Attendance

  • Here: Daniel, Benji, Megan, Nithin, Arthur, Anna, Jonathan, Robert, Ani, Ray

  • Late: Sean, Sritam

  • Later: Jesse, Justin

Topics

  • Goals this semester

    • Flyers

      • Megan made a March flyer!
    • Root

      • Nvidia server should be pushed to public in the next couple of days

        • Thanks Mark and Nithin!
      • Robert emailed people on how to reset passwords for those who had bad passwords

      • Reach out to Caleb if you want to help out with the website!

    • Workshops

      • Arthur should contact Barak Michener about a Kubernetes workshop

        • We need to push these workshops earlier and better
    • Tutoring

      • It’s going well!

      • Expect more foot traffic in the CSUA during Megan’s OH

      • Megan should ping Jessica about tutoring

    • Podcast

      • We should scrap this project for this semester

        • It takes a huge amount of motivation and time in order to get this running and we don’t have the bandwidth

        • Might be a good effort to revisit this over the summer and the fall

          • Or keep this in mind so that we can start up in the fall quickly
        • Also we don’t have the equipment as of now

        • In conclusion we’re only going to plan this during this semester and not work on it for now

      • Ideas to test run equipment

        • We could film a CS Q&A video for incoming freshmen

          • Megan should ping Ani about this
        • Hackathon timelapse?

    • Photos

      • Robert has the film and the camera for polaroid pictures!

      • What should we take pictures of?

        • Officer pictures board!!

          • Could help with familiarity of people

          • Megan will take care of this

        • Event photos

    • Swag/rebranding

      • Swag will be mailed in a week
    • BEA

      • They’ve yet to contact us

      • We’re going to wait for them to show initiative

        • We have enough on our plate atm and if they show initiative then this might be work it
    • Bear Founders

      • Megan is meeting with them next week to figure out partnerships
    • Soylent

      • JT ordered us some so we will have soylent

        • I give it 3 weeks
  • Upcoming Events

    • Capital One 3/20

      • Woz

      • Facebook event is up

      • We should push this ASAP

        • Megan will spam this event thenks :)
      • Arthur can be the point of contact for this event

        • Anna and Daniel should get Arthur up to date on what is happening
      • Capital One wants burritos for food

        • Prolly gonna get La Burrita
    • Blizzard 3/21

      • Sibley

      • Anna will ask them what kind of food they want for the event

      • We will advertise to esports groups, but make sure that people understand that is a tech talk

    • Hackathon 4/14-4/15

      • Come to the hackathon! It’ll be a great time and you can put something on your resume :)

      • Csua-ieee-hackathon.slack.com

        • Go here if you want to help plan things
      • csua.berkeley.edu/hackathon

        • We have a site!
      • Naming

        • Ideally not “CSUA/IEEE Hackathon” because not inclusive enough

        • Cub Hacks?

          • Mildly confusing

          • But itsk because we’re still running a hackathon

        • If you care about the name go on the slack

        • Soda Hacks?

      • Timeline

        • Megan is making a flyer tonight for the hackathon and update the facebook event and then we

        • In the coming weeks we need to plan out food and prizes and find sponsorships

        • Give The House one more week to follow up and if that doesn’t work we can find alumni to judge hopefully!!

      • VR@B?

        • JT’s friend in VR@B wants to for VR\@B to partner with us for the hackathon and provide computers and oculuses for projects

          • We should get terms of agreements

          • And see if IEEE is fine with this

      • VR company wants to have an event with CSUA and we could just ask them for judges and have them run a workshop if VR@B joins us because we’d have VR stuff!

      • We should post this information on slack ASAP

    • Socials

    • AWE mixer

      • 3/21 Wednesday 2-3:30

      • Should be fun!

    • Kickback

      • Arthur is looking at dates right before Spring break, the Friday
    • Retreat

      • Will probably be Friday/Saturday/Sunday before dead week

      • We are probably going 2-3 hours out

      • Give Arthur feedback if you have any

      • More planned activities would be useful

        • Group activities!!
      • 4k Budget

  • + / - / Δ

    • Vim/tmux/bash

      • +

        • Robert got a recording of the workshop

          • He should upload it ASAP on youtube/facebook
        • Workshop went well regardless though!

      • Δ

        • Not many people showed up

        • About 8 people showed up total

          • Not bad considering the time (5:30 on a Friday)

          • Try to prevent Friday workshops in the future

  • Prosp!!!

    • Name/Year/Major

      • Sritam, Math/CS, Freshman
    • Why CSUA?

      • He came to many infosessions and has friends in the CSUA
    • Why CSUA Officership?

      • He wants to be more involved in the projects that happen here
    • Professor + Movie

      • Sahai and 50 Shades of Grey….

      • -20