Board of Directors Meeting Directors in attendance: anddone bencuan bryli etw jyxzhang kian laksith lmathias ncberberi ncograin njha rayh rjz rmxu Guests in attendance: adarshiyer yuc Guests marked with a * were appointed to BoD. Quorum for this meeting is 10 Meeting Started at 19:18 ## Agenda ### Student Union Open House - 2/22/22 - not really planning anything special - Was this discussed with opstaff yet? - yes, during opstaff meeting today - opstaff shouldn't need to do much anyways so it'll be ok - If we order stickers now they will probably arrive in time (?) ### OCF Onboarding Form - ocf.io/onboarding - Send this to anyone who asks! - 37+ responses so far - everyone added to staff (thanks etw!) - also added to linkedin (?) - not yet added to github - Any further onboarding action items? (emails, adding to staff...) ### Chartstring needed for server colocation - the campus datacenter needs a chartstring for billing a campus department - i.e. where should we charge the money - in the past we've used LEAD center chartstring - charged monthly - should we ask the LEAD center to use their chartstring? - should probably bring it up with Sarah tomorrow - or Prof. Hilfinger? (who allowed us to use his dept's chartstring back in 2018) - njha ### Hack Day Planning - ~~this saturday ???????~~ - we would need things for ppl to work on - bryli: need to finalize group meetings first - code tour of some sort? - advertise groups today during staff meeting - k8s - njha is running (w/ etw) - most people don't know k8s - toy k8s cluster wasn't effective last semester - linux infra - rjz is running (w/ etw) - webgroup - kian is running - ~~hpc~~ - njha: maybe not? we don't have enough support - ocf jupyterhub ??? - harder to manage resources - but more simple to set up - endgame = using desktops as k8s workers for big gpu availability - etw: hpc is part of linux infra - is anyone even using hpc? main problem is nobody knows how - ~~xcf~~ (not a thing) - drifting - ddr - bryli: people just want something to do, not necessarily a project or something big - njha: ddr machine starter projects ### Coffee Chats - If you're interested, we can note your name down here and internalcomm will have more details soon - 2 veteran staff for 3-4 new staff - chill get to know you chat - we can talk about our experiences / the community / cool projects and stuff - spread across multiple days/weeks - "mandatory" - let's get this set up and announce it next week - insert your name here + how many hours you want to spend on this + what you can talk about - bencuan + `float('inf')` + decal/admin/internal - njha + 3-5 + anything infra (esp k8s) - jyxzhang - anddone - etw + 3-5 + anything infra/k8s + security (but probably not this weekend :sob:) - laksith - rjz + 3 + anything infra (esp. non k8s) + security (not this wknd) ### Buy Sheet - ocf.io/buysheet - Add more items to buy this semester: ocf.io/buy - pins - monitors - linux display scaling sucks, let's not get 4k - will put this on hold until we can decide on which monitors to buy - stickers - poll ? - buy all of the designs ? - will be discussed next week - staff social food - approved unanimously - hardware - HDD's (very good price) and screws approved unanimously - transceiver: on hold, can be found for a better price on ebay - RAM for fallingrocks (double from 128 to 256gb) approved unanimously - Lab supplies (Mouse pads, wrist rests, etc.) ### BoD Queue - ocf.io/rt - no new tickets this week ## Committee Check-ins ### University Affairs - Things to ask Sarah tomorrow? - signatory statuses - chartstring ### Opstaff Updates - Suggestions/ideas for opstaff projects - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TXVl1Snh6WjCIoy6KEHmAblGDC7sYrmvd4Ir1HwWORw/edit?usp=sharing ### SM Updates - new disks for corruption installed, migrating data - 16TB drives arrived - error on one of riptide's SSD, RMA'd - NIC for y2k arrived defective, shipped back and replacement incoming - server reboot/upgrade this Saturday from 6 - websites will be down! - all of us have after hours access - new mirrors server installed, new projects added - Fedora - OpenSUSE - CentOS-Stream - Rocky Linux... - What to do with the old XCF Dell servers? - these are too old to be repurposed - L5630 CPUs, released in 2010 ### Internal Comm - coffee chats - social this sat? - rock climbing next sat (lan party?) - people from committees/interest groups want to talk at staff meeting? ### External Comm - Was busy this week, same as last week - Trialed some color to my corner, add more color! - Combat Robotics at Berkeley (Glitch) willing to send designs - will follow up with student artists - Raspi board in progress, need a few items ### Finance Comm - Met last Friday - Spending ideas: - New monitors - Custom mousepads with an OCF logo/design - njha: artscow has custom mousepads for 5.99 https://www.artscow.com/photo-gifts/mouse-pad (first one is $1.00, no minimum order, free shipping) - Desktops are old (~8 years old or more), we could/should replace some/all of them - but most people just come in to print / don't really use the computers to their maximum capability ### Decal Comm - DO compromised droplet situation resolved - currently acquiring even more credits for this semester's vm's - VM's created and sent out Meeting Adjourned at 20:03 Notetaker: bencuan