Board of Directors Meeting
Directors in attendance: anddone asai ethanhs fydai kmo ncberberi njha ronitnath snarain
Guests in attendance: rjz*
Guests marked with a * suffix were appointed to BoD.
Quorum for this meeting is 5
Meeting Started at 20:12
BoD agenda: https://notes.ocf.berkeley.edu/3KSjootvR7ywmuvQaQdzqw?both#
- Upcoming Events and Announcements
- DeCal is still in need of facilitators (a5, b8, b10)
- ronit: why is this a problem now (compared to previous semesters)?
- ethanhs: decal involvement has been traditionally a problem in the past, but not to this degree
- there are less alumni this semester than previous semesters maintaining the course, perhaps some outreach should be done to spread lessons among more facilitators
- ATDP Explorations
- Short courses targeted towards K-12 over the summer that student staff can help facilitate, potentially on OCF-oriented topics
- kmo suggested bringing in a group effort to work on the OCF
- ethanhs: the OCF as a whole should avoid pursuing a full blown partnership with ATDP Explorations
- kmo: disagree, pursuing something like this is a unique opportunity that likely won't happen again. the OCF should use this opportunity to help raise awareness of the OCF among local communities
- ronitnath: agree on outreach, disagree on immediate rollout
- kmo motions to move discussion of this topic later, revisiting once a plan has been developed
- Short courses targeted towards K-12 over the summer that student staff can help facilitate, potentially on OCF-oriented topics
- DeCal is still in need of facilitators (a5, b8, b10)
- rt#10015: ASUC Spending & New Hypervisors(?)
- kmo ran down the gist of the ticket ($49k), with njha + ethanhs
- ethanhs: new hypervisors, including backup server (with storage), and a new HPC node
- old hypervisors are getting, well, old
- Some of these hypervisors just don't work reliably anymore (such as jaws)
- Two new components:
- New hypervisor: 4-in-1 system (four machines) = ~30k
- HPC: System + 2 GPUs = ~15k leftover
- old hypervisors are getting, well, old
- ronitnath: asked questions about ASUC spending, leftover funds, the need for new hypervisors, etc.
- BoD is mostly positive on this development
- kmo motions either to vote tonight or move to coming weeks
- njha: will likely move to coming weeks since a quote still has to be decided
- NEW ACTION ITEM: get quotes for these hypervisors!
- Committee Updates
- University Affairs
- Met with Megan last week to make up for previously missing weekly meeting
- Mostly talked about OCF logistics, status update on BoD stance on student conduct
- mfox brought up the proposal (and strongly recommended) student stipends, which has been a historically controversial proposition
- Met with opstaff + kdr on Friday
- Talked to opstaff about new opstaff project idea list (linked above), checking in with current progress on existing/previous projects
- Internal
- Had meeting last Saturday with family head check-ins, will plan more in future
- Hack Day pushed to mid-April
- snarain comments that the CTF was incredibly successful, with the most turnout on Discord VC in a long, long while. (woohoo!)
- Industry and Alumni Relations
- Everlaw is busy after spring break
- asai will update the ticket with more information
- Finance
- ABSA was filled out last Sunday and ready to go
- The link to review is https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HbLSLFgdm7u8de-i4xrUA2KOrjsjo1lWak-LfaJ41vE/edit
- Still pushing forward with STF
- ABSA was filled out last Sunday and ready to go
- Communications
- Decided that family heads will start sending emails in regards to family-specific events :O
- STF promotion efforts
- University Affairs
Meeting Adjourned at 20:51
Notetaker: kmo