Minutes 2018-09-17

2018-09-17

Attendance

  • Isai (President)
  • Thomas (Treasurer)
  • Louis (Systems Administrator)
  • Jack (Community Ambassador)
  • Mike (Secretary)
  • Michael (Webmaster)
  • Nathan (Ringo)
  • Ari (The Architect)

Last Week's TODOs

Short Term

  • Helen:
    • Buy bleach
  • Louis:
    • Put advertisement for systems help on website
  • Mike:
    • Work with Ace on the next email
  • Thomas:
    • Send followups to people
  • Ari and Helen:
    • Submit annual report

Medium Term

  • Helen and Jack:
    • Food for SDC
  • Louis:
    • Set up Battlestation for machine learning
  • Thomas:
    • Meet with and email Sue about various things
    • Update the ledger
    • Email Cargill

Long Term

  • Nathan:
    • Talk to CSEIT about IPV6
    • Talk to CSEIT about Northern Lights gigapop

Topics for Discussion

  • Update bylaws
  • ACM national report: email ACM about technical issues
  • MinneHack privacy policy
  • ACM-W being added to capabilities.pl
  • Paint the bridge prep and scheduling
  • Update website to gutenberg 0.4.1
  • DORS update
  • Purchase form standards
  • Update gopherlink
  • Find out who to talk to about getting an API token
  • Mailing list semantics change
  • Fall 2018 CSE Student Org Fair
  • Temporary CSE labs accounts
  • Door access for new members
  • Ban Michael from using do-not-disturb
  • "How to get involved" copy for the site
  • MLH
  • Constitution/bylaws update wrt membership
  • Clean fridge
  • Vending machine
  • New fridge
  • New printer
  • Print server
  • SNMP

Minutes

  • Update bylaws
    • We need to put the cost of membership in the bylaws
    • Thomas will do that at the end of the meeting
  • ACM national report: email ACM about technical issues
    • We emailed ACM national and they fixed the bug
    • We still need to submit the report
  • MinneHack privacy policy
    • The lawyers haven't gotten back to us, but we need to hear back by the time we do RSVP
    • Jack will bug the lawyers to get back to us
  • ACM-W being added to capabilities.pl
    • We need Ashmita to be here before we can do that
  • Paint the bridge prep and scheduling
    • We can use the paintbrushes someone left on the table
    • We need to laser cut stencils, Isai can do that
  • Update website to gutenberg 0.4.2
    • Michael will be in charge of that
  • DORS update
    • Ari has been talking to the person in charge of online payments because the U doesn't want us handling cash for membership fees
    • In the future, people will go to a link and pay with a credit card
    • There are separate links for full year and semester payment which isn't ideal
    • We need to do some tests and then we will publicise the link to new members
  • New channel for people who own servers
    • Possibly make a new channel for people who own servers so it's easier to @ all of them?
  • Purchase a new printer
    • Thomas will bring it up in his meeting with Mats
  • Purchase form standards
    • We need to work out who will be in charge of filling out purchase forms for which event
    • As soon as you know the details of the purchase request, fill out the form
  • Update gopherlink
    • The profile link is wrong, Jack will fix it
  • Find out who to talk to about getting an API token
    • Isai told Nathan a while ago but he forgot who it was
  • Fall 2018 CSE Student Org Fair
    • Thursday, October 4th
    • We should go
    • We need to find out whether there's a cost associated with going
    • Cassie should be in charge of that, Isai will @ her
  • Temporary CSE labs accounts
    • Louis needs to email the CSE labs people to get 10 or 15 temp accounts to use for UNIX classes
    • Once we get them we'll just write them out on cards
  • Door access for new members
    • Louis sent the email, it may or may not have gone through yet
  • MLH
    • MLH said they would be in touch with us but they haven't reached out
    • Jack will get in touch with them at some point in the (near) future
  • Clean fridge
    • Louis needs to get some acetone and get his writing off the fridge
  • New fridge, new printer
    • We need to send the old printer to the reuse center once we get the new one
  • Print server
    • We need to set up a print server on the new printer
    • We may need LDAP for that
    • It would be good if the print server was joined to the ACM network, joining it the U would be acceptable
  • ACM-W Halloween Hack Night Collab
    • This might be good to do but we also have a lot of things going on
    • We can help them advertise
    • We may not be able to provide manpower but we can help with logistics
  • Website hosting for other student groups
    • We should reach out to ACM-W about hosting their website
    • oSTEM reached out to us about their website, we could offer to host them also
  • Career fair
    • If you're at the career fair tomorrow and Wednesday and want to evangelize for us, reach out to Isai to get access to the spreadsheet
  • Reimbursements
    • If you want a reimbursement fill out the form

TODOs

Short Term

  • Cassie:
    • CSE Student Org Fair
  • Helen:
    • Buy bleach
  • Isai:
    • Lasercut stencils for bridge painting
  • Jack:
    • Bug the lawyers about the MinneHack privacy policy
    • Reach out to MLH
  • Louis:
    • Put advertisement for systems help on website
    • Get temporary CSE Labs accounts for UNIX classes
    • Get some acetone and clean your writing off the fridge
  • Michael:
    • Update website to Gutenberg 0.4.x
  • Ari and Helen:
    • Submit annual report

Medium Term

  • Helen and Jack:
    • Food for SDC
  • Louis:
    • Set up Battlestation for machine learning
  • Thomas:
    • Meet with and email Sue about various things
    • Update the ledger
    • Email Cargill

Long Term

  • Nathan:
    • Talk to CSEIT about IPV6
    • Talk to CSEIT about Northern Lights gigapop