Attendance

  • Here : Megan, Jason, Jessica, Kevin, Ani, Sean, Sophie, Sritam, Nithin, Arthur, Yannan, Robert, Daniel. Mark. Neil

  • Walked in at 7:56 to hoser pizza : Caleb

  • Walked in at 8:15 and left : Anna

Topics

  • Goals this semester

    • Flyers

    • Root

      • Mark “Blockchain” Hill is the new techVP!!

        • Robert will be staying around to help tho :)

      • Mark has plans to improve the GPU cluster

      • We need a new init daemon

        • We aren’t killing processes

      • Goals

        • Making the computing server more open

          • Original intention for only having a specific group able to access was such that we can monitor usage

      • THE CSUA BLOCK CHAIN WILL COME SOON

    • Workshops

      • No updates

      • Jason is down to do LaTeX next semester!!

      • We could do a workshop series

        • But we have tried this in the past, but this requires a lot more commitment from both us and the people there

      • We should do LaTeX as soon as possible

      • Workshops we should do

        • LaTeX

          • Jason

          • Week 2-3

          • Before first real CS70 homework

        • Unix/Vim

          • Robert

          • Early-ish

        • Git

          • Robert

          • Later-ish

        • Personal website workshop series

          • Starr/Charles?

          • Sritam

          • Mid semester

        • Kubernetes

          • Barak Michener

          • Later

        • Docker

          • JT’s friend?

          • Later

    • Tutoring

      • Going well!

    • Podcast

      • For future pb to talk about

    • Photos

      • We have a camcorder

      • We should get a camera

    • Swag/rebranding

      • We need some more crewnecks, around 300 dolla

      • We’re going to table this until next semester, no one has $ :<

    • BEA

      • No

    • Bear Founders

      • We’re probably going to plan a panel with them next semester with Berkeley engineers who started startups

      • They’ll prolly be at the Startup Fair

    • Retreat

      • We got a beach house!!

      • It looks hella nice

      • We’re trying to finalize cars and rides tonight

      • Arthur is going to Enterprise and looking at Zipcar tomorrow to get confirmation

      • Confirmed Drivers: Neil/JT

        • Andy might be able drive if he’s available

        • Caleb/Nerissa/Jessica/Robert are willing to drive

        • Waiting on Austin

        • We’re capping out at 25, we’re at 23 right now

      • Arthur is going to post a more detailed schedule later

      • Rough schedule

        • Leave 2-3PM or 8-9PM depending on when people are ready

        • Return Sunday afternoon around 11AM

      • We probably will do hiking, go into Downtown Carmel, and go to the beach!

      • We’re planning on doing Barbeque on one of the days

      • Also another day where we cook and eat as a huge group

      • And probably another day were we eat lunch on CSUA’s dime

      • We need to go on a Costco run

        • There’s a few on the way if we want to do it day of

      • If you have ideas for Carmel, tell Arthur ASAP so we can do things!!

      • Arthur will release an itinerary soon

  • + / Δ

    • Hackathon

      • We spent a decent amount

      • Post mortem meeting on Sunday, if you have any thoughts about the hackathon go and voice them!

      • We’ll probably do this again next Spring to not conflict with CalHacks

      • VR@B and IEEE are great to work with

        • “They(VR@B) hauled ass” - Megan

      • If we do this again a lot of the work is already done for future iterations

      • +

        • ~20 submissions

        • ~100 attendees, probably the maximum

          • Not as many as we thought(250 double confirmed)

        • Good amount of food

        • Great event!

      • Δ

        • Poorly judged

          • Not graded highly on technical skills

          • “I would agree with that, we somehow got into the finals” - Nithin

          • The hacks that did well were heavily graphical hacks that looked nice in the presentation

          • During the initial round, presentability was valued way more than technical skill :<

          • Maybe have a rubric?

        • Dominated by VR hacks

          • Categories?

            • But if we do this then we’ll have to give out more prizes(Unreasonable ratio of submissions to prizes)

            • If we have more people then this could work or split the prize tracks a bit more

        • Cal IDs taken for VR and were misplaced

    • Riot Games

      • +

        • Food

        • All seats were filled

          • Technically not very well attended for a Riot Games event, but was the very end of the semester so to be expected

      • Δ

        • Talk was meh

        • Swap sign in and food tables

        • Non-volunteers were handling and jacking food

          • Hide it in a bag for the future

    • GM #3

      • +

        • Smooth GM, it was less than 3 hours!!!

        • Enough food

      • Δ

        • We should try to push people to go for roles more

          • Give officers increased roles

  • Events

    • Cal day 4/21

      • Get your shirts tomorrow at 205 Cory!

      • 12-1 Pizza party for lunch on Cal Day for volunteers

      • Tours - You walk around Soda and tell people what things are

        • Mostly will be people(parents) asking questions about Cal

          • Declaring

          • Success at Berkeley

          • Research

          • Make sure people realize that Berkeley CS is a supportive and cooperative effort!

          • Dissipate the myths of the “EECS experience”

          • Be prepared for some rudeness :’)

        • Emphasize some of the coolest parts of Berkeley!

      • We’re banning video games in the office on Cal Day

    • Alum Lunch 4/22

      • Arthur is not here this weekend

      • We’re ordering Hummingbirds hopefully

        • Arthur will do this

      • Megan can pick them up

      • Jessica will send reminders so hopefully the alumni will come!

      • 17 going, 55 interested

        • Get food for 25/30

    • Msft thing

      • No one responded

    • Msft Fortnite

      • No one responded

      • Tell them to ask someone else, its during our retreat

    • SLC

      • Presented to the faculty today

      • Four main topics

        • Culture

        • Academic Dishonesty

        • Course Growth/Scaling

        • Student Health

      • Expressed the undergraduate survey from HKN

      • Next time we have this opportunity to do this, we should definitely continue with this!

  • Prosps

    • Prosp.format

      • Name/Year/Major

      • What did you help out at

      • What changed with your expectations with regards to CSUA Officership?

      • Pitch

      • Quiz Question

    • Sritam

      • Sritam, Math/CS, Freshman

      • Throwing out Pizza boxes, Soda Hacks, GM3

      • Joined because of his friends, but stayed because of opportunities to help out with events + teaching

      • Pitch was decent

        • Shouldn’t mention gaming though

      • If someone wants to pay with a for a $1 item with $10 bill and theres $1 in the money box wut do?

        • He failed the quiz question

        • 7 dollars in the money box at the max

        • We don’t have the change :(

      • Someone walks in and wants some to let them in

        • He passed!

        • Technically you shouldn’t because UCPD gets mad