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2023 02 15

Board of Directors Meeting

Directors in attendance: amangalampalli anddone bencuan bplate btorres dapark drestiny ericyang ethanhu etw jaysag kian nboihem ncograin njha oliverni rameesha rjz trinityc yehchanyoo

Guests in attendance: anirudhsuresh* kashun

Guests marked with a * were appointed to BoD.

Quorum for this meeting is 11

Meeting Started at 19:14

trying out outline!

Status updates

  • Volunteer staff need to add staff hours! (https://ocf.io/shs)
  • Open Computing Fountain
  • Open Ceiling Facility
  • B&G storage access (email to officers@)
  • If cleared, can someone respond to this email (not an RT ticket, someone on external maybe?)
  • Think about long term storage plan
  • Less things now, still need more e-waste recycling…
  • SWE++ event
  • Any issues last week?
    • Ask bencuan
  • Fire drill 02/27/2023 - 9:15am
  • OCF opens at 9am (Monday) - do we want to just open later?
  • Alternate case is opening then everyone almost immediately leaves
  • usually long line on Monday before opening
  • verdict: open as usual
  • Power outage for MLK second floor 02/23/2023 6:30-7:30am
  • Should not impact us
  • rjz: on a side note, there’s a UPS sitting in the rack, we might want to set that up
    • 20A plug, so we need to unplug the PDU before setting it up
  • check max VA/W rating though
  • Can SMs check why corruption isn’t rebooting properly?
  • ask rjz for ipmi password, not yet in /opt/passwords
  • OCF roster
  • People requesting keycard
  • Lauren (approver) sends an email every time
    • last year approver was switched from GMs to advisor
  • Has requested we make a roster so she knows who’s part of the OCF and who isn’t
    • we should anyways (keep track of everyone with access)
  • One from a previous semester?
    • find access list from yearly departmental emails

Berkeley Subdomain Moratorium

  • Patrick back from vacation, sent email to him to schedule meeting next week
  • He is doing interviews this week, did not want to get lost in that
  • It is time to email the faculty

Funding Status

  • IREF
  • During meeting w/ James, he brought up $100k available from IREF
  • b/c VPN from China was only reaching 1 student, so project sunset & $100k back in pot
  • James will try to get us recurring IREF funding if we submit budget spreadsheets, lab usage stats to him before the end of the week
  • don’t count on it
  • CACSSF (Due 3/1)
  • ficomm is working on application, has budget spreadsheet mostly done
  • Met with James and went to infosession today, rescheduling with Chaka and maybe another
  • ABSA (Due 3/8)
  • Should start on this soon too, application opens 2/20
  • Big Give (Starts 3/9)

Notable RT Tickets

  • rt#12283: alumni account join
  • policy for no new alumni accounts
  • rt#12212: TBP separate web & email accounts
  • rt#12414: remove from vhost mail
  • rt#12140: HPC not working
  • lemme check - rjz
  • virt-manager doesn’t work on macos :slightly_frowning_face:
  • segfault fs required manual fsck, fixed - rjz

Buy Sheet

BoD Queue

Committee Check-ins

Opstaff Updates

  • fire drill?
  • Project updates:
  • Mousepads designed
    • any suppliers in mind?
    • no :( - need to find one
  • Socials → meet the staff form going out soon IF U HAVENT DONE IT U MUST
    • meet the committees
  • Opstaff manual for common commands, any suggestions?
    • on opstaff drive
    • etw will script tv things later
  • Signage for hours and CAL ID going up soon

Internal Comm

  • njha Kubernetes lecture for GM3
  • board game social Saturday 2/18
  • status on snacks?
  • should be able to get boba

External Comm

  • Reached out to Nvidia & CockroachDB last week (2/9) (no response but will try again maybe :moyai:)
  • Also reached out to kmo and Andy Lo yesterday (2/14)
  • Andy Lo will give talk March 15th !! (ty bencuan 🙂)
  • between 7-9pm (1h talk + Q&A)
  • any logistical questions I should ask about?
  • will we cancel BoD? yes
  • Will reach out to more people again this week
  • Aiming for one talk on the 1st of March, two weeks from now
  • Also looking to book someone for 1st week of April (4/5)

Finance Comm

Decal Comm

  • it’s happening
  • VLSB doors lock at 9…

Meeting Adjourned at 19:50

Notetaker: etw