• Meeting Agendas
• 2015-03-31

Boring part

• Mailing lists
  • kbare fixed them
  • ezmlm hashing scheme changed on upgrade; fix involved dumping subscribers, dropping all, reimporting
• FY2016 Budget
  • Officially coming out tomorrow (1 Apr)
  • Appeals will be due on Wed 8 Apr, hearings on Thu 9 / Fri 10 Apr
    • May be likely we will need to appeal
  • Final budget ratification by Senate on Thu 23 Apr
• Recent purchasing
  • Dell 2950 power supplies came in
    • One was broken, is being returned
  • Dell 2950 RAID batteries have not yet arrived
• Purchasing wishlist

  • Automatic transfer switches x2 (link) $600 each

  • 10 amp circuit breaker & surge suppressor (link) $150

  • Extra battery for Smart-UPS 2200XL (rack 0) link $325

  • New UPS? 1 2

  • Batteries for Smart-UPS 900 (rack 5)
  • Whiteboard erasers
  • Label maker tape
• Talk series

  • No talk tomorrow (1 Apr) due to SigBovik

  • 8 Apr: Haskell with rdmarsh

Interesting part

• Events

  • Hackfest this Saturday, 4 April

    • Discussed last meeting:

      • Systems theme
      • Include W3VC as co-sponsor
    • Advertising
      • Revamp old posters?
  • Movie night
    • "Hackers", Tuesday 5 May, 21:00
    • Do we have Rashid?
  • Demosplash 2015

    • Looking at Friday 6 / Saturday 7 November 2015

    • fseidel has been in contact with mdille

    • 30/12:43:09 < fseidel> copetas said we can get Rashid, an adjacent classroom, the
                             hallway, and a kitchen for storing food on November 6-7 for
                             demosplash.

  • Other events
    • Demo night for CSD50 in Fall 2015
      • Should we do this in addition to Demosplash?
      • Do we have a date from Copetas?
    • Stallman event
      • Retarget to Spring 2016?
    • Open Hatch event
      • jocelynh emailed them last week, got a standard response
      • When would we want to hold this?
      • With which organizations should we collaborate?

    • StuCo Spring 2016

      • Remember that we will do this.
    • Google Games
      • Hey does anyone want to do this? (sbaugh is interested)

• Operations

  • Recap from last Saturday (28 Mar)
  • Adding disk space to AFS

    • 31/00:00:32 < aliruu> we were going to add a 2950 full of 1TB disks to AFS, but we
                            need to find some UPS power for it.  This is why I've been
                            pushing mdille3 on decomissioning cadmium

  • Replacement for Bismuth (colo machine)?
  • Contrib Org Web Hosting
    • ccpresea looked into it, things are very close to set up
    • Remaining issues:
      • apache, afs vols, and mycontrib:
        • check that cgi setup is secure
        • Set up vhost or w/e
      • Org database
  • Jessie release date announced
    • 25 April 2015