2018-11-26

Start Time: 7:00 PM End Time: 7:45 PM

Attendance

• Isai (President)
• Thomas (Treasurer)
• Louis (Systems Admin)
• Jack (Community Ambassador)
• Mike (Secretary)
• Ace (Project Manager)
• Ari (The Architect)
• Charlie (Helpful)

Last Week's TODOs

Short Term

• Helen:
  • Create newsletter sign up form
  • Contact other ACM Chapters about MinneHack
• Isai:
  • Send email to collect ID numbers from current members for door access.
• Jack:
  • Respond to MLH follow-up with proper documentation
• Louis:
  • Put together a list of stuff to buy for MinneHack (RAID drives, new router drives, new router sleds)
  • Work with Thomas to buy printer
• Michael:
  • Put constitution/rules on website
  • Get meeting time info up on the website
• Mike:
  • Get official UMN letterhead
• Louis & Thomas:
  • minnehack.com DNS Renewal
• Everyone:
  • Advertise for our events!!!

Long Term

• Jack:
  • Delegate management of events like SDC
  • Write SDC Event Info and send to webmaster to put on website
• Michael:
  • Update website theme to be compliant with department standard
• Thomas:
  • Update ledger every 2 weeks

Topics for Discussion

• Ari: SESB
• Isai: CTF status
• Isai: Intel event in January(?)
• Isai: Namecheap
• Ari: Finals study night
• Ari: Donuts
• Ari: Upcoming Think Talks (academic?)
• Ari: ACM-W Conference 12/1
• Ari: Website updates
• Ari: MinneHack - Posters, outreach, MN Daily, videographer
• Ringo: UNIX class captioning
• Isai: MinneHack class visits
• Lukas: clubby linux distro
• Helen: Website pull requests

Minutes

• Ari: SESB
  • Ari: We should go to them.
  • Ace: They have opportunities.
  • Isai: I think Cassie should go to the meetings but she might be busy on Wednesdays.
  • Ace: I can go but preferably a real actual officer should go
  • Isai: I plan on being there
  • Isai: The meetings are Wednesday from 5:00 to 6:00
• Isai: CTF status
  • Louis: Michael says the platform works. I haven't seen it but I trust that it does
  • Louis: We should set a play for who's going to be working at the actual event
  • Louis: Is the CTF actually going to be for 3 days? That's a lot of content for Michael to make
  • Ace: I think it's more of a picoCTF thing where the challenges are left up for three days, not that there are three days of content
  • Nathan: The difficulty varies extremely widely, so the extra time may be to beginners' advantage
• Isai: Intel event in January(?)
  • Isai: Helen was emailing them about hosting an event at the end of the month, I'll ping her about it
• Isai: Namecheap
• Ari: Finals study night
  • Isai: We have money for this, we already ordered food, and we've already reserved the room
  • Ari: We need to advertise!
  • Ari: Send me information to make a poster
  • Louis: This event should be on the website
• Amethyst: Robot plants
  • Amethyst: I think we should get plants, but we need to automate watering them or they will die
  • Amethyst: I posted a tutorial video on how to build a robot plant waterer using a raspberry pi
  • Thomas: I don't think we can get money for this equipment until next year at the earliest
  • Thomas: We're probably not going to get operational funding for this but we can put in an SSF request
  • Ace: I can set up a Google form where people can submit things they want purchased and a justification
• Ari: Donuts
  • Isai: Thomas took care of this
  • Thomas: I can pay tomorrow, but I need someone else to pick up the donuts
  • Louis, Mike and Isai will pick up the donuts, Ari will set up
• Ari: Upcoming Think Talks (academic?)
  • Isai: We have money for them, but I don't know if we have time to set one up in the next three weeks
  • Isai: Does anyone have a Think Talk they actually want to do?
  • Isai: We haven't advertised for the finals event at all, I think we'd be stretching ourselves a little thin advertising a whole new event at the same time
  • Louis: I can look into organizing lightning talks where a lot of people sign up to talk for a short time
• Ari: ACM-W Conference 12/1
  • Ari: ACM-W is having a conference this Saturday!
  • Ari: There's free lunch and a lot of cool people talking about cool stuff.
  • If you're planning on attending make sure you sign up.
• Ari: Website updates
  • Louis: wrt the pull requests, we fixed it, it's fine
  • Louis: We're gonna hit Michael with sticks this weekend to get him to do the other stuff
• Ari: MinneHack - Posters, outreach, MN Daily, videographer
  • Isai: Everyone take some posters after the meeting and hang them up
• Ringo: UNIX class captioning
  • Amethyst: The DRC has a thing that subtitles things, maybe they can do the subs
  • Ace: If we request that the videos be captioned, we would have to pay for it
  • Nathan: It doesn't matter what program you use, just give me an srt file
  • Everyone do the part you were assigned before December
• Isai: MinneHack class visits
  • Isai: Already talked about this, sign up for them immediately
• Lukas: clubby linux distro
  • Isai: When we get the new printer, we need to change clubby to have a different distro
  • Mike: The problem isn't with Arch, the problem is that i3 is extremely unusable to people who don't already know how to use it
  • Consensus: Somebody just do it because it's an accessibility issue
• Helen: Website pull requests
  • Already dealt with this
• Ace: Send emails from ACM
  • Ace: It is possible to send emails from acm@umn.edu now
  • Ace: Add acmpr@umn.edu to the Google group and I'll set it up right now

TODOs

Short Term

• Helen:
  • Create newsletter sign up form
  • Contact other ACM Chapters about MinneHack
• Isai:
  • Send email to collect ID numbers from current members for door access.
• Jack:
  • Respond to MLH follow-up with proper documentation
• Louis:
  • Put together a list of stuff to buy for MinneHack (RAID drives, new router drives, new router sleds)
  • Work with Thomas to buy printer
  • Organize lightning talks
• Michael:
  • Put constitution/rules on website
  • Get meeting time info up on the website
• Mike:
  • Get official UMN letterhead
• Thomas:
  • Follow up on minnehack.io renewal

Long Term

• Jack:
  • Delegate management of events like SDC
  • Write SDC Event Info and send to webmaster to put on website
• Michael:
  • Update website theme to be compliant with department standard
• Thomas:
  • Update ledger every 2 weeks