2026-03-18 Officer Meeting

2026-03-18

Meeting Topics

  • minnehack
    • get rid of drawstring bags, keep the black ones for next year
    • shipt meeting
    • reserving great hall
  • election results
    • poster maker role
  • poster designing in summer
  • eating uko 🫃???
  • door
    • transfer git.sr.ht/~arbormoss/door to acm
    • abnerdoor motor purchase
  • LAN party postmortem
    • getting building contact for closet access
    • ticket for getting ports there to work
    • begging IT to not need mac address registration
  • take items to lost and found
    • lost bookstore bag
    • make system to move things to lost and found
  • make website/argo setup easier to debug, no nix hashes
  • switch build systems for acm.umn.edu?
    • builds.sr.ht (evil hee hee)
    • only build when pushing to the site
    • don't take down site whenever page breaks
  • door notif (ntfy "acmdoorcast") 🤰
    • ntfy.acm.umn.edu
    • gotify instead???? - angel
  • irc server for club
    • bouncer too?
    • ergo.chat doesn't need it
  • wentworth invoice finance people
    • the check has been sent

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talk about the new meeting topics scripts!

  • archive next-meeting-topic
  • tell people to go to website

treasurer

  • ledger from justin, how much money we have
  • what should we use the money we have left on.
  • we have $70 dollars left not tied to any event
  • run anywhere has not paid us, if they get sent to collections that's fine
    • jason will send them another email
  • we really don't want to loose PCards when shanah retires

MinneHack

  • get rid of the drawstring bags, except the black ones
    • keep the black draw string bags for next year
    • order the same black draw string bags next year, they are in the drive
  • mentors were not used as much as we would have liked, it would be good to come up with a better system to handle that
    • a few hours prior to minnehack to talk to mentors? like a small career fair?
  • sponsorship info document is way too long, it should be trimmed down to make it more readable to read and do
  • shipt wants to do more stuff with us, we should try to do more events with them
    • unix class 3 could be about containerization, and shipt could present it?

unix class

  • we should work on improving unix class
  • ask professors about things that they want for this
  • we should sit down and send emails to our professors, ask questions, go in person, and try to get professors to give input
  • getting input from professors also helps us advertise
  • it would be good to try to get money from the department and/or have sponsored unix class events

lan party post mortem

  • went super well on our end
  • DHCP was a little goofy but did get fixed
  • no one played overwatch, league
  • popular games: super tux cart, fighting game rotation, minecraft, ddr, quake/saurbrotten
  • turnout was ~50 people
  • gamer food companies have sponsored this in the past

uko

  • possibly ammend uko constitution to have it's elections just be the acm ones, and uko officers are just acm ones by proxy
  • we want UKO stuff (actual computer science) to continue even if UKO explodes
  • we really want to keep our PCards

TODOs

  • ask IEEE how to get free plates/utensils as a student org
    • get plates/utensils
  • reserve the great hall for MinneHack THIS WEEK!!
    • we need to figure out when, probably 2 weeks after break
  • we should have an official way to handle lost and found items
  • jason: get chartstring to arbor
  • arbor: get abnerdoor motor
  • arbor: srht official, github mirror for site
  • june: get new sysadmin and arbor on service gateway after election
  • jason: get james on Umarket
  • make a standard way of making posters, standard way to edit them
    • decide on a standard (inkscape? gimp?)
  • make it someone's role to make posters
  • make a bunch of posters over summer
  • DO ELECTION