Boring part
- Talk Series
- Last talk of the semester is tomorrow.
- Has anyone spoken to predrag?
- ask sbaugh when he arrives
- Treasurer's report
- ezh went to seminar, looks to be the same as this year
- Approved purchasing
- Disks will be ordered this Wednesday
- stroucki ordered two, reimbursed, will test them
- PAL C64 — ~$100 from retro budget (from UK)
- SCSI2SD for X68000 — ~$75 from retro budget (from US)
- currently trying to find above two items
- Disks will be ordered this Wednesday
- New purchasing
- tabled until next week
- Winter Recess meeting schedules
- Open Hacking Hours
- Meeting 12 Dec, 19 Dec
- No meeting 26 Dec
- Unofficial meetings 2 Jan, 9 Jan
- Normal meetings resume 16 Jan
- Admin meetings
- One more meeting 15 Dec?
- Resume meetings on 12 Jan
- Open Hacking Hours
- Spring 2016 administrative prep
- Room reservations for admin meetings and talks?
- keep both rooms the same if possible
- try and make reservation as soon as possible (might need to wait until second semester)
- try to get talk room until 9:30
- Registration for Winter Activities Fair begins Wed 6 Jan
- Room reservations for admin meetings and talks?
- Holiday cards/gifts
- fseidel needs to print card
Interesting part
- Events
Movie Night — Tue 15 Dec, 21:00, Rashid — WarGames (1983)
- Advertising
- tparenti is working on posters, will try to get those by tomorrow morning
- should be printed tomorrow
- Advertising
- Retro Game Night — date TBD, Kirr Commons
- Late Night CMU wants us to merge with a "Stressbuster" event in late-April
- We responded saying we'd prefer not to
- Plan B in case Late Night CMU falls through?
- Rangos 3
- 1/24 (Su) from 19:00 onwards
- 1/31 (Su) all day
- 2/28 (Su) all day
- area outside Rashid
- keep same dates as previously discussed
- Rangos 3
- Late Night CMU wants us to merge with a "Stressbuster" event in late-April
- Demos at SCS Day — Fri 26 Feb, approx 18:00–19:30, GHC 4307 (mini-Rashid)
- This is still a thing that is happening
- Bring back 0xDEADBEEF?
- Hold it in April sometime?
- it's been about 10 years since we did this
- BBQ followed by movie
- held on the cut or the lawn
- movie in Wean 7500 or Rashid
- FMS provides grill
- tabled until Saturday (when alums are present)
- Spring 2016 Talk Series
- Ideas?
- Raj Reddy
- C.mmp people
- languages series
- F90 (Fortran)
- Java (basics and function stuff, 2 talks?)
- talk to 214 professors
- Emacs Lisp
- Ideas?
- Open Hacking Hours
- Survey shows that people want more Unix/Shell scripting/Sysadmin stuff
- most responses wanted "intermediate" difficulty
- Operations
- Junk/scrap hardware
- Was removed on Thu 3 Dec
- Water issues
- still not entirely sure what's wrong
- Most prevalent on Thu 3 Dec
- FMS fixed the most apparent issue, but water sensor still flapping regularly
- CCVM
- ACM have been contacted about the migration
- decomissioning happening this weekend
The Tartan
- Went down again; is back up
- Junk/scrap hardware