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”