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2018 03 19

Board of Directors Meeting

Directors in attendance: abizer awelty baisang bchieng carterturn chenvincent dkessler gleeb kpengboy mcint nikitnainwal quincyhuynh raymondng shasan shichenh tanx trliu vaibhavj wporr

Guests in attendance: mdcha*

Guests marked with a * were appointed to BoD.

Quorum for this meeting is 15

Meeting Started at 19:13

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  • ...: GSE "rental"/lab use GSE has not given financial aid in the last few years. Our condition may not be tenable. CLO (ASUC) has not yet approved the condition. GSE is amenable.

  • 7188: Peak load Motivating problem: 11-1 pm. Disgruntled users/members. Can we propose, for the hours of 11:00 - 13:00, making Proposal: Make the first row printing-exclusive.

- What's existing usage of the first row like?

  • Higher-throughput goal?

  • Our mission is not to provide free-printing.

  • People already find an equilibrium.

Analysis of "print" row and whole lab, means/bulk and outliers: - Session length - Do people print? - Do people print AND do something else?

Tools to allow opstaff to see session times.

  • 7131: April Fools Gave guest access. DNS updating. Looks on-task.

  • : Snacks Distinguished members of BoD, you must comment if you wish to see spending here.

  • : Toner

  • 7204: e-waste recycling drive

Thought we generate revenue on recycling. Toner. We Can store a certain amount...but not really more than that. One-time drive. One month. E-waste recycling thing.

  • 7168: ABSA Purchases see RT for more detail. ** Lab furniture ** Printer ** Buying a NFS host. (Approved).

Side-note. RMA'd drives with Samsung. SSDs broken. One SSD failed, only in RAID array.

** Replacements for desktop parts.

  • 7192 ?: Spare desktop desktop backups

  • Buy sheet: ** Hole puncher. OCF budget. (Approved). ** Fire extinguisher. (Approved). ** Canon EOS. Need to take pictures of our events! Tech talk recordings! $540 proposed. <$650. (Approved, by small margin). ** Cosco folding chairs. (Postponed after price bump). ** USB headphone-dongle, cable version. (Approved). ** Scotch tape. 1 only, 12-pack. (Approved).

Meeting Adjourned at 20:04

Notetaker: mcint