Minutes 2018-09-24
2018-09-24
Attendance
- Isai (President)
- Helen (Vice President)
- Thomas (Treasurer)
- Louis (Systems Administrator)
- Jack (Community Ambassador)
- Mike (Secretary)
- Michael (Webmaster)
- Ace (Nice)
- Nathan (Ringo)
- Ari (The Architect)
Last Week's TODOs
Short Term
- Cassie:
- Helen:
- Isai:
- Jack:
- Louis:
- Michael:
- Ari and Helen:
Medium Term
- Helen and Jack:
- Louis:
- Thomas:
Long Term
Topics for Discussion
- P card update
- Upcoming events
- Strategic partnerships
- MinneHack sponsor status
- Homi update
- Career fair
- Mpls activities fair
- Boston Scientific tech talk date
- LAN party
- Budgets and spending plan
- Vending machine
- Emails
- Servers
- DORS
- Papertrail
- Memberlist frontend
- Channel cleanup
- 2nd E5620 for r410
- SDC
- Appropriate things to post in #general
- SSF funding request prep
- Pronoun roles
- Catering for future Coffee & Donuts events
- Pick up for Tim Horton's tomorrow
- Finals and waffles
- UNIX class videos
- MinneHack sponsors
Minutes
- P card update
- Isai talked to Mats and he thinks we should have one
- Isai and Thomas are setting up a meeting with him to talk about it
- Upcoming events
- ACM-W is setting up a hack night on Halloween, Helen is in contact with them
- Strategic partnerships
- We haven't reached out to ACM-W yet, but we're going to see if they want to host there site on our servers
- After we reach out to them we should reach out to oSTEM
- We should consider what we want in return, possibly just putting our events on their newsletter?
- Isai will write the email and either Ace or Helen will send it because they have connections
- MinneHack sponsor status
- Jack and Isai went over confirmed sponsors and Thomas is looking at how to invoice them
- Jack and Isai are feeling out more sponsors
- Homi update
- HOMI sponsored another hackathon a while ago and they may want to sponsor MinneHack
- We should work out what we want to offer them and reach out
- Career fair
- Isai got some information from potential sponsors but hasn't heard back yet
- Mpls activities fair
- That already happened, oops
- Boston Scientific tech talk date
- Jack is in contact with them, we have two possible dates in October
- We should get started on advertising that and putting it on the website
- LAN party
- A representative from IEEE is here to talk about LAN party
- It will be the week before thanksgiving
- We will be in charge of setup, IEEE will do teardown
- Someone from IEEE will do the poster design
- We have to reserve the atrium as soon as possible
- We'll probably just do Dominos again this year, we'll split the cost down the middle
- We also need to find out if anyone from IEEE is bringing any hardware, specifically windows machines
- Possibly we should make a new discord server to arrange teams for the esports brackets
- esports@umn hosted a hearthstone tournament last year and they may want to again, Ace is contacting them
- Budgets and spending plan
- Thomas needs to talk to Mats about our budget
- Vending machine
- Ringo will talk to Shana but everyone else thinks it's a bad idea
- Emails
- We've mostly kept on top of email responses recently, but a few still need to be addressed
- Servers
- DORS
- We're supposed to use that for new members, it's been set up now
- Papertrail
- Shana wants to know why we need Papertrail
- We just need to tell her about how we need to know when servers are down and stuff like that
- Louis will email her, Helen will look over the email
- Memberlist frontend
- Louis is busy but it should get done this weekend
- Channel cleanup
- Louis already did it
- In the future we may want to set them up to visible only to people who assign themselves self roles
- SDC
- It is coming up, we should order shirts
- Thomas will order the shirts ASAP
- Helen and Jack have talked about food but don't have a concrete plan yet
- The poster needs to say "funded by SSF" on it
- We need to start hanging up posters next week
- Appropriate things to post in #general
- Don't talk about eating ass in general
- SSF funding request prep
- To prepare for SSF request stuff, Isai, Helen, and Thomas need to go though a canvas course
- Anyone else who want to do the course can do that this Thursday night after 7:00
- Pronoun roles
- Set them up as a self role (opt in)
- Catering for future Coffee & Donuts events
- We're ordering Tim Hortons for the upcoming Donuts w/ the department
- The university suggested we should do it through university dining services, but that's a bad idea
- Pick up for Tim Horton's tomorrow
- We are going to contact Alison to see if she can pick up the Tim Hortons
- If she can't, Ari can use Helen's car to do it
- Finals and waffles
- For next semester, we may want to request SSF funds for waffle mix and a tarp for a waffle and studying party
- UNIX class videos
- Ace will do the subtitling after the meeting
- Ringo will set up a webpage for
- Gopherlink sign in
- There is a card reader in Cassie's cubby, instructions on how to use it to sign in through gopherlink are in keybase
- Being polite to other groups
- Don't talk about things other groups have done wrong while their representative is in the room
- Conversations in meeting topics channel
- Don't talk about the meeting topics in the meeting topics channel
- Instead, talk about them at the meeting
- Bleach
- Ace will clean the small fridge after Helen buys bleach
TODOs
Short Term
- Ace:
- Ari:
- Helen:
- Isai:
- Jack:
- Louis:
- Michael:
- Thomas:
- Helen and Jack:
Medium Term
Long Term