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==Purpose==
Our office is intended to serve several purposes:
* Holding office hours several times per week to provide technical support and installation help
* Supporting students in the growing number of courses which require Linux and Unix usage
* Storage for VTLUUG property other than networking/server infrastructure (installfest supplies, Tux, banners, etc). Previously these were in the CVL and officers' apartments
* Lending library of technical books (possibly a branch of the [[gp:Telnor Institute|Telnor Institute]] Libraries)
* Opportunity to socialize with VTLUUG members
* Public terminals with LDAP/Kerberos auth (maybe)
==Office infrastructure==
The office came with these items from the ECE department:
* 1 desk
* 2 chairs
* 1 CNS port
* 1 Fedora router / music server (VT property)
* 1 Xeon workstation (VT property) - will have Fedora
* Monitors, keyboards, mice, etc
* 2 Pentium D workstations from CPES (will likely be surplused to WUVT)
* Wall shelving
* 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.
===Items needed===
VTLUUG could use the following items to make the office into more of a lounge area:
* Computer speakers
* Large HDDs (>= 1 TB) for a music server
* VT220-like hardware terminals
* Minifridge (power-permitting)
* 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
* Home automation stuff - SSRs/raspberry pi/buses (I2C or CAN)/HTCPCP
* 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.
* PBX
==Future expansion==
If additional space is needed, we could look into getting a satellite office through UUSA in Squires or through another department. Currently, we will be focusing on making the most use out of our current office. This section contains mainly historical information that was preserved from when we were intially trying to acquire an office.
===Potential locations===
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.
** WHIT 326 appears empty and is near all the student organization rooms.
** The [[gp:CVL|CVL]] is apparently being converted to a server room
* [[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. 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
===Desired features===
Desired features of the office space:
* CNS port available (preferably with static IPs available for us)
* 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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