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2022 10 05

Board of Directors Meeting

Directors in attendance: bencuan bplate bryli btorres drestiny ethanhu jaysag jyxzhang lmathias lucdar njha rameesha rjz

Guests in attendance: amangalampalli anddone laksith leos trinityc widyasoed

Guests marked with a * were appointed to BoD.

Quorum for this meeting is 10

Meeting Started at 19:20

Agenda

BoD Note-taking

  • trinityc
  • rjz

Status updates

  • monitors
    • (see buysheet)
    • 10 single monitors -> 4K
  • Debian 9 -> 11
    • ...
  • Wordpress Security
    • ...
  • Kubernetes Server
    • still waiting for response, ~2weeks
  • HPC
    • they want us to ship the SSDs and GPUs to them for testing
    • find another vendor? berkeley affiliation?
    • pending...

Search for ASUC Chartered Programs Coordinator

  • Friday 11 AM Meeting

"Mandatory" SUFMO Townhall Recap

  • Notes file
  • Information is mostly on slides
  • [see notes here] (https://notes.ocf.berkeley.edu/_OSSHSbIRviJkrl7nav_jg#)
  • todo: share with opstaff

Docs (Return of Bookstack)

  • njha tried to deploy to oldk8s
    • creds leaked in jenkins output ;)

Computer Donation Recap

  • njha trinityc jaysag lucdar ethan
  • 4770k, 16gb ddr3, gt1030 2gb, sus 1tb ssd
    • gt1030 is "worse" than our GTX 750 Tis
  • debian installed on one machine
  • How do we want to use these?
    • do we want more??
    • for parts??
    • intersperse across labs ??
    • use to test k8s clusters?

Server room cleanup

  • Thanks for cleaning up the server room!!
    • welcome - trinityc & jaysag
    • please continue to keep it clean !!!

Printing Maintenance / Toner

  • buying No toner vs buying toner
  • Last week we voted to go forward with 6 toner but...
    • refresh printers? how does that work?
      • bought in 2016 (2) & 2018 (1)
    • ask alumni
    • printers we have are fine, we probably don't need maintenance ?

Notable RT Tickets

  • What's the status on the RSO berkeley subdomain moratorium?
    • njha: no response from IST yet, might bump
    • should we update ocfweb to reflect the current status of DNS?
    • tldr; njha bump email

Buy Sheet

  • ocf.io/buysheet
  • Add more items to buy this semester: ocf.io/buy

BoD Queue

  • ocf.io/rt

Committee Check-ins

University Affairs

  • keycard approval requests haven't been granted for months, can we ask asuc to fix this
    • let gms know
    • bplate
    • longlian

Opstaff Updates

  • sticker design done (waddles dab)
  • tote bags (three designs in #opstaff --> feedback?)
    • seems most like second design
  • flyer for residence halls (in #opstaff --> feedback?)
  • check out spreadsheet made
  • social media and halloween funtivities
    • meet the staff posts
  • metabase for kim and jane

    • rjz
  • see safety notes above (maybe future project once we get docs up could be to compile them and print a nice copy for front desk)

Internal Comm

  • upcoming socials:
    • hack day (Sunday 10/23)
      • moved from 10/15-16 due to calhacks
      • ocf.io/social fill out to tell us ideas you have to work on
        • replace the kde loading icon with waddles
        • create a little piece of software where you can set options like "dark theme" or "wallpaper"
    • halloween social (probably Sunday 10/30 6-9 pm)
      • mlk closes at 9pm
      • Isabelle and Kim are helping organize this! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G8wVbkHhxzD_IUhrBvc9UGFokorSqaNVENwOKGBmX8A/edit
      • current plan is to spend ~300 and make it a large-ish event
      • considering charging a small entrance fee (5 or 10?) and use it to buy more fancy things like chipotle

External Comm

  • Small Note* Waddles plush shall be returned
  • @jtchan beginning OCF doodles [Incoming Ice skating post Friday/Weekend]
    • Will evolve to more posters/digital posts
    • @mjm Learning how to use flash, could get more indoor shots for lab
  • Once midterms die down, resume emailing for computers [fingers crossed]
    • Try to get NZXT's attention >> Corsair and others for prebuilt systems again**
  • Announce shirts on Instagram+ continuing with other posts
  • Create server-kawaii stickers [brought to you by new external staff]
  • Reviving store? (Ask @kmo+others? I forgot about it)
    • Talked about before, may just be for fun staff project
    • talk to Robert from ASUC Finance

Finance Comm

  • Proposal draft for need-based stipends
    • go view and comment please
  • has james meeting been coordinated yet? @gms
  • we actually have absa money! add more things to buysheet (decal cluster !!!)
  • upcoming project: create dashboard to organize historical callink prs
    • we currently don't know exactly how much money we spend on paper/toner, hardware, supplies, etc.
  • next week:
    • finalize 1440p monitors (dell vs current)
    • continue stipend proposal development
    • add stickers to buysheet (might use rachel's new design, and/or reuse an older design)
  • notes: https://notes.ocf.berkeley.edu/mqdnDIxIToawAiM-maClhQ

Decal Comm

  • Self-hosted student VMs
    • Don't have enough IPs but do have workarounds
  • Decal approval forms ready to send

Meeting Adjourned at 20:08

Notetaker: rjz