Hey peoples,
Happy Valentine's Day! <3 Thanks for watching the webcast, btw. =D Also, I'm taking minutes because Gordon asked (guess I'm the new secy), but they've been edited by sluo.
~gcw
Present: alanw - Alan Wong dmchan - David Chan gcwong - Genevieve Wong geo - George Wu gfs - Gregory Shuflin (Site Manager) gordeon - Gordon Mei (General Manager and chair) jchu - Jonathan Chu mgasidlo - Michael Gasidlo sluo - Steven Luo
*: member of BoD
Quorum not met
Start time - 7:20 pm
GM budget - $8,545.95 misc fund - $12,720.19
BMUN - sle wants them to help fund monitors + paper&toner - sluo: if you're going to do that, specify an amount, not the specific equipment - dmchan: volunteered jchu for tech support, 2nded by geo + Gordon - (?) in past, they haven't covered more than printing expenses? - proposed amounts - jchu: $3200; geo: $2500 - settled amount to ask for is $2,400
Sle's motion - wants to buy 2 HDDs on newegg for backup server - no quorum so postponed until next time
Eshleman move - need budget for power and other upgrades to Eshleman lab
Events - free tea, donuts, and bagels in Evans: OCF should crash it next Thursday 5pm - Maintenance Day Feb 23rd. Food suggestions? Geo wants Cancun / Great China
SM - would like to complete switch from NIS+ to LDAP by spring break - jchu: how transparent is transition? - sluo: theoretically not user-visible, if everything goes well - jchu: security concerns about password hashes on LDAP - sluo: no worries, authentication is ok. - jchu wants email handling to be optional for virtual hosts - gfs said it's up to SM
Wii party - stevklaw wants party when Super Smash Brothers come out - should be at OCF? or other place? - gordon suggests jchu's place...or not.
Last notes - sluo: we should elect fewer people to BoD next time - we have 18 people on BoD, what happened to the other half
Motion to adjourn: 7:36