Office space - Revision history

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imported>Echarlie: /* Rationale */

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‎Rationale

128.173.92.121 at 16:19, 25 September 2013

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imported>Mjh: /* Office infrastructure */

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‎Office infrastructure

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198.82.104.125 at 05:04, 28 February 2013

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imported>Timelord: /* Petitioners */

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 * 2 Pentium D workstations from CPES (will likely be surplused to WUVT)
 * Wall shelving
-* 2 broken projecters
+* 2 broken projectors
 As of 9/21/2013, most VTLUUG property (other than servers) has been moved to WHIT 358. This includes our 100 Mbps Cisco installfest switch.

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 ==Office infrastructure==
 The office came with these items from the ECE department:
-* 2 desks
+* 1 desk
 * 2 chairs
 * 1 CNS port
-* 2 workstations and monitors/keyboards/mice
+* 1 Fedora router / music server (VT property)
 * Wall shelving
 ===Items needed===
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 * Large HDDs (>= 1 TB) for a music server
 * VT220-like hardware terminals
-* Minifridge (power-permitting, there's one in the server room we could potentially acquire)
+* Minifridge (power-permitting)
 * Coffee maker (there's one in the CVL we can take)
 * Router (OpenBSD) and maybe an OpenWRT WAP as well

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 * Coffee maker (there's one in the CVL we can take)
 * Router (OpenBSD) and maybe an OpenWRT WAP as well
+* 2 Rolm phones with DB-25 data ports (for connecting to servers at 19200 baud)
 ===Project ideas===
 * Music server - mpd/ncmpcpp/beets/icecast/NFS share on spare poweredge tower
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 * Door auth system - electric fail-secure door strike, magstripe reader or RFID
 * Redundant networking - run ethernet to our switch in the CVL and put our CNS ports in failover. If a router/port fails, VMs can get rerouted.
 ==Future expansion==

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-Despite the lack of official university support for alternative operating systems, there is an ever-growing number of Linux and Unix users and CS and ECE courses which require Linux. Over our 15 year history, VTLUUG has provided a number of services to the campus community including [http://mirror.ece.vt.edu open-source software mirrors], [http://map.vtluug.org detailed OpenStreetMap data for Blacksburg], [[Infrastructure:Acidburn|shell accounts]] and a [[gp:Main page|Virginia Tech wiki]]. VTLUUG would like to obtain dedicated space in order to hold office hours several times per week to provide technical support and installation help, as well as small group hands-on tutorials that can not be effectively accomodated during our weekly meetings.
+In September 2013, VTLUUG acquired an office in 358 Whittemore Hall after several months of effort to more effectively directly support Linux use on campus.
-Desired features of the office space:
+==Purpose==
-* CNS port available (preferably with static IPs available for us)
+Our office is intended to serve several purposes:
-* Easy for people to find
+* Holding office hours several times per week to provide technical support and installation help
-* Exterior doors open to everyone on weekends
+* Supporting students in the growing number of courses which require Linux and Unix usage
-* After-hours access for officers, etc
+* Storage for VTLUUG property other than networking/server infrastructure (installfest supplies, Tux, banners, etc). Previously these were in the CVL and officers' apartments
-* Behind bur-6509-1.vl702.cns.vt.edu so we can use our IP allocations (this may be harder than we originally thought, as CNS might use VLANs to further restrict subnets to individual buildings)
+* Lending library of technical books (possibly a branch of the [[gp:Telnor Institute|Telnor Institute]] Libraries)
-==Potential locations==
+===Potential locations===
-Locations explored for potential office space include:
+During the initial acquisition of office space, VTLUUG looked into several potential locations, including:
 * [[gp:Whittemore Hall|Whittemore Hall]] - has 100Mbps CNS ports but hardly any spare IPv4s. SEC and IEEE have offices on the 3rd floor, and unallocated space may be available as a radio lab recently moved to the CRC. Exterior doors are locked after 10pm and on weekends to everyone except ECE students, but we can prevent them from locking from the inside. Potentially hard to find for freshmen. We could easily run Ethernet to our rack and/or the [[darknet]] from here.
 ** The SEC has two offices, which is two more than they need.
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 * [[gp:Durham Hall|Durham Hall]] - Exterior doors are also locked at night and on weekends except to ECE students.
 ** <strike>Room 232 is marked "student society" on the floorplans but may not be used. </strike> - Found to belong to the Institute of Industrial Engineers. This is approximately across the hall from our weekly meeting location.
-* [[gp:Squires Student Center|Squires Student Center]] - highest concentration of student organization offices, including [[gp:WUVT|WUVT]] and [[gp:VTARA|VTARA]], so would be easier to get an office here. Building has enforced closing times (~12am?) but is open on weekends. After hours member access would almost certainly be impossible, as we would not be located in the media wing.
+* [[gp:Squires Student Center|Squires Student Center]] - highest concentration of student organization offices, including [[gp:WUVT|WUVT]] and [[gp:VTARA|VTARA]], so would be easier to get an office here. Building has enforced closing times (~12am?) but is open on weekends. After hours member access would almost certainly be impossible, as we would not be located in the media wing. Contact is Scott Reed (sreed@vt.edu) / 540-231-5431 / 225 Squires.
 * [[gp:McBryde Hall|McBryde Hall]] - not behind Burruss router
 * [[gp:Torgersen Hall|Torgersen Hall]] - open 24/7, gigabit connectivity
-==Contact info==
+===Desired features===
-Telnoratti says this is the contact for getting office space:
+Desired features of the office space:
- Scott A. Reed
+* CNS port available (preferably with static IPs available for us)
--231-5431
+* Easy for people to find
- sreed@vt.edu
+* Exterior doors open to everyone on weekends
-Squires
+* After-hours access for officers, etc
-but we could also contact Plassman and the Dean of Engineering since we're listed as a COE club.
+* Behind bur-6509-1.vl702.cns.vt.edu so we can use our IP allocations (this may be harder than we originally thought, as CNS might use VLANs to further restrict subnets to individual buildings)
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 * [[User:mjh|Matt Hazinski]] (VTLUUG VP, student)
 * Noah Luther (VTLUUG Member, student)
 * [[User:Timelord|Timelord]] ([[User talk:Timelord|talk]]) 18:37, 18 February 2013 (EST) (VTLUUG Member, student)