Meeting Minutes/2012-12-04

2012-12-04 Meeting

Two new machines
- gadolinium
- osmium
  - cpreseau's dev server for CCVMs
a www-2 problem has been solved
- /etc/hosts problem
OS upgrades
- there is general concern about the Sarge and Etch machines
- tangent to this, unused machines should be removed
PGP keysigning
- we have hold on Rashid 4:30-9:00 Jan 18 (Friday)
  - PPP conflict Fridays at 5
- we should put it in the first two weeks of the semester
Tartan Hacks
- should we offer VMs to people?
  - deallocation after the fact is going to be hard
recruitment
- demos
  - having people who don't know how to do something try to teach it is a bad idea
  - on the other hand, can't hurt
  - demos are hard
- planning out of activities on Saturdays in advance
  - the theory is to draw out people for interesting things