Attendance:

Jason, Jesse, Ben, Teela, Daniel, Josh, Neil, Starr, Mark, Robert, Emily, Jimmy, Arthur, JT, Eric, Ray, Yitz, Megan, Anna, Neil (supah late), Sid (even later), Mish (really really late)

Agenda

  • Introductions

  • Welcome lunch +/Δ

  • CSUA social +/Δ

  • FB 9/1

  • GM1 9/1

  • Pinterest 9/6

  • Yelp 9/7

  • TBD 9/9?

  • Riot LAN 9/11

  • Riot tech talk 9/12

  • Meraki 9/14

  • CS Intended Panel 9/28

  • Startup fair 10/24

  • Engaging new recruits

  • Bi-monthly emails

  • Hack+

  • Tutoring

  • Website

  • HKN Collab?

  • Branding

  • Officer training

  • Note Bank

  • Reclaiming the upper-div lounge (341A Soda)

  • Workshops

  • Meeting length

  • New prosps

    • Jesse Ou

    • Ben Wu

    • Teela Huff

    • Daniel Wu

    • Joshua Wang

    • Neil Palleti

    • Arthur Kazantsev

PB Only

  • slack

  • Mission statements

Agenda

  • Introductions

    • “Welcome to the first ever CSUA meeting!” -Megan 2017

    • PB Introductions

      • Megan Zhu: President

      • Jonathan Tan: Tech VP

      • Eric Hou: Indrel VP

      • Yitz Deng: Secretary/Treasurer

      • Jason Ji: Internal Events Coordinator

      • Ray Pan: External Events Coordinator

      • Emily Gosti: Outreach

    • Lots of people giving introductions o:

  • Welcome lunch +/Δ

    • +

      • Good amount of food

      • Nick Weaver’s presence was good!

      • And Charlene, too. And Nicole. And Barak Michener. And Lily.

      • Ben came late, but officers were approachable!

      • Professors were good to talk to.

    • Δ

      • Should have gotten a bit more food

        • Maybe 2nds could have been delayed a bit

        • Potentially reserve a few pizzas? So people who arrive late can still have pizzas?

      • A few professors flaked :(

  • CSUA social +/Δ (“Board game night”)

    • +

      • The event was enjoyable!

    • Δ

      • Problem: The event appeared on our calendars, but no officers were there to make the event start.

      • There was miscommunication on whether or not the event was happening.

      • PB never confirmed the event.

        • Anything that was public should be treated as a public event. This event happened to be on the calendar in public.

      • All in all, the event could have gone better :( especially at the start.

  • FB 9/1

    • Food is getting ordered; Ray is waiting for a call back.

      • Ray doesn’t have service?? :(

      • Ordering from Ike’s!

        • Catering order is going through, but they’re calling Ray back on payment and etc.

      • If Ike’s doesn’t get back to us by tomorrow, we’ll need to order something else.

    • Event is public! FInal push from Emily to get it more well-known

    • Volunteer sign-up sheet? Already posted.

  • GM1 9/1

    • Directly after our FB event!

    • 8-11 PM

    • King Dong

    • Sign-up sheets for volunteering and stuff. We need people to be serving food and etc

    • FB event is up, and is being pushed

  • Pinterest 9/6

    • Possibly not happenig anymore??

    • Not CAP; was supposed to be a workshop, but Pinterest is advertising as not. And thus it’s being blocked.

  • Yelp 9/7

    • Everything is handled! We just need to do publicity.

  • TBD 9/9?

    • Professional Development workshop?? :D

    • 1-6 PM

      • Drop-in any time? Casual/informal setup

    • Resume workshop?

    • We probably can’t staff 1-6PM? =\

    • @Robert get IEEE on this as well?

    • @Eric tell the officers about how to critique resumes and so on

  • Riot LAN 9/11

    • Eric is following up with Berkeley Legends next week

    • All we’re doing is advertising

  • Riot tech talk 9/12

    • Food is pizza @Ray

    • Sibley is booked

      • @Ray please document this process!

        • Oh, he already did.

      • @Megan tell \@Ray how to get the Sibley key.

  • Meraki 9/14

    • We just need advertising and food

  • CS Intended Panel 9/28

    • UPE

    • People are stressed about stuff!

    • This is our attempt to get people less stressed.

    • Process of declaring? Resources to look for? Panel with Q&A?

    • @Mish, \@Jason are interested in being on the panel.

    • @Megan is making the presentation this week and sending it to Slack to check for goodness

  • Startup fair 10/24

    • SD Hacks??

    • Pauley Ballroom

    • We’re in charge of publicity, buying things, shirts (soft v-necks, more mediums!)

    • IEEE is doing a lot more.

  • Engaging new recruits

    • The social thing last week wasn’t so good :( but it caught a few people!

    • @Emily welcome email! Email pitch to new people.

    • @Jason more socials?

    • Megan: Get a lot of fire noodles and cook them and bring them to the CSUA!

    • Teela: “Boba is good! Lots of people are interested in that.”

    • We can have membership separate from emails

    • Maybe just have a straight mailing list?

      • It already exists: mail.csua.berkeley.edu

      • Maybe we should advertise this more

    • A stand on Sproul?

      • We’ve shot this down before because we think CS people are in Soda.

      • But freshmen really spend all of their time in South Berkeley!

      • “It’s easier to reach out to people on a personal level?”

      • Maybe we should try it out. Can’t hurt too much.

      • What do we want from tabling?

        • More visibility.

        • Q&A table.

        • Flyers!

      • @Megan will look into how to table.

    • @Megan get more stickers.

  • Bi-monthly emails

    • Twice a month, not once every two months!

    • Emails are good for events.

    • Email blast… today!

    • @Emily

    • (leave out pinterest)

  • Hack+

    • Are people interested in having the Woz open on Sundays to walk in, study, work, have snacks and stuff?

    • Sundays are typically open.

    • @Jason can book a trial run for a few weeks.

  • Tutoring

    • @Yitz Corral all the responoses

    • @Megan heckle people who didn’t respond

    • New calendar for tutoring hours

  • Website

    • Done, except for SSH! SSH currently doesn’t work.

    • Eric/JT SSH issues

    • “I asked him, but JT was playing Destiny” -Eric

    • “Make a ticket!!!” -JT

  • HKN Collab?

    • @Megan has yet to email HKN about getting closer

    • Workshops, socials, LAN party, tutoring

    • Just want our clubs to get closer together; collaborate on more things.

  • Branding

    • New website, new logo, new flyers, etc

    • @Megan ordered sheet things (?)

    • The goal is to make CSUA events more visible as “CSUA Events”

    • Make sure the new stickets have the new bear @Megan

    • The new people in this room don’t really like it :(

  • Officer training

    • For officers to get more in touch with how to approach people!

    • How to be friendly, and etc

  • Officer Cleaning

  • Note Bank

    • Adnan’s office note bank

    • Having people take notes, and be stored in the note bank

    • We’ll just be hosting it?

  • Reclaiming the upper-div lounge (341A Soda)

    • Megan emailed Cindy (who is like David Michael Sasson but isn’t David Michael Sasson), and she said that’s not true at all.

    • Wat?

    • Even Chris Hunn thought this was our room??

    • Maybe we could just claim this room for tutoring

  • Workshops

    • Workshops all booked, dates all finalized, except for professional workshop

    • With the exception of prof workshop, every workshop has someone assigned

    • Ensure Fall 2017 spreadsheet is up to date

    • Also, update the calendar

    • @Ray \@Jason

    • HP Access? Jason knows how.

    • When we put the FB events for the workshops up, put a little “workshop series” thing up too with links to the events!

  • Meeting length

    • This meeting didn’t do too badly!

    • We’re going to keep all the meetings under a minute. We’ll try.

    • Let’s not get too off-topic.

  • NVidia Server

    • Long story short, NVidia donated a large Tesla cluster to us, so we have lots of stuff for computations and deep learning and etc!

    • Ideally revealing on AI day in late september.

    • Any ideas on demos? Email @Sid!

    • Maybe talk to BAIR about demo ideas?

  • Officership!

    • We need officers!

    • Website needs work

    • indrel would like help

    • Events also need help

    • Officers do all of this!

    • Requirement:

      • Office hours once a week, where you keep the office open

        • No other requirements, but just be welcoming!

      • X numbers of points per month

        • Maybe less points for freshmen? Would be more welcoming for freshmen to ease them in

        • PB has yet to agree on this.

        • Additional incentive for more points?

          • PB doesn’t want to make you feel like you’re not doing enough :( But we really need extra help for stuff.

        • How do you get points?

          • helping out at events

          • tutoring (1 point for each 1hour/week)

          • Ray or Jason may award additional points for helping out for extra long

          • Tasks around the office (trash, recycling, cleaning)

  • New prosps

    • Name, Year, Major, why are you interested in the CSUA in general, why are you interested in Officership*?, Professor + Movie

    • Jesse Ou

      • 2nd year, CS

      • “I don’t regret getting denied by the other clubs because this is cool!”

      • “I want full access to the office”

      • Denero+Emoji Movie

    • Ben Wu

      • 1st year EECS

      • Got introduced to CSUA through the Discord chat, people left a good impression on me! It’s a welcoming club.

      • I’ve heard it’s best to learn through teaching.

      • Paco Burrito (?) (turns out it’s Brito not burrito) + Her

    • Teela Huff

      • Freshman, CS

      • CSUA makes a larger impact directly on CS, versus IEEE, which is such a general club. We’re more specific!

      • Want to make actual change in CS and CSUA is better for this than certain others

      • Michael Cohen + Hidden Figures

    • Daniel Wu

      • Freshman, CS

      • “I thought this seemed like a pretty fun place, and I went there, and it was a pretty fun place”

      • “I have a lot of time and I want to do some nice things; not sure about the future”

      • Denero + Snakes on a Plane

    • Joshua Wang

      • CS + music minor maybe

      • CSUA was one of the first club I was exposed to! This club has good vibes

      • Really big into organizing things and being a leader

      • Denero+”I’ll have to ask him”

    • Neil Palleti

      • Freshman, CS

      • Met Eric, and he told me all about the CSUA. I want to be a part of it and have the resources!

      • I want to help provide these resources and help my peers out.

      • Sahai + Baby Driver or Mad Max

    • Arthur Kazantsev

      • Junior, Econ+CS

      • “A lot of you know me as the video game prodigy as I am, but not many of you know me as a student… but that’s because I’m not a good student” But CSUA inspired me to go back and do CS and it’s the reason I call myself a double major. I’ve seen people come by the office and are super passionate about CS.

      • I want to help people find this kind of community that CSUA gives and be a part of this.

      • Rao on a date to see 500 Days of Summer and make dad jokes

    • Starr Yang ★★★★★★★

      • Freshman, CS

      • Discord! Little freshman scared by the GPA cap; Eric Hou assured us that everything was okay.

      • Want to contribute to the club + general CS community

      • Denero + Shawshank Redemption

    • Mark Hill

      • Freshman EECS

      • It’s a cool club to come in and socialize, and I played Exploding Kittens here

      • Perks are pretty good

      • Frenkel + any Marvel movie

    • Anna Brewer

      • Now an officer!