2014-10-06 6:11pm OCF Board of Directors Meeting
Directors in attendance:
- Abhi Kalakuntla
- Introductions
- What did people learn about UNIX?
- More use of standard tools
- rm -rf / actually works on Solaris
- live demo: not on supernova
- Virtualization (Xen)
- Updates
- Chris and Nick still to meet with B&G on Thursday to relay BoD consensus on use of space
- Chris met with ASUC Mobile App team to discuss OCF hosting of mobile
app
- They don't really need anything special, will put them on biohazard
- Backups
- Now sort of exist (i.e. there is at least one backup)
- "Off-site" under SM's mattress
- Padding in case of earthquakes
- Probably good enough; if all of Berkeley goes away, no point in having backups anyway
- Possibility of Amazon S3
- Estimates for 2000 GB
- Full redundancy: $60/m
- Reduced redundancy: $50/m
- Glacier: basically impossible for daily backups of all data
- Fee to delete data early, so we'd have to store tons of TB
- Retreiving all 2000GB even over 24 hours costs ~$600
- Over 4 hours: ~$4000
- Difficult to pay for things monthly anyway, especially over the summer
- Chris to write draft of backup plan, get feedback
- Discussion of building computers
- Staff computer: need something that can handle 3 monitors
- Budget of $1,000 or so; try to come up with a build to compare next meeting http://pcpartpicker.com/
- Also building other computers (about 6 need to be replace in lab)
- Pros
- More computers built; more staff get to be involved
- Choose exactly the hardware we want
- Useful for graphics cards with Linux compatibility
- Fun staff activity?
- Could save some money, much easier to purchase (vs BearBuy)
- Easier to upgrade in the future, if we want to
- Cons
- Probably won't save much money
- Harder to replace things when they fail
- (although only hard drives seem to fail frequently)
- Can make a spreadsheet of SNs and warranty info
- Might be hard to find good cases
- For reference, the new Dell computers were ~$820 each
- (and had unnecessary i7's)
- Improvements to staff hours / meeting format
- Work on todo/projects queue during staff hours
- Figure out teams to tackle things on the queue
- Definitely good idea, but hard to figure out how
- Easier now that more people have permissions
- Anonymously contact Chris/Nick somehow with suggestions!
- Next time
- More discussion of building computers
- More project discussion
- Good luck on midterms!
Meeting ended at 7:07pm