• Meeting Minutes
• 2013-08-27

2013-08-27 Meeting

* Welcome to a new year

• cpreseau has signed us up for Activities Fair
  • We need to send someone to this "Student Organization Training"

* Budget

• Maintenance	$995
  Service Enhancements	$1650
  Retro	$620
  Events	$50
  Telecom	$466
  Storage	$150
  Capital: KVM	$1000

* scgruber met with unnamed persons about [redacted] * Operations

• Batteries for UPS should be purchased soon
• room has been cleaned up; should be better now

• Piping now means that the door now opens ~100 degrees

  • mdille bugged about it, contractors said they'd move
• Tungsten is dead. Long live Manganese.
  • lost motherboard (voltage regulator acquired properties of The Shining)
• should move things off the top of the rack else they might get sprinkler'd
  • this apparently includes the shelving
• Storage array 1/2 online (the half that has things)
  • if we're not afraid of power, the whole thing could come on
• Consolidation Report
• Liebert has stopped squeaking; should be checked

* Bugtracker

• putting things on here will be good for giving freshthings
• messages from gripe being posted here would be nice
  • we should fix spurious cron output
• if you fix something, assign it to yourself then resolve as 'fixed'
• jackieh has activated the email alert module so... enjoy!

* Git

• Let's get this back online if it isn't.
• Would be good to pitch to 15-112 students alongside Contrib.
• consider what we have that, say, bitbucket, doesn't

* CCVMs

• hackathon is coming; we should have it ready for then
  • not production ready yet
• what do if there are problems "late at night"?
  • at the last hackathon, someone stayed late (after all problems gone)
  • should a hackathon's organizer have a number to call?
  • maybe a bugtracker submission form / gripe message?
    • need captcha

* University storage

• Expected $75/pallet/year (gives us 2)
• we don't believe they have access charges
• do they have request number limits?
• Need to identify what can be stored away.
• Need containers.
  • not cardboard

* KVM

• Let's buy this not in April (it's our capital)
• we should move the current ones so they can both be open simultaneously

* Movie Night

• this Thursday! August 29! 7:30pm! Rashid Auditorium!
• posters were sent to mailing list
• Food? Pizza Perfecta (cpreseau)
  • 2L run (scunning)

* Activities Fair (cpreseau rharwood)

• Wednesday September 4 (next week)
• Let's plan some nifty things at machine room that Saturday
  • Retro show-and-tell
    • Demo playback (haul in Vectrex?)
  • Open up a server

* Dæmosplat

• Fast approaching!
• Tickets are on sale. Have sold some!
• We should try to have a pre-screening night to select demos
  • we can use mdille's house but need to run the process ourselves
  • Perhaps see if we can reserve GHC 4403 (Rashid-adjacent) some evening
    • easier to do on-campus if no on-hardware stuff
• comparison shop T-shirt prices (scunning)
• plan prizes!
• Lots more things. We need Dæmosplat meetings again.
  • same time as regular meeting except on Thursday?
  • email will be sent about this

* PGP Keysigning

• Usually a pretty popular event.
• was run in the spring last year
• We should have a September event of some sort.

* Tech talks

• possible future Google tech talk
• would probably be October

* Speedcabling!

• we aren't hurting for events for Dæmosplat
• could be a December event

* Project proposals

• owncloud?
• tor entry?
• continued IP clearing
• should do server replacement in CS machine room