Attendance

On time: Megan, Daniel, Nerrissa, Ray, Bill, Catherine, Ray, Ani, JT, Robert

Slightly Late: Arthur, Justin

Late: Anna

Topics

  • Nvidia Server Update

    • ML@B is helping out

    • The server is blocked and now just configs and documentation is left

    • Mark is doing a lottaaaaa work!

    • Robert is giving an update on #root-staff so if people want to help out they can

  • Goals this semester

    • Flyers

      • Jessica is working on it but we don’t have times

    • Root

      • Robert is scraping the weekly root meetings because the times are too late and inconvenient

      • Online meetings instead

    • Workshops

      • Arthur has been planning when the workshops will be

      • We’re not doing machine learning anymore

      • Yitz - LaTeX 2/19 7PM

      • Robert - Vim 3/9 5:30PMt

      • Arthur will talk to Barak Michener about when to schedule a Kubernetes workshop

    • Tutoring

      • 10 or so people interested in tutoring

      • Megan will send out an email on who’s sending out grades

      • We’ll update the website soon to account for tutoring

    • Podcast

      • Anna MIA

    • Photos

      • JT is going to buy a camera when there’s a good deal

    • Swag/rebranding

      • Megan ordered the branding stuffs

      • Options for sweg

        • Crewneck with embroidered bear

          • Too hot during summer?

          • Other clubs have patagonias and that doesn’t seem to be a problem for them

        • Long sleeve tees with embroidered bear

        • Or just a tshirt with a bear

      • We’re in a transition period where we have a new logo but also have all of the old stuffs

      • We want to be more identifiable to companies when we’re doing company events

      • Unclear what people really want so we don’t really know what to do for now

      • Anna will make a formal poll and put it on officers to figure out what to do

      • If no one objects order crewnecks for all officers and tshirts for whoever wants them

      • Polos as officers only whereas tshirts are for the hoser

      • After Anna finalizes designs, we should try to get proofs, and then vote because we don’t really know what we’re getting into at the moment

      • This should be done ASAP

  • Office rules

    • Security camera

      • We have one!

      • Context : We’ve wanted one for multiple semesters and UCPD is ok with it

      • Now we need to figure out rules and regulations behind this

      • Only thing we are really interested of recording is fridge/money box/backroom

      • We want to set up recording in order to prevent people from stealing

      • Even the camera being there could be a deterrent for people from stealing

    • Form

      • We have office rules and right now it is unclear what people should do if they see those rules being broken

      • We made a form for reporting people breaking rules that will be posted to #general later tonight.

    • People need to stop locking their computers and walking away

      • rip memory usage

      • People should not do this!

  • Upcoming events

    • Amazon 2/15

      • We have 0 details from Amazon…

      • We’re ordering food West Coast if they don’t say anything

      • We’ll just put up an event on Facebook if they don’t respond

    • Student-faculty lunch 2/15 bharvey (ben)

      • Ben can send two people to eat lunch with Brian Harvey

        • Our faculty advisor!

        • He’s a communist!!!

        • Respond to be on the thread in general

    • Startup fair 3/7

      • Megan is in charge of startup fair things

      • We are cohosting with IEEE/HKN

    • Wayfair

      • They are interested in doing an info session with us

      • They don’t have a room booked

        • There’s a good chance that we can book the room as we have to book through the university

      • Anna might want to warn them about the possibility

        • And get back to them by the end of the week

    • Hackathon

      • The House

        • The house is willing to give us $ :O!

        • They want us to give them context/date/time/headcount/partnership expectations

          • 3+ Judges

            • If they can’t find three people we can find people to

          • Start by asking for $4k

            • Ask Sid/Eric more about what to ask for

          • Need to figure out what benefits to tell the House

          • Clear branding

      • RCSA

        • They want partnership expectations

        • They don’t know what a hackathon is…

        • The committee is not very organized

        • The club sounds like a cluster fuck

          • Thanks Catherine for saving us from a grim dark future!

        • They had $150 to work with for food for their career fair…

        • Megan will meet with them

      • HKN/UPE/IEEE

        • We should reach out to them instead

          • Also they actually have $ and corporate sponsors…

        • Megan will reach out to those orgs with an email tonight

    • Hack+

      • No one came by last time

        • No advertisement either

      • Not worth ($200)

      • We need a clear vision of what to do

      • Also get a room that doesn’t cost $

      • We should do a test run sometime on the weekend

        • “Free food study party”

    • Socials

      • Karaoke 3/2

        • CNY is 2/16 and MLK weekend

      • Movie Night 2/23 9PM @ Woz

        • Need to figure out dates with Yitz and hopefully prevent overlap

      • GM2 3/7

      • Board Game mid/late March

      • LAN Party

        • Megan will contact HKN

    • AWE/SWE mixer?

      • We don’t know what do

      • “Do you guys have any idea of what this looks like so that it doesn’t look predatory” - Megan 2k18

      • Book Woz and eat food

      • “I’ll email one of them and when they inevitably decline us, I’ll email the other one” - Megan 2k18

      • Themes

        • Tea party

    • Kickback?

      • We need NON CSUA AFFILIATED shots

  • Create #jobs and just forward job opportunity emails directly to jobs@

    • We’re gonna make a slack channel about jobs and stuff

  • S@B Room Booking

    • We’re gonna book a room

PB ONLY

  • Root Org

    • Should root be somewhere people can learn or a place where people do productive work

    • Tech meetings fell through so ???

    • Robert feels like these decisions not working are because his ideas have gone awry

    • It’s not on Robert to predict what people want, he should gather information on what to do

    • Ideas for keeping people engaged?

      • Add people to slack

  • Tutor

    • Need to have a system to vet tutors who are not officers

    • Prospship for tutors

      • 2 week trial period?

    • Have the tutor showcase a lesson plan in front of Megan to make sure people are good people

      • Vetting process

    • Have them just tutor at the same time as another office hour

    • Same expectations as of officers

  • Rules

    • Megan will make a post to publicize

    • We aren’t trying to make people feel as though they’re being policed

  • Arthur

    • He’s taking the semester off of school

    • Not technically a student

    • We’re all fine with him being on PB

  • Big Picture/Vision

    • Megan’s doing a great job!

    • We have different visions for what CSUA should be

    • Officership not rewarding enough?

    • Mentorship program, good way to get people attached to CSUA

    • Root staff

    • Indrel staff

    • Too much work is put onto PB

      • Offloading work onto others?

        • Internal team

        • Communication is necessary with staff, expectation must be understood, and the PB member should give guidance

    • Metrics to see success of root/indrel staffs

      • Shoutouts?

    • People are motivated if they think their work is worthwhile

      • Give recognition

    • If there are cool ideas, implement + ask megan for support