2019-08-26 Officer Meeting
August 26, 2019
(Posted
on 2019-08-26)
2019-08-26
Start Time: 18:30
End Time: 18:54
Attendance
- Mike (Vice President)
- Nathan (Treasurer)
- Charles (Secretary)
Last Week's TODOs
Short Term
- Charles:
- Charlie:
- Helen:
- Louis:
- Mike:
- Nathan
- Helen and Nathan:
Medium Term
Long Term
Suggestions
None
Topics for Discussion
- Charles: Newsletters
- Nathan: Paint the bridge signup
- Nathan: Meeting with Kristen
- Charles: CSCI Track event suggestion
- Charles: MinneHack Details
- Predicted number of attendees (previous numbers and max)
- Who can come?
- number and list of MinneHack officers/organizers
- MinneHack Budget
- estimated cost
- esimated number of sponsors contacted
- MinneHack backup money (how much money do we have in the account?)
- What goals do you want to accomplish for MinneHack and what makes it unique? * In 200 words or less, please describe what inspired you to organize this event and why you want to bring a hackathon to your community.
- Why do you want MinneHack to be an MLH Member Event hackathon? * In 200 words or less, tell us why you want to be an MLH Member Event. We receive applicants from 1000's of organizers all around the world but only have a limited number of slots in our season. Please let us know why MLH's community of hackers would benefit from your event being included in on our official roster.
- Any major changes in your hackathon?
- Which of the following hackathon organizing topics would you like MLH’s help with?
- What questions do you have for MLH?
- Is there anything else we should know about you or MinneHack?
- Nathan: Old couch
- Nathan: Meeting with Sue, notes
- Nathan: MinneHack bus stuff
Minutes
- Charles: Newsletters
- Charles: What have they been in the past
- Mike: Once a week, ask officers what they want in them. Make sure that the upcomming events are in them.
- Nathan: Paint the bridge signup
- Nathan: We should keep this in mind. On 26th-27. Signup deadline is unknown.
- Mike: It is important to get people to be there at the beginning to get good pannels.
- mike: Last year we were going to get panels next to acm-w, we should do this this year.
- Nathan: You can only sign up for one panel at the start but additional panels may be available after all groups have reserved one.
- mike: Last year we got one for us, one for MinneHack, one for systems commitee advertising. We probably only need 2 this year, one for us and one for MinneHack.
- Nathan: Meeting with Kristen
- nathan: Postpone for next week
- Charles: CSCI Track event suggestion
- charles: Event for CSCI majors choosing an UD track
- Nathan: We would need someone from the department.
- Charles: We could get someone from the department to explain for us because we dont know that much.
- Charles: MinneHack Details
- Predicted number of attendees (previous numbers and max)
- Who can come?
- Number and list of MinneHack officers/organizers
- MinneHack Budget
- estimated cost
- esimated number of sponsors contacted
- MinneHack backup money (how much money do we have in the account?)
- What goals do you want to accomplish for MinneHack and what makes it unique? * In 200 words or less, please describe what inspired you to organize this event and why you want to bring a hackathon to your community.
- Why do you want MinneHack to be an MLH Member Event hackathon? * In 200 words or less, tell us why you want to be an MLH Member Event. We receive applicants from 1000's of organizers all around the world but only have a limited number of slots in our season. Please let us know why MLH's community of hackers would benefit from your event being included in on our official roster.
- Any major changes in your hackathon?
- Which of the following hackathon organizing topics would you like MLH’s help with?
- What questions do you have for MLH?
- Is there anything else we should know about you or MinneHack?
- Charles: I will put these questions in a spreadsheet (and put it in #brass-class) and people can answer them at will.
- Nathan: Old couch
- Nathan: We should get rid of it, it is blocking the hallway somewhat.
- Mike: I can figure that out.
- Nathan: Meeting with Sue, notes
- Nathan: MinneHack bus stuff
- Nathan: Main con with MinneHack last year was the bus was a mess, it wasnt reserved soon enough (or something).
- Mike: Company messed up as well.
- Nathan: there was no hotel or parking for the bus driver overnight.
- Nathan: last minute issues messed with purchasing.
- Mike: we may want to switch companies this year given last years experience.
TODOs
Short Term
- Charles:
- Charlie:
- Helen:
- Louis:
- Mike:
- Nathan
- Helen and Nathan:
Medium Term
Long Term