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2 | 1/22/24

2 | 1/22/24

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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