Third General Meeting

Oct 10, 2016

Cyberinfrastructure Association

Meeting Agenda

  1. Call to Order: 6:13 p.m.

  2. Roll Call
    • Officers present: Matthew Whitlock (President), Patrick McDonald (VP), Brandon White (Treasurer), Cameron Mehmken (Membership Chair), Christian Griffith (Marketing Chair)
    • Total Present: 10
  3. Open Issues:
    • Membership Fees
      • Reviewed wording for by-laws, merged pull request since last voted on
  4. New Business
    • Cluster discussion
      • Brandon created a spreadsheet to compare specs
      • Orange Pi’s brought up as an option - a little more expensive but possibly more capable (also less documentation = could be more fun)
    • Creation of “Teams”
      • Software and Hardware Team Leaders were voted on to be created last meeting
      • Elections done on Slack as a possibility - also looking at poll conductors, forms, etc.
      • Leaders don’t need to be experts but need to be committed and organized, willing to ask and learn, and keep their teams on task
      • Software Leader could help guide “Virtual Machine Cluster”
        • Get the virtual machine running without having to wait for hardware
    • Training Sessions
      • New User Training
      • Software Carpentry workshops
      • Polls for content & dates
    • Competitions
      • Too late for SC16, look at putting an “Oklahoma team” together for SC17 or SC18
      • SC cluster competitions involve: 48 hours, need vendors
      • Tulsa Competition - April 2017
        • One day, need SD cards, programming involved - look at vendors
  5. Adjournment - 6:50 p.m.