2021 04 13

Board of Directors Meeting

Directors in attendance: anddone asai bencuan ethanhs jaw kmo ncberberi njha rjz snarain

Guests in attendance: kdr

Guests marked with a * were appointed to BoD.

Quorum for this meeting is 6

Meeting Started at 20:10

BoD agenda: https://notes.ocf.berkeley.edu/6Sy96kJ9QYmmnHbdumF5nQ#

  • Celebrate/thank people for STF renewal at some point
  • No BoD during RRR
  • Last day of *M nominations
  • Opstaff Hiring
    • See timeline in agenda
    • Hiring operations assistants only as kdr is returning as OM
    • Get ASUC senators to post
    • Reach out to kdr if you're interested in helping with hiring
      • Interviews and acceptance
      • asai: Hiring during finals/RRR week?
        • May not be rushed (Continue during break)
        • Might be better to choose hires during weekend after finals (weekend of 15th)
        • Do we have skillsets we want to fill w/ the leaving two
          • Designers
          • Data Analysis
  • Hack Day (rt#10013)

    • Greater marketing push
    • Brainstorm
      • Backups
      • RT API
      • Kubernetes
      • JupyterHub on HPC
      • Maybe a web project
    • concern: are we allowed to reimburse alumni?
    • voting on $200 budget:
      • approved
  • ASUC Spending & Hypervisor (rt#10015)

    • HPC: 34k, so we might pass
      • Not getting GPUs anyway
    • New k8s node: good price, might buy
    • Reaching out to alumni @ NVIDIA did not work
    • Talk to more people and try and get it donated
  • Help Queue (rt#10081)

    • New bylaws
    • Approved
  • STF

    • Can we provide user benefit to celebrate?
    • Crunch numbers with ficomm and come back next week
  • Committee updates

    • Internal talked about hack day

Meeting Adjourned at 21:04

Notetaker: jaw, anddone