[committee] [tech] Wheel Meeting - 14:00 Sunday 25th August

[Felix von Perger]

Hi all,

Unfortunately I won't be able to make this meeting due to family commitments. Please consider this my apologies. Below are some things I'd like to be discussed, and some of my thoughts.

Setting up a per-club VLAN, and/or a webcam/IoT VLAN - UniSFA has expressed interest in managing their network/WiFi more independently from UCC, and it would be nice to give them a technical recommendation on ways that could be done. If other clubs were given a separate VLAN and single public IP with NAT, this would be beneficial from a security/accountability perspective, and also make it easier for a possible future migration of other clubs away from UCC internet. It would also be worth discussing reasonable expectations/guidelines for admin access to devices on the network not owned by UCC - for example, UniSFA committee can enter the admin password to deepthought upon request but do not wish to share it (I think this is reasonable).

Installing SSDs in servers - if we have enough Proxmox machines to make a decent sized cluster, is it necessary to use two SSDs for a system RAID1 in these machines? Could we just live with the risk of disk failure and just clean-rebuild hosts when necessary? (I think it is OK to accept the risk, provided we can easily rebuild hosts without problems, especially given SSDs are expensive)

Regarding dual-boot machines, review the SOE and see if anything more should be added.

Regarding member data (specifically the membership register) and compliance with Privacy legislation, it would be worth discussing how we can be compliant and what an appropriate "privacy policy" would look like.

Regarding keys, I think it would be worth reviewing who currently has keys to the machine room and having a discussion about whether wheel members should, or need to have keys, if using combination locks or other locking mechanisms would be more efficient, or whether a shared set of keys in the lockbox would be sufficient.

I would also appreciate if wheel could review who currently holds or has access to any club-related keys generally, justify such access, and clarify under what conditions and to whom it should apply, from both a security perspective and considering current Guild/Tenancy regulations. For the record, I would like to suggest the club contracts out the secure destruction of excess keys where the existence/abundance of such keys may warrant a security concern.

Changing passwords following the recent wheel/group review would also be a good idea, and I am happy to assist in that process later this week.

Cheers,
Felix [FVP]On 19 Aug. 2019 9:00 pm, Felix von Perger <frekk at ucc.asn.au> wrote:
>
> Hi all, 
>
> Just a quick reminder that there is a wheel meeting scheduled for the 
> 25th August at 2pm, in the UCC clubroom. 
>
> Anyone interested in the technical ongoings at UCC is welcome to attend. 
>
> Best regards, 
>
> Felix von Perger 
> UCC President 
>
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