Minutes 2018-10-13

2018-10-13

Attendance

  • Ashmita (Systems Committee Member)
  • Isai (President)
  • Louis (Sysadmin)
  • Michael (Webmaster)
  • Nathan (Systems Committee Member, Very)

Last Week's TODOs

  • Louis: Fix SSL renewal
  • Louis: Uptime/status monitoring
  • Thomas et.al.: Papertrail account payment
  • Move MH to persistant Department MySQL
  • Decide on bridge painting
  • any/all: Logging to papertrail for ACM custom services

Persistent TODOs (Louis' todo dump)

  • Move p to Department MySQL
  • TODO bot for Discord
  • Fix routing pt. 2: Electric boogaloo
  • Ask Irene about power draw
    • Buy a new PDU?
  • Ask Irene about martian packets
  • Fix WOPR not retrying IP acquisition
  • [long term] IPv6
  • [long term] Strategic Partnerships

Topics for Discussion

  • New Systems Committee Members
    • Ashmita
    • Amethyst's Friend
    • Connor
  • CUDA on battlestation
  • Garlic (the machine)
    • Rename this?
    • Can we purchase this now?
    • Purchasing GPUs: CraigsList/similar
    • Purchasing GPUs: Find someone who knows about ML to ask about what we should be getting
  • Website refresh
    • More content
    • Org scheme for content
    • UofM branding re:mats
    • Old photos
    • Font?
  • Todd

Minutes

  • New Systems Committee Members
    • Ashmita
      • Resolution: Yes ({louis, nathan, michael}: yea)
    • Amethyst's Friend
      • Nathan: Amethyst brought a friend by who seemed interested
      • Michael: Systems committee intern?
      • Louis: Split into "rooted" and "unrooted" members
        • Rooted == Trusted, gets root
        • Unrooted == Interested in networks stuff, etc
        • Create separate discord group: sensitive stuff (passwords, security) remain in committees/#systems and everything else goes in interest-groups/#club-systems
      • Resolution: Talk to Amethyst, give tour (+1 from Ashmita, Louis, Michael, Nathan)
    • Connor
      • Nathan: He Solved Bridge Panel
      • Michael: Yup, solution correct
      • Louis: What now? Probably in-depth "tour"
      • Michael: We should have a reference sheet to real docs.
      • Louis: We could use #systems-help-wanted as part of the tour/as a challenge
    • merr_man
      • Joined #systems-help-wanted ages ago, no followup?
      • Louis @-ed them
  • Systems Committee Membership
    • Means you're not a duffer, but you don't (immediately) get root
    • Isai: Operate on basis of least privilege
    • Louis: Makes sense, limit to people to named officers and officer-like people and people who have done lots of work in the past
    • Basic premise: Committing to do shit in #systems-help-wanted, being generally helpful
  • Gopher Site
    • Louis: Looks good, tweak wording to sound less gatekeepy
    • Resolution: Yes from Louis, Michael, Nathan
      • And already done!
      • Also adding hardware specs
  • CUDA on battlestation
    • Louis: Or any other machine
    • Nathan: Only thing worse than malware-infested gaming PC is compute server people keep rebooting to turn into a malware-infested gaming PC
    • Michael: What's CUDA
    • Nathan: It's like OpenCL
    • Michael: Why not use that
    • Nathan: OpenCL doesn't actually work with existing software
    • Louis: 1080 should be used for work
    • Isai: ^^
    • Michael: Could we use some sort of advanced queueing
    • Nathan: VR?
    • Louis: Only have VR nights every few weeks?
    • Nathan: We could use extra LAN Party money for 2080
    • Isai: This'd work, call it Upgrading Hardware for LAN Party
    • Louis: Add budget category as "new resources for members" or similar?
    • Isai: What's garlic quote for?
    • Nathan: Everything but GPUs
    • Isai: MNQuant status?
    • Louis: They haven't really gotten back to us
    • Isai: We shouldn't depend on them, we could set it up and let them know they can
    • Isai: Add 2080 to budget, get to Thomas
  • Garlic (the machine)
    • Rename this?
      • MaLlory
      • gorlic
      • roMuLus
    • Can we purchase this now?
      • One purchase request per vendor
      • Find case, discuss later in meeting
    • Purchasing GPUs: CraigsList/similar
      • Louis: Is this possible?
      • Isai: Add to real meeting topics, find out
      • Louis: Real question is "can purchases be made by members"
      • Isai: P-card probably required
      • Louis: CraigsList can't (usually, like 99%) be done via card
    • Purchasing GPUs: Find someone who knows about ML to ask about what we should be getting
      • Nathan: Just get a bunch of cards and SLI, no?
      • Louis: That's my understanding
      • Nathan: I can talk to Eric E. and see what his opinions are?
  • Add budget things:
    • https://pcpartpicker.com/list/bk3dr6
    • 2x https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Converter-Prolific-Chipset-CB-DB9P/dp/B00IDSM6BW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1533171028&sr=8-3&keywords=usb+to+serial
  • Website refresh
    • More content
      • Isai: Add "ACM through the years," so people (sponsors) can see what we've done in the past. More content is good, will ensure that it's not a pain to get to the real site (through a department landing page).
      • Michael: Should have events
      • Nathan: File an issue, I'll do backend and Ashmita will do fronteend
    • Org scheme for content
      • Louis: re: censoring meeting minutes, could make them non-obvious to navigate to so there's less of a chance of people feeling the need to censor them. Make link under events, replace it with e.g. "History"?
      • Michael: Yeah, it clutters.
      • Resolution: Yes from Isai, Louis, Michael, Nathan
    • Add link to MH site "for info about previous MH's, click here" -> acm.umn.edu/asdfasdfasdf
    • UofM branding re:mats
      • Louis: U-wide push for Drupal is because U wants consistent branding. We could copy UMN CSS?
      • Nathan: Sign into thetis, choose "classic theme"
      • Louis: Mats doesn't care, he doesn't want to be bugged about not meeting the branding requirements
    • Old photos
      • Isai will upload
  • CTF!!!
    • Michael: Team reg done, can just add a bunch of "standard easy problems."
  • Unix Class Captions
    • Nathan: Is this actually getting done?
  • Todd
    • Nathan: Should probably integrate with thetis

TODOs

Short Term

  • Any/All: Come up with new name for ML machine. Greco-roman mythology-themed, ideally contains m and l
  • Isai: Talk to someone about learing more about University-level branding requirements
  • Louis: Make resume upload look good
  • Louis: Resume upload link generation and go-live
  • Louis: Sync with Thomas about budget requests
  • Michael: More documentation on problem format for MinneCTF
  • Michael: Move meeting minutes to a page linked to from the officer meetings blurb, change top link to "ACM History" (pending content)
  • Nathan: Add 2080 to budget
  • Nathan: Move p to Department MySQL
  • Nathan: Poke Ashmita
  • Nathan: Talk to Eric E. and see what his opinions are on ML server
  • Nathan: Thetis
  • Nathan: Triptych
  • Thomas et. al.: Fix LAN Party budget entry
  • Thomas et. al.: Purchasing things "thru members" (buying things on craigslist a-la the buying the TimmyHo's) and getting reimbursed FINANCE DEPT INPUT NEEDED

Medium Term

  • Any/All: Add "ACM History" content to some folder in Keybase
  • Any/All: Logging to Papertrail for ACM custom services
  • Any/All (probably Nathan): TODO bot for Discord (named Todd)
  • Isai: Upload old photos
  • Louis: Ask Irene about martian packets
  • Louis: Ask Irene about power draw
    • Buy a new PDU?
  • Louis: Fix WOPR not retrying IP acquisition
  • Louis: Fix routing pt. 2: Electric boogaloo
  • Louis: Inventory non-closet items (monitors!)
  • Nathan: Talk to SIFT about CTF sponsorship
  • Thomas et. al.: Domain ownership continuity FINANCE DEPT INPUT NEEDED

Long Term

  • Louis: abnerdoor
  • Unset: IPv6
  • Unset: Strategic Partnerships