Boring part
Spring 2016 Talk Series — Wednesdays 20:00, WeH 5421
Tomorrow, 30 Mar – lroop with Verilog & FPGAs: Programming Hardware (Replacement)
- Next week, 6 Apr – wcrichto with Build a JIT Compiler in 60 Minutes
- After that, 13 Apr – achai with Apple 1985-1997: The Jobless Years (Replacement)
- New posters are up!
- Treasurer's report
- $1085.82 balance, ($546.55 + $347.14 - approved) remaining to spend, in Org account as of Wed 23 Mar
- XPC-4 ($404.07, reimbursement pending)
- stroucki reimburseed twice, getting this resolved
- Need to put aside $64 for storage
Next Year's Budget:
- Currently out budget has been cut 73% (requested $7991, cut to $2141)
- Appeals will be sent out tomorrow
- Purchasing
- Purchased
- X68000 mouse ($61.65 by fseidel)
- Spare WD Red 4 TB disk to have on-hand for storage-4 (~$150 by stroucki)
- 40×40×20 mm fans for network switches ($50 allocated, by ezh)
- Other approved
- cmu.io renewal ($32.88/year, Namecheap)
- Expires 15 Apr, must be processed by 10 Apr
- tparenti will take care of this next Tues (5 Apr) if not done by then
- cmu.io renewal ($32.88/year, Namecheap)
- Deferred
- Second new rack, to replace Rack 2 (~$400)
Power transfer switches (~$605, Amazon)
- Purchased
- Retrocomputing Committee report
Retro Gaming Night this Saturday, 2 Apr, UC Kirr Commons
Was originally 22:00–01:00; moved up to 20:00–23:00 due to scheduled power outage in UC beginning at 24:00
- Move-on beginning in Kirr "between 18:00 and 18:30"
- Loading from CyH should begin 17:00
- We are being provided with space (2nd floor coat room) to store retro overnight until power is restored
- Getting a projector, screen, mic, and speakers
- Posters done; being distributed digitally/physically
- Prizes ordered
- Tournament beginning at 21:00
- Probably Bomberman (~3 min/round)
- Bracket format
Food order/coordination with Quiznos (need to update contact to StuAct)
- Email to be sent about the event
- Demosplash
- Dates used last year booked for SCS Musical
- Shooting for (Nov 18-20)
Interesting part
- Open Hacking Hours
- None this week (2 Apr) due to Retro Gaming Night
- Future events
- Movie night on Tue, 3 May — Start securing Rashid, etc.
- (Deferred) Brainstorming for Fall 2016 OHH programming
- Movie night on Tue, 3 May — Start securing Rashid, etc.
- Operations
- engine01
- As of Monday night, still needs to have Jessie installed. Grant will be looking into this
- "It's all good"
- storage-4
- Going to rebuild
- transit-2
- Using kvm04 is fine
- Rack 0
- Contains: UPS, network switch, engine01, storage-4, backups
- engine01