fits in with
> our promise of offering user accounts to help free software dev.
> As far as I'm concerned, we just need to nut out the details of how
> we give them accounts, and how we lock it down if required.

We're really bad at writing policy, so I would prefer if we just started
giving out accounts.

I was thinking they'd be local system accounts only, with boring
usernames (dev001 or something), and people using them would still be
required to agree to our Network Access policies, etc. Of course,
if they wanted to join UCC, that would be even better (we take PayPal!),
but obviously not everyone needs that kind of access.

I guess if someone wanted access to more than one of our machines we'd ask
them to buy a membership (e.g. Morwong and Manbo).

The thought has just occurred that I really need to get committee approval
on this, so maybe get the parrot guy to send me an e-mail
<president at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> and I'll let him know.

David Adam
UCC 0x20nd President
zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au