Board Minutes for November 17th, 2014

Board Meeting Minutes – November 17, 2014 • GamerGate Discussion with UR Feminists o Tomorrow at 8pm in Haven’s Lounge • Alan will send out ‘not enough points’ email o Include a request to show up at the next board meeting to discuss o If not at next board meeting then what time would work • Kyle will send out an email to floor about people who plan to move off floor • We should make better use of different levels of CIF membership o Possibly have it bestow associate membership status and require them to attend events o We will begin this starting with our next interviews • Plan for CIFGiving morning o Cannot reserve Wilder until the day of o Caitlin will try to reserve it on Friday o Worst case we can have it on floor • Publicity problems o We could dissolve Webmaster and distribute the duties to board members o Most of CIF doesn’t know that we actually have a calendar to use o We should also do a better job of distributing information about what services we offer o We could have a real General Interest Meeting to tell people about these kind of things o Whenever we send out emails to the events list, we could add a footer o Also create a poster of just things we do/offer to post on floor and possibly elsewhere o Nate and Frank will create said list of things by next meeting o Weekly Buzz’s deadline is Tuesday and they send it out on Sunday, which means it needs to be done two weeks in advance o Caitlin will send more things to Anika to put on Jackson Court’s Facebook page o Kyle’s also been sending things to whatsisface in Hill Court • Next board should create a list of tech seminars and what they are at the beginning of the semester o We could send out an email to members to see what they want to see in these o Also have them topics planned out at least a month in advance o Talk to tech classes about the seminars/Unix classes and advertise them • Sausagefest o Woops! o Now on Saturday December 13 • Artemis has moved to Game Night o I.e. it is cancelled unless people specifically request Tanner to run it • Things that should’ve been done by now o Next Tech Seminar  Nate will run the tech seminar that would’ve been done for the kids worst case scenario  Possibly BIOS  Or Ruby  Definitely Ruby o Mike’s Diner Trip on December 7  Jim’s Restaurant Two o Draft a thank you letter to ITS  Everyone on CIF will sign  Well, as many as possible o Caitlin is coordinating with MIF about kitchens • Games/Safe o We don’t have a key to any of the filing cabinets o Frank will check with ITS to see if anyone is getting rid of a filing cabinet o If not then Frank will get a price for a cheap filing cabinet • Caitlin will reserve the banner space for the next semester o Or whoever the chair is – which will be Caitlin unless there is a vote of no confidence o The banner needs to be fixed up o Invite members to do this – Kyle will presumably do the thing with other people • CIF/MIF SwissMas Festivus o Frank will guard games • CSUG responded to us o They’d like to cosponsor an event in the spring o We should set up a meeting between us and them soon o We can schedule the meeting for after elections so old and new board can meet with them o Presumably 12/13 – earlier in the day • Ink/Toner issue o Caitlin will pick up the check tomorrow and get it to Nate o Frank will send toner info to Nate • Alan will get fiscal info to board by next meeting • Kyle’s duty list o GamerGate o CIFGiving o Send Connor an email about the events, when they’re happening, and where for the rest of the semester o Send email to Claire – include blurb about Artemis o Also email to Claire with tech seminar stuff • David’s Interview o Accepted for Associate Membership with option to reinterview • Meeting Adjourned!