2019 01 28

Board of Directors Meeting

Directors in attendance: abizer awelty bzh cooperc dkessler ethanhs fydai jerryzhou jkuki keur mdcha minos racheltrujillo shmaeng vaibhavj yichizh

Guests in attendance: nikitnainwal php shikhardhingra* adityasri bernardzhao dphan nessaur

Guests marked with a * were appointed to BoD.

Quorum for this meeting is 13

Meeting Started at 19:13

  • Notes on bikeshedding and why we need to stop
  • Email agenda before a few days
  • Implenting an appropriate delegation system for GM
  • We value a flat org, no bullshit titles
  • Still need coordination / organization
  • New ways to get new staff involved with administrivia
  • Disseminate information to all of BoD

  • Followup is a pain point

  • Buy sheet

  • 10G SR LC transceivers for tdev-fallingrocks
    • Unanimous, buy

  • Card reader (1)

    • Unanimous, buy

  • Lending Policy

  • Headphones

  • Can we take cards as collateral?

  • Referendum meeting w/ Jenny Adam Smyth at CBO told Jenny that it’s unclear if campus will allow us to go forward with referendum because fee is pretty small

  • STF is a better looking option

  • STF : rt#7714

  • We raised the STF ask to 400k over 5 years, but they’ll probably ask us to cut it down to 3 years since STF itself will need to be renewed in 2021
  • HPC ask was 45k
  • Jenny thinks this is our best shot, may also write us into the STF referendum

  • Getting lunch with jenny on thursday

  • CACSFF

  • 25k ask to replace 4-yro desktops (denied)

  • Asked for feedback and Bene is ghosting us

  • GSE Rental : rt#7757

  • If we are still good with doing it, let’s draft an MOU and send it to ASUC/sgpierce
  • ASUC: Can't talk about money in MOU
  • We need our liability covered (sgpierece willing to cover)
  • Wear and tear

  • Approved, MOU will be drafted

  • Banning Policy

  • Our banning policy has been modified to reflect ASUC lawyer's decision

  • Accounting System

  • Callink fucking blows
  • Alt systems?

  • New buy sheet!!

    • Centralized management system

  • GM responsibility delegation

  • Comittee-style

  • Pairing responsibility - dual accountability

  • Outreach

  • php reached out to literally every fb group
  • php contacting chris hunn (7965)
  • No response from j kuroda

  • Ask shenker from Intel/VMWare

  • Calapalooza : rt#7966

  • Sign up on sheet

  • We need banner

  • Sign up for staff

  • Staff Hours : rt#7994

  • Sign up for hours

  • read cooperc's topic: 7769/7790

  • Faculty sponsor : rt#7577

  • Brian Harvey still works
  • Hilfinger works too

Tickets not discussed: 7565 - dara suggests adapting the riseup data policy 7935 - student leadership meetings: someone should go 7865 - merch: nikit indicated interest in pursuing this 7808 - lab deep clean: minos following up 7959 - daily cal collab: dkessler, someone follow up 7683 - CLA: someone get this done

Meeting Adjourned at 20:03

Notetaker: mdcha