• Meeting Minutes
• 2015-03-17

Boring part:

Treasurer's report:

• a little over $1K remaining<BR> latest purchase: Novena Board
  $550 pending out
  $4000 in gift remaining

Purchasing:

• Urgent purchasing:

  Dell 2950 power supplies (x5) - $20 ea
  Dell 2950 RAID batteries - ~$50 ea (allocate $150, buy 2 or 3)

  • work out details this Saturday
  Add more storage to mirrors - how much space do we need?

  • put huge disks in 2950s instead of using JetStor?
    purchasing discussion tabled

  Mirror usage (http://club.cc.cmu.edu/~/stroucki/20150317/mirror.html)

  • Usage stats:

    • 5.7GB come out of our mirrors per day
      we are one of the top alternative open source mirrors
      Ubuntu is our most popular download (we're an official mirror)
      stroucki suggests looking at what sort of hardware we're using to store things (expensive or cheap, different technologies)

    Recent increase in space requirements
    

    • stroucki suggests changing list of mirrors
      sbaugh wants 10TB to mirror "large valuable corpus of scientific knowledge"

  Wishlist Purchasing:

  • More transfer switches?
    10A surge protector? (only 20/30 capacity currently in use on rack 4)
    Tabled until end of meeting

CoSO/Re-recognition:

• They want more constitutional amendments:

  • "State how previous officer teams pass down their knowledge/information to new teams"
    "Put in a line about what your budget looks like, from year to year"
    tparenti working on patch

  Why are events (e.g., the Hackfest) under administration?

Interesting part: Elections for 2015–2016 (commencing at or shortly after 17:30):

• President:
  • unanimous vote for sbaugh
  Treasurer:
  • unanimous vote for ezh
  Secretary:
  • unanimous vote for fseidel
  grantwu appointed cat by sbaugh

Official proposal of second round of constitutional amendments (for CoSO):

• tabled until interesting part

Events:

• Talk series:

  • People will sign in at entrance
    hand out flyers
    Overwhelming response to tomorrow's talk on Facebook
    We have permission to use Rashid
    Announce move to Rashid tonight?
    Extra food
    How to best make use of this popularity?

    • What are some things that people could do at open hacking hours in C++?:

      • Graphics/Demos
        Open Source Development
        Rewriting club software?
        Nagios IRC Bot
        open source software

      lroop suggests presentation slides to introduce CClub
  When to hold next Hackfest?
  • tabled until next week
  When to hold next movie night?
  • tabled until next week
  Demosplash / Demo Night:
  • Hold in conjunction with CSD 50th anniversary in Fall 2015?:
    • lots of old alums who will be familiar with retro hardware

    Don't call smaller event "Demosplash" unless it has compos
    contact alums for help
    Stick with Spring 2016 as planned?

    • contingent on date of CSD event, how much help we can get, etc.
    tabled until retro meeting
  Open source Stallman event:

  • sbaugh really wants to do this event!
    Need to pick a date:

    • Spring or Fall?

      • avoid being near Demosplash
        mid semester

      discussion tabled until CSD event is more solid
  Other new member event ideas:
  • We have money to do events, people need to come up with ideas.

Figure out ezmlm (mailing lists):

• unsubscribe scripts don't work
  ezmlm has changed with Wheezy
  grantwu will read about how it works

Constitutional Amendment:

• tparenti has new patches on wiki, will be sent to mailing list

Root passwords:

• sbaugh suggests using ansible ("like SSH in a loop")
  we need a way to change all the passwords
  grantwu and stroucki will decide hashing scheme

Wiki ACLS:

• For some reason, meeting agenda are currently public, meeting minutes are private
  change permissions to make agendas private

Club cert - [http://cmucc.org/doc/clubca]

• Going to expire on 2015-06-29
  all webservers running squeeze:

  • in place upgrade with mdille's blessing

someone should help guy who's been emailing operations:

• mdille's been helping him

Hey we should make a game!

• One in the shell!
  text adventure?
  horror?
  MUD?
  mining game?
  teaches shell scripting?