August 23rd, 2021

Attendance: Isabel Anderson, Cole Balacek, Dan Cohen, Josh Coppola, Emersyn Harris, Jason Katzner, Tianyi Ma, Keegan Matthews, Sarah O’Connor, Ryan ODell, Lloyd Page, Div Patel, Sophie Stahl

• Just because Isabel is gone does not mean we need to replace her re: points obsession
  • This is important information
• Things to discuss: The Lab SituationTM, elections, Isabel’s half-baked mel weekend, constitution, leadership training, activities fair
• SIH tabling opportunity
  • We are not allowed to table at the activities fair–heck you WCSA!
  • One of the actual adults has suggested tabling in ResLife areas at the same time–this is a bad idea since it won’t get as many people–we could table before the fair instead
  • Alternatively, we can show up with a table and kind of go rogue since it’s outdoors and we have the space
    • Probably won’t chat with advisor about this, but will talk to other SIH groups
  • Conclusion: we need to table before (1-3 or 2-4) and/or nearby (whether in WilCo or outside)
    • Emersyn will suggest both to advisor
• Lab update
  • The card reader is offline thanks to a leak that shorted the card reader out
    • I cannot emphasize enough that this is not our fault
  • Rugs were damaged
  • Facilities is working on this but to fix it there will be asbestos access issues in the meantime since it is a multi-floor issue
  • AC is working again
  • Servers are still running
  • As a result, we will be doing the following:
    • Removing printers so they are still accessible
    • Moving furniture and games into suites ASAP
    • Moving a few servers out so we can prepare them for after
  • This sucks, but it is out of our hands and facilities is at least making progress
  • We will hopefully get some notice about when we will lose access
• Moving furniture out of the lab will be tomorrow at 7:00 PM
• SSL certificates are expiring September 19th, Tony has offered to work with us to renew certificates
  • We will designate a point person after the election
• Tony is also offering us some monitors, but we do not need them
• Nauticock update:
  • Ryan transitioned half the Nauticock functionality to Discord’s new features
  • The other half is pronoun roles: we will get a premade bot for that, and copy-paste the nauticock code into a new bot and not lose the API key this time
  • Elana will pick a pronoun bot and set it up
• Elections
  • We will have lots of board positions up for election (everyone but Ryan)
  • Josh’s idea: nominations starting tonight (via online form), elections Sunday
    • Emergency floor meeting Wednesday at 9 PM to collect nominations
  • We will need to get the RA involved for the impartial ResLife representative
  • For contested positions, we will do ranked-choice voting 🙂
  • Elections: Sunday at 9 PM, board meeting right after at 10
• Leadership training for SIH
  • This Saturday, 1-4 (gross)
  • We will send Ryan and possibly the chair nominee
• Isabel thinks it would be a good idea to do a mel weekend meetup for alums (October 1-2)
  • This needs to be planned once there exists a new board–tabled until two weeks from now
  • Evening event with s’mores, weather permitting, and game night
• Constitution
  • Josh wants to pass a new one, and now is a great time to reopen that
  • If anyone wants to take a look, he will present the draft at the floor meeting this weekend
  • Main update from his prior version is to add ranked-choice voting officially
• “Maybe the real floor meeting was the friends we made along the way”