September 6th, 2020

Attendees: Casey A’Hearn, Isabel Anderson, Josh Coppola, Elana Elman, Emersyn Harris, Jason Katzner, Lloyd Page, Jack Yu

Important topics covered: Participation points, the future of Help@CIF, event scheduling: First game night is September 19th from 8 PM to late PM

• • Housekeeping of moving all the CIF-affiliated emails to the appropriate people, informing ResLife/CCC/IT of new board
  • RA needs to verify election results–easier than other years due to CCC
  • Membership interview for Adarsh Kumar–scheduling through timezones
    • Will be between 10 AM and 3 PM EDT
    • When2meet–Saturday at 1 PM if that works for Adarsh

• Participation points

• • • No quota this semester
    • Still will have a sheet with names and such
    • Helpful for new members to get an idea of what level of participation is required in future semesters
    • Also might come into play for breaking housing point ties
  • Minutes will be posted on the CIF website again
    • Isabel will potentially be retroactively posting old minutes

• Help@CIF

• • • Direct people to Discord
    • Limited in-person help–maybe outdoors?
  • Lab
    • We have lab access! Only two people allowed at a time

• Scheduling events–all events will be labeled with EDT/GMT or UTC – [time difference]

• • • DandyHacks–need someone to give a talk/run a workshop
      • Isabel could give a talk on introductory LaTeX
      • October 23rd-25th
    • Business Academic Council
      • How to use gmail for business majors
      • They would like the event in mid-September
      • Not our typical audience, but name recognition is good
      • Will discuss further next week
    • CIF event idea–intro to Google Sheet/codename shenanigans
      • Sheets and Shenanigans
      • Run by Jason
      • Next Saturday 9/12 @ 8 PM
    • Game nights

• First game night on September 19th, 8 to late as usual

• • • • In the Discord, different games in each channel
      • Announce what games are available
      • Online versions of board games, computer games, MMORPGs
      • Send out a poll asking members if they have relevant games (Among Us, JackBox, etc.) and if they’re willing to host the games
      • We have server space for games if necessary
      • https://docs.google.com/document/d/10iOD7Wy_YU4NmkPU7ZH7YTrq11qJAANjZZ0PAotKhR8/preview (Games that exist in online emulators)
    • Future game nights
      • Roughly once a month for regular game nights (October 17th, November 21st)
      • Other weeks could be casual game nights, or collaborations with SIHs, or any other events we can think of
  • Jack has an idea for the game Taboo, but with guessing food and over voice chat
  • Event with GreenSpace about ewaste, potentially, since we have a lot of old servers
    • Sadly, we do not have access to the tent
    • Can be distanced and irl or virtual
      • Maybe a seminar about recycling co-led by CIF and GreenSpace–easy to make virtual
    • Elana will reach out to GreenSpace to find people who are knowledgeable about e-waste
    • Will consult with them further/table the discussion until later since the food trivia event is more fleshed out
  • Tech seminars
    • 171/172 review session for midterms/finals
    • Ideas: Intro to R, intro to Google Sheets, intro to Lisp
    • If you have other ideas, let us know!
    • The email and LaTeX workshops will also count
    • Already had one yesterday about how to do CS in college
  • CIFx talks
    • Do them when there aren’t floor meetings
    • In the calendar, but let board know about topics so we know to announce the events
• Do we want to switch to CCC?
  • Potentially, for cleaner-looking emails
  • Somewhat low priority for now
  • Casey and Emersyn will look into transferring the mailing list to CCC
• Jack needs to update the tech wiki