* '''New members' open house debrief''' * Went well * Much easier to manage ~30 people instead of ~63 * Two weeks instead of one * A lot of other clubs punted to the same day as us because of HackCMU * Activities Fair felt less attended than previous years * But we got about the same number of names * May have just been the more spacious venue * Still, a lot easier to keep the attention of 30 people * Presentations went better, too * Had a few people say they'd be here for the GBM today, but none are here right now * One showed up later, first-year physics major * Feedback: * ezh: After the spiel, people started clustering; may have lost some in the 5-10 minutes after pizza * fseidel: Though the people who are going to leave after ~5 minutes idle time following a ~20-minute presentation are probably not staying anyway * ezh already gave his reimbursements/receipts to copetas * FMS power stuff * ezh: Got an email from Tiffany Priester (SLICE) asking if we'd been charged anything yet — Nope * tparenti: Last checking was 8 Sep; will continue poking FMS fortnightly until he hears something, can liaise if necessary * Open Hacking Hours * We want something a little more explicitly engaging this week (23 Sep) * fseidel: A few people asked "how do you write a demo?" * Dig up source code to WHATPG? kbare/lroop helped write it, and it's mostly straightforward C * Will email kbare about a potential code walkthrough on 23 Sep * fseidel: mdille will be in town 30 Sep, could talk about how Contrib works then * tparenti can talk about what it is the week before (23 Sep) as a preface * Someone talked about neural nets * Since we're building our compo machine, could we timeshare it at other times? * '''Events''' * Return of 0xdeadbeef barbecue? * Discussing potential dates, possibly a Friday ~18:00