Attendance ========== On time: Megan, Daniel, Nerrissa, Ray, Bill, Catherine, Ray, Ani, JT, Robert Slightly Late: Arthur, Justin Late: Anna Topics ====== - Nvidia Server Update - ML@B is helping out - The server is blocked and now just configs and documentation is left - Mark is doing a lottaaaaa work! - Robert is giving an update on #root-staff so if people want to help out they can - Goals this semester - Flyers - Jessica is working on it but we don't have times - Root - Robert is scraping the weekly root meetings because the times are too late and inconvenient - Online meetings instead - Workshops - Arthur has been planning when the workshops will be - We're not doing machine learning anymore - Yitz - LaTeX 2/19 7PM - Robert - Vim 3/9 5:30PMt - Arthur will talk to Barak Michener about when to schedule a Kubernetes workshop - Tutoring - 10 or so people interested in tutoring - Megan will send out an email on who's sending out grades - We'll update the website soon to account for tutoring - Podcast - Anna MIA - Photos - JT is going to buy a camera when there's a good deal - Swag/rebranding - Megan ordered the branding stuffs - Options for sweg - Crewneck with embroidered bear - Too hot during summer? - Other clubs have patagonias and that doesn't seem to be a problem for them - Long sleeve tees with embroidered bear - Or just a tshirt with a bear - We're in a transition period where we have a new logo but also have all of the old stuffs - We want to be more identifiable to companies when we're doing company events - Unclear what people really want so we don't really know what to do for now - Anna will make a formal poll and put it on officers to figure out what to do - If no one objects order crewnecks for all officers and tshirts for whoever wants them - Polos as officers only whereas tshirts are for the hoser - After Anna finalizes designs, we should try to get proofs, and then vote because we don't really know what we're getting into at the moment - This should be done ASAP - Office rules - Security camera - We have one! - Context : We've wanted one for multiple semesters and UCPD is ok with it - Now we need to figure out rules and regulations behind this - Only thing we are really interested of recording is fridge/money box/backroom - We want to set up recording in order to prevent people from stealing - Even the camera being there could be a deterrent for people from stealing - Form - We have office rules and right now it is unclear what people should do if they see those rules being broken - We made a form for reporting people breaking rules that will be posted to #general later tonight. - People need to stop locking their computers and walking away - rip memory usage - People should not do this! - Upcoming events - Amazon 2/15 - We have 0 details from Amazon... - We're ordering food West Coast if they don't say anything - We'll just put up an event on Facebook if they don't respond - Student-faculty lunch 2/15 bharvey (ben) - Ben can send two people to eat lunch with Brian Harvey - Our faculty advisor! - He's a communist!!! - Respond to be on the thread in general - Startup fair 3/7 - Megan is in charge of startup fair things - We are cohosting with IEEE/HKN - Wayfair - They are interested in doing an info session with us - They don't have a room booked - There's a good chance that we can book the room as we have to book through the university - Anna might want to warn them about the possibility - And get back to them by the end of the week - Hackathon - The House - The house is willing to give us $ :O! - They want us to give them context/date/time/headcount/partnership expectations - 3+ Judges - If they can't find three people we can find people to - Start by asking for $4k - Ask Sid/Eric more about what to ask for - Need to figure out what benefits to tell the House - Clear branding - RCSA - They want partnership expectations - They don't know what a hackathon is... - The committee is not very organized - The club sounds like a cluster fuck - Thanks Catherine for saving us from a grim dark future! - They had $150 to work with for food for their career fair... - Megan will meet with them - HKN/UPE/IEEE - We should reach out to them instead - Also they actually have $ and corporate sponsors... - Megan will reach out to those orgs with an email tonight - Hack+ - No one came by last time - No advertisement either - Not worth ($200) - We need a clear vision of what to do - Also get a room that doesn't cost $ - We should do a test run sometime on the weekend - "Free food study party" - Socials - Karaoke 3/2 - CNY is 2/16 and MLK weekend - Movie Night 2/23 9PM @ Woz - Need to figure out dates with Yitz and hopefully prevent overlap - GM2 3/7 - Board Game mid/late March - LAN Party - Megan will contact HKN - AWE/SWE mixer? - We don't know what do - "Do you guys have any idea of what this looks like so that it doesn't look predatory" - Megan 2k18 - Book Woz and eat food - "I'll email one of them and when they inevitably decline us, I'll email the other one" - Megan 2k18 - Themes - Tea party - Kickback? - We need NON CSUA AFFILIATED shots - Create #jobs and just forward job opportunity emails directly to jobs@ - We're gonna make a slack channel about jobs and stuff - S@B Room Booking - We're gonna book a room PB ONLY ======= - Root Org - Should root be somewhere people can learn or a place where people do productive work - Tech meetings fell through so ??? - Robert feels like these decisions not working are because his ideas have gone awry - It's not on Robert to predict what people want, he should gather information on what to do - Ideas for keeping people engaged? - Add people to slack - Tutor - Need to have a system to vet tutors who are not officers - Prospship for tutors - 2 week trial period? - Have the tutor showcase a lesson plan in front of Megan to make sure people are good people - Vetting process - Have them just tutor at the same time as another office hour - Same expectations as of officers - Rules - Megan will make a post to publicize - We aren't trying to make people feel as though they're being policed - Arthur - He's taking the semester off of school - Not technically a student - We're all fine with him being on PB - Big Picture/Vision - Megan's doing a great job! - We have different visions for what CSUA should be - Officership not rewarding enough? - Mentorship program, good way to get people attached to CSUA - Root staff - Indrel staff - Too much work is put onto PB - Offloading work onto others? - Internal team - Communication is necessary with staff, expectation must be understood, and the PB member should give guidance - Metrics to see success of root/indrel staffs - Shoutouts? - People are motivated if they think their work is worthwhile - Give recognition - If there are cool ideas, implement + ask megan for support