2020-10-05 Online Meeting

Start Time: 17:00 End Time: 17:55

Attendance

• Charles (President)
• Mike (Vice President)
• Cole (Treasurer)
• Kelton (Treasurer)
• Hemant (Systems Admin)
• Andrew (Webmaster)
• Louis

Last Week's TODOs

Today

• N/a

One Week

• Andrew:
  • Put meeting times on website
  • Put paper pals on website
• Charlie:
  • Bug CAT about SDC
  • Get SDC Planned
• Hemant:
  • Plan UNIX classes
  • Email Electrical Guy about 220v lines & tripped breaker
  • Email Irene
• Mike:
  • Annual report (pending money info)
  • Reset acmpr's password
• Cole/Kelton:
  • Update on SSF disaster
  • Talk to Shana about getting ACM national accounts

Four Weeks

• Andrew, Hemant, Kelton, Louis:
  • Write CTF problems

Blocked/Long Term

• Charles:
  • Try to get minnehack@umn.edu (not actively pursuing)
  • Plan Ecolab, SPS think talks (blocked)
  • Find sock person (blocked)
  • Finish new sponsorship info
• Hemant:
  • Schedule an infastructure rebuild meeting
  • Look at using google drive for backup
  • Inventory member machines
  • Change table to be public-DHCP
  • Talk to someone about power for closet
  • 10Gb project (pending Irene)
• Cole and Kelton:
  • Pre-approval forms (labelmaker, cleaning supplies)
• Everyone:
  • Update the officer wiki
• Somebody:
  • Throw away the bad machines, hubs, hard drive trays, rails, etc
  • Do the laundry
  • More fridge

Topics for Discussion

• Opaque
• Keys
• Jackbox
• Stipends
• Department requests
• General website update
• Gopherlink
• Member inquiry emails
• Debian mirror
• Tool time

Minutes

• Opaque
  • Kelton: We kind of talked about this during extended social hour last week, I just wanted to check on the status
  • Charlie: I think it should be some javascript or c or python style language, if it's not nobody is gonna know how it works
  • Kelton: Ok I think this is on hiatus for the time being, we can get back to this when it becomes more relevant
• Keys
  • Mike: I just dropped off Helen's key in the closet and I wanted to check on the status of all the keys bc the spreadsheet in the drive isn't updated
  • Ashmita still has hers, Helen's key is now in our possesion
• Jackbox
  • Mike: I just wanted to bring this up since it keeps coming up as something we could do during social hour to make non officers want to stick around
  • Kelton: Yeah that sounds cool
• Stipends
  • Kelton: I think Louis just put this one in here because he was confused about how they would work?
  • Kelton: For this year I think only the treasurers got approved from last year's request, so the question is what roles will get it next year
  • Charlie: Is there any restriction on what roles are eligible for stipends?
  • Kelton: I think Nathan said there's a limit of five officers who can get stipends but I'm not sure
  • Cole: I think this is a topic to come back to around spring ssf time
• Department requests
  • Cole: we were supposed to submit a request months ago but we still have 3-10 days to submit it
  • Mike: What is this request for? Is there some specific catagory of expenses this is supposed to be used for?
  • Cole: I'm not sure, last year's request looks like it was all for events
  • Cole: It looks like electronics, promotional materials and general upkeep we usually request from operations
  • Mike: What would we be requesting from the department, since we don't have events anymore?
  • Kelton: This seems like it would be the place to do the argo upgrade request
  • Cole: It doesn't look like they fund electronics from this generally
• General website update
  • Kelton: This has partially happened, I think most of the website needs to be rewritten to not be mostly about the room they can't enter
  • Andrew: I think I'm just gonna cross out the room tab
  • Kelton: Yeah, and rewrite the front page
  • Hemant: I do think it's useful to know that we have a room even if you can't use it right now
  • Kelton: Yeah, but it would be better to say what we do have rather than a big massive disclaimer over what it used to be
• Gopherlink
  • Charlie: I wanted to check in to make sure the new gopherlink is done
  • Kelton: I've done as much as possible, we still need to wait for them to process our form
  • Andrew: Once we do that we should find a way to mirror our events to gopherlink. I'll look at how adding events works and write a script
• Member inquiry emails
  • Charlie: We've gotten some of these that haven't been answered yet. Unfortunately Louis isn't here for me to yell at him
  • Andrew: I've answered some of them
  • Charlie: Oh wait this was just sent to me. I'll respond to that today
• Linux distro mirror
  • Hemant: We're going to be a private network which means our bandwidth is going to be limited by how many requests we get
  • Hemant: I think we should host a Debian mirror to get more requests
  • Andrew: We should just seed Arch
  • Cole: We are not allowed to seed anything, no matter how legal
  • Hemant: I'm going to talk to Irene about this next week
  • Cole: How specifically do they look at the traffic? will it look weird if all the traffic is going to to one server?
  • Hemant: I don't think that's really a problem
  • Hemant: We can just put different mirrors on different IPs if it comes to that
  • Hemant: It is possible that the mirror we set up could be throttled by disk I/O
  • Charlie: We should put the newest version on an SSD
  • Cole: We should request an SSD and memory from the department then?
  • Kelton: That would be good
  • Hemant: Well we need more memory for argo anyway
• Tool time
  • Charlie: Kauffman suggested we introduce people to this at the UNIX classes, it's basically an into to emacs and advanced bash utilities
  • Charlie: I also think we should put it on our resources page
  • Louis: Sounds good to me

Newsletter

• SDC
• UNIX classes reminder

TODOs

Today

• N/a

One Week

• Andrew:
  • covid-ify the website
  • tool time on resources page
• Charlie:
  • Get SDC Planned
• Mike:
  • Annual report (pending money info)
  • Reset acmpr's password
• Cole/Kelton:
  • Department request
  • Talk to Shana about getting ACM national accounts

Four Weeks

• Andrew, Hemant, Kelton, Louis:
  • Write CTF problems

Blocked/Long Term

• Charles:
  • Try to get minnehack@umn.edu (not actively pursuing)
  • Plan Ecolab, SPS think talks (blocked)
  • Find sock person (blocked)
  • Finish new sponsorship info
• Hemant:
  • Schedule an infastructure rebuild meeting
  • Look at using google drive for backup
  • Inventory member machines
  • Change table to be public-DHCP
  • Talk to someone about power for closet
  • 10Gb project (pending Irene)
• Cole and Kelton:
  • Pre-approval forms (labelmaker, cleaning supplies)
• Everyone:
  • Update the officer wiki
• Somebody:
  • Throw away the bad machines, hubs, hard drive trays, rails, etc
  • Do the laundry
  • More fridge