September 15th, 2019
In attendance: Board, Jack, Liam, Isabel, Lloyd, Jason
- 26 people attended the floor bonding event (Lucas)
- Should have a Don’t Freeze Together again this semester (Tommy)
- Potential Jackson Court bonding event? (Tommy)
- Drama House interested in hosting an event at their house with us
- “Best of CIFx” (Dan)
- Casual game night Saturday at 8pm, email out to members and events list (Tommy)
- No posters, theme, weekend highlights; just casual hangout; can bring friends
- Unix tech seminar Saturday 3:15-4:15 Douglass 401
- Jack will talk to workshop leaders to advertise
- Contacting CS 161 (Isabel volunteered), 170 (Cole volunteered), 171 (need volunteer, MW 10:25-11:40), 172 (Isabel volunteered), 173 (need volunteer Jason volunteered, MW 2-3:15), DS majors, BIO 208 (need volunteer Jason volunteered, MW 11:50-1:05), DSC 201 (volunteer), CS majors (Austin)
- Need people to attend some of these classes to promote the tech seminar (can get a participation point!)
- Taking volunteers till end of tonight
- Still need someone to advertise to CSC 171, MW 10:25-11:40
- Could also email the math majors (get list from Mark Herman)
- Need volunteers to actually host the seminar (Austin, Josh, Jack, Lloyd)
- Potentially make a poster spot in front of Rettner (Dan)
- Tape posters up in Wegmans? (Jason & Josh)
- Tape things up on windows in Rettner (Jack)
- Talk with Lisa about this (Lloyd)
- Next official game night Saturday, October 19th 8pm (Tommy)
- Poll for themes at floor meeting
- Oct 5th is Meliora Weekend, Oct 12th is fall break
- Casual game night Oct 5th Mel Weekend? (Tommy)
- Google calendar with updated CIF events would be good (Jason)
- Allow people to subscribe to it for updates
- Could make an appointed position for keeping the calendar updated (Dan & Jason)
- “Agenda figure” – Jason
- Not necessary to make it an actual appointed position, just have someone do it (Austin)
- Movie nights on off weeks from game nights (Tommy)
- Highly requested, but not highly attended
- Uncertain if we will continue these (Tommy)
- But not that difficult to host (Dan)
- Some people complained that the movie nights ended up being a movie they didn’t want to watch (Austin)
- Select a movie choice at the start of movie night (Josh)
- Make a list and get a few movies to choose from, and then pick at movie night (Jason)
- Themed movie nights with a collection of types of movies? (Lloyd)
- Have a poll of potential ones and take the top few and have people choose which specific one from those (Jason)
- Could have first movie night on Sat, Sept 28th, 7pm
- Tech updates:
- Router config is broken and will need to be replaced to fix the ethernet (Josh)
- Found two extra DNS servers (Austin)
- Limit the number of static IPs (Austin)
- Non-CIF room is on non-CIF ethernet now; in the future will need to remember to change it back (Austin) Room 332
- Suggested new appointed position for web development (Austin) (frontend developer)
- Essentially commissioning a nice-looking website (Dan)
- Need more paper ($50-60) and new router ($60) (Josh)
- Had planned purchase for paper from end of last semester that we need to re-make (Tommy)
- Purchase paper first and refund later (Josh)
- Voted on purchases; passed
- Missing 8 dues, 9 codenames
- Ian would like to pay dues with cookies worth $1.49 as well as the rest in cash; approved
- Budget; voted and approved
- Let people know they can have a one shot at casual game night (Isabel)
- Casual Magic tournament at game night (Isabel); gauge interest at floor meeting
- Next tech seminar topic & date:
- R or Git (Austin)
- Need volunteers for R (potentially Tommy, Ethan, Mike)
- Git would need more time to prepare (Austin)
- Want a smaller audience for git seminar so instructors can be one-on-one (Austin)
- R seminar preferred, because earlier in semester there are R-related classes that need it