March 14th, 2021

Attendance: Isabel Anderson, Josh Coppola, Liam Hainsworth, Emersyn Harris, Jason Katzner, Tianyi Ma, Keegan Matthews, Ryan ODell

• Happy pi day!
• A CIFx talk on bucket hats
• E4E stuff
  • For those of you who are unfamiliar, this is the annual presentation/questionnaire that we have to present to ResLife
  • Emersyn + two other board members
  • We will be working on the presentation together
• Isabel’s bad tech seminar idea
  • History of TTRPGs or history of educational type games
  • Could be done collaboratively and presented this semester or next semester
  • Could be a good way to branch out re: tech seminar topics and is approachable
• Josh’s good tech seminar idea
  • Do a part 2 of the command line seminar the week after the regular one
  • This would be next semester
  • Related: Emersyn thought our Unix seminar was good when she went, especially the part about Unix Star Wars
  • Isabel: talk about all the horrifying things you can do in Unix, such as deleting every file, if you don’t already
• Family science day
  • Visualizations of sorting algorithms
  • Liam’s Python rendering of an algorithm
  • We have filled out the form! We will explain sorting algorithms and show visuals
• Housing meeting
  • 14/18 beds filled according to Ryan
  • We need to harass people whom we haven’t heard back from
  • Keegan has some friends who might be interested
  • March 28th
  • Housing points have been mostly compiled by Josh (thanks Josh)
  • Isabel will send reminder to people that the housing meeting is coming up, separate from the minutes
  • Email promo materials to pre-major list via CS department
    • Elena McKee
    • Jason will send this
  • Housing meeting will be held on Zoom for privacy and group management purposes
• Isabel’s terrible meme
  • We will send it out with our other promotional materials 🙂
• There is now a discussion of why making a good search algorithm is hard
  • Archive Of Our Own has won an award for its tagging system