Changes
→Infrastructure upgrades needed
For departments with surplus property donations, the [http://www.co.vt.edu/Forms/inventory_update_form.pdf VT Inventory Update Form] must be completed in order to officially transfer items to VTLUUG through the ECE department. The new location of the items can be marked as 432 [[gp:Whittemore Hall| Whittemore Hall]].
We have a few options for obtaining funding:* [[gp:Students Engineering Council|SEC]] - gives money to engineering design organizations. Requires meeting attendance and E-week participation. * [[gp:Student Budget Board|Student Budget Board]] - gives money for event hosting and possibly conference travel via reimbursement.* ECE department - have obtained surplus servers in the past this way. Can also occasionally get cables, etc if we ask nicely. Probably won't directly fund VTLUUG.* Corporate sponsorship - have done this with O'Reilly, Fedora, Facebook, etc in the past for food and prizes at meetings/tech talks/installfests. === Infrastructure items we are seeking upgrades needed ===
* Rackmount servers, especially those which support virtualization
* Hard drives (RAID boxes especially) for home directories and additional distros for the mirror
In the future, we may also need departments to donate static rack space with IPv4 address allocations behind the [[gp:Burruss Hall|Burruss]] router, as the building we currently use has almost run out of spare IP addresses. This would most easily could be accomplished through helped by the acquisition of a vt.edu subdomain such as luug.vt.edu. === Cable management stuff needed ===Our rack is currently [http://reddit.com/r/cablefail cablefail]. We could really use:* Zipties - tons and various sizes* Velcro cable ties* Patch cables* Labelmaker tape* Rack hardware* Dell rails (that can fit non-dell servers)* Power strips, extension cords, etc* Ethernet connectors
=== Items for various projects planned ===
** Food
** Install server
* [[OpenStreetMap]] day (if that's still around)
* USENIX Security Symposium
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