2025-02-16 Meeting

Start Time: 17:17 End Time: 17:45

Attendance

• Quinn
• Alice
• Iris
• Autumn
• Nadia
• Yuni qua guest
• Elena

Last Week's TODOs

• Iris
  • Put in Neo-Medusa thing
    • Currently blocked under new item selection
• Autumn
  • Cooking the dragon into a nice meal
  • Get a plan for the website conceived
  • woodlands email
• Iris + Autumn
  • More regular washing covers in ACM rooms

Last Week's MH TODOs

• Alice
  • Prep a large sum of money for getting snacks with the P-card, including asking for how to go forward
    • Pick up Costco card this week

Topics for Discussion

• mh postmortem
  • infrastructure should be more don before event
    • putting up "snowstorm of code" during was no good
    • make slides beforehand
      • raspberry pi stuff for the slides
    • decide prizes beforehand
  • more pre-delegation of tasks
  • more explicit about schedule
  • get food accessories before event (and with budget money)
  • pre-purchase all packaged snacks
  • take into account time to pick up pizza at store in schedule planning
    • including parking (long time at costco)
    • and walking thru traffic in store
    • and checkout
  • conduct minnehack simulation in meeting before event to anticipate complications
  • it was good we used all the pizzas
    • we could order less for the second-day pizza tho
    • or we could get a different kind of meal for second day to be able to serve it earlier (and for better variety)
      • we could pre-purchase muffins!
  • judging infrastructure
    • people were submitting it after submissions were supposed to be closed
    • we could have one page that is the master sheet that submissions auto get added to
      • list of names are transferred to judge's individual sheets and they mark their judgements from there
    • it was difficult to tabulate the scoring
  • we should figure out how to turn down the lights beforehand in communication with A/V crew
  • can put air mattresses on budget requests
• get prize links
  • nadia found m4 mac mini ones
  • get yubikeys from manufacturer
  • we found link for switch controller (u market)
  • quest 3 straight from website or bestbuy
  • flipper zeroes (we have to send those winners an email about them being out-of-stock)
  • all top teams were 4 people
• alice needs csv or tsv or ods but not xlsx of everyone who checked in
  • being taken care of now
• Death; or, the examinations and perusals of the cessation of thought and breath, being a treatise upon the many categories and conundrums of which Life is a part, as well as a multipart and manifold essay upon the subject of synchronicity and the sand grains "et chinoise"
  • we'll cross that bridge when we get to it

TODOs

• Iris
  • Put in Neo-Medusa thing
    • Currently blocked under new item selection
• Autumn
  • Get a plan for the website conceived
• in general
  • do actions to increase unix classes rsvps (send announcement, etc.)