• Meeting Minutes
• 2016-03-15

Boring part

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

  • We are still set for the next few weeks
• Treasurer's report
  • Yerz's flight finally went through
  • gift account dropped by around $1K to $3.4K
  • working on stroucki's reimbursement
  • $2717.19 remaining in org, around $1000 will come out for stroucki's stuff
• Purchasing
  • Approved
    • 40×40×20 mm fans for network switches (~$10 each)
      • $50 allocated, lroop ordering, still looking for fans
  • New requests
    • Spare WD Red 4 TB disk to have on-hand for storage-4 (~$150)
      • approved
  • Deferred

    • Power transfer switches (~$605, Amazon)

• Retrocomputing Committee report
  • let's have a Demosplash meeting soon
    • want to set date such that we don't conflict with Bhangra, other stuff
  • Retro Game Night

    • waiting on prizes from StuAct

    • Game for Tournament: 5/8 player Bomberman on SNES/Saturn?

Interesting part

• 2016–2017 Executive Elections — commencing no earlier than 17:30

  • President
    • sbaugh nominates fseidel
    • bescott nominates himself
    • fseidel wins 5-4
  • Secretary
    • tparenti nominates jocelynh
    • bescott nominates himself
    • jocelynh wins 5-4
  • Treasurer
    • sbaugh nominates ezh
    • bescott nominates himself
    • ezh wins 5-4
• Open Hacking Hours
  • when is the next "special" open hacking hours?
    • let's plan this and get food
• Operations
  • transit-2 is down
    • "bus error": bad motherboard
    • sbaugh: "It's a 1650, throw it away"
      • replace it with a 32-bit VM
  • storage-4 build update
    • built, working, stroucki working on migrating AFS to it
  • New racks
    • Should we order/install another?
      • yes, we are getting one
    • What is moving to Rack 0? Does it require downtime?
      • stroucki thinks we may be able to do this without downtime