• Meeting Minutes
• 2016-01-26

Boring part

• Spring 2016 Talk Series — Wednesdays 20:00, WeH 5421

  • Tomorrow, 27 Jan — lroop with The Dot Com Bubble
  • everything is going as planned
• Treasurer's report
  • FY2017 budget submitted
  • we have $1000 left in Capital
  • Things we could look into:
    • CD burner
    • Organizational bins
• CoSO Re-recognition for 2016–2017 — due Sun 7 Feb
  • sbaugh thinks he submitted it, needs to check
• Approved purchasing
  • SCSI2SD and cable for X68000 — $86.85
    • arrived and installed (well, sort of installed. tl;dr we need a connector)
  • PAL C64 — ~$100 from retro budget (from UK)
    • Waiting on a good auction

  • New server rack — ~$350 from capital budget

    • stroucki ordered: http://www.provantage.com/black-box-rm7007-r2~7BABX9AA.htm

• New purchasing
  • SATA interface for storage-4 (or a new storage server altogether)
    • Synology rackmounted storage system with redundant power supply
      • $1400 for 4 drives, additional 4 for $650
    • Other ideas
      • rackmountable servers with weak CPUs but lots of disk space (more expensive)
      • we can stick an existing motherboard in a case for ~$600
  • Water sensor ADC
    • ordered for ~$69

  • Power transfer switches (amazon)

    • we need another, cost is $605.23
    • deferred

  • x68000 hard disk power connector (digikey)

    • lroop is ordering one
  • More retro (MSX?)
• Potential hardware donations
  • grantwu will be acquiring hardware from mjrosenb during Carnival
    • not much to say about them since grantwu isn't here
    • tabled until grantwu acquires them

    • X8SIL

    • X8SIL-F

      • Had a 4-pin CPU header plugged in backwards, apparently charred
    • 48 GB of RAM

    • 2x Intel Xeon Processor X3450

    • Cost $75
    • Anyone interested? Cheap boxen!
  • leee expressed interest in donating boxen
    • Fairly new, 18 cores, 96 GB RAM?

Interesting part

• Open Hacking Hours
  • Workshop for this Saturday, 30 Jan
    • Using CClub's infrastructure
  • Send email by Thursday morning!
• Forming a standing Retrocomputing Committee?
  • To begin organizing Demosplash 2016
  • Help take retro discussion out of GBMs
  • Also other retro-related events:
    • Demos at SCS Day — Fri 26 Feb, approx 18:00–19:30, GHC 4307 (mini-Rashid)
      • nothing new to report
    • Retro Game Night — Sat 2 Apr, Kirr Commons
  • Also to handle procurement of items approved from retro budget
• Events

  • TartanHacks — Fri 5 and Sat 6 Feb

    • as of yet, we're not doing this
    • We could have this ready the night before if we need to
• Operations
  • Shutting down Zephyr
    • Last week, we approved announcing shutting off the remaining server on Sat 6 Feb
      • If no one complains, decommission it on Sat 5 Mar
    • Email hasn't been sent yet
      • send to members, downtime, and ops
  • Transitioning SSL certs away from our own CA
    • Consensus was we should do this
    • Email discussion on next steps ongoing

      • Considering Let's Encrypt vs CMU CA Services

    • any CMU afiiliate can request a cert
    • egarbade is looking into CMU CA info
    • jlareau and egarbade are both in favor of CMU CA
    • sbaugh: Let's Encrypt is usable outside of CMU, helps develop skills
    • we're not going to use the Let's Encrypt auto configuration
    • vote taken: CMU CA won by a landslide
  • Shibboleth broken on Contrib

    • Installed cert does not match one in InCommon metadata

      • (0) Try to find missing key
      • (1) Could try resubmitting the cert we actually have, but that might not work
      • (2) Could also just regenerate the cert altogether
    • options 0 and 1 are less likely to cause side effects
  • Three more disks failed on weizen-b in the last ~week, all on the top shelf again, just like Oct
    • We'll keep an eye on this
    • do logs say which disks have failed?
    • lroop suggests sticking dead disks in an enclosure and re-testing them