Boring part

• Spring 2016 Talk Series — Wednesdays 20:00, WeH 5421

  • Tomorrow, 27 Jan — lroop with The Dot Com Bubble
  • Next week, 3 Feb — fseidel with Introducing the X68000: Japan's 16-bit Beast
  • After that, 10 Feb – aliruu with PGP and Public Key Cryptography
• Treasurer's report
  • FY2017 budget submitted
• CoSO Re-recognition for 2016–2017 — due Sun 7 Feb
• Approved purchasing
  • SCSI2SD and cable for X68000 — $86.85
    • arrived and installed
  • PAL C64 — ~$100 from retro budget (from UK)
    • Waiting on a good auction

  • New server rack — ~$350 from capital budget

    • Ordered: http://www.provantage.com/black-box-rm7007-r2~7BABX9AA.htm

• New purchasing
  • SATA interface for storage-4 (or a new storage server altogether)
    • Synology solutions
    • Other ideas?
  • Water sensor ADC

  • Power transfer switches (amazon)

  • x68000 hard disk power connector (digikey)

  • More retro (MSX?)
• Potential hardware donations
  • grantwu will be acquiring hardware from mjrosenb during Carnival

    • X8SIL

    • X8SIL-F

      • Had a 4-pin CPU header plugged in backwards, apparently charred
    • 48 GB of RAM

    • 2x Intel Xeon Processor X3450

    • Cost $75
    • Anyone interested? Cheap boxen!
  • leee expressed interest in donating boxen
    • Fairly new, 18 cores, 96 GB RAM?

Interesting part

• Open Hacking Hours
  • Workshop for this Saturday, 30 Jan
  • Send email by Thursday morning!
• Forming a standing Retrocomputing Committee?
  • To begin organizing Demosplash 2016
  • Also other retro-related events:
    • Demos at SCS Day — Fri 26 Feb, approx 18:00–19:30, GHC 4307 (mini-Rashid)
    • Retro Game Night — Sat 2 Apr, Kirr Commons
  • Also to handle procurement of items approved from retro budget
• Events

  • TartanHacks — Fri 5 and Sat 6 Feb

    • What infrastructure do we need to prepare for this?
• Operations
  • Shutting down Zephyr
    • Last week, we approved announcing shutting off the remaining server on Sat 6 Feb
      • If no one complains, decommission it on Sat 5 Mar
    • Email hasn't been sent yet
  • Transitioning SSL certs away from our own CA
    • Consensus was we should do this
    • Email discussion on next steps ongoing

      • Considering Let's Encrypt vs CMU CA Services

  • Shibboleth broken on Contrib

    • Installed cert does not match one in InCommon metadata

      • Could try resubmitting the cert we actually have, but that might not work
      • Could also just regenerate the cert altogether
  • Three more disks failed on weizen-b in the last ~week, all on the top shelf again, just like Oct
    • We'll keep an eye on this
    • Double-check the disks pulled as failed?
  • storage-4 build
  • Water sensor