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December 5th

December 5th

Attendance

  • rjz
  • kian
  • trinityc
  • aly
  • bryli
  • yehchanyoo
  • dpark
  • ronitnath
  • jaysa
  • adymchenko
  • ethanhu
  • lemurseven
  • bplate

Opstaff updates

  • Pay period 7 completed: $1377 off CACCSF
  • New RRR and Dead Week schedule
  • Extended hours for RRR week until 9pm, Finals week until 8pm daily
  • jaysa: will update hours online once kubernetes back up
  • Opstaff social probably next week :)
  • We will be doing white elephant
  • Project updates: posters will be getting printed, social media posts are slowly coming up !!, taking inventory of storage room

Administrivia

  • Program advisor
  • opstaff = university staff?
    • can look into further?
    • ronitnath: pay?
  • IREF vs recurring CACSSF
  • kian: campus-based fee with other tech orgs (asuc cto, others)
  • Cleaning out newstaff
  • newstaff keep:

    1. jimfang
    2. erilu
    3. tiffansun
    4. patricklee
    5. eamez
    6. newstaff toss:

    7. junran

    8. cwamgsan
    9. zbashkin
    10. gabrielhan
    11. maxmwang
    12. linewsa
    13. drain
    14. nathanel
    15. a few others i unfortunately stored on outline docs
    16. BoD Approved
    17. Alumni Banquet
    18. Saturday, 5PM
    19. In the lab, catered food
    20. close lab early at 5 PM
    21. will call to cater thursday/friday
    22. Tech Talk
    23. 7-9 PM
    24. no food :(

Buysheet

Finalizing Nominations

Election Logistics

  • Simple Majority : GM discretion
  • Njha's idea: eliminate all committees except decal
  • resounding hell no
  • Dpark: 3 decal heads
  • lessen workload of individual heads
  • 1 head can manage, rest add to content
  • trinityc: having more heads doesn't solve issue
    • responsibility of head becomes diluted
    • if goal is more content, do that!
    • more heads doesnt fix issue
  • yehchan: more heads = more arguments
    • heads cant come together to do stuff
    • decal starts demanding, less load at end
    • 2 heads will be fine
  • Bod disapproved
  • Jaysa: merge internal & external?
  • aditya: yeah
    • external is internal with alums
    • similar functions

Election Speeches

  • SMs
  • oliverni
  • you all know me
  • work on subdomain migrations, new k8s
  • njha
  • no speech
  • trinityc
  • will have to move bod time
  • poking committees so things will get done throughout semester
  • jeda: bridging disconnect between volstaff & opstaff?
    • more opstaff now attend BoD
    • more socials that welcome everybody
  • bryli:
    • many seniors are about to graduate
    • bigger emphasis on integrating ppl from committees/projects into BoDs/GMs
  • yehchan: why do we have poor staff retention
    • internal committee attempted projects board
    • more mentorship will be necessary next semester
  • rjz
  • been here since the dawn of time
  • need to work on funding issue
    • sustainable funding for opstaff
  • work w/ SMs for state of infra
    • keycloak, other new k8s issues, significant outages
  • new desktops
  • solving staff retention issues
  • connecting to campus bearbuy system to simplify purchases
  • bryli: issue of documentation, esp w/ oldstaff graduating
    • a lot is technical, coordinate w/ SM & linux infra to expand documentation
  • jeda: bridging disconnect between opstaff & volstaff?
    • opstaff & volstaff shouldnt be treated as separate
    • opstaff should have larger role in operations & meetings
    • incorporate opstaff voices into decision making
  • kian: family system?
    • rjz: bring it back
    • bryli: we need more than committees & meetings, we need mentorship. family system provides that
  • kimcpape: GM role includes behind-the-scenes & representing OCF. how will you do both
    • feels confident he can serve in such a role
  • ronitnath
  • org is doing well!
  • talk to alums, more tech talks, more engagement, more funding
    • show them new projects
  • internal x3, ficomm 2x, facilitated decal in '21
    • lots of work under different committees
  • dropping several prior commitments to dedicate time to OCF
  • will require moving BoD time, like trinity
  • use computer space to host better socials
  • recruiting priorities, find "gems in rough" throughout campus
  • ASUC experience, getting fee proposal on the ballot
  • bring back university & alum coms
    • put more projects out, show unique things we can do at OCF
    • host own jupyter instance
    • give reasons for alumni to fund us
  • wiitl avatar project
    • opstaff have skills we should utilize
  • bryli: collab with external comm
    • a lot of effort put into social facilitation
  • kimcpape: collaborative vision?
    • chose second person who you feel has a vision that matches mine!
  • yehchanyoo: not enough staff to run committees? how to address this issue
    • confident in increased general member recruitment
    • bring back subpositions in committees
  • bryli: issue with recruiting... intimidating for newcomers. how to alleviate that, make people stay?
    • most people are first concerned with social aspect, if they like the other people in the club.
    • bring back family system
    • halloween social was a hit! more of these
    • consistent events from beginning of the semester to increase retention, maintain momentum
  • bryli
  • part of internal 2nd semester of OCF, joined in FA21
    • internal 2 semesters after that
  • small-scale concerns:
    • make this a community for people coming in, and people here now
    • some people feel they put more work in / more invested than others, but need everyone to feel invited to participate
    • socials will have schedule planned far in advance
    • talk to each committee 1x per month, get insight into monthly plans, keep them accountable
    • secure funding for lab & for opstaff!
  • Questions:
  • jeda: bridging opstaff & volstaff?
    • we are all students! some are just paid students!
    • but other than that, truly no difference
  • bryli: sidenote
    • *Ms are the same as any other OCF member!
    • no one should be scared of or intimidated by *Ms
  • kimcpape: how would you embody technical aspect of role alongside social?
    • will do best to talk to uni staff + SMs & committee heads
    • set up monthly check-ins w/ SMs & committee heads
  • ethanhu
  • been here since FA22, head of several committees
  • reviving family system, bringing oldstaff & newstaff together to retain newstaff
  • interested in deputy idea
  • should be known to community as more than a place to print
  • use committees for systemic change
  • continuous funding, no more discretionary bailouts
    • whatever we can get!
    • returning funding to pre-covid levels
    • getting more alumni
  • being GM is a good way to learn things
  • Questions
  • jeda: bridging opstaff & volstaff
    • encourage opstaff to attend GMs
    • becoming just as knowledgable as staff, if not more so
    • bring them into technical stuff
  • yehchanyoo: staff stipend idea you had brought up?
    • go with amount brought up in FA22
    • just get started on it
  • kimcpape: bringing people together? how to embody both social & technical?
    • been on several committees
    • will bring himself up to date on technical projects
  • External Head
  • isabelle
  • more visiting alumni at where they're at now!
  • planning events more in advance
  • promote big give more, look more into alumni funding, merch
  • kimcpape: how do you feel role as opstaff supplements this?
    • done social media work & promotion in the past
  • ethanhu: tech talk speakers frequently ghost. how would you deal?
    • create list of professors on campus who could do tech talks
    • people we'd want to connect with
    • alumni list as well (bencuan, bill)
  • aly
  • last bod, offered to run because list looked empty
  • willing to collaborate with either of the other candidates
  • kimcpape: past experiences or skills?
    • done outreach to alumni for other orgs like calico
    • outreach to local companies for coding competitions
    • successfully collaborated with these orgs
  • bryli: do you actually want to run for this position?
    • im not unwilling
    • yeah sure
  • Decal heads
  • dpark
  • experience in other parts of ocf
  • adding content
  • helped with other decal in the past
  • jaysa
  • took the decal. it needs work
  • kian
  • experience facilitating & working on infrastructure
  • putting FAQ on website
  • needs the units

Voting & Results

  • New SMs: oliverni & njha!!!
  • no deliberation
  • New GMs: bryli & ronitnath!!!
  • had deliberation
  • New ficomm head: ani
  • New internal head: aditya
  • New external head: isabelle
  • New decal heads: jaysa & kian