January 19th, 2020

Present Board: Liam, Lloyd, Casey, Josh, Jack

Present Membership: Isabel, Daniel, Maryfrances, Lucas

Visitors: Carolina (WiC)

Nothing significant in the suggestion box

Emailing

• Didn’t get a chance to look into google groups – Josh
• No issues with the current system – Josh, Casey
• Create gmail templates to help streamline

Suggestion: For agenda make newest content first for clarity

Suggestion:

Will address flyer grouping with flyboy once appointed – Casey

• Looking at adding new flyers for quad
• Don’t want to overload groups flyering quad
• Quad has central board that most don’t see
  • 3 boards per floor total – 3 flyers per floor
  • 12 per building rather than 4 per building
  • Burton, crosby, lovejoy are upperclassmen
  • Isabel willing to help coordinate with flyboy/be flyboy

Need to run poll for game night themes

• Moving this to floor meeting agenda

Casual Game nights

• Will be polling floor to gauge support (appears to be significant support) and times
• May schedule them for different times than saturday nights

Tech seminar

• Difficulties with room reservations (can’t transition VEMS for room reservations)
• No response from WCSA yet, Brian has contacted them
• Ed has responded with suggestions of who else to contact
• Contacting CSC 173 to provide seminar to help students beginning the class
• Contacting CSC 171, 172, 161 to gauge interest?
• Covering cycle machines, C, unix
• Contact CSC 246? Also uses cycle machines
• Covering bare minimum of unix with this and then doing a later unix seminar with WiC or independently
• Have Douglass 401 from 2-4pm Saturday 1/25/2020

Reaching out to clubs to do data archiving – Casey will bring up to floor

• Historian appointed position? Already a lot of positions
• Eresh has been doing a lot to find out more about CIF’s history
  • Creating boards of CIF’s history
• May not need to be an appointed position, but is a project that is deserving of points – Dan
  • Not needed as a repeated project
• Getting us out into the community more

Polling floor for people knowledgeable in 3D Printing

• One-off event, CIFx talk
• Moving to floor meeting agenda

WiC is here! – Maryfrances and Carolina

• On the 22nd they are doing a coding challenge – want judges
  • Details solidified for next week
  • If things go well some challenges will be automatically graded
  • Different levels of experience for challenges
    • 3 categories (171, 172, 173 ←have completed that class)
    • Set of 6 challenge questions (30+ min each)
    • 2 hour time
    • Tiebreaker challenge – write the worst code they can
  • CSB 209
  • Advertising to the entire school, would be nice if CIF told
  • Getting judges is the hardest part
  • Number of judges needed per category for next week
    • Need ballpark 5-10 people
    • Will be getting some WiC mentors to judge
  • Will bring this up during the floor meeting tonight
• Will be doing peer mentoring meetup Feb 15
  • Want us to do a presentation on unix
    • Moving standard unix seminar to this
    • Cosponsored event
  • Peer mentoring matches majors with nonmajors
    • Monthly meetup
    • Because of coding challenge have not been able to plan standard events
    • Combination seminar and pizza party type event
  • Already have a tech seminar Feb 22 – move to 15th?
    • Afternoon, standard time as a tech seminar
    • WiC already will have 50ish people
  • CIF members can come
    • Can advertise to members – participation points for cosponsoring

Tech update

• Schedule has a setback because some of our hardware has had its drives deprecated (specific raid cards deprecated by red hat)
  • Week of testing probably?
  • Worst case buy new raid card
  • Print server slower to come online
  • Deprecating older hardware will be slower
• Hallway reorganized
  • Added printers and print release station
  • Had to reorganize because of only outlet in hallway
  • Color printer is having toner issues
    • Looking into replacement parts, warranty
• Slowly upgrading lab machines to SSDs
  • Will be putting OSs on them soon
    • Linux and windows (if windows cooperates)
• Will be interviewing a person who can help with the lab

4 interviews coming up on Tuesday – starting at 8, members welcome to come

Will be putting out call for codenames during floor meeting and in email tonight

• Due Feb 2, 2020

Asking people for mousepads

• Only need about 5 good ones
• $5 dues waived or participation points

Closed Board Meeting