Minutes 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