2014-09-15 6:40pm OCF General Meeting

Members in attendance: - Abhinav Kalakuntla - Ajit Unnam - Brian Sang - Catherine Nitta - Chris Kuehl - Claudia Nguyen - Daisy Lei - Dara Adib - Fiona Tang - Giulio Zhou - Gopal Kumar - Han Wang - Jonathan Melville - Matthew McAllister - Michael Beery - Nick Impicciche - Nimalen Sivapalan - Peter Wu - Ronald Kwan - Sanjay Krishnan - Takeshi Mochida - Vinod Chandru - William Ho - Winnie Chan

Slides available at: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~staff/bod/2014/Fall/2014-09-15.pdf

• Welcome to the OCF!
• All-volunteer student organization dedicated to free computing
• Founded in 1989
• Provide cool services to students and the community
  • Computer lab on southside (6A Hearst Gym)
  • Web and email hosting (both individuals and groups)
  • Shell accounts
• Staff hold weekly staff hours, maintain stuff, meet weekly at BoD
• Technical infrastructure
• 3 main servers
  • hal: primary server, hosts almost all prod VMs
  • pandemic: file server, exports nfs to other servers, holds homedirs
  • jaws: new, beefy server for staff hozing and testing
  • holds nothing important, but staff can get VMs on it
• Other stuff
  • fallingrocks: old desktop repurposed as debian/ubuntu package mirror (mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu)
  • blackhole: expensive cisco managed gigabit switch
  • basically used as an unmanaged switch, lol
  • UPS with one working battery
  • Computer lab: 14 desktops all running Debian Linux
• About 60 machines total
  • 4 physical servers, 14 desktops, lots of VMs
• Maintaining stuff
  • Everything runs Debian
  • Manage configuration with puppet
  • https://github.com/ocf/puppet/
• Users stored in LDAP, passwords in Kerberos
• Web hosting on death (mostly Apache)
• Mail hosting on sandstorm and anthrax (postfix, spamass, dovecot)
• Projects we'd like to work on this semester
• Better web hosting for student groups
• Better email for @mygroup.b.e
• Offer our infrastructure to other student groups
• Lab improvements (better software, printing, more cool hardware)
• Improve docs and training/events
• Ways staff are involved
• We meet weekly (Board of Directors meetings) to discuss stuff and make decisions
• Hold staff hours every week at a regular time where users can come in to get help
• Answer user emails/questions on Request Tracker
  • 200 in past week, mostly spam...
• Fun stuff
  • Talks held by famous people, LAN parties, etc.
• Next BoD meeting
• Assign staff privileges to new staff
• Go over basic tools and processes
• Discuss more about ways to be involved
• Decide on staff hours
• Monday @ 6:10pm in 380 Soda (not 320 Soda)

Meeting ended at 7:20pm