September 4th, 2022

09/04/2022

Board Meeting Attendance: Craig McIlwrath, Keegan Matthews, Ronin Ross, Kestor Brown, Sarah O’Connor, Elana Elman, David Tang, Lyrica

• Recap: Activities Fair
  • Good turn out of volunteers
  • At least a dozen who turned out, with 15+ people seemingly interested
    • A sizeable number scanned the QR code, didn’t join
    • 4 emails of new people plus Michael (who is a regular
  • Nat asked to be lowered to associate membership
  • All and all, this was a positive for CIF – we got on a lot of people’s radars, good foundation to build off of for the coming weeks
• Recap: Game Night
  • Attendance and duration were good
  • Advertising will improve numbers, but all and all for the short notice, we did quite well
  • Should have a video game suite for future game nights
  • Individual snacks is another thing to add
  • Lyrica says hi
• Great Pasta Debate
  • An ongoing struggle for the soul of cuisine
• Appointed Positions
  • Flyboy/Flygirl – Ronin and Keegan emergency backups
  • CIS Admin – Sarah and Kestor are interested
  • Game King
  • Kitchen Goddess
  • Social Tsar – We need to update our recruitment materials badly, we don’t have access to the Facebook group, will need to get that from Lloyd
  • Lab Lord – Lyrica has offered to do so
  • Posters – Offer individual points (1 point per poster)
    • Unanimous in favor
• Cosponsorships
  • National Society of Black Engineers – They want to cosponsor an event Thursday in order to further introduce ourselves with them; this is a good
  • UHC/House of Marsha – We think the 22nd would work best for CIF, could use the lab in short notice
  • Video Game Development – Keegan will contact their president to see what they want to do
  • URSGA – We should cosponsor a game night with them, potentially for the Halloween Game Night
    • We used to suggest board games to purchase, might want to do an informal
  • AIF – We should Minecraft night with AIF, Keegan will coordinate with their president to gauge interest in one on the 15th of September
• Interview Planning
  • We need to send out an email to Krish Jain
  • Date Planning: 7:30pm, next Sunday
  • Craig will print out a poster
• Tabling
  • We need to start ASAP
  • Tuesdays and Wednesdays alternating by weekly (this week is Wednesday)
  • Keegan will do it Wednesday with one other
• Tech Seminar
  • Intro to Unix is the topic
  • Craig will make a short description and modify the poster, to be sent in the board chat for Elana
  • Elana will reach out to professors about advertising, particularly Professor Ferguson ASAP
• Craig’s Tech
  • To be discussed next week
• Dates
  • Dues by the 18th
  • Codenames ASAP
• Responsibilities
  • Craig: Preparing posters and sheet for new members
  • Ronin: Putting up the tech seminar on CCC, tabling, and organizing events