• Meeting Agendas
• 2016-04-26

Boring part

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

  • Tomorrow, 27 Apr – jpdoyle with Real-Time 3D Graphics from the Ground Up
• Treasurer's report
  • FY2017 budget 2nd-round appeals were last week
    • For Machine Room enhancements, we got back funding for a rack and a switch (+$600)
• Purchasing
  • Approved – Status of orders?

    • 8-Pin EPS Extension Cable (~$13.50, Amazon) x2

    • 4 Pin Fan Power Extension Cable (~$2.50, Amazon) x6

  • New requests (from emails)

    • Ubiquiti Nanostation wireless bridge (~$85, Amazon)

    • Bus Pirate (~$30)

    • LGA1156 Heat Sink for 1U case (~$25)

• Retrocomputing Committee report
  • Retro Gaming Night wrap-up
    • Status of prize distribution?
  • Demosplash planning — Meeting Sat 30 Apr, 18:00 during OHH
    • We're cutting it awfully close on date selection
      • egarbade has put in a tentative request to AB Tech so at least we're on their radar
      • But other orgs are starting to put in (large) requests for November dates
• Meeting schedule
  • Finals are next week
  • We usually have a meeting anyway

Interesting part

• Open Hacking Hours
• Future events

  • Tue 3 May, 21:00, Rashid – Movie night: Mystery Science Theater 3000 Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

    • Poster — has been printed
    • Food
      • What do we want?
      • Who will order it?
• Operations
  • Switch fan installations
    • Attempted; caused network disruptions; deferred
    • Try again this Saturday, 30 Apr?
  • ident on shells
    • tparenti installed nullidentd on all the shells so we can make use of our recently-increased connection limit on Freenode
  • SSL certificate renewals – Update from tparenti
    • Certs received
      • Installation will be slightly more involved than usual, since we also will need to put the new intermediate certs in place
      • tparenti will be doing this sometime tomorrow

    • Might need to slightly revise our procedure moving forward (e.g., not reusing old Comodo CSRs)

  • engine01 – Update from grantwu?
  • transit-2 – Update from aliruu?