2014 03 05

2014-03-05 6:40pm OCF Board of Directors Meeting

Directors in attendance: - ckuehl - tmochida - willh - wanghan - aunnam - xinghuad - mattmcal - nickimp - kpengboy - peterwu

  • Purchases
  • New keyboards for the lab: on the way, sort of
  • Printing supplies
  • New purchases
    • $300 for misc. lab items that have gone missing, approved by BoD
    • $300 for OCF posters for the lab, approved by BoD
    • anyone interested in designing these? contact Chris!
  • Event this Saturday
  • Short talks about technology
    • tiling window managers (Nick)
    • vim (Nick)
  • Project to introduce staff to Puppet (Chris)
  • 4:10pm in the OCF lab, will get food afterwards
  • Google Apps accounts for OCF use
  • Will set up accounts for any interested staff
  • Email will go to a Gmail account which is convenient
  • Chris will send out a sign-up sheet
  • Adding staff to ocfstaff group account
  • All interested staff can be moved to this account
  • Only problem: you get tons of mail
  • Lets you log in to all the servers
  • Chris will send out a sign-up sheet
  • Staff VMs
  • Personal VMs on jaws for staff to hose
  • Use for pretty much anything
    • with some exceptions...
  • Each staff member will get own VM
  • Chris will send out a sign-up sheep
  • Lab improvements (for future discussion)
  • Replacing some of the terrible chairs
    • We get new chairs in the new space, but the current ones are awful
    • Might replace just some of the current ones now
  • Replacing some of the old computers
    • No guarantee we get extra money upon moving to new space
    • Replacing some computers wouldn't hurt, improves lab
    • Discuss more later

Meeting ended at 7:23pm