Boring part
- Talk Series
- No talk tomorrow, demoscreening instead
- lroop and aliruu have next 2 weeks
- Treasurer's report
- we can get a paper check reimbursment for now
- being phased out by end of year, direct deposit preferred
- direct deposit does not seem to require being an affiliate
- we can get a paper check reimbursment for now
- Demosplash Committee report
- tparenti has shirt design and logo
- A.G. Trimble price quote: $11.50
- Catherine will give our quote to another printer to see if he can beat it
- Old Purchasing
- capital purchases made for batteries/power supplies
- Retro
$500 was allocated to Demosplash Committee last week
- Bought:
- An X68000 for 39,800 JPY (approx $332)
- shipped to re-shipper
- A keyboard for it for 6,000 JPY (approx $50)
- fseidel covering keyboard cost
- still has not shipped
- An X68000 for 39,800 JPY (approx $332)
X68000 total cost comes to $395.40 (before re-shipping)
- ezh paid invoice today
- Shipping will probably be another ~$100 and will be billed separately
- need to look into insurance
- Expect it to take three weeks to arrive (so around 15 Oct or so)
- ask Catherine about how we can make purchasing easier next time
- New Purchasing
- Need a modern PC for Demosplash ASAP
- look into NVidia sponsorship (donated card?)
- talk to OGS about lending a machine
- too expensive to buy, requires frequent upgrading
- Need a modern PC for Demosplash ASAP
Interesting part
- Talk Series "Your Talk Here" slots
- predragp, jlareau need to decide talk dates
- Polling attendees re: which of predragp's talks to host
- Retro PETting Zoo, Sat 10 Oct (Cèilidh weekend), GHC 6121
- setup at 10:00
- start at 11:30 to coincide with end of Jocobo talk
- end at 2:30, pack up, normal machine room
- bescott making posters
- Who is bringing what?
- tabled until demosplash meeting
- Who is staffing when?
- tabled until demosplash
- Stallman event for Spring 2016
- start looking for people at machine room to work on event
- deferred to next week's machine room
- no food at next week's machine room
- mention that we're going to do a "normal" CClub dinner
- Operations
- PeterSP IRC bot workshop went well
- jlareau and tparenti noticed that rack 6 front contains 4 machines not doing anything
- start deprecating machines, shut them down
- ssosothi complains when they go down