Boring part
Spring 2016 Talk Series — Wednesdays 20:00, WeH 5421
Tomorrow, 20 Apr – bescott with CoffeeScript => WebGL Solar Systems!
- Next week, 27 Apr – jpdoyle with Real-Time 3D Graphics from the Ground Up
- Treasurer's report
- FY2017 budget appeals
- Unspent capital
- mjrosenb's hardware
- An X8SIL and an X8SIL-F
- 48 GB of ECC RAM
- Tested on Saturday, both work
- Need power/fan extension connectors
- Need a different CPU heatsink if we use the 1U case
- Purchasing
- New requests
8-Pin EPS Extension Cable (~$13.50, Amazon)
4 Pin Fan Power Extension Cable (~$2.50, Amazon)
- Deferred
- Second new rack, to replace Rack 2 (~$400)
Tartan is willing to donate an APC NetShelter AR203 once grantwu migrates everything currently on it.
Power transfer switches (~$605, Amazon)
- We need to decide whether/how we're going to purchase these soon, if we intend to get them with FY2016 funds
- New requests
- Retrocomputing Committee report
- Retro Gaming Night wrap-up
- Budget shenanigans
- Prize distribution
- Demosplash planning
Are we meeting before finals or not? (when2meet)
- Retro Gaming Night wrap-up
- Idea on improving meetings - grantwu
- Information gathering at meetings is an anti-pattern
If a question can be answered authoritatively by one or more people, the question should be answered before the meeting starts and placed on the agenda
- Polling is inefficient: We should not have agenda items that recur over and over every week
Example: This is the sixth week there has been something to the effect of "purchase another rack". This is the 12th meeting we have discussed purchasing power transfer switches.
In practice, these usually actually haven't been discussed
- Move to an event based/notification architecture
- If something needs to be bought, send email
- Things that can happen up on the email thread:
- Figuring out where to buy the item
- Reminders that action needs to happen
- Notification of purchases
- Reimbursement
- Secondary benefit: Clear record of what has happened on an issue and the last time progress happened
- No need to search through collections of meeting minutes
- Separate operations meeting proposal
- grantwu would like to try this this Saturday
- grantwu can set up an agenda that includes the "Operations" items in the Interesting Part
- Information gathering at meetings is an anti-pattern
Interesting part
- Open Hacking Hours
- Future events
Tue 3 May, 21:00, Rashid – Movie night: Mystery Science Theater 3000 Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
- Operations
- engine01 – Build status update from grantwu?
- Works. Nix installation postponed indefinitely until installation is less fragile.
- transit-2 (and the former kvm04) – Build status update from aliruu?
- Installer crashes on former kvm04, worked on other machines (possibly dead 2950)
- storage-4
- stroucki is not here
- Switch fan installations
- Deferred until after carnival
- kbare out-of-town 16 and 23 Apr
- engine01 – Build status update from grantwu?