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.