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.