9/20/16 Meeting Agenda

Present: Barak, Ashley, Ray, Andrew, Kevin, Robert, Alex, Jason, Victor, Amir, Brian, Barak, Julie, Yitz. Austin, Sherry, Caleb, Megan, Neil, Sid, Henry,

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  • EECS townhall

  • Unix Workshop +/Δ

  • LaTeX workshop +/Δ

  • 6Sense ?

  • Startup fair helpers!

  • Yuan Buy 9/30

  • Workday 10/3 CAP

  • Sid & Barak: Events?

  • Misc:

    • Newuser bug?

    • More workshops: HTML, CSS, website?

    • socials

    • Asking course staff prior to piazza (cs70)

    • Wiping status

    • Gaming on personal devices during business hours

    • 1 Hackathon per semester

    • Intersocietals: UPE, HKN LAN

    • Academic bear fair

    • CSUA wishlist: 4 chairs, stickers, server

Meeting minutes:

  • EECS townhall

    • HKN headed the townhall, but they want other clubs to also contribute.

    • Megan can email HKN and ask about what we can do.

      • Budget crisis!

      • The reason we were okay this semester is because we got 250k in private donations. Not sustainable.

    • Last night they drafted letters to Chancellor Dirks stating 2 demands:

      • 30 to 1 GSI/Student ratio

      • Transparent budgeting at the campus level

    • Megan is meeting with HKN this saturday!

  • Unix Workshop +/Δ

    • Plus:

      • People were attentive!

      • People learned stuff!

    • Cons:

      • We could have covered more…?

      • Though some people were confused.

      • Solutions sometimes needed stuff that wasn’t taught. More detail needed!

      • Not very engaging :c

      • Wild cards? Piping? Confusing :c

      • “He talked about what they did and went to the next slide; didn’t explain much what happened.”

      • People had trouble finding the slides.

        • Get a better url for them.

    • We should update them! It was rather hard to understand :c

    • Cheat sheet from last year would be helpful!

  • LaTeX workshop

    • Friday! 6 PM.

    • Yitz is writing the slides.

    • Tables! Algorithms! Newpages! Equations!

      • Should we try doing hw1 solutions?

  • 6Sense ?

    • Sid is in contact with them for future date.

  • Startup fair helpers!

    • Come help out if you want!

  • Xunan Buy 9/30, Wozniak Lounge.

    • The CEO, after a lot of messages, wants an event.

    • CEO has really high expectations of turnout.

    • “Startup in China talk!”

      • But this doesn’t really match up.

    • Sid told the CEO to “lower his expectations”.….

    • Get the CEO to send us a blurb!

    • Then, we can actually have people know what the talk will be about.

    • It’s not our job to make the flyer….

    • He’s trying to make his business go international.

      • E-commerce site between China and USA.

    • Need food!

  • Workday 10/3 CAP

    • HR company.

    • Need food!

    • Note: Companies pay for food.

  • Sid & Barak: Events?

    • Lay low on the events :(

    • It’s okay to relax on them.

    • Now it’s Neil’s time to shine! Time for socials!

  • Misc:

    • Newuser bug?

    • More workshops: HTML, CSS, website? + Vim? Emacs?? Git!!

      • Hackers stopped doing git :c (Actually, Caleb will ask)

        • (Tell 61A people it’ll help a lot with 61B)

      • Once a month? Every two or three weeks?

    • Socials

      • Club dinner!

      • LAN parties are ehh :( less social interaction

      • “Just more of them.”

    • Asking course staff prior to piazza (cs70)

      • Oops.

    • Wiping status

      • Backups have been bought! Are being shipped.

    • Gaming on personal devices during business hours + videos

      • Leave gaming open on personal devices!

      • As long as it doesn’t disturb people.

      • Just be mindful of other people!

      • If there’s an issue, comply.

      • Orr…..

      • Not technically allowed, still, but if not causing a disturbance then let it rest?

      • If someone tells you to stop, then stop playing.

    • 1 Hackathon per semester

      • Two ideas!

        • General Hackathon

          • No prompt or theme.

          • You make whatever you want to make!

          • Judges like or don’t.

          • You hope you can hammer something out.

          • We’ll only have one. Other hackathons to go to; people don’t have enough ideas.

        • Themed hackathon!

          • Something similar to Intuit Hackathon.

          • Unity??

            • Best game hackathon?

            • Best website hackathon? (+1)

            • “Tinder for cats”???? (meow)

          • Helpful/Creative themes.

          • Don’t have to be concrete ideas;

          • We can have more people come!

          • Has to be a broad theme.

          • This will have to be okay with the companies.

          • Themes that are okay with beginners?

      • Too many hackathons going on right now. People make choices.

      • We want a structure that works for a bunch of different themed hackathons!

      • We want people to stay and make their project feel worthwhile.

      • Or…..

        • Sponsors donate ideas, and keep possibilities open?

      • To have a themed hackathon, we’ll have to talk to companies about it.

      • Megan likes that it’s general and that it’s one per semester because it’s something to look forward to!

      • The joy of our hackathon is to do whatever you want.

        • But then people bail!

        • But also more people show up!

      • General hackathon + sponsor prizes

      • People asked about website workshop!

        • You can integrate website workshop into a hackathon.

        • We have a server to host websites!

      • Some workshop where people build something with Caleb??

        • + Extensions!

      • Sponsors!!

      • Tabling this discussion.

    • Intersocietals: UPE, HKN LAN

      • UPE is coming here next week!

    • Academic bear fair

      • Nope!

    • CSUA wishlist: 4 chairs, stickers, server, USB-C, computer, air freshener??, Water Boiler!, mice,

    • Prosps:

      • Ray Pan

        • 1st year CS intended.

        • Haven’t helped out yet; first year, just got here.

        • I’m in the room a lot and I enjoy the atmosphere of the room, talkng to people, meeting people; I want to help facilitate that.

      • Henry Rowswell

        • 4th year EECS.

        • Didn’t help out yet! Just became a member.

        • Benefited from a lot of CSUA infosessions, and I want to help out since that’s what I’ve been missing in the last few years.

      • Amir Shahatit

        • Intended CS, 1st year

        • Didn’t help out at anything yet!

        • The CSUA is a cool community; I like the events that people put on, so I want to help keep those going!

    • Note: We’re non-profit. We can have companies donate to us as a tax-deductible donation.