Boring part

• Meeting with The Tartan

  • They're not angry
  • Talked about them figuring out some sysadmin stuff and having a backup plan
  • sbaugh has tried to recruit yeongwoh to start coming to things, as sysadmins using our services should
• Student Activities Fair — Wed 9 Sep, 16:30-18:30

  • Rain call has been made: CUC Wiegand

  • Printing: updated flyers and mini talk posters

  • We already have tons of Unix cheat sheets
  • tparenti already has an extensive sign-up list from the 2 Sep talk
    • Combine with list from Fair and send something on Thursday about New Member Event?
    • Did we get any email addresses from Machine Room on 5 Sep?
• Talk Series
  • Tomorrow: Wed 9 Sep

    • sbaugh on git in WeH 5409

    • There is a group after us with a 21:00 reservation for a 21:30 rehearsal, so we can't linger long
  • Next week, Wed 16 Sep
    • sbaugh on vim (back in WeH 5415)
  • Assess "Your Talk Here" proposals at meeting on 22 or 29 Sep?
• Demosplash

  • When to meet?

  • When to start meeting?
• Purchasing
  • Moving blankets for retro at Demosplash — lroop
  • Power — aliruu

    • http://www.provantage.com/~7BATB09E.htm (UPS batteries + tray, ~$160)

    • http://www.amazon.com/Vision-CP1290A-12-00-Volt-Battery/dp/B004J2TAZQ (UPS batteries, ~$21 x 4 = ~$85)

    • http://www.amazon.com/Furman-AC-215A-Conditioner-Auto-Resetting-Protection/dp/B003PJ6NPO (10 amp breaker, ~$120)

Interesting part

• Fall New Member Event — Sat 12 Sep, 17:00
  • Putting together the presentation (topics)
    • Recruiting Demosplash staff
    • Retro
    • Servers — "distributed computing"
      • AFS, Kerberos, these are distributed systems, cool!!!
    • System administration
    • "Support organization" for your existing projects
    • sbaugh wants a few guinea pigs for his Emacs workshops
    • [incorporate projects list?]
  • Assigning roles for the event
    • Giving presentation
    • Coordinating pizza order
    • Showing off retro/demos
    • Showing off modern stuff
    • Helping with IRC and general computing support
    • Account creation
    • B6 tours
  • Printing: handout schedule-of-events and account applications
    • tparenti is working on the latter, and can make the former given the relevant information

    • We used to have intake questions to help gauge new members' interests and abilities

• Stallman event for Spring 2016 (tabled from 2015-04-21)

• Finalizing Spring 2016 StuCo application

  • Application due Wed 16 Sep, 17:00
  • Room request due Tue 22 Sep