Boring part
- Spring 2016 Talk Series
- Wednesday talks — 20:00, WeH 5421
- Tomorrow, 20 Jan — sbaugh with Useful Command Line Workflows
- Next week, 27 Jan — lroop with The Dot Com Bubble
- After that, 3 Feb — fseidel with Introducing the X68000: Japan's 16-bit Beast
- Moving literally every talk to Saturday
- tparenti: let's do stuff on Saturdays, but not move the talks
- we have enough material to do this
- sponsors want exclusivity, Wednesday talk series has branding
- Wednesday is Green Hills, Saturday is Harris
- we can add things to Saturday as long as they are distinctly non-talk series
- sbaugh: not enough time to work on technical projects if we do 2 things a week
- many talks could be Saturday workshops
- grantwu: can we move some things around
- jlareau: ask speakers if they'd like to turn their talk into a workshop
- jocelynh: we need a room for Saturday. Cyert cluster should be better than GHC
- This week: sbaugh will gave talk/workshop on Wednesday and Saturday
- ask presenters to turn their talk into a Saturday workshop
- fill Wednesday spaces
- 2 posters: 1 for Wednesdays, 1 for Saturdays
- print "projected schedule" posters
- We need a discussion with Catherine about sponsorship
- food funding, etc
- tparenti: let's do stuff on Saturdays, but not move the talks
- Predrag's suggestions
- add a live video feed and a means for remote viewers to ask questions
- we should probably start recording talks before we try doing streaming
- Wednesday talks — 20:00, WeH 5421
Winter Activities Fair — tomorrow, 16:30–18:30, Wiegand
- hardware: Vectrex and MS Surface
- fseidel and jocelynh first half, ezh and sbaugh second half
- Print materials
- Flyer updated (for new admin meeting location)
- Unix cheatsheets - we have plenty already
- Talk series mini-posters
- Treasurer's report
- FY2017 budget needs to be into JFC by Mon 25 Jan
- Meeting with JFC rep? Not happening, over email
- we just need to edit last year's budget
- FY2017 budget needs to be into JFC by Mon 25 Jan
- CoSO Re-recognition for 2016–2017
- Application due Sun 7 Feb
- sbaugh will submit
- Approved purchasing
- SCSI2SD and cable for X68000 — ~$75 from retro budget (from US)
- didn't end up needing cable, we can use the one in the machine
- includes 4GB industrial grade SD card
- total with shipping: $86.85
- fseidel ordered; should arrive on Mon 25 Jan
- PAL C64 — ~$100 from retro budget (from UK)
- Waiting on a good auction
- SCSI2SD and cable for X68000 — ~$75 from retro budget (from US)
- New purchasing
New server rack — ~$350 from capital budget?
- we have space to store the packaged racks
- rack purchase approved, going to order 1
- SATA interface for storage-4
- needs more investigation
Interesting part
- Events
TartanHacks — Fri 5 and Sat 6 Feb
- We're running VMs
- tabled to next week
- everything below here in events tabled until next week due to time
- Demos at SCS Day — Fri 26 Feb, approx 18:00–19:30, GHC 4307 (mini-Rashid)
- Retro Game Night — Sat 2 Apr, Kirr Commons
- When will we meet with Late Night CMU to discuss how best to use the increased funds?
- 0xDEADBEEF / Movie Night
- Plan this for Tue 3 May?
- Operations
NetApp filers migration to internal IP space
- kbare removed filers from public IPs on Sat 16 Jan
- sent mail to operations@ detailing the current setup and soliciting feedback
- Shutting down Zephyr
- Does not appear to have any active users
- One of the two machines has been down for a 6 months, to no complaints
- egarbade proposes announcing shutting off the remaining server on Sat 6 Feb
- If no one complains, decommission it on Sat 5 Mar
- only one user currently logged un
- If approved, he'll write up a message to be sent out
- tabled, decision is up to egarbade, he'll probably take it down
- Does not appear to have any active users
- storage-4 build
- Can we get a newer machine?
Transitioning SSL certs to Let's Encrypt
- Many different people have suggested this
- Scary browser warnings are not particularly welcoming
- Are the historical reasons for being our own CA still applicable?
- What technical obstacles stand in the way of transitioning?
- let's talk to kbare and mdille about this
- should be easy
- Many different people have suggested this
- Water sensor issues
- New sensor installed on Wed 13 Jan, still seeing occasional flaps
- ADC might need to be replaced
- New sensor installed on Wed 13 Jan, still seeing occasional flaps
- everything tabled until next week
- Shibboleth on Contrib
- Still not sure what's going on here