2_10_15_meeting

2/10/15 Officer Meeting Minutes

Attendance:

Ana Shuler, Claire Lieu, Ryan Erickson, Jessie, Robert Chang, Leo Wu, Austin Kim, Christopher Dinh, Youdong Zhang, Jingwei (Jason) Tu, Susanna Souv, Megan was late

CFG with Hackerank

Sent them a little invoice with the pricing, but haven’t heard a reply
- Will send a follow-up email
want to do it on the 2/23/15

Microsoft Coding Challenge

Seems that they do not want to pay us more money.
- They will take care of food and prizes
They want to provide their own prizes
Would use the money that they give for CFG
Need to get a room
Need to advertisea
Want to put them on our hackathon logo
- Get us some more people

Climate Corporation Infosession

2/20/15 5-8
Want to make sure that there is enough turnout
- concerned that if we don’t get enough people to come, then we might not get to work with the company in the future.
- Will encourage the CSUA members to go
- Publicize with posters/Facebook event. Not going to do too much more than that (ASAP)
- They don’t seem to be from CA, so they might not be as well known
- Will post the event in some of the other groups at Cal
Want us to take care of food
- $200 or less?
- Will need to talk the company about the cost of food
- perhaps provide some concrete examples
- likely will only cost ~$60 for drinks
Concerned about people taking food and leaving
- perhaps hand out food during the presentation
- could also hand out food at the end

Samsung Infosession

CHECK

GM1

Starts at 6
volunteers starting at 5:45
- Not a lot of people signed up on the sheet, but this should be okay
catalogue the games that we take up to the event
Presentation
- Megan can do it, or Claire can do it
- Megan has volunteered as tribute!

UCB StartUp Fair

Claire and Ryan went to the start up fair meeting
3/18 -> Memorial Stadium, 4th floor
- need volunteers as this is a sorta confusing place
this year’s color is ~~PURPLE!!~~
We have 5 companies signed up, but 10 more that we are talking to
- if you have any companies to talk to, do so!
- We are also looking for sponsors
Raffle and prizes
- talking to Leap; might just get some of these
- just use a google form
- backup idea?
  - iPads. Safe and easy
Want to get started on the banner ASAP
- Not sure where to get the banner printed
- ZeeZee Copy?

Berkeley City College Coding Club

Office Misc

order ~5 long HDMI cables
food being left around the office
- Need to be cleaned up
- Pick up trash if you see it
- we want to make the office more of a welcoming place
Should greet visitors better
- Make them feel welcomed!

Tech Problems :(

LDAP fell apart
Mail fell apart
- Tech Chang did not respond in time, so we need to talk to the security people to get it fixed
Want to rebuild the server
- we have spare hardware
- newer and not used
- want to keep it within the department.
- Colin could do this all on Sunday/Monday
Vote for Colin to build the server:
- unanimous yes.
- Will we pay him?
  - Would be a nice thing to do
  - Will talk about this more
- CSUA Potato/Carrot/Ginger will talk about this later
possibility to move to an external provider
- would be more robust
- could maintain it more for us
- lots of our servers still run really old versions of Linux
Want to bring back Root_Day to talk about more of these things
- This will happen after we rebuild the server
- will be a Sat/Sun in HP. 4 hrs of talking
- open to all the officers
- will talk about how to fix the servers
Cloud Service
- For the best server -> $1000 + a month
- outsourcing the server would be simpler
- Digital Ocean -> range from $5 to $64/month
Want to make it a feature to remove malicious accounts

New Officers!