Here! Ana, Jason, Michelle, Sid, Yitz

Late! Caleb, Kara, Kevin, Shrayus, Leo, Neil, Austin

3/2/16 Meeting Agenda

GM2:

  • Introduction??

    • Handled by Michelle

  • He has a power point

  • Food is coming at 8PM

  • Closer to $9 per person

Startup Fair:

  • Ana is ordering shirts tomorrow morning

  • Volunteer!

EECS faculty Retreat

  • Every year, student orgs send a representative to the faculty retreat.

  • We need someone to go to retreat meetings, then actually going to the retreat.

    • Caleb will go!

TechStart

  • target group is students who have been placed in a course (might not have interest in CS)

    • want to build interest

    • show them what cool things can be done?

    • Show them hackathon projects! Internships! Companies!

    • Student panel about life in CS

    • Interactive workshop?

      • We don’t have enough computers…

    • Showcase the tetris thing

    • Alex Chuuuuuuuu. Come baaaack.

    • “Alex (pi)Chu we ‘chu’se you”

  • Jason will take over from Megan.

UPE Movie Night

  • Main concerns:

    • Big Hero 6 pls D:

    • We need to get Fast + Furious

    • Food!

      • Burritos last semester.

      • Pizza or burritos?

      • Pizza.

        • Sliver? West Coast? Cheeseboard? La Val’s? Dominoes?

        • We need something that delivers.

        • We’ll get Sliver, then somehow bring up the food.

    • Drinks?

      • We’ll see after GM 2.

CSUA Movie Night

  • Michelle: “It was me, Sid, and Juntai just watching South Park for an hour.”

  • was a fail

CSUA Ice Cream Social???

  • 3/18, 6-8PM!

  • Everyone!!!

  • We will get ice cream either at Safeway or at Costco.

  • How do we make sure the ice cream doesn’t turn into slush?

    • Keep it in an ice box?

  • Room is already booked.

Hackathon

  • April 1st - 2nd.

  • Prizes?

    • Roughly:

      • 4 x $150

      • 4 x $75

      • 4 x $50

      • More mini-prizes?

    • 1 prize for the trollest hack?

    • Monitors (big-prize)

    • Amazon gift card (mini-prize)

    • Drones

    • BB8 toy

    • Kindle Fire

    • Speakers (jambox jawbone?)

    • External hard drives

    • Board games?

Let’s get CSUA Stickers!!!!

What about CSUA hoodies?

  • “Would you be interested?”

Office Misc:

  • Rules poster: Final thoughts?

    • Added Kara’s rule about being considerate in using computers -- “limit your time to 2 hours during busy times”

      • Not strictly enforced.. but be considerate.

      • Is this an okay idea?

        • Most people say yes.

    • Implemented yitz’s ideas about changing font sizes

    • Ana’s against saying “Work is prioritized above all”.

      • If someone spends half an hour switching between hearthstone and writing an essay, is that really work?

      • You could say “Computer use is balanced.”

    • Full screen videos in the office?

      • Discouraged because it makes the office look bad during work times.

      • Full screen league looks like you’re actually playing games.

      • Close-to-full-screen isn’t much of a difference though.

      • But lecture videos……..

    • Favorite computer?

      • Be nice about asking to switch computers.

    • New fine text on the bottom of the sheet: Failure to comply can result in removal of your member permissions

      • But how do we kick them out? How do we enforce?

      • Well we could theoretically just be mean to them.

      • Nobody we know has really needed this though.

  • Costco run

    • What do we like about the food amounts?

      • They seem fine.

    • Don’t throw noodles down the sink.

    • More coke zero?

    • Suggestions?

      • Angus Cheeseburgers.

  • Stuff in the back?

    • Donate, sell, or just throw them out

  • Checking out games?

    • Unnecessary

  • Computers

    • Have Caleb figure out what’s working and what isn’t. So we don’t need to over-fix.

    • Let’s get a date to figure out what’s wrong with all the computers and shut down the office so that we can figure things out.

      • This works during the LAN Party?

      • Caleb is open during the Hackathon. Let’s do it during then.

    • Hire Collin to do our servers?

      • Leo: “Offered him money, he didn’t do it”

    • Hire some professional?

    • Or what if we move our servers to some online thing?

      • Over time, hosting service is more expensive.

      • But they will maintain it and have backups and such.

Jason: Take over TechStart communications from Megan.

Sid: Publicize for Ice Cream Social.

Ana: Get ice cream for ice cream social.

Caleb: Figure out what’s working and what isn’t. Also event on April 1st-2nd to fix computers.