Final stretch. Stay warm. (And sign up for the potluck.)
Logistics
- Earlier seems to be preferred, 17:00 is the target (Tuesdays, as usual).
- Let's see if Catherine can get us a room in Gates; otherwise we resort to 25Live.
- We will also ask the new people when they can make meetings next semester.
- Demosplash meetings will resume January or February.
- Elections will be Tuesday, 19 March. (Maybe we should push this back someday.)
- Unrelated: "cmucomputer.club" and "cmuc.club" are available and pretty cheap (about $11 per year), and fseidel wants to buy one. "We should also get a .biz so people know we're serious."
Potluck
- 8 December! Be prepared and think of food.
Please sign up to bring food here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13tj2Gn7J5ea5SL_ZNRyDTsDgiBNXUjazUIiIp6NaB1E/edit?usp=sharing
Movie Night
- Tuesday, 11 December (21:00, after the last exam as usual).
- We should talk to Catherine about getting a room for this.
- What movie?
- Ex Machina, Ready Player One
Talk series
- Aiming for 30 January for the first talk. This is the week after Spring Activities Fair.
- Prospective Talks (Mostly Confirmed):
- Buzzword Soup encore (perhaps the first talk of the semester, before the job fair)
- Prof. Eckhardt is fine with next semester (fseidel will ask if he has a preferred date).
- stroucki: Cool stuff on FPGAs
- Other Prospective Talks:
Power Computing at CMU
- Prof. Nace "still owes us a talk," possibly on reconfigurable logic.
- Security and embedded systems? (Professor Koopman)
- Security and hardware? (Professor Blanton)
- ??? (Gabe Somlo) ("He seems like an interesting person to ask" -- fseidel)
- jocelynh may poke Prof. Poczos, and/or Prof. Nugent again
- A webapps talk around Encompass?
- Tor or dark web?
- May allot one slot for movie night.
Operations
- The Tartan said they don't need tartanfs anymore, so phases 4 and 5 of decommissioning the daemon engines were merged before Thanksgiving. All VMs have been migrated as of the 17th.
- Still need to go through the home dirs and scratch files to check if there's anything that anyone still wants hanging around there before finishing decommissioning.
- Going into next semester, there are still some org VMs and personal VMs for which we don't have a (good) contact, so we'll need to seek those out more aggressively.
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- Probably some Saturday at the end of April.
Budget "Fun"
- Still not fixed. (Two weeks ago, they said it would probably be about two weeks.)
- fseidel will revive the email thread. Tiffany is out of the office so this may be delayed further.