2024-12-08 Meeting

December 8, 2024

(Posted on 2024-12-08)

2024-12-08 Meeting

Start Time: 17:09 End Time: 17:52

Attendance

• Alice
• Quinn
• Iris
• Elena
• Nadia
• Autumn
• Riley

Last Week's TODOs

• Iris
  • Put in Neo-Medusa thing
• Riley
  • Put info on servers and such and their access/rules on acm.umn.edu/resources/systems
• Alice
  • Forward sponsorship payments to Justin
• Elena
  • Find how to get Soundbyte spotlight (info in one of the meeting minutes)
  • Email blast stuff (info in one of the meeting minutes)
• Autumn
  • Cooking the dragon into a nice meal

Last Week's MH TODOs

• Alice
  • MH food permit (long-term)
• Iris
  • Email Erin Larson again

Topics for Discussion

• HooHacks correspondence
  • Done
• Butter robot
  • Iris is emailing them right now about it
• MH shirts, bags
  • Have successfully used Wentworth Screen Printing according to Kelton
• Spring activities fair
  • Tue, Feb 11 (happy birthday alice)
  • We will register to recruit
    • Need more candidates for next-year officers
  • Minimum viable effort
• Spring Tech Kick-Off
  • Is probably happening, so we're aware
  • Elena will let us know if she sees anything about it
• MH: {reg, advertising}
  • Just needs to get put up
    • Will be very easy for Nadia to put up a VM for it
  • Should stagger the announcements in the MH and ACM servers to deal with bottlenecking in email infrastructure
  • I, Quinn, will contact Mini about existing promotional materials
  • Plenty of posters
• Long-term bed bug solution brainstorming
  • Returning to regular maintenance of ACM rooms, like washing bean bag and couch covers
  • More regular vacuuming (like biweekly)
  • Tangentially related: they may have taken the trash bin out?
  • Get diatomaceous earth and sprinkle it on the covers whenever we wash them
    • This microlacerates them and dehydrates them until they die
• Mini-hacks
  • Mini-CTF
  • Code Golf
  • Smash Tourney
  • Presentation Karaoke
  • Like Mini-"Advent of Code"
• Should start thinking about prizes
  • Alice will do this after she looks at shirts, bags, and food pricing
  • Avoid laptops/computers
  • Headphones are good
    • 1000XM4s/-5s

TODOs

• Iris
  • Put in Neo-Medusa thing
• Riley
  • Put info on servers and such and their access/rules on acm.umn.edu/resources/systems
• Elena
  • Find how to get Soundbyte spotlight (info in one of the meeting minutes)
  • Email blast stuff (info in one of the meeting minutes)
• Autumn
  • Cooking the dragon into a nice meal
• Iris + Autumn
  • More regular washing covers in ACM rooms

MH TODOs

• Iris
  • Follow up with both sponsors about swag and deadlines
• Alice
  • MH food permit (long-term)
    • (Including determining how much food to get)
  • Reconaissance for costs
  • Dig into MH tees details
    • Wentworth Screen Printing
• Quinn
  • Ask Mini about extant and unused MH t-shirt design