Boring part
- Student Activities Fair – Wed 9 Sep, 16:30-18:30, CFA Lawn (rain: CUC Wiegand)
- What should we bring in January or now if it rains?
- Vectrex
- server (connect to wifi, show off serving a page)
- What should we bring in January or now if it rains?
- Talk Series
- WeH 5415 reserved
- posters up
- Next week, 9 Sep
- in 5409 instead
- Demosplash
- Yerz ticket/visa update
- tickets purchased
- visa letter should be ready soon (was already supposed to be out)
- Moving blankets?
- deferred until lroop can comment
- Yerz ticket/visa update
- Yearly tasks that need to be done, so it would be nice to set up some annual emails to officers@
- cron job to send things automatically
- internal calendar
- We need a sponsors page on our website
- It would just be nice, also Catherine asked for it at some point I believe.
- Purchasing
- aliruu not here to talk about batteries, discussion postponed
Interesting part
- New member handling guidelines
Start with http://cmucc.org/hackfest/handout.html
- ask why new member is here (causally)
- poster, website, presentation, etc?
- some freshmen can't program, we need to be less technical at first
- weekly technical discussion
- apparently we were mentioned as an alternative to GPI
- mention which talks fit with GPI
- Fall New Member Event – Sat 12 Sep (after Activities Fair)
- Pizza every week using Harris money
- Presentation about what CClub does
- order pizza while talks going
- Meet and greet after presentation
- Mass-production style new member handling
- procedure for all new members
- Engaging activities?
- Puzzles
- Exciting technical discussion (try this week)
- not ops related
- (We will also try to do this weekly starting this semester)
- Something that allows socializing?
- Meet and greet
- computer themed icebreakers?
- possibly boring and too forced, still a good way for us to get to know people
- "What's your handle?"/hackers themed icebreakers
- hand out actual icebreakers candy
- let's think of some ideas
- satirize orientation (playfair, housewars)
- "What OS do you use? Why?"
- please be nonjudgemental
- Quake?
- "what interesting project could we do with our server room?"
- we should know better than the freshmen, let's not do this
- put talks list on handout
- take down info for accounts on form (tparenti making form)
- not enough room in B level halway for presentation to whole group
- we can have two tables with demos on them and people explaining things
- machine room tours need a designated tour guide, small groups
- timeline:
- 17:00 - arrive
- 17:10 - go to Mac cluster, pass out account application sheets, pizza count/order
- 17:15 - Presentation, collect sheets, try and recruit demosplash staff
- (17:15 - 17:30 - someone makes the accounts)
- 17:30 - hand back sheets, get people on IRC, troubleshoot
- 17:45 - pizza, meet and greet, tours
- activities: tours of machine room, vectrex demos, people in Mac cluster
- account creation table
- make temporary shell server for new people with local accounts
- transfer accounts to normal machines over the course of a month
- distribute forms on arrival, collect during presentation, make accounts
- give meeting schedule
- specified end time so people don't stay around and get bored
- modular framework for future new member events
- Stallman event for Spring 2016
- tabled for one week, not even sure if we want to do this
Finalizing Spring 2016 StuCo application
- Application due Wed 16 Sep, 17:00
- Room request due Tue 22 Sep
- sbaugh has a vision of the class, doesn't want to do it alone
- double the work of the talk series