• Meeting Agendas
• 2015-03-17

Boring part

• Treasurer's report
• Purchasing

  • Urgent purchasing

    • Dell 2950 power supplies - [http://www.amazon.com/Dell-N750P-S0-Redundant-PowerEdge-Compatible/dp/B00CIVOOQK] - $20 ea

    • Dell 2950 RAID batteries - $50 ea - beware of shady vendors with old stock
  • Mirror usage
    • Recent increase in space requirements
    • Jessie
    • Usage stats
  • Wishlist purchasing
    • Add more storage to mirrors - how much space do we need?
      • 4TB hard disks appear to be best $/GB
      • Can the storage-2 jetstor take 4TB disks?
    • More transfer switches?
    • 10A surge protector? (only 20/30 capacity currently in use on rack 4)
• CoSO/Re-recognition
  • They want more constitutional amendments:
    • "State how previous officer teams pass down their knowledge/information to new teams"
    • "Put in a line about what your budget looks like, from year to year"
  • Why are events (e.g., the Hackfest) under administration?
• What exactly is boring vs interesting part?

Interesting part

• Elections for 2015–2016 (commencing at or shortly after 17:30)

• Talk series
  • Overwhelming response to tomorrow's talk on Facebook
    • We have permission to use Rashid
    • Announce move to Rashid tonight?
    • Extra food
  • How to best make use of this popularity?
    • What are some things that people could do at open hacking hours in C++?
• Official proposal of second round of constitutional amendments (for CoSO)

  • Patch 1: Outgoing officers assist newly elected officers

  • Patch 2: Specify how club funds are used

• Events
  • When to hold next movie night?
  • When to hold next Hackfest?
  • Demosplash / Demo Night
    • Hold in conjunction with CSD 50th anniversary in Fall 2015?
    • Stick with Spring 2016 as planned?
  • Open source Stallman event
    • Need to pick dates so we can ACTUALLY CONCRETELY PLAN THIS
    • Right NOW okay
  • Other new member event ideas - something more fun than machine room, more engaging than movie night
    • Another retro game night
    • Open source gaming night
    • History of computing?
• Figure out ezmlm (mailing lists)
  • Make -unsubscribe work
• Root passwords
  • grantwu has C code that uses OpenSSL to calculate SHA512 (SHA256 also available)
  • Have discovered this is not actually very useful.
  • Hashing is (relatively) trivial. Just use a script that calls OpenSSL.
  • Questions that actually are hard:
    • How are we distributing the passwords?
    • Using output of hash as password, or directly putting hash into /etc/shadow?
    • How long should individual passwords be? How should we encode them?
    • How are we going to use them on a daily basis? Do we call the script and copy paste? Memorize?
• Wiki ACLS
  • For some reason, meeting agenda are currently public, meeting minutes are private
  • This should be reversed

• Club cert - [http://cmucc.org/doc/clubca]

  • Going to expire on 2015-06-29
  • Who is responsible for renewal and do they know this is on the horizon?

  • Probably related to Dealings with Andrew/SSL Certificates

• Hey we should make a game!
  • One in the shell!