• Meeting Minutes
• 2015-02-03

Boring:

Posters

• alternate "Want to..." texts
  alternate images
  cpreseau will print posters by Wednesday
  

Purchasing

• Altera Cyclone III http://www.harbaum.org/till/mist/index.shtml
  ARM/FPGA (xilinx) board? https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop
  

  • board checkout for experiments
    Novena looks like the board we want
    wait for lroop's input
    

  Can we get UDOO boards for free?

  • fseidel will try to get UDOO boards
    Raspberry Pi 2 also looks like a good candidate

  Did we get the batteries?

  • stroucki installed 2 batteries in UPSes
    other batteries were scuffed up and tested out of spec
    more batteries on the way from vendor
    

  Did we order the transfer switch, ammeters?

Second half of Spring Talk Series

• Ideas for talks
  

  • Perl
    Ada
    Haskell
    Awk
    Rust
    Go
    Lisp
    OCaml
    Verilog/VHDL/other hardware description language
    (countless others)

  Strategies for recruiting speakers
  • ask grad students to give talks

Interesting:

• Event machine room

  • posters
    food

  Discussing VM allocation for TartanHacks

  • sbaugh trying to figure out how to set up Andrew logins for shells
    dealing with passwords

    • ISO won't like it if we take Andrew passwords
      hand out passwords on paper
      web login using shibboleth to allow users to set a password
      sbaugh "will do something insane"

  Water in B6

  • Water coming from B8
    Humidifier water line cut, also affects B6

  fseidel suggests making another demo
  

  • people don't seem interested/no time
    sbaugh interested in Emacs demo