2016 03 01

OCF Board of Directors 2016-03-01 Meeting called to order at 7:10pm

Directors in attendance: - ckuehl - mattmcal - jvperrin - nickimp - kuoh - kevinma - lilulu - shasan - willh - baisang - ldw - peterwu - shaurya - tianrui - abizer - wml - zdong - andycui - kpengboy - mprat - trliu - tnn - justinchen

  • Discussion of disk storage upgrades
  • hal: 2 x 3 TB -> 2 x 6 TB
  • pandemic: 1 x 3 TB + 1 x 2 TB for fallingrocks -> 2 x 6 TB
    • Defer to next semester for budget reasons
  • nickimp proposes $613.18 for hal hard drives that have already been bought
    • All in favor
  • pollution (the print server)
  • PyKota can't be upgraded to jessie
  • PyKota is horrible
    • Unmaintained since ~2010
    • Can't debug easily
    • Has all sorts of features we don't want or need
    • sanjayk made modifications and we don't know what they are now
  • We are writing a new quota system
    • Reusing Tea4CUPS (a PyKota component) to count pages
    • Basically pulling page counts out of Tea4CUPS, counting pages, and rejecting jobs which go over quota
  • AC in server room is turning off every night for some reason
  • Facilities are aware of the problem and apparently trying to fix it
  • In the meantime, we shut down pandemic at night and hope nothing burns up while we're asleep
  • CalTV wants to interview us/nickimp about the new "OFC" print quota policy
  • nickimp: not a good idea to outright reject
  • nickimp: don't do anything on camera
  • Consensus: get an exhaustive list of questions first
  • peterwu: Scripted live interview can also work
  • Accepting nominations for new printer names
  • mattmcal records who needs keycard access
  • Google Apps accounts for "new" staff (it's about time already)

Meeting is adjourned at 8:04pm