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9 | 3/18/24

9 | 3/18/24

Directors

  • dapark
  • bplate
  • ronitnath
  • bryli
  • rjz
  • jaysa
  • njha
  • lukepeters
  • anddone
  • jedakrisnell
  • inurzhanov

Guests

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Notetaker

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Agenda

General

  • SWE wants to reserve the lab Sunday 4/14 from 9-2:30 PM for Tech Day
  • Jaysa will watch over
  • ABSA: Results come out March 21
  • We can appeal (for example, if we received less than we requested for ABSA) until March 30
    • If we need to appeal, attend FiComm hearing on April 1st or 8th
  • Parking can
  • jaysa: site hours updated for spring break

## Building Access * Lauren meeting (@Bryan) * Lauren's current response: * "I will connect with Filson and the SUFMO team to try to get a better understanding of their rules and expectations and get back to you on how we can move forward. From talking with Bryan yesterday, ya'll just want the ability to use the OCF for meeting space up until building close. 

I'm hopeful we can come to an easy solution to allow this with some more communication."
  • Our stance on Lauren's response:
  • Well, we want more than this, but we need to figure out SUFMO's bottom line before seeing what's possible. We don't have good informational access
  • MLK closure at 5pm Monday and Friday
  • Serious problem, plus building security being more active with enforcement lately
  • Only way to apply pressure is to send more emails, still working on figuring out if the ASUC can be helpful here
    • Currently using this method
  • njha: Who is telling the building that the reason we want to have after hours access is to hang out? Like yes, that would be nice, but the primary thing that we need is after hours access in case something breaks. Apparently this semester they don't respect the AH access we do have (someone came by and said that nobody is on the list for AH access). In terms of priority we need…
  • Access during regular hours (not at risk)
  • Access 24/7 for maintenance (at risk, critical!!)
    • ^^ This should be our priority right now!!! We cannot have servers in MLK if we cannot access them during building close!!!
  • Access 24/7 to hang out (completely gone, very annoying that this changed and it doesn't really make sense bc why kick out people who are definitely students and are already inside, but also less important to us)
  • They said that "the OCF does not have after hours access, it was only when there was a state of emergency, due to COVID"
    • Currently there is no "state of emergency", and there are no OCF members who have ever had after hours permissions after COVID lockdown was removed
    • Do we not have after-hours? Can we get it?
    • Sometimes we get kicked out by SUFMO staff, sometimes we get kicked out by security staff
    • Communicate to Lauren that we need to figure out whether security is also part of SUFMO and how to communicate with them

## Opstaff * Hiring * If anyone has comments on the job description, please add them asap * JD: * Being present behind the desk for customer service, such as assisting users with account creation, printer maintenance, and general concerns * Having availability throughout the week (~8.5hrs per week) * Attending job shifts and weekly team meeting * Communicating and collaborating with fellow Operations Assistants, Operations Manager, and/or Staff * Committing to personal projects for lab improvement * Creating OCF advertisements and documentation to spread awareness of services * Collecting and analyzing user feedback to give actionable advice to OCF volunteers on how to improve OCF services * Comments: * Is anyone on opstaff graduating / otherwise leaving? How many people do we need to need to find for stipends? * 2 people graduating (Kim and Andy) * OCF will be open again the Monday after Spring Break (April 1st) * Pay period 4 is complete: $2526.75 * Any updates on Gianna's project? Still same as last week? (No worries if there haven't been any) * No progress yet, two main ideas * No or easy password with no pages, can add pages when necessary * Rotating password with pages by default, can change password or add pages when necessary * Plan is to start hiring process (slowly) after Spring Break

Site

  • NixOS desktops are basically completely working now
  • Printing, Audio, Login, etc.
  • Works great! We are happy with this hardware stack. Let's buy some more.
  • Kubernetes
  • It has backups now! Once a day at 4 AM (UTC lol)
  • We can migrate more things to it now :)
  • Buying higher-spec machines with GPUs? Probably 4060.
  • Probably upgrade CPU to a 7700x? 8600G = 7500f, not very powerful as a CPU

External

  • tech talks:
  • People who have reached out: bencuan, mdcha, andylo, ethanhs
  • mdcha - 4/3 at 8pm

Internal

  • Social was last Saturday
  • Hope that went well
  • Thoughts on moving GM to right after BoD due to super low turnout
  • Getting frustrating preparing presentations to present to like 2 people (the 2-3 meetings with more than 2 people aren't indicative of turnout for all GMs this semester)
  • Will plan for social mid April sometime (maybe, depending on interest)
  • 29th is the first day of RRR

Finance

  • jaysa: next semester, ficomm handle smaller purchases like tissues, paper, staples, etc.
  • Make an allocation, report to BoD for what is purchased without vote (but buysheet isnt transparent)
  • Current buysheet process isn't required by statue
  • Financial situation as of this week:

Decal

  • will update website and send out announcement.. right after this!
  • ty trinity for lec last week, trinityc and aly lec next week on git

Buysheet

ocf.io/buysheet