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Merged content from wishlist/funding
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, 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
** When we get an office, we could use some [[w:VT100 | hardware terminals]] because GUIs are unnecessary
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)
[[Category:VTLUUG Projects]]
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