• Meeting Minutes
• 2016-04-26

Boring part

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

  • Tomorrow, 27 Apr – jpdoyle with Real-Time 3D Graphics from the Ground Up
• Treasurer's report
  • FY2017 budget 2nd-round appeals were last week
    • For Machine Room enhancements, we got back funding for a rack and a switch (+$600)
    • Total allocation ~$3200, 53% of original request
• Purchasing

  • Approved

    • ezh: 8-Pin EPS Extension Cable (~$13.50, Amazon) x2

    • ezh: 4 Pin Fan Power Extension Cable (~$2.50, Amazon) x6

    • stroucki(?): Bus Pirate (~$30) Email Request

    • Org Account: LGA1156 Heat Sink for 1U case (~$25)

  • Deferred

    • Ubiquiti Nanostation wireless bridge (~$85, Amazon), deferred due to cost over budget

  • New requests

    • Need to finish spending this year's allocation by 5 May (soldering iron, additional rack, CPU).

    • Weller WES51 Soldering Station (~$92.19, Amazon)

• Retrocomputing Committee report
  • Retro Gaming Night wrap-up
    • One prize picked up; fseidel will email again

    • fseidel and ezh will meet with Lauren (StuAct)

  • Demosplash planning — Meeting Sat 30 Apr, 18:00 during OHH
    • Nov. 4-5-6 weekend
    • Deferring Fri/Sat vs. Sat/Sun discussion to OHH meeting
• Meeting schedule
  • Finals are next week
  • We usually have a meeting anyway

Interesting part

• Open Hacking Hours: brainstorming meeting this Saturday at OHH
• Future events

  • Tue 3 May, 21:00, Rashid – Movie night: Mystery Science Theater 3000 Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

    • Poster — has been printed, ezh will grab them
    • Food
      • Pizza, from Rialto's
      • ezh will order
• Operations
  • Switch fan installations
    • Attempted; caused network disruptions; deferred
  • ident on shells
    • tparenti installed nullidentd on all the shells so we can make use of our recently-increased connection limit on Freenode
  • SSL certificate renewals – Update from tparenti
    • Certs received
      • Installation will be slightly more involved than usual, since we also will need to put the new intermediate certs in place
      • tparenti will be doing this sometime tomorrow

    • Might need to slightly revise our procedure moving forward (e.g., not reusing old Comodo CSRs)

  • engine01 – Nothing has changed
  • transit-2 – Not up yet