• Meeting Agendas
• 2015-09-15

Boring part

• Student Activities Fair recap
  • Google Forms sign-up on the Surface was a great idea
• New Member Event recap
  • Shell wasn't ready or tested; had nothing installed
  • Freenode thought the sudden onslaught of connections was an attack
  • We should order pizza in two waves; order first one before event starts
  • Power situation in CyH Atrium is bad; bring power cables next time
  • Not enough seating space
• Talk Series
  • Tomorrow, Wed 16 Sep

    • sbaugh on vim

  • Next week, Wed 23 Sep

    • sbaugh on emacs

  • We will assess "Your Talk Here" proposals on 2015-09-22

• Demosplash

  • When to meet? — leaning toward Wed 18:30, right before Talk

  • We need to schedule a demo screening, maybe during a meeting?
  • Meetings begin this week
  • Yerzmyey
    • Update re: hotel payments, flight bookings
    • Visa letter?
    • Can we start announcing him? When?
• Purchasing
  • What is the status of these?
    • Moving blankets for retro at Demosplash — lroop
    • Power — (did we order these yet?)

      • 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)

  • Proposed retro purchases
    • Philips CD-i ($100-$150)
    • 3DO ($150-200)

    • PC Engine or TurboGrafx-16 (cost?)

    • MSX or MSX2 (fseidel?)
    • Sharp X68000 ($100-$300 depending on condition, model, etc.)
    • Paying for ebay auctions is a bit tricky

Interesting part

• SpaceX email re: Tue 29 Sep
  • Have we responded?
• Cèilidh weekend event — Retro PETting Zoo, Sat 10 Oct
  • Finalize the name
  • What time of day? Where?
  • Logistics
• Stallman event for Spring 2016
  • Did we get enough interest from new members to pull this off?

• Spring 2016 StuCo application

  • Did we get enough interest from new members to pull this off?

  • Application due tomorrow (Wed 16 Sep) at 17:00

  • Room request due Tue 22 Sep
• Ideas for running Hacking Hours
  • People write their username and the project on the whiteboard when they get in
    • Helps new people see what's going on; find their niche
    • Helps old people know what's going on; who can be bothered
    • New people are given a short introduction/tour beforehand
    • Can be done in conjunction with our topic/question of the week
  • Workshops
    • C hacking workshop - sbaugh