1/25 CSUA Meeting agenda

  • Attendance: Arthur, Daniel, Ani, Eric, Bill, Catherine, Robert, Jessica, Nurrr, Sophie, Megan, Ray, Anna

    • Late: Kevin, Ben, Nithin, Neil, Jeffrey

  • Goals this semester

    • Flyers

      • We have flyers to pass out!

      • Will be monthly flyers!

    • Hackathon

      • We may have a hackathon!

      • Anna has a contact at some big VR company :O

      • VR themed hackathon/day long workshop?

      • Megan/Anna will figure this out

    • Root availability - tech meeting

      • One of our goals was to make root more avaliable

      • Not publicized well so only one person came :(

      • Possible root day this or next weekend to kick off tech meetings

        • Robert wants to have the date set my tomorrow

      • Recurring tech meetings after root day “Mini root day”

      • Robert will send info to Jessica because it’s a tight timeline and make an announcement at GM1

    • Maersk

      • Maersk is our NVIDIA GPU cluster! (50k worth of CPUs/rack)

      • Giving computing resources to the general public!

      • Robert (but mostly Nithin and Mark!) is trying to get up before root day so that people can work on it during root day

      • If anyone is interested go to root day and build things!

    • Workshops

      • Eric may not do ML because ML is going up the wahoo with their workshops

      • Sid/Eric might do distributed computing/blockchain

      • Arthur is gonna figure out when to schedule workshops

      • Barak Michener - Kubernetes

      • Robert wants to do Vim workshop (will talk to Yitz about tips and resources)

      • Arthur should ping Jessica when he’s done with that

    • Tutoring

      • Ray will send an email to all who want to tutor to contact Megan with their transcript and set up a spreadsheet

      • Tutoring has been an issue with figuring out how to publicize and we’re not 100% sure on what to do if non-officers want to do tutoring

    • Podcast & YT

      • Anna made a list of things that we need

        • Might be a good investment to get a lighting set for a more professional feel

          • Nerissa has a cheap set :o

      • Anna should start buying what she needs and posts an interest form for this project and ask professors to be on the podcast

    • Photos

      • We have a CSUA camera on the way!

      • JT has a personal camera for events but is not here

      • We should have an officer who’s designated to take pictures at events

        • And if you’re there please help by taking random pictures of the event!!

        • AND ITS FREE POINTS!!!

      • We should be using the photos and thinking about how we should use the photos as promotional material (flyers!!)

      • Jessica should update the photos on the website, and someone should teach Jessica how to do that

    • Room reorg & back room

      • We got a new table and a swanky new table setup it fits nicely and the room is messy

      • Backroom is just bad and there’s a lot of unnecessary things…

        • We’ll find a day to clean it

    • Swag & Branding

      • Megan has a banner and a table runner

      • Anna posted some designs on the slack

        • “Some of them were memes but some of them were legitimate” - Anna

        • A lot of people liked the only one that Anna didn’t make :’)

        • “Computer Science Social Club”

        • Supreme logo :’)

      • We need something slightly more on the professional side

      • Also more consistency with colors/fonts

      • Megan will order banner and tablerunner today

      • Anna will figure out shirts

  • Officer opportunities

    • Tutoring

      • Point per month

      • Can put on resume

      • Get people to join and appreciate the CSUA

      • Can tell course staff that you’re tutoring

      • Ray will send out a followup email soon

      • SIGN UP FOR TUTORING

    • Resume book

      • Ray will send things when charging companies!

      • Check your email to be in the resume book!

    • Website - tutoring? OH list? "$BLURB"? ‘Same’?

      • Update office hour link on website

      • Need to update website with tutoring page

      • Put in office hours so Jessica can update the page!!

      • Same does not mean actually same

      • Add mouseover photos!!

      • Update photos

    • Leadership

      • We talked about this last time too

      • Lead things

  • Events/other

    • WB Social

      • +

        • HUGEEE Turnout

          • Ty department

        • Food was great and we had just about enough

        • UPE helped pay

        • Good job Arthur!!

        • We should do more events like this to this standard!

        • Good advertising

          • Department, Flyer, UPE?, Piazza, FB Group spam and advertisement

      • Δ

        • UPE wasn’t here, just one officer was there

          • They were sorta annoyed by the bill >.<

        • Timeline was short

        • We need utensils/plates/gloves

        • Disorganized

          • Should prep earlier and debrief on what to do for bigger events

    • Dropbox

      • +

        • A lotta people 116 people towards the middle of the event

        • Good job Daniel for checking out mic

        • 82 going, 641 interested, 140 RSVP

        • We’ve been doing a lot better in terms of outreach!

        • Paid ads, facebook spamming

      • Δ

        • Sliver delivered very late…. 30 minutes late :(

          • Be careful about Sliver orders

          • But also IEEE ordered too… Unlucky

        • The actual mics in sibley weren’t even there…

          • Daniel should report this

    • Yelp

      • +

        • “It was good” - Daniel

        • “I didn’t get a good headcount because I’m short” - Daniel

        • 60-80 people

        • They did food

        • Yelp said they liked it

      • Δ

        • Didn’t save food for Yelp people

    • GM #1 1/26

      • Some place that Arthur forgot the name of - Thai food

      • Jessica will spam later tonight so we will have a better count on attendance

      • Arthur will buy some food and prepare the slides and put a volunteer spreadsheet out

    • Startupfair

      • Megan will be talking about HKN/IEEE about the fair

    • Hackathon

      • We should book a room for that

      • Megan will book a room for it

    • Amazon 2/15

      • It will be happening

    • Costco

      • Megan will ask JT about Costco

    • Clubs?

      • Fun fun fun

    • Faculty lunches? First is Feb 15

      • Ben has it under control

  • Prospective Officers!!!

    • Ani

      • Freshman intended CS

      • CSUA has the ability to reach out to a larger group of people, and he feels like he can make an impact instead of studying in his room

      • Officership is a good way to help people and its a team of people to work with

      • “I want to take Daddy Denero to The Room”

    • Nurrrr

      • Senior CS

      • She met us last sem and thought we were cool :O :O :O!!!! Also she wants to give back to the community

      • Officership is good to get maybe some leadership skills and take a stronger role in giving back to the community!

      • Weaver + Hacker movie for the entertainment value

    • Jeffrey

      • Freshman EECS major

      • He went to a lot of our events last semester (ML Workshop + Tech talks). He enjoyed listening to companies talk about things and the free food.

      • Officership because it's good to help people out!

      • Sahai to Inception and pester him to explain so that everything will be even more confusing!

PB Meeting

  • Should have PB/Shadow and then PB only so shadow doesn’t have too much influence

  • Keurig

    • Damnit Sid

      • He doesn’t want it because its bad…

    • We can give it to the staff

  • We approve all prosps!