11/1/16 Meeting Agenda

In attendance: Barak, Juntai, Julie, Yitz, Eric, Michelle, Jonathan, Yannan, Ashley, Ray, Kevin, Sanath, Jeremy, Nick

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  • Startup Fair +/Δ

    • +

      • “It was fine”

    • Δ

      • Companies?

      • Needs to be more people volunteering for parking, etc, other roles that are out there and alone

  • Voleon +/Δ

    • +

      • Good turnout!

      • We served food by hand.

    • Δ

      • Not very memorable.

      • We should probably use gloves for serving?

        • Gloves exist in the back room

  • 6sense 10/28 +/Δ

    • +

      • Talking to the engineers was great!

    • Δ

      • Very empty.

        • Because of the ML@Berkeley workshop? (Matlab)

        • On the day of GM #2

        • People who go to 6sense may not have wanted to go to GM #2…

      • Their talk needed work though.

  • GM2 +/Δ

    • +

      • Speaker was okay?

        • He had a lot of information though!

    • Δ

      • Too much food..

        • And food was bought last minute…….. And thus was not berkeley thai house

      • Not enough advertising close to the date?

        • (perhaps advertised too early??)

  • OpenTable 11/3 ? 5-8 540 AB

    • Room is booked! (Need to get key card access)

    • Order food (west coast pizza)

    • Volunteer get, etc.

  • Hackathon 11/4 5 PM - 11/5 8 PM

    • Aim to have pizzas here by 6:30. Pick up at 5 PM?

    • Meraki, Microsoft

      • Have to talk to Sid and figure out who’s speaking between 6PM and 7PM???

      • ...what’s going on with Microsoft? Backing out?

        • Meraki has agreed to pay more?? :D

      • Slight loss on the hackathon, but not by too much.

    • Jeremy - two costco runs?

      • First for regular foods and snacks and stuff, second for pizzas

    • 11PM/12AM ish - midnight sushi. Separate sushi platter for PB/officers that attend.

      • Ordered 300~ pieces of sushi!

    • No more noah’s bagels, but we’ll do Costco bagels + other costco pastries.

    • Montague’s for lunch - 40 sandwiches; they will be cut into halves.

      • We’ll need to bring a knife to make sure that the sandwiches are actually cut into halves.

    • Sid shall be fronting money for the hackathon!

      • Coordinate with Neil.

    • Stocked on espressos, coffee, red bull, drinks, etcetc.

    • Need lots of help with preparation!

      • Need to set up cables, tables, etc.

    • We need overflow rooms!!!

      • Hilfinger named two other rooms that we have booked apparently.

    • Intro for newbies workshop!!! :D

      • Is this feasible? @Caleb

      • Also this depends on attendance perhaps?

      • We could do this at HP?

  • 11/9 5-8 OPEN

    • Internal event??

    • Board game night? :D

  • Capital One 11/10 5:30 or 6 start time

    • Room booked.

  • CoreOS 11/11 6 HP

    • Confirmed event.

    • Room booked!

  • Cisco being moved to next semester

  • Misc:

    • Costco

      • We do need a restock soon, maybe half-restock along with hackathon supplies

    • Tech

      • STF grant was inputted; they probably won’t get back to us until next semester.

      • Server parts list is under work.

      • Probably need to buy a new case? Since Coke’s case has a noisy fan?

        • Coke’s case is rather gross.

        • We could also get a new fan too?

    • Poll:

      • What would we like to know about this year from dept? What matters to students and needs faculty attn?

        • More public funds?

        • Better public availability?

        • Basically these are just recycled ideas from Rao’s same call for action email.

      • Destress week of 12/5. Ideas: Puppies on the patio, board game night, Slackathon. Other ideas welcome! Your group will be hosting and sponsoring the event; we'll help coordinate and market.

        • Cats??

        • Punching bags?

        • Bagels?

          • This is our tradition! We’ll be doing this one.

        • Donation drive of all your tech tshirts that you don’t wear?

        • What about pie-ing 61C staff/Josh Hug/etc?

      • Please discuss the following with your group:

        • Will you be participating?

          • Yes

        • What will you be planning?

          • Bagels!!

        • What do you need from me/or the department?

      • If there are people making you uncomfortable, come talk to us PB personally!

    • Officer points

      • ***If you didn’t get 3 points last semester*** -- come email PB! And talk to us!

      • We’ll now be counting officer points by naming the events at which you helped out at, not just a count of events.

      • Remember, you have to go up to Neil/Barak at each event and check in!

      • Most of the issues from last month were based on the event ending early and people with later time slots not being able to help out.

    • Expected attendance for the Tahoe trip (out of people at this meeting, so far…):

      • Caleb, Megan, Barak, Neil, Eric, Michellle, Jonathan, Ray, Sid, Yannan, Ashley, Loren, Yitz?

      • We have plenty of beds *but* this house also has a relatively big room. Should we do a mass sleepover in that big room?

      • Cars! Two things - We need someone who can drive in *snow*.

    • Indrel shadowing?? Sid will work out the details.

      • For now, no emails from the shadowers.

  • End of prosps!

    • Yannan Guo

      • You’ve just pitched someone and they say they want to be a member. What do?

        • They go to the newuser website - csua.berkeley.edu/newuser

        • Stay there and authenticate with your officer username/password

        • (Don’t forget about the list of rules! And the rules on the wall!)

    • Nick Bajaj

      • How much loose leaf money can be in the drawer (and where is the drawer)?

        • Drawer is next to the refrigerator!

        • If there are more than $7 on the side then we put the rest into the lock box. For any big bills, put it into the lock box too.

  • New prosps!

  • PB only