Board of Directors Meeting

Attendance: baisang nickimp mattmcal jvperrin shasan kpengboy ldw nikitnainwal tanx tmochida chuang andycui vaibhavj chunhaowang shichenh

Quorum for this meeting is 12

Meeting Started at 19:14

• 5942: OCF HPC Interest survey
• mattmcal made a survey for what requirements users might want on our HPC server
• Send it out to as many student groups/research groups/etc. you can find
• 5944: GPU server update
• nickimp made a draft build for the GPU server
• We'll have to make some compromises to be within budget
  • nickimp proposes to compromise on storage now, because it's easiest to add later
• We'll have to wait for 1080Tis unless we want to get Titan X now
  • Can we get student discount
  • tmochida: will Silicon Mechanics offer it immediately
    • Can always buy separately
  • Will probably buy GPUs with tech fund money
  • Alternatively: not buy GPUs with tech fund money
  • Someone help Nick with planning this out
• 5860: new standing desk setup

• nickimp has calculated some prices: Jarvis standing desk: https://www.fully.com/desks/shop-desks-by-size/compact-adjustable-desks/jarvis-standing-desk.html

  Choices: Contour 2 Powered Grommets Extended Range Programmable Memory Complete Solution Wire Management

  Price for 48x30: $707 Price for 60x30: $752

  Dual monitor mount: https://www.amazon.com/VIVO-Monitor-Adjustable-Screens-STAND-V002/dp/B009S750LA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1487631444&sr=8-3&keywords=dual+monitor+mount

  $34

  2xDell Monitors: https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Computer-Ultrasharp-U2415-24-0-Inch/dp/B00NZTKOQI/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1487631504&sr=1-2&keywords=dell%2Bultrasharp&th=1

  $480

  Computer:

  Not going to spec it all out right now, but reasonable estimate is ~$850

  Keyboard: http://www.cmstore-usa.com/masterkeys-pro-s-rgb-cherry-mx-switch-blue-brown-red/

  $105

  mouse: https://www.amazon.com/SteelSeries-Rival-Optical-Gaming-Mouse/dp/B0160USMW6/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1487631822&sr=1-1&keywords=ss+rival+300

  $52

  Mousepad: https://www.amazon.com/SteelSeries-QcK-Gaming-Mouse-Black/dp/B000UEZ36W/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1487631841&sr=1-2&keywords=steelseries+qck

  $10

  Subtotal: $2238 for 48x30 $2283 for 60x30

• chunghaowang: Let's add an accessibility sticker

  • We'd have to use it with care, don't want to get sued for improper use of the label
  • mattmcal: how does a standing desk improve accessibility anyway?
    • baisang/nickimp: at least you can control the height of the desk, I guess...
• Someone has to build the continue
• tmochida: why are we not buying our previous QuickFire Rapid keyboard
  • nickimp: Non-RGB versions have been discontinued
• 5397: get ocf laptop stickers made
• kuoh made further changes to the sticker
• Now someone has to get it printed
  • nickimp is the requestor on this ticket
    • nickimp delegates this task to DGM shasan (who was also second to comment on the ticket)
• 5391: talk about front desk monitoring/bigbrother
• People aren't contributing to the pubstaff absence log
• Let's make an automatic system to monitor when pubstaff are logging in
• mattmcal: test on pubstaff account?
  • nickimp: pubstaff account is not consistently used
• Also track whether lab is open by checking # of logged in non-staff

Meeting Adjourned at 19:44

Notetaker: kpengboy