[Imc-tech] tech notes 5-8-02

[Paul Riismandel]

IMC-Tech, 5/8/02
Present: Paul R., Brian, Clint

Equipment missing and misplaced after DC is being dealt with -- one 
returned MD wasn't even ours.

One MD has been sent to Palestine to our new stringer, per request by Radio 
News and Steering.

Paul K. e-mailed that two of his mics loaned to IMC are broken, he's having 
them repaired at CV Lloyd's. He's asked that Tech pay for the 
repair.  We're not sure what the damage is, how it happened, or how much it 
will cost.  But in principle are willing to pay some portion of the 
cost.  Clint will ask Paul what the estimate on the repair is.

This brings up the issue of liability for damage or loss to equipment on 
loan.  We don't have a good inventory of equipment on loan, who it's from 
and what uses are permitted.  There's general agreement that it's something 
we should keep track of.  Equipment loans were started in the early days of 
IMC when we were still small group, so there's no real working policy on 
it.  Paul suggests a standard agreement form where the loaner can check off 
the terms of the loan (can it be checked out to members? When does the loan 
end? etc.).  There is also general agreement that anyone loaning equipment 
to the IMC has to assume some reasonable degree of risk. Paul will write a 
draft form.

Cope exchanged the microphone-incapable replacement MD for one that will 
take a microphone.  We have it and all is now well.

MoJo's hard drive is 2 GB away from being completely full, which will mean 
that the ability to do new production on that machine will soon stop 
completely until space is cleared.  We will ask the Radio News group to 
delete and backup, if necessary, old files that don't need to be sitting on 
MoJo.  We ask that this be done by May 22 at 6:00 PM.  Enough files need to 
be cleared to leave at least 40% of the disk space free.  If this isn't 
true by the deadline, then we'll start deleting files, starting with the 
oldest first, until 40% is free.  We will not be backing up these 
files.  Windows deals very poorly with full hard disks, not to mention that 
a full disk means nobody else can do new production.  After this hard drive 
cleanup is finished, Tech will change the account limits so that the drive 
can't be completely filled.