October 26th, 2017 Meeting Minutes

Notes taken by cookie in vim

13 people in attendance, including: dolphin-phone, zurek, mind, presto, leech, fedele, cookie, dolphin, hellbacon, kessler, kahrl, sgt

1:56 PM, On a Thursday, 2225 Kohrman Hall

Invisible Need Project Success

• Food drive took place last weekend and it was a huge Success

• We filled the floor of the Sunseeker trailer with dry goods

• Thank you to everybody that volunteered

ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest)

• Good luck to the ICPC team with their event coming up in Grand Rapids

• Click for more information on the regional Event

• Click for general ICPC information

PLAN (Parkview LAN Event)

• PLAN is on November 11th - 12th

• We are looking for volunteers for many aspects of PLAN including: Game Coordinators, Concessions, and Admissions

• Meeting will be tentatively set for Friday @ 3pm (confirm with Sgt)

• PLAN Site

• P.S. Director of intermural sports talked to kahrl about starting an esports program at Western

• If this excites you talk to Kahrl he is having a meeting with the Director this week

Server Updates

• We are currently trying to setup our server infrastructure to be more stable then it was in the past

• Currently we are running our service on Wakko/Yakko

• The new system will be set up with a control node and a compute node

• The compute node will be run on the hardware Jazz/Dot

• Specs for Jazz/Dot 24 core processor with 32GB of RAM which is very upgradable

• Jazz/Dot will host our chat service, ssh server, and member accessible

• The control node will be a server donated by the department

• We will make use of the Horizon UI to allow members to spin off VM’s at will from Jazz/Dot

• The VM’s will be compartmentalized as an extra measure of sever security

• We are currently waiting on OIT to open the ports needed to facilitate all of the server improvements

• For any questions or concerns talk to hellbacon

General

• Reminder to prepare for spring MHACKS so that we can arrange travel and stay(TBD)

• Matrix is currently seeking donations and if it is a system we would like to use then we should consider donating to them

• There is a weechat plugin for matrix that resemble the look of irc although round trip information transfer can be slow in some rooms, we are working on a right up for the exact implementation

• We are also thinking about bridging our matrix server to an irc server to allow member to access that chat in fashion

• Eboard is also talking about making prevision for keeping in contact with member as they transition from students to alumni