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2022 10 19

Board of Directors Meeting

Directors in attendance: amangalampalli aryanshetty bencuan bplate bryli btorres drestiny ethanhu etw jaysag jyxzhang kian longlian ncograin njha ooehmke rameesha rjz

Guests in attendance: adarshiyer ericyang

Guests marked with a * were appointed to BoD.

Quorum for this meeting is 12

Meeting Started at 19:10

Status updates

  • monitors
    • 4K monitors delivered!
    • Vote on QHD monitors today
  • Debian 9 -> 11
    • all done! (save for one)
  • Wordpress Security
  • Kubernetes Server
    • :(
  • HPC
    • purchase order submitted
    • disks purchased

    • Everything is in stock on our side. Once we get the SSD & GPU we will start production & Testing. I would estimate 2-4 weeks to ship considering we get the GPU/SSD in time

    • Fremont trip??
  • ASUC Chartered Programs Coordinator
    • jyxzhang interviewing soon...

Docs

  • bookstack set up on njha's staffvm
  • outline set up on bencuan's staffvm
  • bookstack or outline?
  • bookstack not markdown, outline is
  • bookstack has an arbitrary depth format
    • njha: imo not a problem
  • outline not designed for direct external use (urls are ugly)

Computer Donations

  • What are we doing with them?
  • server test beds until we figure out what to actually do with them

Berkeley Subdomain Moratorium

  • Hostmaster is not going to give *.b.e. domains any more to RSOs (at present)
  • Main arguments are accessibility and security
  • Hostmaster says a "review of all RSO domains is coming soon :tm:" (unsure what the goal of this is?)
  • This has happened in the past (2013)
    • daradib (alumni) gave a recap of this to officers@
    • The resolution last time was to add the disclaimer

  • njha has emailed several people

    • Bill Allison (Berkeley CTO)
      • Response: not aware of this
    • Dr. Brian Harvey (Past Advisor?)
      • Response: who to email
    • Kellsie A. Adams-Briesch (Hostmaster)
    • James Weichert (ASUC AAVP)

  • EDIT: sike

  • Patrick Holmes says it's apparently a miscommunication w/ hostmaster
    • meeting this Friday

Need-Based Stipends

  • Proposal draft for need-based stipends
    • tldr; people with demonstrated need can do ocf project (technical) and be paid
    • vote here! https://forms.gle/SGNyrpbmamdE5EnL9
      • will discuss results next week
    • punt for this meeting since main people are not present
  • work-study for opstaff?

AAVP Meeting Recap

  • Recommends not going for campus funding methods like CASSA/CACSSF (previously recommended by Henry)
  • Instead, look for changing ASUC bylaws
    • Allow ABSA to be spent on opstaff stipends
    • Or even create a write in for bylaws to provide funding (including opstaff) (no need to apply for ABSA every year)
  • Next steps:
    • Meet with ASUC finance committee
    • Work with ASUC legal office?
    • Talk with alumns about our relationship with ASUC / what balance we want to have
  • previously:
    • funding from Student Tech Fee
    • before, no opstaff (B&G covered front desk)
  • Legal Office starting to crack down on some ASUC bylaws
  • Chartered Program Mascots must have ASUC logo?
  • Chartered Program Websites must be hosted on ASUC domain/subdomain?
    • we are working on this

Notable RT Tickets

All tickets need root unless otherwise noted - rt#12069: old account recovery - rt#12061: sorried account unsorried, will respond

Thank you newstaff for responding to RT tickets!

Buy Sheet

  • ocf.io/buysheet
    • Mac Mini: GPU drivers work already! This is surprising!
      • They are also cheapish ($699 pre edu-discount, and there are volume discounts for edu from apple)
      • Also low power (🌲 green ocf)
      • Also more power than the OCF needs
      • Proposal: Buy ONE for now as a testbed, to see if it's viable. If it is, buy lots more and do a full desktop refresh. (finally)
  • Add more items to buy this semester: ocf.io/buy

Semesterly cleaning

  • bring this back please
  • need to buy filters for air purifiers
  • do during hack day ??
    • no.
  • next staff meeting!

BoD Queue

  • ocf.io/rt

Committee Check-ins

University Affairs

  • meeting with mickael next wednesday

Opstaff Updates

  • Server room poster made (just needs printing) --> #opstaff
  • Book shelf poster made (just needs printing) --> #opstaff
    • intended to be put on top of the bookshelf
    • where do we put the stuffed animals
  • halloween candy bought, only decor needed
  • still no response from res hall abt posters
  • tote bags?
    • just need to order

Internal Comm

  • today we'll be doing a pre-hack day meeting giving an overview of what people should expect and having staffers get an idea of projects they can work on
    • if committee/project leads can give a short pitch on what they've been doing and what can be done at hack day that would be great
  • hack day sun 10/23 1-6PM (ocf.io/social)
  • halloween social sun 10/30 (ocf.io/halloween)
  • alumni banquet @ gather sat 11/5 (ocf.io/banquet)

External Comm

  • Thanks Opstaff for Instagram posts!!!
    • Increased frequency to instagram posts
    • Drawings/sketches can be reused
      • Is there interested in a funny sketch waddles for the OCF shirt? Similar to NSFW waddles shirt
        • @jtchan wanted Pokemon-waddles like art
    • Create posts for #Internal-Comm events
      • @mjm On photos, @jtchan On Art
        • Small production since we have the main OCF shirt
    • Circuit maker or something for making our own fun products
    • Business Info
      • Thoughts on adding big sponsors to ocf.tv board?
        • Marketing incentive for advertising
        • Lil advert board -bencuan
      • Corsair focusing Streamers/eSports
        • Reduced chances to get gear from them, however we can try doing a collab with Cal eSports and get a contact
          • Anyone have a good contact in Cal eSports? Please message in #external-comm
          • https://recsports.berkeley.edu/programs-events/esports/
      • NZXT Lvl 2+ Sponsorship
        • Partner Program: Request for NZXT BLD Kit
        • Ideally get Prebuilt systems, will look into
      • NVIDIA Registered/Preferred Partner
        • https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/partners/
        • Unlikely but worth a shot under "other"
      • Logitech peripherals
        • Might be able to provide peripherals, but may not be too helpful
          • Wireless peripherals for lab wouldn't be a great idea (cries in G Pro Wireless)

Finance Comm

Decal Comm

  • vms???
    • punt
  • Recieved letter of support from Peyrin, packet needed to be signed physically so wating on that.
    • Should be submitted to the Dept Chair by the weekend (deadline Nov. 9)
    • No issues for EECS room scheduler as we have our own space

Meeting Adjourned at 19:59

Notetaker: etw, bencuan