2015 11 17

OCF Board of Directors 2015-11-17 Meeting is convened at 7:00 pm

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

Prospective directors in attendance: - trliu

  • Everyone sings happy birthday to nickimp, whose birthday is tomorrow
  • Surprise cake
  • jvperrin and friends arrive late and miss the singing
  • peterwu forgot to bring (clean) knives, so his punishment is to cut the cake using forks
  • Attendance at new lab is looking good, we are already sometimes exceeding 15 users logged in simultaneously (that was the capacity of the old lab)
  • Allocations
  • $100 for power strips and cables
    • For phone/laptop chargers and the like
    • All in favor
  • $500 for Intel NUC
    • MintBox Mini is rejected because it has an AMD processor, which nickimp despises
    • All in favor, with 1 or 2 abstentions
  • $25.16 for coffee cups
    • Fait accompli
    • All in favor
  • Miscellaneous lab supplies
    • $20 for whiteboard markers and eraser
    • $20 for bungee cables
    • $100 for microwave
    • $110 for electric kettle
    • 1ยข for a hammock
    • Use misc funds if ASUC rejects microwave, kettle, or hammock
    • All in favor, a few people not voting
  • $350 for monitor for print queue
    • Print queue will be displayed by an old desktop
    • All in favor
  • What to put on lab TV
  • Not ads
    • Don't put these on desktops either
  • Animal videos
  • Not CalTV
  • Rejected allocations
  • Headlamp to replace people's phone flashlights
    • Chair rejects
  • String lights
    • Chair rejects because fire hazard
  • Deferred allocations
  • Replace old desktops
    • Apply for grant next semester
  • What to do with old desktops?
  • Maybe sell for misc funds
    • Especially monitors, they are still sellable
  • Should maybe sign up for Calapalooza
  • We have enough staff anyway
  • But not a bad idea either

Meeting adjourned at 8:06 pm.