ritlug / tasks

Real-life issue tracker for tasks, goals, and objectives for RITlug

RITlug tasks

Real-life issue tracker for tasks, goals, and objectives for RITlug

About

This is a real-life issue tracker for RITlug. No code lives in this repository, but it's a place to keep track of information and tasks that need to get done at RITlug. You can find these tasks and tickets in the form of GitHub issues here.

These are open for everyone! The RITlug Eboard primarily uses this for planning and keeping track of what needs to be done, but any club or community member is welcome to participate and add their voice. You're also welcome to file your issues too.

Labels

Labels are used to help understand the priority or type of task that an issue is about. All issues should be tagged accordingly and also be used with a milestone, if there are other issues that should be complete by a certain date. A quick reference of some common ones is included here:

• Priorities:
  • priority/low: Low priority, isn't a primary focus
  • priority/medium: Normal priority, something to be done soon
  • priority/high: High priority, something to be done ASAP by next meeting
• Task status:
  • in progress: Task that is currently in progress
  • needs feedback: Something that needs feedback from Eboard or others
  • blocked: Task that is blocked until something else is resolved first
• Task type:
  • information: Related to communicating key club information
  • Eboard: Exclusively for executive board members to address
  • meeting: Related to RITlug meetings
  • easyfix: An easier task that's great for someone looking to help out

License

All content in this repository is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

tasks's Issues

Fall Semester (2017) Schedule Planning

Week	Day	Title	Brief	Workshop	Owner
01	Sept. 01	RITlug Introduction	Intro to what the club is about and who the leaders are	n/a	@TaylorBowling @Serubin
02	Sept. 08	Linux 101	Intro to what Linux is and why we use it		@axk4545 @TaylorBowling
03	Sept. 15	Open Source 101	What is open source? What does it all mean and how can I get involved? A quick dive into the root of open source, finding a community, and how to get involved.		@jflory7
04	Sept. 22	(Workshop) Build your own virtual reality experience in an hour!	Join RITlug to build your own virtual reality experience in less than an hour! Christos Bacharakis, a project manager from Mozilla, is joining RITlug all the way from Greece to dive into the virtual reality world and more with A-Frame. Practice your git and HTML skills by building an amazing cross-platform VR experience for you to share with your friends. Yes, it’s that easy!	Interactive workshop with A-Frame	@bacharakis
05	Sept. 29	(Talk) Encrypt ALL the things with LetsEncrypt	Are you dreams haunted by a world without encryption? Do you envision a world of madness without HTTPS? RITlug has the answer to put away your nightmares. Learn how to encrypt ALL the things with free SSL/TLS certificates from LetsEncrypt! Learn what LetsEncrypt is all about and how you can use it to generate your own certificates for free.		@jflory7
06	Oct. 06	(Talk) In-Depth: Backups @ RITlug	(Talk/Discussion) Learn how RITlug protects its infrastructure and about general best practices for handling your own backups.		@Serubin
07	Oct. 13	(Talk) Building A Minecraft Server with Spigot	(Talk / part Workshop) Learn more about SpigotMC, the open source Minecraft server software that lets you build your own Minecraft server and extend it beyond what the developers ever imagined. We’ll create a server and how to customize it your liking.		@jflory7
08	Oct. 20	(Talk) Women in Open Source	Last May, Red Hat and the open source community honored two exceptional women, Avni Khatri and Jigyasa Grover for the "Women in Open Source" award. This week, the RIT Linux User's Group (RITlug) looks into the history behind the role of women in open source and tech communities. We examine the invaluable and extraordinary accomplishments of pioneering women that changed the foundations of open source and are paving the way for future generations of women to do the same.		@fosspotato
09	Oct. 27	(Workshop) Hacktoberfest Hackathon	Want to get a free t-shirt and stickers from DigitalOcean and GitHub? Make four contributions to projects on GitHub and get free swag! During the two hours, we'll help you get in your contributions before October comes to an end. Bring a laptop!		@jflory7
10	Nov. 03	(Talk) Overview of Distributed Computing	Get an introduction to distributed computing, such as virtualization and containers, how we use them, and why.		@ct-martin
11	Nov. 10	(Talk) Freedom From State: An Intro to Haskell	Haskell is a purely functional programming language, much different than C or Java. But what is purity, and why does it matter? What does Haskell actually offer for building software? And what in the world is a monad? Learn how Haskell can change the way you think about programming. We'll cover some syntax, a handful of demos, and discuss how Haskell's concepts apply to software development!		@Josh1147582
12	Nov. 17	(Workshop) Spy Pi workshop	Spy Pi is a simple DIY project you can make with a Raspberry Pi. Outfit any old picture frame with a Raspberry Pi and webcam, and suddenly intruders will never know what's coming! We'll walk through the assembly, configuration, and installation so you can go home and make your own.		@TaylorBowling
13	Nov. 24	(Thanksgiving, no RITlug)	(Thanksgiving, no RITlug)	(Thanksgiving, no RITlug)	(Thanksgiving, no RITlug)
14	Dec. 01	(Talk) Linux and FOSS: Hidden in the Data Center	It used to be that data centers were ruled by big iron and proprietary software. Today data centers are running on top of Open Source. In many cases the Open Source stack is hidden. This talk will highlight several vendors that leverage Open Source in their products.		@cprofitt
15	Dec. 08

Plan for RITlug exhibit at Imagine RIT on Saturday, April 28

Summary

Plan and organize RITlug projects to exhibit at annual Imagine RIT festival on Saturday, April 28

Background

RITlug is exhibiting again in the MAGIC Center for Imagine RIT. In the past, we've had a long table inside the center to exhibit various club projects. Students, alums, parents, faculty, and a few other thousand people in the Rochester community attend. This year is the tenth anniversary.

In the past, we have exhibited…

• TigerOS
• Raspberry Pi-related hardware (Minecraft, DIY projects)
• Other club member projects over the years

Details

To successfully plan for Imagine RIT, this is a rough outline of the steps to follow:

1. Confirm list of attendees with RITlug
2. Organize and plan projects to exhibit (build inventory list of resources required)
3. Establish shifts / schedule for booth
4. Prepare printed takeaways for booth visitors

Then, exhibit!

@axk4545 is RITlug's current project coordinator and will help with organizing and mobilizing projects for Imagine RIT. @TaylorBowling also has some project ideas in mind for the table. We also have other club members planning to join us with some of their own projects.

Outcome

An awesome booth that shows off the cool projects RITlug members are working on and provide a chance for feedback and discussion with the wider RIT community

Install basic NextCloud server onto Titan VM

Once the VM on Titan is ready, @ct-martin will do a base install of NextCloud onto the virtual machine. After this, we are blocked on policy discussions to decide how we want to offer this service to RITlug.

• DUE: 2018-04-06 2018-04-20

Organize a TigerOS Test Day

Summary

Organize a "Test Day" event for TigerOS to bring the general public in to get user feedback on installation and UI/UX.

Analysis

The TigerOS team ( @axk4545 @ct-martin @Tjzabel @ReginaTL @Josh1147582 ) has a working Fedora 26 build of TigerOS. There is new focus on user interface / user experience. User feedback would be helpful for the TigerOS team to improve their documentation and consider changes to the desktop environment based on user feedback.

A TigerOS Test Day event helps promote the project and bring people in to get feedback. This is a one-day event (maybe 2-4 hours) where people could stop by and run through installation docs in a virtual machine / as a live boot and then run through various test cases the TigerOS team would prepare.

As a motivator, we can encourage people to show up to have their name added as a contributor to the project wiki and maybe in a special place in the OS.

Implementation

1. Create installation docs for Windows / macOS users with virtual machines or doing live boots
2. Go through TigerOS tickets, highlight some where user feedback would be valuable
3. Create "test cases" with step-by-step instructions for people to run through and collect feedback
4. Create forms for people to leave feedback in (e.g. Google Drive)
5. Choose dates, begin planning with email announcement / poster design (RSVPs??)
6. Execute event, get feedback
7. Hold special meeting to analyze / figure out feedback from event

Follow up on April 2018 FOSS Family Outback dinner fundraising

Summary

Organize a FOSS Family dinner at a restaurant where RITlug can partner to do a fundraiser.

Explanation

Per tradition, there's always one or two FOSS Family dinners during the semester, where RITluggers and FOSS folk around the community go out for a night of dinner. Since RITlug is also trying to do some fundraising, we want to organize a dinner at a restaurant that will partner with us to contribute money to our club treasury.

Options

There's a few options open to us. I wanted to check if some of our favorite spots might be willing to do this for us as a special occasion.

• Available:
  • Outback Steakhouse (15% return to RITlug)
  • The Wok (20% return to RITlug)
  • Deli Sandro’s (20% return to RITlug)
  • Amaya Indian Cuisine (20% return to RITlug)
• Need to check:
  • Peppermint’s (call??)
  • Fuego's (ask on next visit??)

Planning for 2171 club fair (Saturday, August 28th, 2017)

Summary

The RIT club fair is coming up – RITlug has a table, and we need to plan out who will be there, when they will be there, and maybe any strategy that we want to try different for this year

Raw details

• Date: Saturday, August 28th, 2017
• Volunteers needed: 12:00pm - 4:30pm
  • Event times: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
• Table: C8

Who's going to be there

• @jflory7 (12:00pm - 4:30pm)
• @axk4545 (???)

Inventory

• @Serubin:
  • [?] Eboard t-shirts
• @TaylorBowling:
  • RITlug club poster

Execution

Okay, so this is coming up super fast! This is probably one of our highest priority tickets. I know @Serubin and @TaylorBowling have already said they will not be available on these dates, so I've tentatively assigned it to me, @axk4545, and @fosspotato until someone tells me otherwise. 😁

One of the biggest priorities is that we need to figure out inventory. I remember there was a hand-off on our poster between @wilfriedE and @Serubin, but I lost track of what happened with this and where our poster is. @Serubin also has the Eboard t-shirts, but I forgot how many of them. Other than that, I'd like to try to have two laptops / monitors at the club fair for us to put up our website and maybe have a TigerOS demo running, if that is possible. Also, a tablecloth of any kind would be nice to have this year, since last year, we winged it at the last minute.

@schneidy also has shared that he might have some content we can share or talk about with regards to the FOSS program, which I would love to do. I'm tagging him here so he can hopefully clarify on anything that he can pass along that we can share. 😄

I also want to put a call out to any RITlug members who happen to be in Rochester that they can help out and volunteer with this. I wouldn't say no to anyone wanting to spend a little bit of time table-sitting with us and saying hello to all of the freshman. Even if it's just 30 minutes, it would be super nice to have so that way people can take lunch / bathroom breaks without doing a mad dash back.

Checklist

This is a long issue. So here's a checklist. I like checklists.

• Locate missing club poster
• Coordinate shipping of Eboard shirts to Rochester
• Round up volunteers to help operate the table
• Coordinate with @schneidy on distributing FOSS@MAGIC materials
• Obtain / purchase a tablecloth of some kind
• Find two laptops to volunteer as tribute
  • BONUS: Find a monitor so we can use the laptops at the table at the same time

I might have missed something, but we can amend this later.

Pre-orientation (DiscoveRIT) program for incoming class of 2018?

http://www.rit.edu/studentaffairs/discoverit/index.php

RIT runs a yearly pre-orientation program called DiscoveRIT the week before New Student Orientation starts. Usually this is a week-long thing to help incoming students get acquainted to the campus and to teach them about some specific subject that they are interested in. Last year, EGS did one (http://www.rit.edu/studentaffairs/discoverit/event/81) and despite having some rocky issues with RIT, it went pretty well and we helped a good number of freshman make friends before orientation and overall have a better time getting used to the campus and the area around it.

I had an idea recently that maybe RITLUG in combination with FOSS@MAGIC or something could run one this upcoming year for new students who are interested in learning more about Linux and Open Source Software. These programs generally have to do the following:

• Help incoming students learn about the campus and the majors/clubs on campus that they can be involved in
• Help incoming students learn about the Rochester area
• Help incoming students learn a bit about a specific educational area over the course of the week
• Help incoming students get acquainted to the campus

I helped out with EGS's thing this past year and had a great time.. maybe there is some interest in doing this but with RITLUG/FOSS@MAGIC this year?

I don't have an email on who to contact about this if there is interest, but I can ask the people in EGS who organized it who they spoke to.

Poster Redesign

The current posters we are using have a handful of issues, including that they don't always print well.

Goals of the new poster template:

• Works in Black & White, and Color (there can be two templates if needed, but this also may add work in the future)
• Make sure it has the website on it
• Clean design (white background, don't need to fill every inch)
• Pics, but also don't overdo it

Get budget sheet from club office

@TaylorBowling is getting a copy of our budget sheet for us to get an idea of where we are now and plan future expenses.

Reach out to guest speakers for special topics

Summary

There's a lot of great speakers in the Rochester area or people who might be willing to travel to come out and speak. Let's try to have some interesting guest speakers this semester!

Explanation

I have a better understanding than before on how expansive the network of talented tech people around Rochester is. While I don't think we're at a place where we could try to attract speakers by covering travel costs, I think there's a small radius of people that we could reach out to for various topics, and if they do need to travel, it would hopefully be a drivable distance or line up with a pre-planned trip to Rochester.

Current candidates

There's a few people I had lined up for inviting as guest speakers depending on their availability. Some I have pinned for special topics, others it depends on what they would want to talk about.

• Charles Profitt (Linux / Ubuntu / Fedora / general sysadmin)
• Remy DeCausemaker (Open source at Twitter)
• Ryan S. Brown (Ansible)
• InfluxData (have some leads I want to follow up there)
• Local Mozillians (maybe @Nolski or @mattBernius could help connect us)
• Nextcloud (remote speakers?)
• Arch Women (possible speakers in the area)

For the people I have names for, I want to send invites out after the first week of the semester, when we have time to figure things out a bit on the ground. For now, this is a low priority ticket, but later, it will become high priority so we can try to figure out peoples' schedules.

Update the runbook

Summary

Our amazing runbook is slowly starting to date itself – we need to work on updating it based on things we're putting into practice this year or have already changed in the last year

Explanation

The runbook was the holy grail for me and @Serubin when we took over the reins from @thenaterhood and @repkam09. We all know that we're not here forever, so making sure that we keep the runbook updated and current will be helpful not only for ourselves every semester, but also for any forthcoming people who end up running the club past our time too.

I think a sit-down conversation with Eboard first to figure out what we want to update is important first, then an individual or a pair could go through actually making the changes for a final review. Ideally, I think this should happen in 2171 (fall 2017) semester, but it's not exactly a mission-critical task. But the longer it's put off, the worse it will get.

Provision NextCloud VM box, work with @ct-martin on access

@axk4545 is working on setting up a VM in @Serubin's server for NextCloud. This unblocks @ct-martin from the NextCloud base installation.

DUE: 2018-02-25

Create new project board for talk ideas

We want the ability to get community input / participation without limiting visibility to eboard only.

@ct-martin is leading this one.

Create poster for intro meeting on Jan. 26

Need to create poster for intro meeting on Jan. 26.

@TaylorBowling will create poster by Sunday night (Jan. 21).

@Tjzabel @ct-martin @axk4545 will help distribute and hang across campus next week.

Fall Semester (2018) Schedule Planning

Week	Day	Title	Brief	Workshop	Owner
01	Aug. 31	No Meeting	N/A	N/A	N/A
02	Sept. 7	Intro to RITlug	Intro to what the club is about and who the leaders are	N/A	@ct-martin @jwflory @jrtechs
03	Sept. 14	RITlug: What we do & how to get involved	What projects are RITlug involved with? Come find out!	N/A	@ct-martin @jrtechs @jwflory
04	Sept. 21	Open Source & How to Do It	Come learn about git and GitHub!	N/A	@jwflory @ct-martin
05	Sept. 28	Open Hardware & Raspberry Pis	Learn about open hardware projects, including Raspberry Pis	N/A	@schneidy
06	Oct. 5	Project Collaboration Night	Join us for a night of working with others on personal projects	Yes	@jrtechs
07	Oct. 12	Hacktoberfest	Come learn all about DigitalOcean and GitHub's month-long Hacktoberfest	N/A	@jibby0
08	Oct. 19	Introduction to Containers	This week's presentation will focus on Docker and the general concept of containers	N/A	@icflournoy
09	Oct. 26	Taylor Raspberry pi Talk	Swing on by to learn how to make an augmented Magic Mirror!	N/A	@TaylorBowling
10	Nov. 2	RIT Mirrors	Come learn how mirrors work to host packages	N/A	Paul M.
11	Nov. 9	Community Talk	Stay Calm and Carry On	N/A	@cprofitt
12	Nov 16	Maker Faire -- general project collab meeting	General Project Meeting	Yes
13	Nov. 23	Thanksgiving Break	Thanksgiving Break	N/A	N/A
14	Nov.30	NixOS and Cross-Distro Packaging	An overview of newer cross-distro package systems, snap/flatpak/appimage, as well as Nix/Guix	N/A	@jasoncarr0
15	Dec. 7	Final Meeting	Game Night	Yes	@RITlug/eboard-current

Planning a premier event

Summary

All clubs are allowed one "premier" event a semester by the RIT Clubs Office, which carries extra priority for booking a venue / promotional advertising. We could plan a "premier" event to help grow the club or build community

Explanation

Since this is a relatively new concept, I think it would be cool for us to try out a "premier" event. I don't think we really need to go crazy on this just yet – as a concept, it could be an installfest, a mini hackathon, or something RITlug-y sort of event, but I'd be happy if we had 10-20 people show up for the duration of the event. So, this ticket is not about building a crazy, huge, campus-wide event (unless we think we're ready to tackle that sort of thing).

I see this as a very, very backburner topic, possibly for spring semester. But it would be cool for us to utilize our quota of one per year by trying to create some sort of new tradition or event that people enjoy or think is fun.

Notes from along the way

• BarCamp idea
  • Reaching out to other departments about open source topics, like film / music students in liberal arts college

Look into logo redesign

Summary

RITlug does not have source files for our existing logo and there are a few wishes to have it redesigned into a new logo that is more modern and representative of who we are as a club. Thus, I am looking into a club logo redesign.

Explanation

I reached out to Ura Design of Opensource.com fame to ask for a quote on redesigning a new logo for us. I tentatively set a design budget of this for $35.00 USD, but I think this is quite low considering what other design costs are and the quality work that Ura produces. @Serubin and I briefly discussed this at the Mozilla open source clubs event last weekend, but I'm following up on it now.

I submitted the form tonight and used the RITlug Gmail for further correspondence. Any new updates or word back from the designers will be shared here.

Finance situation

@fosspotato At some point, I'd like to check in and get your feedback on this based on where we are with the club budget right now. This is probably part of a larger discussion we need to have about club finances anyways.

Presentation Creation & Guidelines

This issue will contain information on our weekly presentation/workshop tasking and process.

Guidelines

Link to our default presentation template. https://goo.gl/1dqinL

Things to include:

• Overviews/Agendas

Get information on what's needed for a tunnel mural

Contact the Resident Hall Association about what we need for approval to do a tunnel mural.
Due date: Friday 2/2/2018 at 2:30pm (eboard meeting)

Fix Slack Archive bot

The Slack Archive has not logged new messages since Dec. 24, 2017. I need to investigate and work on getting it back to logging new messages.

https://rit-lug.slackarchive.io/

Integrate signin.ritlug.com with CampusGroups sign-in

Summary

Use CampusGroups attendance system for weekly meeting attendance tracking

Background

This system integrates better with the system of RIT Clubs Office and helps make our club more visible inside of RIT's clubs social network. It may be helpful to show activity and engagement with our club to external actors.

Details

@ct-martin has some ideas on this one, but wants to explore it more in depth.

Outcome

Attendance and participation in RITlug events measured through CampusGroups

RITlug Logo Guidelines

Also, move logos to a consistent location, such as runbook/governance

[DUE: OCTOBER 30] Take financial certification

Summary

Club office financial certification is live. All Eboard members are required to be certified by October 30th or the club will be temporarily suspended.

Description

The financial certification page lives here:

https://www.rit.edu/studentaffairs/campuslife/financial-certification-test

This is high priority and needs to be done in the next week. This should also be covered at the next Eboard meeting.

Schedule and plan weekly project collaboration meet-ups on weekends across semester

Some of the other clubs in the Mozilla Open Source Student Network run informal hack sessions / code jams / informal code hours. It would be cool to organize something like this for RITlug on the weekends, something casual and informal. We should discuss this more, but maybe keep it on the backlog until next semester.

h/t @mirdaki @AdrianCollado @Bad-Science

Organize fundraising event in spring 2018

Complete order of new RITlug sticker batch

@Tjzabel is working on ordering a new batch of stickers for RITlug. He needs to get a number on total stickers and cost, and fill out the EAF form from RIT to move forward on this.

Get ritlug RIT DCE account fixed

It appears the ritlug DCE account (including [email protected]) has been disabled - this needs to be fixed for CLAWS registration of servers & for the email forwarder (which should go to [email protected]).

Set up RITlug Namecheap account

We need to set up a club Namecheap account to handle domain registrations and renewals. Currently, ritlug.com and ritlug.club are owned under @repkam09's personal Namecheap account. Me, @Serubin, and @ct-martin have access under our personal accounts, but for the long-term, we should move this to a club-managed account.

We can tackle this next semester.

Figure out Facebook

We have a Facebook apparently. Wait, you're surprised? Most of us were too.

What do we want to do with it?

• Close it
• Set up an IFTTT hook to just repost the website
  • Easy low-maintenance way to keep a presence

Update introduction to RITlug slides for first meeting

In today's eboard meeting, we noted to revisit the intro slides and rework the flow a little bit and add a slide or two before the first meeting. This is assigned to @Tjzabel since he is scheduled to lead this presentation in #44.

Project board for Infrastructure SIG

• RITlug is looking to expand student member involvement in RITlug infrastructure
• We recently have regained access to several RITlug-owned servers in one of RIT's datacenters and want to put them to good use after we evaluate their specs and what needs to be done to get them operational again (they've been offline for years but at first glance appear to be modern enough to use)
  • After that, we're going to be welcoming (informal, reasonable) proposals for the resources to RITlug members
• We already have infrastructure stuff spreading across 2 repos (RITlug/tasks and RITlug/ritlug.github.io) and 2 slack channels (#sysadmin and #projects), it would be good to centralize some of it. Additionally, since the beginning of this semester we've had infrastructure as a SIG built-in to the eboard meeting template to give it a place.

Finalize Talk Titles by August 21st

Document CampusGroups announcements process in Runbook

Summary

Update Announcements Runbook page to offer instructions with CampusGroups mailing list

Background

This semester, we decided to commit to using the CampusGroups mailing list. @ct-martin has used it some already for first week announcements. This decision was made to avoid emails being marked as spam.

Details

The Runbook page should be updated to reflect best practices for sending out posts over the CampusGroups list. Instructions should include:

• How to post announcement on website
• How to access CampusGroups mailing list (any permissions needed for user account?)
• How to send mail to the list

Outcome

Any eboard member can easily send announcement emails to the community and future eboard members will have an easier time picking up this task with no prior experience

Fix Slack<-> IRC bridge

Slack<->IRC bridge has stopped sending messages. A runbook entry for where it's hosted would also be generally helpful.

Add poster template to runbook

Summary

The poster template we are currently using (a la @TaylorBowling) needs to be added to the RITlug Runbook to help keep it somewhere public and easy to work with later

Explanation

This one is pretty simple, but will require @TaylorBowling to do it since he has the current poster template. I think adding a new folder to the Runbook titled resources/ and dropping the version @TaylorBowling is working with in there would be enough.

Financial Certification Test for Fall 2018

Required to use club budget

From past precedent, it would be good to wait until fall semester before taking the test (and getting verification from club office it's up to date).

Replace slack bridge bot

In a recent update to the bot code that relays messages between IRC and slack, the behavior of the bot changed so that when viewing messages on Slack there is no indication of the IRC side user that sent the message. It appears this may only be an issue when using Slack on mobile.

This is somewhat of an annoyance and it would be nice to remedy it.

Review projects introduction presentation for Sept. 14 meeting

Summary

Review projects presentation for Sept. 14 meeting

Background

We briefly looked over the projects presentation in our eboard meeting. We wanted to have a chance to look closer at the slides and make edits / improvements to better represent some of our projects and encourage people to get involved.

Details

I plan to review the Teleirc bits more closely.

@Tjzabel, @ct-martin, and @jibby0 will figure out how to divide and review the TigerOS slides.

We will work on other topics to include before the presentation.

Outcome

Effective coverage about RITlug projects and encouraging new contributors to get involved with our projects

Create exclusion list of VMs to not back up

@Serubin asked RITlug to help support the costs of backups on Titan, the primary hosted server for RITlug. We want to complete this payment by the end of this semester to effectively use the remainder of our budget.

@axk4545 and @ct-martin need to pass @Serubin a list of VMs to not back up in the backup scheme. Some especially large VMs are easily reproduced with Ansible and do not contain persistent data.

Once this is done, @Serubin can work closer with us on expensing the backups and ideally paying for a long-term option with the remainder of our club budget. I chose critical priority because this is timeboxed to this semester – our budget may expire by May and we are awarded a new budget from RIT Clubs Office in the fall 2018 semester otherwise.

Rochester Mini Maker Faire - Nov. 18, 9am-5pm

Summary

This ticket is for planning the RITlug presence at the Rochester Mini Maker Faire (RMMF) on Saturday, Nov. 18th from 9am to 5pm.

What we do

We have a table at the RMMF to display our projects and talk about club and community. People of all ages come up to talk about the things we have on our table and want to know more about them. A few volunteers at the table help introduce the projects, answer questions, and get feedback (and possibly meet new connections too).

Attendees

We are allowed eight passes with our table. Passes get people into the Faire as an exhibitor and special access to an exhibitor's break room. The following people are joining RITlug at the RMMF:

1. Justin W. Flory (@jflory7)
2. Aidan Kahrs (@axk4545)
3. Christian Martin (@ct-martin)
4. Tim Zabel (@Tjzabel) [12pm - 5pm]
5. Taylor Bowling (@TaylorBowling)
6. Josh Bicking (@Josh1147582)
7. Sierra Skorupski (@sierra-skorupski)

Anyone in @RITlug/members is welcome to join and participate too.

Inventory

We have a few supplies provided by some of our volunteers.

@axk4545

• (1) monitor
• (2) laptops

@Tjzabel

• (2) laptops
• (1-2) monitors
• (1) USB keyboard
• (1) USB mouse

@jflory7

• (1) laptop
• (2) DVI to HDMI adapters

MAGIC

• (X) Raspberry Pis

CC

@itprofjacobs @schneidy

Write a blog post on TigerOS recap / overview of Flock 2018

Summary

Writing about TigerOS in the public is important to build awareness. We should establish a precedent for regular blog posts / updates about TigerOS.

Description

This could be done in a few different ways.

Our own blog

We could host our own blog, like blog.ritlug.com, where we could write content about the club to share with the world.

Pros:

• Clearly associated with RITlug
• Flexible to publish as often and as little or as much as we want

Cons:

• Harder to promote (starting from ground zero)
• Requires us to host more infrastructure

Personal blogs

Team members can use their own personal blogs for updates about TigerOS.

Pros:

• RITlug doesn't host infrastructure
• People can write about what they're most interested in (more personal focus than team focus)
  • Ideally, more content this way!

Cons:

• Harder to aggregate / collect (i.e. "Where can I keep up with TigerOS news?")
• Possibility that someone might decide to delete their blog later / risk of lost content

Publishing elsewhere

We could use sites like Fedora Magazine or Opensource.com to talk about the work we're doing with TigerOS.

Pros:

• Much larger audience, better chances of being noticed
• Professional team of editors to help polish content and also promote it

Cons:

• Takes more time to publish content
• Writing needs to be more complete than short, tidbit updates.

Assignees

I'm assigning this to @axk4545 primarily to take into consideration as Project Coordinator. This is important for TigerOS planning and he should discuss with the team to figure out frequency and what works best for the team.

I'm also assigned to this issue to help support and coordinate the promotion of written material on TigerOS.

Get feedback from Eboard on task organization

Summary

This repo now has various labels in use to help make it easier to sort tasks and understand what's important. Feedback is needed on whether these make sense or ways we could improve how this repo is used (so that it's easy to understand what's happening in RITlug)

Explanation

Just now, I set up a labeling system based on a few other open source projects I spend time in. It works well for us there, but I'm curious to know what you all think about using labels and milestones to keep track of what we're doing.

I think this is something that would benefit us working out / figuring out in person, but we can collect feedback or make improvements now since the semester is coming up pretty quickly. Ideally, I'd like to use the project boards at some point too, but we'll get there later.

Do you any of you think it would be helpful to have an informal, 15 minute how-to session on how we might want to use this repo during the semester?

Complete order of new embroidered tablecloth

@TaylorBowling is going to help us order a new tablecloth to use at events with the updated RITlug logo. The goal is to have it by Imagine RIT. We will likely use The Hub for path of least resistance.

Reach out to guest speakers for spring 2018 talks

We want to reach out to a few guest speakers from alums and other experts in Rochester for various topics. Some of the people we want to reach out to are:

• Ryan S. Brown: RIT alumni, Red Hat / Ansible employee
• Charles Profitt: Linux sysadmin expert in ROC, friend of FOSS
• Carmen: TravisCI employee
• Dan Schneiderman
• Kyle Suero

Confirm room reservation for spring semester

Need to confirm our room is reserved. @axk4545 will follow up John Simonson to confirm our room is reserved.

• Room number: GOL-2650

Update logo and possibly link on MAGIC site

The MAGIC site has our old logo under the partners and collaborators. It might be good to have this updated.

Spring Semester (2018) Schedule Planning

Week	Day	Title	Brief	Workshop	Owner
01	Jan. 19	N/A
02	Jan. 26	RITlug Introduction	Intro to what the club is about and who the leaders are	N/A	@Tjzabel
03	Feb. 02	Building a Linux Infrastructure	Using Linux to build a self-hosted infrastructure	Yes	@ct-martin
04	Feb. 09	Dark Web	Intro to the Dark Web and the Tails OS	Yes	@TaylorBowling
05	Feb. 16	Net Neutrality	Learn all about Net Neutrality and how it affects all of us	N/A	@thenaterhood
06	Feb. 23	Arch & i3	Learn how to setup Arch with this interactive meeting!	Yes	Kyle Suero
07	Mar. 02	Weird and Wacky Distros	Learn about strange Linux distros	N/A	@TaylorBowling
08	Mar. 09	Linux in Videogames	Learn about how Linux is involved in videogames	N/A	@TaylorBowling
--	Mar. 16	(Spring Break, no RITlug)	(Spring Break, no RITlug)	(Spring Break, no RITlug)	(Spring Break, no RITlug)
09	Mar. 23	Unify your music library	This hands-on workshop teaches you how to sort a music library with Picard, a tool that uses the MusicBrainz database to correct metadata in your own music.	Yes	@jflory7
10	Mar. 30	TigerOS/Custom Linux Distros	Description of the TigerOS project so far	N/A	@axk4545
11	Apr. 06	Swift Compiler Talk	Learn how to contribute to the Swift compiler	N/A	@harlanhaskins
12	Apr. 13	Open Source 101	What is open source? What does it all mean and how can I get involved? A quick dive into the root of open source, finding a community, and how to get involved.	Yes	@jflory7
13	Apr. 20	RPM Packaging	Getting started with writing your first RPM package	Yes	@Tjzabel @axk4545
14	May 04	Final Meeting	Final Meeting Game and Chill Night	No	@jflory7 @TaylorBowling

Set up relay bot from Google Group mailing list to IRC / Telegram

Summary

Having a relay bot to send notifications from activity on the ritlug-announce mailing list would be helpful to keep everyone updated on new announcements

Explanation

I haven't looked into this much yet, but in theory, it should be pretty easy. We would want a relay of some kind to echo activity for new posts to our mailing list out to IRC or Telegram, so people who might be slower to check email would see a notification pop up to go read an email.

I think it might be easiest to find an IRC bot that will do this, so then the notification just echoes into Telegram. Or maybe vice versa, if there's an easier way.

RITpedia Page

SG is running an event to update pages on RITpedia. Even if we don't attend, this is something we should do.

cc @jflory7 since you're into this stuff and have experience.

Set up a new election in Campus Groups

Summary

Nominations are open for vice president in spring semester. CampusGroups has election functionality and RIT club office requires use of it for club elections.

Description

I don't think it's blocking on us taking nominations in an old-fashioned way, but this needs to be done before Week 10, when we hold the election.

I'm assigning this to myself to follow up on.