Minutes 2018-07-18

2018-07-18

Attendance

  • President

  • Vice President

  • Sysadmin

  • Community Ambassador

  • Membership

  • Architect

  • Ace

  • Ringo

  • Secretary (via discord)

  • Webmaster (via discord)

Items

  • MinneHack changes for 2020
    • Would different times work? (ex. fall)
      • This would be to get resumes to companies
      • Would hurt attendance b/c of finals
    • Different locations
      • Have to be green line accessible
      • No issues besides that
  • Website issues
    • Needs content for events
      • Jack will write copy
    • Needs fomatting changes
  • Blog postings to be renamed newsletters
  • Membership fees
    • Access to the room $5 door fee per semester
      • RFD we don't have many things that are hard to request money for
    • Idea: Must pay the fee and volunteer at two events before voting
      • No
      • RFD we need more volunteers at metings, but ACM requires all members be able to vote
  • Follow-up for MH
    • Few sponsors need to still be emailed by Helen
    • SPS wants to meet with us next week
      • Potentially occurring friday
  • Trello board
    • Task organization for officers
  • Unix class
    • Opinion: Don't run lectures, because interactive learning is better
      • Discussion is that fully interactive homeworks should be additional to, not instead of lectures
    • Video recording
      • CSE-IT is willing to help out with funding for UNITE, dept could help too
      • They need the curriculum before we get the funding
      • We would need the raw video to sync it with the terminal screencast
        • If we can't get it, ask Ari for their video camera to record
      • Action items
        • Nathan need to finish the curriculum
        • Isai will ask Unite if we can get the raw footage
  • Database hosting
    • Departmental SQL can't happen right away
    • We would need to host our own database through AWS
    • We wouldn't have backups until we got a PCard
    • We would need to pre-budget time, and re-request every time we ran low.
  • GitHub
    • First option, get form from IRS proving we're a 501c3 to get access back
    • Second option, our faculty advisor needs to email GitHub requesting our access
      • Isai will be emailing Shana
  • Constitution
    • Needs to be signed by all 5 officers to finalize our transfer to being a CLP
    • Thomas isn't here to sign, he will need to sign up after
  • Finance/CompSci interdisciplinary effort
    • Go through departments for funding
    • Would be a set of GPUs used for machine learning research into market trends
    • We will need interest from finance students
      • Louis will email friend in the Quantitative Finance club
  • Should we convert acm@umn.edu from a mailing list Google Group to a departmental email account?
  • Shana would like a blurb to give to potential sponsors
    • Jack will write copy
    • Ari will format
  • SDC prompt determined ASAP
    • Brainstorming session 8pm tomorrow discord channel

TODOs

Systems Committee

  • Figure out backup solution
    • Just write a cronjob in Python?

Ari

  • Format copy for Shana's poster blurb thing

Isai

  • Ask UNITE about Unix Class raw footage
  • Email Shana about GitHub

Jack

  • Write event copy for Website
  • Write copy for Shana's poster blurb thing

Louis

  • Email friend from Quantitative Finance Club

Nathan

  • Finish Unix Class Curriculum