Board of Directors Meeting

Attendance: - [x] storce - [x] rsang - [ ] jaysa - [x] sbwilliams

• [x] msonmez
• [ ] joiew
• [x] sawansri

• [ ] erdaifu

• [ ] jingwenyang

• [ ] finwan
• [x] eariespraud
• [x] knivesng
• [ ] lukepeters
• [x] danliu
• [ ] michaelzls
• [x] blakeh
• [ ] ncostello
• [x] ericgu

Guests: chamburr, ethanhu

Quorum for this meeting is 5/9

Meeting Started at 6:48pm

administrivia

• SWE++ this weekend, all students will be wearing badge, no parents inside. Communicated with sufmo.

• storce: approved this plan with andy's subordinates

• storce: HKN wants to reserve the lab, bringing prospective berkeley students for an educational event, have done this in the past

• April 26th, conflicts with SWE++, need to email them

• Added eric to general afterhour access list. go to bestdocs to see policy on afterhours and keycard when in doubt. no more trouble with sufmo.

• storce: added policies to bestdocs

operations

• eariespraud: reaching out to hiring waitlist for 3 new positions for fall semester
• eariespraud: can we have some money for opstaff social? $70?
• seems like past years was around $150
• rsang: $150 is fine
• bod vote to allocate $150 to opstaff social: 9 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain, PASSES
• need more little tape
• epson still having issues :sob:

internal

• tech talk today!

• snacks?

  • ericgu: cucumber lays pls

• msonmez: sent 2 airbnb's in #administrivia, please review

• msonmez: airbnb's are expensive, will be a little over $100 per person
• storce: we should discuss budget next bod
• msonmez: need to book airbnb by beginning of next week
• rsang: allocate budget now?
• msonmez: after bod today I'll get headcount and calculate what we need to make it $100 per person out of pocket
• msonmez: want the airbnb to be bartable because we don't have cars, that's why we're looking at Daly City

finance

• rsang: finna told me to tell everyone that everything requested should be getting ordered this week
• rsang: waiting for Jaysa's gpus

decal

• sawansri: had docker lecture with ~30 people, one of the largest attendance lectures ever, joe did good lecture

design

• rsang: hoodies getting pr'd soon

rebuild

• login server transition
  • makemysql script checks if on tsunami so it doesnt fix, a bunch of random stuff we are going through to fixed
  • there is an ongoing PR to fix everything with the new login servers
  • have a list of packages we need to add to the new servers
• ericgu: what happened with nginx?
  • oliver applied the changes to his puppet env, fixed the nginx redirect issues
    • everyone who didnt set up their default home address properly had their website fail
  • oliver failed, but we should merge the PR into the main branch
  • sophie: can help review them after bod
  • blakeh: want to dig into it
• sophie: went through and cleaned up project board. issues are added to the board by default now.
  • can draft up a proper procedure for projects and issues to go through bod/board
• new print server
  • blakeh: it finally works! using a slightly newer architecture
  • blakeh: ocf post script filter has been deprecated. was initially used to address rasterized print jobs...?
    • now uses the native HP drivers and has been working fine so far
  • blakeh: epson drive needs some workarounds for now bcuz it under-charges usage as physical sheets instead of sides. but new printer is HP so we dont need to worry too much about that.
  • sophiew: stop doings sides and just pages, has already been voted on previously
  • blakeh: changes it to charge by page from now on than
  • blakeh: have to change several custom scripts. it would be really nice if we can remove all of them. only problem is that billing is using a non-v3 compatible backend
  • blakeh: no longer using cups classes. problem with classes is that PPD never gets send to the clients, so now we are running a cups server on each of the machines. the machines now fully understands the capabilities of the printers, which enables a lot of options (think double-sided printing configs, fixed issue with goodnotes, etc.)
  • blakeh: load balancing is done by the client, who retrieves queue status from the print server.
  • blakeh: connection between client and printers should also be encrypted now!
  • blakeh: should also be giving better error/debug messages
  • blakeh: printer server now shows OCF-bw and OCF-color. Looking into capabilities-based routing so that people can select color and jobs get routed automatically
  • blakeh: before we deploy it...
    • get kerberos ticket working for printhost web interface so opstaff can log in without re-authenticating
  • blakeh: tried at least 5 other ways... this is the best solution so far. close to being CUPSv3 ready!

Meeting Adjourned at 7:26pm

Notetaker: blakeh