Boring part
- Talk Series
- Tomorrow, Wed 30 Sep — no talk (TOC)
- Demo screening event instead (room booked 20:00–23:00)
- Next week, Wed 7 Oct — lroop on early home computers and video games
- After that, Wed 14 Oct — aliruu on Nintendo history
- Tomorrow, Wed 30 Sep — no talk (TOC)
- Treasurer's report
- Demosplash Committee report
- Old Purchasing
- Moving blankets for retro arrived
- Power
ezh met with StuAct to make the capital purchase
- Should be delivered around 6–7 Oct
- Retro
$500 was allocated to Demosplash Committee last week
- Bought:
- An X68000 for 39,800 JPY (approx $332)
- A keyboard for it for 6,000 JPY (approx $50)
Plus proxy fees, total comes to $395.40 (before shipping)
- ezh will pay the invoice and handle reimbursement
- Shipping will probably be another ~$100 and will be billed separately
- Expect it to take three weeks to arrive (so around 15 Oct or so)
- Find out if this can come out of Demosplash sponsorship instead of JFC or Gift funds
- New Purchasing
- Need a modern PC for Demosplash ASAP — fseidel
Interesting part
- Talk Series "Your Talk Here" slots
- Have we reached out to predragp and jlareau re: dates? (28 Oct and 9 Dec)
- Polling attendees re: which of predragp's talks to host
- Retro PETting Zoo, Sat 10 Oct (Cèilidh weekend), GHC 6121
Next week, you guys
- Starting at 11:30, ending around 15:30-ish? (Still a Saturday)
- bescott is helping with poster creation — need to poster soon
- Who is bringing what?
- Who is staffing when?
- Stallman event for Spring 2016
- Start looking at potential dates?
- Maybe form a committee to start organizing this, if there's actual interest
- Operations