Boring part
Spring 2016 Talk Series — Wednesdays 20:00, WeH 5421
- Tomorrow, 6 Apr – wcrichto with Build a JIT Compiler in 60 Minutes
- All good to go!
- Treasurer's report
- Capital Budget: just over $600 in JFC Org account available for use
- FY2017 budget appeals process--will have separate meeting. Due tomorrow (04-06) 23:59
- JFC has asked how much of our unspent capital we plan on spending (all of it), since they're running on deficit
- Purchasing
- Purchased
- Spare WD Red 4 TB disk to have on-hand for storage-4 (~$150 by stroucki) — arrived
- 40×40×20 mm fans for network switches (~$50 allocated, by ezh) — arrived
- cmu.io renewal ($32.88/year, Namecheap, by grantwu)
- Deferred
- Second new rack, to replace Rack 2 (~$400)
Power transfer switches (~$605, Amazon)
- Purchased
- Retrocomputing Committee report
Prizes to Retro Gaming Night tournament winners (list needs to go to StuAct)
StuAct seems upset that we doubled food/drink budget after we doubled it at their direction.
StuAct also promised posters were going up, and they never appeared
Should get everything in writing when dealing with StuAct in the future, if we do decide to do it with them again
- Otherwise, event went well
- Demosplash dates/meetings?
- SCS Musical apparently already has Rashid for the weekend of 11–13 Nov 2016
- Request weekend of 18–20 Nov 2016
- As soon as weekend/venue is confirmed, we should get on the ABTech calendar
- A when2meet for meetings will be out right after this meeting (fseidel)
Interesting part
- Open Hacking Hours
- Anything special after Carnival?
- Maybe a workshop workshop
- Show-and-tell every couple of weeks?
- Think about text adventure/puzzlehunt
- Rack 0 movement after Carnival and before finals
- Anything special after Carnival?
- Future events
- Movie night on Tue 3 May — Will ask for Rashid when we ask for Demosplash, too
MST Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
- Movie night on Tue 3 May — Will ask for Rashid when we ask for Demosplash, too
- Operations
- engine01
- Being worked on
- Haven't done any more setup, grantwu has been busy
- Tartan's data has been mostly copied, doing a verification rsync pass
- Also currently resilvering zpool (rebuilding ZFS RAID) after swapping an dying disk
- Being worked on
- storage-4
- Online!
- Tartan's data has been removed, per grantwu
- Online!
- transit-2
- Using the former kvm04; it's "gonna take a while" according to aliruu
- cmr-win
- "Woke up" briefly last night — working
- Likely need to adjust its Nagios settings for proper monitoring, since it's a Windows server
- tparenti will talk to ezh and kbare about monitoring
- Rack revitalization project
- Fewer racks??
- IRC discussion theoretical
- engine01