9 February 2023
Attendance: apourkav, chood, dabujabe
"Create child page" doesn't seem to work on wiki
- Record minutes locally, ask tparenti for help
- If you're reading this, the issue has been resolved!
POSSIBLE FUTURE PROJECTS
- Create a demo? More of an internal thing
- Keith trying to write C interface to OS for some hardware
- chood's personal projects:
- Bootstrapped C compiler
- Custom Linux distro
- Arch with a few custom packages and a new background (lol)
- Update TAPP (Totally Automated Propaganda Producer) from Python2
- Use flyers for Intel lunch/advertising future events
- Make it a quine?
- pip no longer supports Python2 packages
- Use flyers for Intel lunch/advertising future events
- Todo: add apourkav+dabujabe to CClub Github organization
- Ask tparenti
- Render farm?
- Large project, may not have space for it
- Do students already have access to this kind of compute?
- Engineering students have Ansys machines
- Who would use it? Animation club, ML students
OUTREACH
- How to grow club? Few active members, but many "adjacent" ones
- Enticing new projects
- Don't "water down" content (e.g. demos) for greater appeal
- Lobby day
- Do we have a C64?
- Could use gift account if not
- SCS day (2023-02-24) candidate date
- Time of day: 17:00-19:00
- Ask Catherine about dates
- Do we have a C64?
- Obfuscated code contest?
- On brand for club
- Small prize pool
- Where to get it?
- Could get hardware sponsorship
- Ask Catherine about companies
- Specific theme (SCS/CMU related)
- Make posters (see TAPP)
- Give plenty of notice
COMPUTER ZOO
- chood wouldn't be available during carnival, but dabujabe+apourkav would
- Contact people who bring in computers for Demosplash
- lroop's Apple2
CURRENT EVENTS
- Movie night
- Usually on Reading Day
- Need to put up posters 2 weeks before
- Use movie poster with "CClub presents," etc
- Obtain movie through perfectly legal means
WarGames or something new?
TALK SERIES
- Used to be ~19:00-20:00
- Night classes are letting out later now (20:20)
- During moratorium (17:00-19:00)?
- Conflicts with TA grading, SCS events
- Preference: 18:00-19:00
- Day of week: historically Wed
- Thu would be right after exec meetings
- Could pick up pizza, head to room
- Preference: Thu
- Reserve room
- Need edit permissions to website to update schedule
- dabujabe: Ham radio talk?
- Green Hills pays for pizza
- Room prefs?
- Gates 4 near Forbes entrance
- NSH
- Catherine suggested NSH 4305, GHC 4405, GHC 6105, GHC 6501
- chood expects to be there almost every week
- Should have 1 additional exec
- Ask around for speakers
- Sponsors don't care too much about content
- Students should give more talks
- Hopefully finish schedule within 1-2 weeks
FINAL TODO
- chood: Ask Catherine about rooms/sponsorships
- apourkav: Ask tparenti about wiki/Github access
- General: fix TAPP ASAP