Saturday 27 May 2023 Termcom Meeting

Office Terminals

keeping gwem (Ryzen 3700X) and natural-flavor (6700K), donating/decommissioning everything else (all Skylake Pentiums)
set up 2 NUCs and 1 Mac Mini as replacements. for now place docks on the empty desks
in the trash box:
- X99: buy a CPU for that. still a decent platform
- HDDs (still sealed): add to hfcs as scratch disks
- HDDs (pulled out from servers): donate to CS350 prof as a real disk example they can disassemble
- Keyboards: keep Apple and IBM ones, donate/throw out unicomp ones

FASS is moving away from our mailing system as intended
- due to IST regulations we are not supposed to host mail for other clubs now
office group for general membership inquires - TBD
- change info: send membership inquires to membership@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (forwarded to office@csclub.uwaterloo.ca)
- raymo: teach office staff how to use the mailing system
syscom mailing list moderation
- ping next people on each termcom meeting
- edwin: mod for next two weeks

renewing the certs for csclub.cloud
- certs are issued but not yet installed on the nginx servers
- Justin: install the new certs on nginx
port forwarding
- 50000-60000
- Leo: send a request to IST

mirror-checker-ng: Nathan. how's it going?
- raymo: Nathan is AFK. ask after the meeting
archive dead projects
- damnsmalllinux and puppylinux
- saltstack: changed sync method so we can't sync from them anymore?
- eclipse is doing weird stuff on their side. nothing we can do for now
backup mirror
- CSCF is supposed to set it up in the IST server room in the basement of MC but apparently not yet
- Leo: ask CSCF about the situation
- in the mean time, configure reverse proxy (with nginx?) as our emergency backup mirror setup
CSCF: upgrade parts
- Leo: ask about them

invite Amy and Shahan to termcom meeting next time?
log collection, visualization and warning for membership renewal
- work with webcom to know their log file's location and format (so we can parse it with Loki)
transition the librarian database to MySQL/PostgreSQL
- they are not working on webrarian this term but we can prepare for that to happen