2021-02-15 Online Meeting

February 15, 2021

2021-02-15 Online Meeting

Start Time: 17:57
End Time: 18:12

Attendance

• Charles (President)
• Mike (Vice President)
• Cole (Treasurer)
• Kelton (Treasurer)
• Hemant (Systems Admin)
• Andrew (Webmaster)
• Louis

Last Week's TODOs

Today

• Andrew:
  • Put events on website
• Charlie:
  • Email profs about unix classes

One Week

• Mike:
  • Reset acmpr's password

Four Weeks

• N/a

Blocked/Long Term

• Charles:
  • Try to get minnehack@umn.edu (not actively pursuing)
  • Finish new sponsorship info
• Hemant:
  • Schedule an infastructure rebuild meeting
  • Look at using google drive for backup
  • Inventory member machines
  • Change table to be public-DHCP
  • Talk to someone about power for closet
  • 10Gb project (pending Irene)
• Cole and Kelton:
  • Pre-approval forms (labelmaker, cleaning supplies)
• Everyone:
  • Update the officer wiki
• Somebody:
  • Throw away the bad machines, hubs, hard drive trays, rails, etc
  • Do the laundry
  • More fridge
  • Reserve great hall for 2022 (can't do more than a year in advance)
  • Update room rules

Topics for Discussion

• Numerade
• Verify Mailchimp

Minutes

• Verify Mailchimp
  • Mike: I have done this
• Numerade
  • Charlie: They keep emailing me about wanting to sponsor ACM (not an event)
  • Louis: Tell them to sponsor UNIX classes
  • Kelton: Are these the people who wanted use to put their website on our website?
  • Charlie: I think this could be a good way to get money not controlled by the department
  • Louis: I think the department would still want the money to go through them
  • Louis: This is the whole point of the department controlling our money, so we don't give out the university's clout in exchange for money
  • Hemant: This is definitely SEO hacking, I think getting linked from a .edu site is good for page rank
  • Louis: I think we've turned this sort of thing down before, and I'm not sure I like the precedent
  • Louis: Did they say if there's a specific wording they want, or a specific length of time? Did they say a specific dollar amount?
  • Charlie: They said "several hundred dollars"
  • Louis: When companies sponsor events it's only good for that event, are they wanting this to just be for a specific length of time? Will they give ACM members a discount?
  • Cole: Realistically I think we were just on their list of scraped emails for that day
  • Cole: I'm opposed to the precedent this sets
  • Charlie: It looks like this is a free service, where does the money come from?
  • Hemant: Are they VC funded?
  • Kelton: I'm not convinced this isn't a huge scam
  • Louis: I think if we could redirect them into an sponsoring an event that would be the best course of action
  • Louis: Have we ever had an organizational sponsor before? I know we've done multiple events with [redacted] before
  • Mike: Yeah, but that wasn't formalized, we just had a specific person's email
  • [someone]: Are we even allowed to do this?
  • We got sidetracked after this
• Officers for next year?:
  • Everyone but mike is coming back probably

Newsletter

• N/a

TODOs

Today

• Andrew:
  • Put events on website

One Week

• Mike:
  • Reset acmpr's password

Four Weeks

• N/a

Blocked/Long Term

• Charles:
  • Try to get minnehack@umn.edu (not actively pursuing)
  • Finish new sponsorship info
• Hemant:
  • Schedule an infastructure rebuild meeting
  • Look at using google drive for backup
  • Inventory member machines
  • Change table to be public-DHCP
  • Talk to someone about power for closet
  • 10Gb project (pending Irene)
• Cole and Kelton:
  • Pre-approval forms (labelmaker, cleaning supplies)
• Everyone:
  • Update the officer wiki
• Somebody:
  • Throw away the bad machines, hubs, hard drive trays, rails, etc
  • Do the laundry
  • More fridge
  • Reserve great hall for 2022 (can't do more than a year in advance)
  • Update room rules