Board Minutes for September 2nd, 2010

Golisano Children's Hospital Contribution: It was decided that our donation of $81 would be directed toward patient care rather than research or education. This will be completed soon. Dues: In case you haven't heard, our dues for the Fall 2010 semester are still at $20 and are due by September 30th (a floor meeting this night, but hopefully before then). PayPal: We have a new PayPal account that has been confirmed with our Ally checking account. John and Linda will be creating our PayPal donation button on the CIF website using Joomla on Saturday, which will make the process very simple. T-Shirts: We'll be subsidizing the costs of CIF t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, and such this semester! This process will only start in October once all dues have been paid, so please get them in as soon as possible and we can set low, low prices for these great items! URSGA: Chelsea will be visiting their interest meeting tomorrow (Friday, 9/3) to discuss collaboration on events and a closer relationship! Meeting with Burt: Many helpful suggestions were offered to enhance our publicity and attract members to CIF, like connecting with classes and professors and advertising the lab. Magneto: Our new name for the CIFputer has been announced! This is up and running over in the 320 suite. Lab: Computers in the lab are up and running and at least one printer is successfully operating as well. The coding for the card reader is close to being completed and we will desperately need cleaning very soon! Recruitment: We have 29 total members with 18 on-floor and 11 off-floor. This year after graduation, we will be losing 15 total members (11 on-floor and 4 off-floor).  We need your help to survive and make this floor work.  Seriously.  Anything you can do, do it and rock it. Objectives for Recruitment: Our goal is to increase membership by 50% by December. We are aiming to do this by: encouraging our off-floor members to become on-floor, visit prospective members, nail the Fall Activities Fair, encourage the ZDC, rock the Open House, increased collaboration with other groups and special interest floors, and advertise in computer science classes and freshman halls. It was also suggested by Bobby that we should have mixers with other groups, encouraging more collaboration. Open House 9/4/2010: We moved our Open House to Saturday, September 4 — two days away!We allocated $60 for sheet pizzas and we will need declining dollars from our Senior Meal Exception people, Sara and Dan, for chips and soda. Collaboration with Anime Interest Floor: It's definitely understandable that they are not yet available to collaborate with us for our Open House, but we definitely will in the future. We could have combined Magic or Team Fortress 2 meetings, LAN parties (more social), or possibly a Munchkin event in the Hive. They are also starting Anime showings supported by the Japanese Department in Morey 205 on Fridays at 6pm; if you are interested, feel free to attend. Projector Co-Sponsoring: If any recognized group or group of people would like to use our projector in the CIF lab, we are certainly willing (for a undetermined reasonable fee) to lend out the projector/space to others along with a DVD player and necessary connections. We will figure out the logistics in the near future. Thanks for getting to the end of this!  You rock!