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\n
• 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
  • https://youtu.be/Ao2lNd7jCb8
  • if you really want it i can print it -rjz
  • probably need to use some kind of nylon or PC
• 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
  • 
• 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
  • • what info do y'all want on the flyer/what motivates u ppl to join lmao
  • external drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wkUWETud0e2t7C5UhvRyWG8RzwPGY0Qw?usp=sharing
  • recruitment idea design: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hKS54n3XnE1LFGHvTv-ZvPlK1-aWv8os/view?usp=sharing
  • awesome
  • beautiful
    • potentially specify "join volstaff"
    • but don't let ruin vibe

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