10/21/15 Meeting Minutes

Attendance: Austino, Leo, Megan, Neil, Barak, Kevin, Yitz, Sid, Jason, Susanna, Ana, Claire, Angela

Castlight Infosession:

  • Pluses/Deltas:

    • Pluses:

      • Turn out was fine

    • Deltas:

      • Cavier screwed up and didn’t give us enough food

      • fixed it!

        • Lets just not use Cavier for delivery anmore.

Movie Night with UPE:

  • Pluses/Deltas:

    • Pluses:

      • decent turn out (~20)

      • people talked between the clubs

      • food was good

    • Delta:

      • Movie choice could have been a lot better

      • delivery food was kinda weird

      • didn’t have a key to get table out of HP storage room

      • no sign up sheet for officers to help out

Twitch Infosession (10/28):

  • Twitch wants sliver and veggi/vegan/gluten free

    • Sliver + Salad ??

    • can we confirm with them to see what they want to do

    • aiming for 100 people

  • Drinks?

    • pick up drinks on the hackathon run this next Tuesday

Hackathon (10/29 - 10/30):

  • PRIZES?!?!?!

    • 1st Prize: Monitors ($150 - $200)

    • 2nd Prize: Headphones ($100 - $150)

    • 3rd Prize: External Harddrive ($50 - $100)

    • Want to do something like honorable mention?

      • We have Chromecasts in the back -> want to get rid of them

      • could also buy some raspberry pis

      • just pick four teams -> “honorable mention”

  • Judges:

    • Jason reached out to Microsoft, Google, Pinterest, Meraki

    • Jason will email some more companies

      • Call Meraki soon

    • Will ask for alumni by next Tuesday

  • Finalize the poster

    • add the ADA/ASUC thingy to the bottom

    • print and post!

  • In class announcements:

    • make a spreadsheet and someone needs to go do it

    • make facebook posts in different groups

  • Food:

    • Costco Pizza for dinner

    • midnight sushi

    • Noah’s in the morning

    • LaVals for lunch

      • wanted to get sandwiches, but they’re not that great from LaVals

      • could replace it with Indian food?

      • Thai food?

      • Gyros?

      • Burrrriiiitos!

      • Think that we are going to do half and half Montegue’s and LaVaals

    • Want to order this weekend/early this week

  • Logistics:

    • Megan is going to pick up some Halloween stuff this weekend!!

  • Website:

    • Austino needs to make the website before this Sunday

NerdWallet (11/3):

  • Still haven’t responded?

  • Megan will email them again and see what’s up

GM2 (11/4 6:30 - 10):

  • Jeff Atwood Speaking

    • Susanna will ask him what he wants to talk about so we can publicize

  • Food?

    • still undecided

  • Flyer?

    • get it out and posted by next Wednesday

  • Facebook event has been pushed

    • add that Jeff Atwood is the cofounder of StackOverflow

Office Misc:

  • Re-arrange the office:

    • Ana is in charge

    • See the email for the new layout

    • will be happening on 10/31 at 10 AM

    • deep clean office

  • Work??

    • going to get a written proposal from Neil/Sanath

    • No real way to really distinguish what’s work and what’s not

    • if we rearrange the room for work space/computer space

      • desktops are more of a first come - first serve

      • still reasonable to ask someone to use the computer to work

ACTION ITEMS:

Megan:

  • contact Twitch and see what they want to do about the gluten free/veggi options

  • post the hackathon facebook event in different groups

  • find out who is going to be coming up to Berkeley with a car and when, etc.

  • follow up with NerdWallet

Jason:

  • contact more companies for a hackathon judge

  • call Meraki about hackathon judge

Eranda:

  • Print and post the hackathon posters

  • post the GM2 flyers by next Wednesday (6:30 - 10)

Austino:

  • Create a hackathon website

Susanna:

  • check with Jeff to see what he wants to talk about at the meeting

Ana:

  • Office re-arrangement!