Boring part
- Student Activities Fair recap
- Google Forms sign-up on the Surface was a great idea
- sbaugh agrees, thinks we should do it again
- lots of members showed up
- made us look big
- having stuff out was really cool
- no one touched the server
- Google Forms sign-up on the Surface was a great idea
- New Member Event recap
- Shell wasn't ready or tested; had nothing installed
- sbaugh has started installing stuff on the shell to make it more useful
- Freenode thought the sudden onslaught of connections was an attack
- 2 issues
- needed to install ident server
- too many host connections (ip limiting) - needed to email freenode
- 2 issues
- 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
- we have these, we just need to bring them up in advance
- Not enough seating space
- too many people for the cluster
- cycle people through, multiple presentations
- order some pizza before event so it's there on time
- Shell wasn't ready or tested; had nothing installed
- 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
- Tomorrow, Wed 16 Sep
- Demosplash
When to meet? — leaning toward Wed 18:30, right before Talk
- We need to schedule a demo screening, maybe during a meeting?
- possibly during machine room
- need to make event accessable to freshmen who might not be familiar with demos
- throw in a few "known good" demos to get interest
- Meetings begin this Wednesday (6:30-7:30)
- Yerzmyey
- flights and hotel are sorted out
- Visa letter should be out but hasn't been sent for some reason
- Can we start announcing him? - Not until Visa clears
- Purchasing
- What is the status of these?
- Moving blankets for retro at Demosplash — lroop not in attendance, skipping
- Power — not ordering until lroop sends blanket info to ezh
- Proposed retro purchases
- eBay auctions frowned upon
- how do we buy this stuff?
- buying from Yahoo Auctions JP requires a service
- Let's get a Sharp X68000 (fseidel is very excited and is wearing an X68K tshirt for the occasion)
- many have bad caps, driving prices down
- we can fix one if this is the issue
- awesome for retro game night
- our first Japan exclusive machine
- Paying for ebay auctions is a bit tricky
- eBay auctions frowned upon
- What is the status of these?
Interesting part
- SpaceX email re: Tue 29 Sep
- Waiting on response
- Cèilidh weekend event — Retro PETting Zoo, Sat 10 Oct
- Name finalized
- Saturday, time up to us, likely afternoon
- GHC 6121
- Stallman event for Spring 2016
- People seemed interested in this
Spring 2016 StuCo application
- not much new member interest
- not much recruitment value
StuCo canceled
- 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
- someone sits by whiteboard and finds help for people
- appoint a hacking hours MC
- "Comfortableness Adapter"
- sbaugh will handle next Saturday
- We need some more directed stuff for people who don't know what to do - sbaugh
- Informal workshops
- fseidel: coding for the Vectrex
- PeterSP: writing an IRC bot in Python
- backup: talk to people about their first few weeks of school
- New people are given a short introduction/tour beforehand
- Can be done in conjunction with our topic/question of the week
- people talk about their projects, find interest
- we need an established procedure for helping people
- office hours queue? - grantwu
- Workshops
- C hacking workshop - sbaugh
- gather new members in a group, ask who's interested in learning C, writing OSes
- sbaugh teaches basic C
- C hacking workshop - sbaugh
- Schedule
- we show up at 5:00
- new people are directed to sbaugh
- sbaugh asks people about their interests, sends them to people
- stroucki: administrative stuff
- retro: fseidel, lroop
- webapps: PeterSP
- no interests: direct people to the project they think sounds interesting
- People write their username and the project on the whiteboard when they get in