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Boring part

  • Treasurer's report
  • Purchasing
    • Urgent purchasing

    • 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)
  • 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]

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

Meeting Agendas/2015-03-17 (last edited 2015-03-24 20:34:18 by jlareau@CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU)