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Attendance¶
Directors¶
- dapark
- anddone
- rjz
- ronitnath
- bryli
- etw
- andytsai
- inurzhanov
- tabi
- jedakrisnell
- kimcpape
- lemurseven
- ethanhu
- jyxzhang
- oliverni
- storce
- jaysa
- adymchenko
- adi
Guests¶
- ncograin
Notetaker¶
- storce
Agenda¶
General¶
- BoD is currently Mondays at 8pm to 9pm
- Updates on conflicts?
- Power outage email update → talked to Lauren, moving through the bureaucracy
- Requesting future emails be sent to sufmodept@list.berkeley.edu
- ronit: not much info, SUFMO still doing stuff
- bryli: Hostmaster emails - oliver said something about updating CNAME?
- oliverni: still talking to IT people about email auth. campus updated DMARC to reject unauthenticated email
- either get campus to add SPF records, or change domains to CNAME
- lots of DNS changes, taking their time
- Need to update ocf.io/templates as well
- Socreg review
- rt 13593, 13594
- Responding with security contacts as *Ms + rjz
- Requested confirmation that we would "implement procedures that will lessen the likelihood of vulnerability occurences" due to WP higher than average levels of vulns in the last year.
- jaysa: SWE++ using lab this semester? Saturdays 9:45am-12pm from Feb 17- April 20
- used for a while for teaching smol kids
- No volunteer staff in the future: op staff responsible for everything
- Looking for volunteerstaff to come around and help with any missing technical items
- Oliver & Bryan volunteers
- storce to bod
- Approved!
Site¶
- UPS?
- Checking on current UPS to decide whether to buy or no
- Advantages of two UPS:
- Seamless changes of UPS
- up to 5k
- we should try to spend funding
- OCF infra status? (re: downtime on services)
- docker updated itself (rjz) and broke things
- putting those back up broke riptide
Finance¶
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Opstaff¶
- Lab is officially open again!
had a brief closure because of the server - Created a schedule for this week, changing it this weekend
- Will have Opstaff fill in their availability once again
- Need MW 1-2pm still!
- Joe's got it (ty joe) :)
- Opstaff hiring for next academic year: hiring 3?
- Op staff meeting to decide on it: need opinions of current staff
- Opstaff project recommendations
- Merch (no stickers left :( )
- Welcome to add any project idea
- First Opstaff meeting next week (TBD time and day)
- Any volunteer staff interested in filling opstaff shifts?
- Joe
Internal¶
- Need to finalize GM time
- Wednesday 8-9pm
- Will work on slides by then
- Changing to make it more engaging
- Introduce committees
- Reaching into my bag for contacts for people to invite, will send first round of invites in next 1-2 weeks
External¶
- Tech talks update?
- Updated alumni list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yYYMJtbTiB8TwEnur7cC9_w9VfgZY9i2FmNHbbnEKGo/edit?usp=sharing
- Working on email template to send out, will refer back to prev external notes
- Suggestions form for professors to contact? Will people actually fill it out ? Thinking about a better way
- Meeting times for the semester please fill out <3 https://www.when2meet.com/?23186173-zbyTX
- Big Give?
- Fairly far out (last year was March 8), but good to prepare in advance
- Merch for certain donation tiers (like KALX) - how would logistics for this work out, any issues with ASUC
- In the past, it looks like current OCF members led tech talks sometimes → bring this back?
- Create a page on the website for past tech talks - might be useful since they seem fairly scattered/hard to access
- https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/docs/staff/techtalks/
- will make this more prominent on website in the future
- Rao? Other professors? grad students?
- RAOOOOO
- if satish rao has a million fans, then I am one of them if satish rao has ten fans, then I am one of them if satish rao has only one fan then that is me if satish rao has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth if the world is against satish rao, then I am against the world
- my favorite professor linus tech tips
Buysheet¶
https://callink.berkeley.edu/actionCenter/organization/ocf/finance?tab=Accounts
- staff vm hypervisor - will be tentatively going with ryzen CPUs for now
- 2 zen 4 ryzen servers
- RAM? if 2x192GB will go over 5k budget by $1030
- what about storage?
- chassis ordered
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