Upcoming GBM Rooms

• 27 Feb - 6 Mar: PH A20A
• 20 Mar - 3 Apr: MM103
• 10 Apr: CUC Pake
• 17 Apr - 1 May: MM103

Demosplash Planning Meetings

• Have started already, directly after GBMs (18:00).

Retro Game Night:

• Got CUC Rangos for Saturday, 03 March (16:00-23:30), enough time for setup and teardown.

• No machine room that night, because everyone will be in the UC.
• tparenti put together a poster; fseidel will coordinate w/ Catherine to get them distributed.
• Prof. Franchetti wants to hear when this happens; he's interested in our hardware.

Budget

• Budget for 2017-18 located here.

Talk series

• Next up is stroucki (Virtualization in Practice) this coming Wednesday.
• fseidel will be sending an email out to members@ and the recruiting lists to announce these.
• Pizza is the same Rialto order as always. It's pre-tipped, so all we have to do is sign the receipt.
• Green Hills still hasn't responded. Catherine says not to worry, so jocelynh will continue sending them biweekly updates.

• Talk schedule (and presenters) can be found here.

• Structure of series:
  • Bi-weekly: allows for higher quality talks
  • Will be on Wednesdays at 20:00

• Are coming up on 20 March.
• Will start announcing that soon!

Air Conditioner

• AC work order marked as "Complete" last Friday, then "Done" on Sunday. Will give it another look sometime next week.

• Proposed date: Saturday afternoon (12:00-14:00), 28 April.
• tjjohans has put in a reservation for CUC Table 1 (outside the UC). Now waiting to hear back.
• Need to figure out how to rent a grill.
• Rain plan? Worst case: we just can the event. Just say "weather permitting."

• Proposed: an informal series of check-ins/meetings (actual name TBD) once a month or so focusing on maintaining VMs, geared toward the orgs that actually use our machines.
  • Start this sometime after spring break, and send out an email.
  • Still need a name.
• PGH Supercomputing Center tour (Prof. Franchetti offered to get us in touch)