2022-12-06 Meeting

December 6, 2022

(Posted on 2022-12-06)

2022-11-29 Meeting

Start Time: 18:00 End Time: 19:00

Attendence

• Kelon (President)
• Andrew (Vice President)
• Autumn (Co-treasurer)
• Minnerva (Co-treasurer)
• Shaun (Systems Admin)
• Eliza (Membership Officer)
• Jaz :)

TO-DOs from last week

• IMMEDIATELY

  • Sponsorship

    • Replies to previous sponsors

• Within the week

  • Sponsorship

    • The cold emails

  • Registration

    • Shaun: Properly get backend up

      • Talk to Hemant about backend particulars

    • Shaun, Samyok: Get form up ASAP

  • Logistics

    • Mini: Add ACM mailing list to SUA discussion

  • Within the next two weeks

    • Sponsorship

      • All: Respond to potential sponsors

    • Registation

      • Kelton: beat Shaun up with stick if registation is not up by then

        • Doesn't need to get done yay

    • Logictics

      • Mini, Shaun: SUA logistics discussion

    • Advertising

      • Everyone: Think about advertising.

  • Sometime within the semester(?)

    • Fediverse

      • Autumn: Get Misskey up and runing

Topics for Discussion

• Mayhaps more officers?

  • Autumn: "A good idea, or else next year there'd be a crater"

  • Next year: Andrew, Cole, Charlie, Hemant will be gone

    • Leaves Kelton, Shaun, Autumn, Eliza, Mini around

    • It'd be nice to have 4-ish people to eye around

• Advertising stuff:tm:

  • Minnehack registration is UP.

  • Shaun: Fix vaccination auto-consent checkbox

  • Need to be very annoying to tell people that we're kewl and we're awesomesauce

  • Campus should be Minnehack-branded

    • Keller, Tate are a must

    • Building poster assignments

      • Keller: Kelton

      • Tate: Kelton

      • MechE: Andrew

      • CivE: Autumn

      • Walter: Shaun

      • Lind: Autumn

      • Smith: Shaun

      • Vincent: Kelton

      • Frasier: Autumn

      • Bruiniks: Shaun

      • Appleby: Shaun

      • Wiley: Jaz

      • Anderson: Jaz

      • Blegen: Jaz

      • Amundson: Mini

      • Akerman: Mini

      • Wilson: Jaz

      • Rarig: Shaun

      • The Bridge: Andrew

      • Mall poster boards: Eliza

      • Bus Stops: Eliza

    • ||officers need to abuse their CSE printing funds to plaster Minnehack all over campus||

    • Haul ass for this!!!!!!

    • Jaz has a list of where posters can go

      • Also resources for getting posters on places where approval is required

      • Kelton picks up residence hall, SUA poster requests

    • discords

    • Weekly emails should have Minnehack plastered ALL OVER!!!!!!!1!!!

    • Spaces around campus that aren't owned by the U

      • Go pleadingface on cafes

      • "Dinnaken has one" -Mini

• Volunteer sign ups for day-of partipation

  • We've been going by vibes so far

• ACM national accounts

  • Low prio

  • ACM National wants at least 3-4 officers to have ACM National accounts

    • Someone just needs to go thru the process of making the preapproval, request, pcard, and going to ACM National's site to buy the accounts.

    • Free Time item for Mini, Autumn

• Getting the door updated again

  • Nothing much to say about this

  • Add new members, send out that email again

    • Attendence sheet should have all the info

• Reserving CMU for next year (2024)

  • Just got that email for Reservation day

  • SUA just said "lgtm lmao" (this was for 2023)

  • Kelton has to do this

    • Autumn should be roped into this

• Sponsorship email status

  • Andrew hasn't had any responses yet for his cold emails

  • Not too much progress has been made here (with cold emails at least)

  • The S&P 500 kinda sucks

  • We don't actually have a contact for Target(????)

    • Find the contact for the Target person that we got that old $$$ from

    • Kelton's job

  • Seigna

    • Need a contact for this too, Kelton's job (again)

  • Need to get cold emails out ASAP.

  • Ryan, Andrew did their cold emails

    • Samyok, Autumn, Kelton, Jaz need to do cold emails.

    • Andrew has added the cold email script to the acm drive, ask Andrew for particulars about this.

• CTF/Minnehack sponsorship invoice stuff

  • Veritas: "We'll get that to you within the week":tm:

  • In comparison, the stuff for Minnehack seems a lot faster!

  • thank you autumn

  • Andrew made a nice sponsorship confirmation form. Send that out to sponsors first.

  • Kelton: "As long as we get enough invoices to get food an t-shirts and as long as the money is in our accounts day-of, lgtm!"

  • Ecolab confirmed at Silver, Veritas confirmed at some unknown tier. Brooksource said they would be "honored" to sponsor us. Best Buy seems interested (probably, but not confirmed).

    • If all these companies do Silver, we're solvent!

    • If Best Buy does Bronze, there's probably gonna be budget cuts!

    • This assumes cold emails don't yield anyhting

  • Someone's mom's company is a sponsor!!!!

    • The company has nothing to do with tech, so it'll show up as "My Mom"!

    • Confirmed for Silver!

TO-DOs from last week

• Within the week

  • Sponsorship

    • Kelton, Jaz, Autumn, Samyok: The cold emails

    • All: continue discussion with companies that are in contact

  • Logistics

    • Mini: Add ACM mailing list to SUA discussion

  • Advertising

    • All: Plaster the campus with Minnehack poster

    • Kelton: Residence Hall, SUA poster requests

    • Andrew: Email the general public

    • All: Email professors!

    • Jaz: Plaster Minnehack on Discord!

    • Kelton: acm reddit account

    • Shaun: Student Resources (Appleby, Bruiniks, DRC, Kauffman Club rooms)

  • Within the next two weeks

    • Sponsorship

      • All: Respond to potential sponsors

    • Logistics

      • Mini, Shaun: SUA logistics discussion

  • Sometime within the semester(?)

    • Fediverse

      • Autumn: Get Misskey up and runing

Distrations

• Patent lawyers suck and don't know what they're doing

• We need to send someone's mom flowers

• reddit mod moment

• kelton goes minnesotan mode

• we need a psyop officer

• "hey are any of y'all addicted to meth?"

• the new testament transgenderification of acm

• acm needs a pneumatic staple gun

  • we need a 500w laser too