1/28/15 CSUA Officer Meeting Minutes

Attendance:

  • Ana Shuler, Claire Lieu, Megan Zhu, Robert Chang, Michelle Tian, Alex Chu, Austin Kim, Simon Wu, Ryan Erickson, Kara Gieseking

Student Leadership Meeting

  • Toastmasters

    • want to get more of the EECS people in communication clubs

    • will probably get a blurb to email out to our members

  • Faculty Retreat

    • Thursday and Friday, April 23 and 24

      • will only need to go up for one day

      • staff can carpool and drive our rep up

      • will get lunch

    • Need to send one rep -> Let Sarah know by 3/13

    • Present important issues to all of staff

  • Town Hall meeting

    • going to be tacked onto the end of undergrad social hours

    • lets undergrads talk about issues with some of the faculty

  • CalDay

    • might want to give high school students tours of Soda

    • Table?

  • HKN survey

    • will talk about more at next Leadership meeting

    • will be used to figure out what to talk about at the Faculty Retreat

  • Resilience Project Ideas

    • Stanfurd created this project that detailed how prominent figures overcame hardships

    • want to start something similar for the EECS Department

Unix/Vim Workshop

  • Pluses/Delta

    • Plus:

      • Someone said that it was good

      • Got 10+ people signed up

      • great turn out

      • lots of officers helping out -> lots of people to answer questions

    • Delta

      • Unix was too long

      • entire event was too long

      • time management -> how long to let them work on problems

      • do not use Dropbox anymore

      • never posted the solutions to the power point

      • Avoid talking at the same time

    • Future Ideas

      • make first exercise scp-ing the zip file off the server

      • make a rehearsal to talk about what we’re going to do

      • do a mock presentation to the officers/PB

CSM

  • Afraid that they will conflict with the CSUA

    • not really a conflict

    • probably more of a conflict with HKN

  • Also going to host some events; not sure if we will conflict

    • doesn’t seem that there will be a problem

  • Mentors would hold small sessions with 5-10 students;

    • help mostly academically in the lower division class

    • accepted 120 mentors; want about 150 discussions for about 1 hr

    • from 11-5, back to back sessions

    • want to borrow the CSUA lounge (341A)

  • Want to borrow the CSUA lounge

    • Want to use it for a long time

    • would be okay with it if they did not use the room for the whole day

    • can’t just use half the room

      • keeps a lot of people from using the room

    • we can say ‘no, but we don’t know for sure yet

    • we could let them reserve the room for a couple of hours, but they wouldn’t have priority after that

  • Will tell them to talk about it with HKN and let us know what events that they will have so we don’t overlap events

StartUp Fair Meeting

  • Claire and Jessie went to the meeting

  • 3/11 or 3/18

    • leaning towards the 11th

    • CS 162 midterm on that day; late in the day, but many people wouldn’t like to miss it

    • will run this by the committee

    • IEEE wants it to be on the 18th, but it is not sure

  • Have not figured out where to put the even

    • cannot use the I-House like normal

    • Thinking of using the stadium

  • IEEE is contacting companies and HKN is dealing with rooms

  • CSUA is in charge of the fliers and the tshirts and such

  • PURPLE!! or HOT PINK!!

  • make sure that there is no box on the bear on the shirt

GM #1

  • Megan is mostly done

    • will email the officers all the info

  • Gypsies for noms

  • Forest will drive, but only if we make him an officer *today*

  • Michelle will make a facebook event page so we can get a head count

  • Class announcement?

    • no

    • Piazza announcement

  • Write the announcement on the board on 2nd floor Soda/3rd floor hall

  • can print flyers

  • Will bring up the board games

    • Make sure that nothing is taken

  • Will decide who wants to do the little “CSUA Talk”

  • Start set up at 5:30

    • Start event at 6:00

Hackerrank

  • Jessie isn’t here because he had an audition

  • want to do a CFG and a tech talk

    • want to be in mid/late February

    • no Woz in Feb; hard to get a room

    • could break it up and have HP and food outside

  • Could do 2/27 from 7-10 PM

    • not enough time?

    • Too late for lots of people

    • Workshop right before hand; not enough time to set up

  • Could do HP and split into other rooms

    • no food in HP

    • might be too difficult

  • Could we do it in Cory?

    • Hogan room - capacity = 50 people

    • No availability

Microsoft Coding Competition

  • Microsoft wants to host a coding competition for Cal students

  • would provide prizes for the top coders

    • provide mentors

  • will have food and supporting us this semester

  • Currently no room; will have to have wait for later in the semester

  • Think that it is a good idea; will need to find a room

    • Shoot for April

  • Only two hours

Office Misc

  • Keyboard?

    • Need to make sure that if people spill, they clean/pay for it

    • need to report accidents as quickly as possible

    • perhaps put a keyboard covers on?

      • buy covers

    • Clean the keyboards at least once a semester

  • Cleaning!

    • Office cleaning sessions that will start at 7

    • no gaming until the office is clean!

    • will not know the date unless you go to the meeting that week.

    • You don’t get to game unless you clean!

      • priority for people who help us clean

  • Back room camera

    • Drop cam

      • web cam and raspberry pi?

      • We have one

      • Tech Chang will on this

    • could use a raspberry pi

    • Need to be more careful about the office ocde

    • Old code still works -> need to fix

  • Swap Computers

    • Why didn’t we just switch the graphics cards?

      • mother board issue??

    • Make notes about what’s wrong with things

    • Mead

    • new photo for Rum

    • Just need to install some software

  • Move the servers back to the server room

  • Need new Hard Discs

    • Don’t need too much if people just play DOTA/LoL

    • Should we get some more?

    • We have Coke/Tequila’s hard drives in the back

    • could just stick the old hard drive back in so we have the Linux stuff

  • CSUA Network

    • people are talking about how AirBears sucks

    • want to get our own router in the office

    • put Tech Chang in charge of it

    • Jeff says that his come up multiple times, but nothing has ever happened

    • Could use the computers to tunnel, but we need to get more network cards

  • Robert needs to talk about the DNS stuff

  • Officer Requirements

    • too many event requirements?

    • 4 events + 1 cleaning

    • We think this is good.

New Officers!

  • Austin Kim

  • Forest Hughes

  • New officers:

    • Jack Martin

    • Christopher Dinh

    • Youdong Zhang

    • Jingwei (Jason) Tu

  • Ana will email these people and let them know that we’re starting the evaluation process.