Boring part
Spring 2016 Talk Series — Wednesdays 20:00, WeH 5421
- Tomorrow, 6 Apr – wcrichto with Build a JIT Compiler in 60 Minutes
- Next week, 13 Apr – achai with Apple 1985-1997: The Jobless Years
After that, 20 Apr – bescott with CoffeeScript => WebGL Solar Systems!
- Treasurer's report
- How much remains unallocated?
- Status of FY2017 budget appeals process
- Purchasing
- Purchased
- Spare WD Red 4 TB disk to have on-hand for storage-4 (~$150 by stroucki) — has it arrived?
- 40×40×20 mm fans for network switches (~$50 allocated, by ezh) — have they arrived?
- cmu.io renewal ($32.88/year, Namecheap, by grantwu)
- Deferred
- Second new rack, to replace Rack 2 (~$400)
Power transfer switches (~$605, Amazon)
- If the money exists and both would be useful, can we buy one of these from Org and the other from Gift?
- Purchased
- Retrocomputing Committee report
- Prizes to Retro Gaming Night tournament winners
- Demosplash dates/meetings?
- SCS Musical apparently already has Rashid for the weekend of 11–13 Nov 2016
- Request weekend of 18–20 Nov 2016
- As soon as weekend/venue is confirmed, we should get on the ABTech calendar
Interesting part
- Open Hacking Hours
- Anything special after Carnival?
- Future events
- Movie night on Tue 3 May — Do we have Rashid?
- (Deferred) Brainstorming for Fall 2016 OHH programming
- Operations
- engine01
- Status update?
- Haven't done any more setup, grantwu has been busy
- Tartan's data has been mostly copied, doing a verification rsync pass
- Also currently resilvering zpool (rebuilding ZFS RAID) after swapping an dying disk
- Status update?
- storage-4
- Status update?
- Tartan's data can be removed, per grantwu
- Status update?
- transit-2
- Using the former kvm04; it's "gonna take a while" according to aliruu
- cmr-win
- "Woke up" briefly last night — status from ezh?
- Likely need to adjust its Nagios settings for proper monitoring, since it's a Windows server
- Rack revitalization project
- grantwu says "IRC discussion seemed to agree that end goal should be 2 racks of modern machines, 1 rack of storage, 1 rack of retro"
- engine01