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5 | 2/12/24

5 | 2/12/24

Directors

  • bryli
  • ncograin
  • kimcpape
  • jedakrisnell
  • inurzhanov
  • aly
  • lemurseven
  • rjz
  • bplate
  • adi
  • oliverni
  • adymchenko
  • ronitnath
  • volatile organic compounds
  • tabi
  • ethanhu
  • lharriscal
  • trinityc
  • anddone

Guests

  • lukepeters
  • tiffansun

Notetaker

  • johnny

Agenda

Site

  • Progress on desktop refresh
  • Parts arrived, will build soon
    • oliver: arrived, 8600G
  • fallingrocks (mirrors) boot ssd died after DC outage
  • oliverni and lemurseven went to DC to replace ssd\noliver ni
  • thanks rjz for rebuilding the server
  • action item: access to DC for SMs? almost didn't let us in
    • rjz: will talk to them
  • Action item: NEED TO REBUILD REAPER!!!!1 💀☠️
  • sm plz fix
  • oliverni: i will rebuild jenkins this week
  • Firewhirl has weirdly low memory (only computer like this)
  • lharriscal made a pr to fix thank u luke
  • (fix = kernel panic)
    • 4GB
  • alternative solution = just use the new computer! ❗️❗️❗️😊😘
    • holy shit -L7
    • rjz: agreed
    • no
    • i want to like
    • actually set up the new computer
    • dont want people using it
    • let's just debian the new computer xd rawr
    • this ^^^ rawr :3
    • i do not ever say uwu -rjz
  • what if
  • Policy on damaging things in the lab
    • we should purchase some kind of insurance tbh - rjz
  • If it's clearly an accident we should just be nice and replace it
  • If people are being negligent then get their contact information?
  • Maybe this is already in a policy somewhere but we should write it down

Opstaff

  • Happy to know that everyone is okay from Friday's incident :')
  • Sudden Saturday closure: Opstaffs on duty for the day got comped
  • Add Opstaff to SU emails (currently sent to officers@)
  • Better if they know about building closures and any updates that might affect their shifts
  • Merch ideas: more shirts (Club Penguin, small front decal/big back decal, OCF hoodies, Greek life [Omicron isn't it gamma chi Phi ?!], custom staff shirts/hoodies w/ OCF usernames :P), stickers!!
  • open kubernetes phacility :)
  • Omicron guys chi is right there Fi
    • amogus png alpha channel go brrr
  • First PR last week (ty for Stage 2ing): $2732.50

Please clean up the lab after BoD, Decal, and GMs

  • Can we change the Minecraft server to something simpler? LMAO

Finance

  • 1k donation
  • verify donation fees
  • Current financial situation? Projections?
  • ==What's going on at Ficomm? -rjz==
  • bryli: might need to hold an emerg election for ficomm cuz Ani's really busy
  • add another ficomm head
  • ronitnath: nominates tiffany
    • ethanhu: second
    • tiffany: hmm
    • adymchenko: (moral) support
  • I can do if needed, vaguely familiar with asuc/university stuff -who is this?
    • also like do we want like actual ocf accounting
    • i feel like we don't budget or account at all
    • this is me, oliver ni
    • it's a me… oliver ni 🍄
    • it's a me… Anon Y. Mous

External

  • Tech talks happening
  • Christopher Cooper (cooperc) scheduled for 2/21 - "Fall 2021 Industry Alumni Workshop: Sneking from Head to Tail"
    • cooperc is moving away :/
    • NOOOOOOOOOOO - njha
  • Andrew Aikawa (asai) scheduled for 3/6 - "I'm doing a YCombinator company that's working on machine learning infra, so if that sounds interesting, I can talk a bit about doing YC and the stuff I'm working on"
    • noice
    • inurzhanov: wanted to stagger a bit
  • Food for these in the budget?
  • Andy Lo TBD, also how was tech talk with him last year
    • amazing - L7
    • \
  • Will try to stagger talks for rest of semester
  • I am once again asking about merch before big give (3/14)
  • Opstaff preferences in their section
  • Pricing tierlist: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10nstxZ0oKHkzQN5b1s5rnkVnBsEYbm6rn75wLr8g6A4/edit?usp=sharing
    • Logistics: people pick up merch? It's mailed to them?
    • shipping might be too expensive
      • mayybe we can do shipping for alumni if they want it and will pay for it - bryli
    • same as last year
    • Need to compare pricing to cost of item
    • Tier list? $5 is S tier… $15 is B maybe
  • kimcpape: do we have any flyers in drive for staff recruitment

Internal

  • GM 3 happened
  • Interest group heads, please send out your when2meets/lettucemeets/whatever
  • external: https://www.when2meet.com/?23186173-zbyTX
  • Goal this semester is to retain the size of these groups
  • Historical pattern is high signup, very low retention
  • Will start doing interest group updates during GM instead of boring staff training
  • Social this weekend as advertised last GM
  • Just have a lab social with Yogurtpark?
    • ~about $60-70 according to Big C social last time
    • We can also make this a Big C hike if people interested
    • we will get rained on -ethanhu

Decal

  • aly was facilitating last week
  • aly: went ok, there was nothing out of the ordinary, no major issues
  • except for a couple technical difficulties that were ironed out quickly
  • uneventful

Buysheet

ocf.io/buysheet

General

  • Projects
  • Open Computing Federation
    • ah yes this is a ronit thing
  • Alumni destinations
    • newstaff? basically making a new page on the website + adding some images - bryli
    • what if. ocf profile page idea. - njha (mostly joke)
    • add
  • Cross org socials (who has connections)
  • Finance dashboard
  • Sysadmin From Scratch
    • we need this if we're going to provide more services (vps / etc) for the OCF so this is a good starting point - njha
  • Server room fire suppression
    • newstaff - stick a new staff in the server room and hand them a fire extinguisher and feed them once daily - bryli
  • Groups - recruitment for new heads
  • Linux/infra
  • Web
  • "we love the environment" -bryan
  • "we love fire safety" -ronit