9/17/15 Meeting Minutes

Attendance: Susanna, Jason, Megan, Elizabeth, Claire, Yitz, Austino, Leo, Neil, Sanath, Ana

Laaaaate: Kevin, Yuka, Yudong

DeepForest Media:

  • Pluses and Deltas:

    • Pluses:

      • good food

BrightEdge Techtalk:

  • Pluses and Deltas:

    • Pluses:

      • the speaker was good

      • officer help was good

    • Deltas:

      • waaaaaay too much food

        • need to adjust how much we order in the future

Hackerrank World Cup:

  • Pluses and Deltas:

    • Pluses:

      • Swag was good

      • company was very friendly

      • decent turn out

    • Deltas:

      • very little presentation -> should tell them that they need to do more on the tech-talk front

      • make sure that they aren’t contacting us to hold events two weeks before event

      • food ordering needs to be adjusted a little bit more

Intuit TechTalk (9/18 5:30 (5:00 setup) - 6:30)

  • 5:00 for setup, 5:30 start

  • 521 Cory

    • not sure how long the tech talk will be -> they need to run to a flight

  • 150 people have signed up on FB

    • another event in the Woz at the same time

    • order food for 65

      • 12 Pizzas

  • Have we printed out posters?

    • Print posters and hang around Soda

    • push to FB a little more

Meraki Tech Talk (9/22 5-6 in HP)

  • Contract has been sent and we are waiting on a response

  • Print and post flyers by Friday 9/18

  • They’re ordering Zachary’s

    • Put this in the FB event

  • Update the FB event with what they want to talk about

Intuit Hackathon (9/25 - 9/26 8PM - 6PM)

  • Phi Sigma Rho still hasn’t responded on the contract

    • CSUA is responsible for flyers, catering, room reservations, and social media marketing

    • Intuit is providing people to supervise the event as well as judges

    • PSR is responsible for some of the marketing

  • Are we doing snacks?

    • yes

    • they also want us to order the food

      • Tell them what we want to order, and then they will order it for us

  • Timeline:

    • 8 PM Start

      • dinner

    • 2 AM

      • snacks

      • redbull

    • 7 AM

      • Breakfast

      • coffee

    • 12 PM

      • Lunch

    • 4 PM

      • snacks

  • Food Ideas:

    • Aim for 80-90 people

    • Gypsy’s for Dinner

    • Noah’s for Breakfast

  • need to print and post flyers for the hackathon

State Farm

  • Want to improve their campus image

  • would like to have a tech talk/infosession

    • mid October or after sounds good

  • would like to sponsor the hackathon

    • judges?

    • just monies?

GM #1 (10/2)

  • FB event and the flyers should be posted 2 weeks before event

  • want to do anything more than just board games/socializing??

UCB StartUp Fair (10/7 12-4)

  • Claire went to the meeting

  • perhaps blue v-necks

    • suuuuuuuper comfy

  • we need to do publicity as normal

    • posters

    • flyers

    • easels

    • welcome packets for all the companies

  • would like to have more officers helping out this year

    • freee shirt!

    • also get to talk to companies while setting up

  • want to get the FB event set up by Wednesday, just waiting on HKN

Research Symposium

  • Ana went to the meeting

  • want to have it the Wednesday of Dead Week in HMMB

  • 100 or so posters in a poster fair

  • Panel of researchers

    • how they got research, which professor, etc.

Office Misc:

  • cleaning session coming soon!

  • Food in the Fridge:

    • DON’T LEAVE YOUR FOOD IN THE FRIDGE!

    • If I don’t know who’s it is, i will throw it out

  • Committees:

    • will work well for many of the positions

      • can divide work among more people, so it makes it a little easier for planning

    • worry that there is a lot of overhead for trying to manage so many people

ACTION ITEMS:

**Need to make sure that we are telling companies what’s up

Megan:

  • Send the hackerrank hoodie list out

  • Order 12 pizzas for the Intuit Tech Talk

  • Buy list for the hackathon by Tuesday

  • Send out the volunteer sign up list for the hackathon by Tuesday

Claire:

  • Figure out when to go to Costco/what to buy

  • talk to Atalie about starting the GM 1 a little earlier

Ana:

  • Figure out when to go to Costco/what to buy

Austino:

Jason:

Susanna:

Eranda:

  • Print out the Intuit Tech Talk posters and hang around Soda

  • Push the Intuit Tech Talk FB events to different groups

  • Print and post the Meraki Tech Talk posters and hang around Soda

  • Add Zachary’s and what Meraki wants to talk about to the FB event

  • Print and post the Intuit hackathon posters around Soda