OCF Board of Directors 2015-09-15 Meeting called to order at 7:10 pm.

Directors in attendance: Chris has the list somewhere, or probably has lost it by now.

• kpengboy introduces a bill titled "7th Amendment to the Constitution Bill": AN ACT To amend the Constitution, for allowing the Board of Directors to unilaterally amend the Constitution for the purpose of complying with LEAD Center requirements.

  WHEREAS, in June 2015 the Open Computing Facility encountered a constitutional crisis in which it was required to amend its Constitution but a General Meeting could not be immediately convened to do so; and WHEREAS, the legal status of the amendments made during that crisis was uncertain until confirmed by a General Meeting; and WHEREAS, the Open Computing Facility wishes to avoid being required to amend its Constitution when it is not formally in session, but being unable to do so; and WHEREAS, constitutional language mandated by the LEAD Center is not substantially debatable; and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors would like to expedite the process of updating such required language, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED by the Board of Directors and the membership of the Open Computing Facility: 1. The current text of section 8.1.1 of the Constitution is moved to a new section 8.1.1.1 titled “In General”. 2. A new section 8.1.1.2, titled “For Fulfilling University Requirements” is inserted into the Constitution as follows: When the OCF is not formally in session, the Board of Directors may, with a 2/3 majority vote, directly enact amendments whose only function is to bring this consti‐ tution into compliance with requirements set by the University. - All are in favor of presenting this bill for ratification at a general meeting. - Tech fund proposals - what to apply for? - Printers - Computers - Printing supplies - Furniture - Server racks - New server - Hard drives - ckuehl proposes a $100 allocation for lab cleaning supplies - It is approved - ckuehl proposes a $1100 allocation for 4 x 512 GB SSDs for hal: - Samsung 840 Pro - We need the extra space for all those new staff VMs - We aren't interested in buying spinning rust^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H hard drives except for massive storage (on the order of >~1 TB) - It is approved - ckuehl discusses our budget projection that we submitted - http://i.fluffy.cc/LcKmdPWcTH6700mkW7lNVDBQKQxxD3vj.pdf - ckuehl discusses that we have run ASUC elections in the past and maybe we should do it again sometime in the future - ckuehl discusses that there are staff hours - We decide to have a staff hangout this Thursday at 8:00pm in the lab where we will have a tech talk about Git that isn't 4 hours long and doesn't involve an 8-way octopus merge - ckuehl presents how servers work - ckuehl discusses staffer privileges - ckuehl discusses staff VMs - ckuehl discusses ZNC - ckuehl discusses that he is going to toss megaraid in favor of mdraid - megaraid is second-rate hardware and we (mostly meaning ckuehl) is fed up with it - mdraid is software, widely supported, sensible, etc.