2015 10 27

OCF Board of Directors Meeting 2015-10-27 Meeting convened at 7:10 pm

Directors in attendance: - ckuehl - nickimp - baisang - willh - mattmcal - peterwu - kpengboy - tmochida - jvperrin - slobo - nspatel - wml - zdong - andycui - shasan - tianrui - mprat - ldw - tnn - kuoh - samtay - shaurya - kevinma

  • CISA passes the US Senate, to the dismay of the EFF, computer security experts, the ACLU, Apple, Twitter, Salesforce, etc. etc.
    • Senators not considering the ways their bills can be misused and/or misconstrued?
    • Associated discussion about how the CIA was disappointed that Apple can't decrypt the phones they make anymore
    • TLS/SSL export ciphers, the historical context in which they were produced, and how it's now a backdoor for attacks
    • DUAL_EC_DBRG (universally discredited)
  • Keyboard missing from the lab computer "blackout" (STOLEN??????)
    • BoD doth unanimously decide to allocate $125 for replacing the keyboard
    • Discussion on how to secure peripherals
    • The cable is unfortunately detachable
    • Drill holes in keyboard??
    • Discuss this after move
      • After move, pubstaff can watch entire lab, will probably discourage theft
  • Things about move
  • Earliest possible date 11/13
  • Servers to be moved before lab, unto new subnet
    • VPN on new space, old space will VPN into new subnet
    • Can (hopefully) be done in one night
  • Moving computers
    • Need to close lab for this
    • Need to decide which day to do this
  • Can move some stuff ourself
    • Miscellaneous stuff in server room
    • Maybe some or all computers
    • If we get them to move, have to label, box up, .......
    • Most people say they are willing to help move
  • Perhaps we would do a move on some Thursday and be closed the following Friday, Saturday, Sunday
  • Possible dates at this point: 11/12, 11/19, during Thanksgiving week (some staffers will be around)
  • New computers and peripherals for new space
  • Based on numbers from minutes 4/23/15
    • We didn't actually buy anything from the allocations last semester
  • 10 monitors $3500
  • 5 computers $5000
  • 15 keyboards/mice $2000
  • Thursday event is happening next week
  • ckuehl rants about PyKota and server infrastructure.

Meeting is adjourned 8:08 pm.