• Meeting Agendas
• 2015-12-01

Boring part

• Talk Series
  • Tomorrow, Wed 2 Dec — wcrichto on Rust
  • Next week, Wed 9 Dec — predragp on PF firewalling
  • Looking ahead to Spring 2016 series?
• Treasurer's report

  • $365 EventBrite check from Demosplash deposited in org account

• Approved purchasing

  • Six 4 TB hard disks — 6×~$140 = ~$840

    • stroucki ordered two — 1ZX887810324911803
• New purchasing
  • PAL C64 — ~$100, gettable from the UK
    • We use C64s to run demos, but most we own are NTSC
  • SCSI2SD for X68000 — ~$75, gettable from the US
  • Racks?

    • This seems to be a nice site: https://www.server-racks.com/equipment_rack.html

• Holiday cards/gifts

Interesting part

• Events

  • Movie Night — Tue 15 Dec, 21:00, Rashid — WarGames (1983)

    • Confirming room with Catherine
    • Advertising
  • Retro Game Night — early Spring, date TBD, Kirr Commons
    • Application received by Late Night CMU
    • Requested earlier 21:00 start time; prefer 29 Jan, 12 Feb
  • Demos at SCS Day — Fri 26 Feb, approx 18:00–19:30, GHC 4307 (mini-Rashid)
    • fseidel and lroop coordinating with akohlbre
• Open Hacking Hours
  • Workshop for Sat 5 Dec — lroop on retro repair
• Operations
  • Junk/scrap hardware

    • Emailed dk08 on Sat 21 Nov requesting removal of seven PowerEdge 1650s, one PowerEdge 2650, five JetStor filers

  • storage-2/zinc upgrades
    • Debian backported the AFS patch to squeeze-lts, but after our 14 Nov upgrades
      • kbare patched storage-2 ~00:00 today
      • kbare will patch zinc at 22:00 tomorrow, Wed 2 Dec
        • Sent to downtime-announce, since this is our main AFS file server
    • Broader rebuild effort
      • Waiting on hard disks
  • Water sensor
    • Flapping with increasing frequency since 18 Nov
    • Investigate this?

  • CCVM (deferred from 2015-10-13)

    • Who owns whatever is still running on there, and how do we get them off?