Minutes_2_28_13
1. LAN Party Review
-went over really well
- ended up getting more food than planned
- Lots of participation!!
- Rahul is not happy about having to drive and pick up pizza
- Started at noon, went until 3 am
- in the future, the set-up needs to happen earlier
-Mary wants more healthy food?
-Nate wants more energy drinks
2. Startup Fair Review
-very successful- 720 some attendees, 42 companies
-make around 6,000 dollars
-Partnering with the Career Center was successful
3. Hackathon
-Meraki is giving us $2,500
-AWS gave us around $19,000 worth of credits
- probably no other sponsers
-Dropbox has agreed to sponsor prizes
- CSUA will have to cover the rest of the sponsorship
-In the past, Hackathon has cost 7,500 dollar
-A lot of this was spent on prizes
-We need to see how we can cut money
-Give three prizes per place instead of four
-Cut on food
-In the past, Food has been $$$ (midnight sushi, etc)
-get pizza from Costco
-sushi from Costco?
-caffeine budget may not be cut-able
-Prize price range
first:
-$500 per person in the past, $250 this year?
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second:
- $250 per person in the past, $125 this year?
third:
-$125 per person in the past, ?? this year?
-To save $ we could use Meraki money for prizes and use ours for food
-We can cut out lunch entirely
Past prices at Hackathon:
dinner - $600
midnight snack - $500
another midnight snack - $200
breakfast - $300 (But we had way too much food here, we could have spent less)
lunch -$600
snacks -$300
drinks-$500
plates, cups, etc - $100
prizes for judges - ~$25 per judge
-if we want to spend like we have in the past, we would be down $2,700
-This might be fine, we have money to burn
-Prizes
First:
-brainstorm:
-iPad minis ($400)
-new monitor
-ASUS tablet
-Chrome books
-final
-4 monitors (as big as $350 allows)
Second:
-brainstorm
-das keyboards ($100)
-logetic g9 ($100)
-nexus seven
-final
-keyboard-mouse combo from above
Third
-brainstorm
-Kindle Paper White
-bluetooth speakers (~$50)
-nice headphones
-final
-nice headphones!! (bluetooth?)
4. Officer Applications
-everyone who reapplied was admitted, no issues
5. Website
-What kind of dynamic content do we want on our website?
-Do we want the website static or dynamic?
-Dynamic is cooler
-Static is easier to maintain
6. Admin access on office machines
-right not all politburo members have admin
-considering making only root have automatic access
-officers have been messing up the current systems
-Erika (me) accidently added an ask toolbar (Sorry guys!! :( )
-officers can have access when they ask root