December 5th, 2021

12/05/2021

Board Meeting Attendance: Ryan ODell, Craig McIlwrath, Lloyd Page, Casey A’Hearn, Keegan Matthews, Josh Coppola, Ronin Ross, Elana Elman

• Recap
  • Don’t Freeze Together 12/03
    • Turn out was surprisingly good, we had a fairly large number of people present, including members of AIF and MIF
    • This will be something to repeat again next year
  • Tech Seminar 12/04
    • Really good attendance (we had 15 people turn up!)
    • Made contact with CHS (CIF for RIT)
      • They have indicated interest with collaborating with us for future events, so we will be reaching out with them next semester for that
    • Otherwise, nothing to really note save that we need to make it clear that people need to bring questions for us to answer in the future; this should really be a Q&A more than anything else
    • It was a lot of helping people with projects
  • Game Night 12/04
    • We now know to expect a low turnout for game nights on the week before finals week; attendance was very low compared to the rest of the semester
    • Accordingly, it may make sense to run very low commitment events around finals if we do decide to do so, if the goal is to provide additional point opportunities
  • Semesterly Recap
    • Tech Seminars
      • First half of the semester started rough attendance wise
        • We need to revisit advertising methods and what we’re covering
        • With that regard, we should be tying our tech seminars with in-class announcements which are relevant
      • Second half of the semester generally went better attendance wise
    • Game Nights
      • Generally speaking, we had attendance increasing over each game night, with the exception of the December 4^th game night (which was previously covered)
      • There wasn’t really a whole lot we could do to increase attendance, it would appear that our hands are generally tied by the university’s guidelines and institutional memory (like we’ll get more numbers over time due to us simply continuing to build up a core group of people attending again)
    • CIFX Talks
      • We need to revisit this, as people are mostly doing them just for points and not really showing up
      • It may make sense to do this instead a once-a-month basis, or to have them on same day as floor meetings; just something for the next board to consider
• Tech Updates
  • Craig will try to work on the backup server after Wednesday
• Participation Points
  • If you’re at 18pts or above, we have created a waive line
• Housing
  • Ryan will be posting to everyone to see who (if anyone) will not be living floor next semester
  • If so, then he will be filling out a form for Reslife