January 19th, 2020

Present Board: Liam, Lloyd, Casey, Josh, Jack

Present Membership: Isabel, Daniel, Maryfrances, Lucas

Visitors: Carolina (WiC)

Nothing significant in the suggestion box

Emailing

• Didn’t get a chance to look into google groups – Josh
• No issues with the current system – Josh, Casey
• Create gmail templates to help streamline

Suggestion: For agenda make newest content first for clarity

Suggestion:

Will address flyer grouping with flyboy once appointed – Casey

• Looking at adding new flyers for quad
• Don’t want to overload groups flyering quad
• Quad has central board that most don’t see
  • 3 boards per floor total – 3 flyers per floor
  • 12 per building rather than 4 per building
  • Burton, crosby, lovejoy are upperclassmen
  • Isabel willing to help coordinate with flyboy/be flyboy

Need to run poll for game night themes

• Moving this to floor meeting agenda

Casual Game nights

• Will be polling floor to gauge support (appears to be significant support) and times
• May schedule them for different times than saturday nights

Tech seminar

• Difficulties with room reservations (can’t transition VEMS for room reservations)
• No response from WCSA yet, Brian has contacted them
• Ed has responded with suggestions of who else to contact
• Contacting CSC 173 to provide seminar to help students beginning the class
• Contacting CSC 171, 172, 161 to gauge interest?
• Covering cycle machines, C, unix
• Contact CSC 246? Also uses cycle machines
• Covering bare minimum of unix with this and then doing a later unix seminar with WiC or independently
• Have Douglass 401 from 2-4pm Saturday 1/25/2020

Reaching out to clubs to do data archiving – Casey will bring up to floor

• Historian appointed position? Already a lot of positions
• Eresh has been doing a lot to find out more about CIF’s history
  • Creating boards of CIF’s history
• May not need to be an appointed position, but is a project that is deserving of points – Dan
  • Not needed as a repeated project
• Getting us out into the community more

Polling floor for people knowledgeable in 3D Printing

• One-off event, CIFx talk
• Moving to floor meeting agenda

WiC is here! – Maryfrances and Carolina

• On the 22nd they are doing a coding challenge – want judges
  • Details solidified for next week
  • If things go well some challenges will be automatically graded
  • Different levels of experience for challenges
    • 3 categories (171, 172, 173 ←have completed that class)
    • Set of 6 challenge questions (30+ min each)
    • 2 hour time
    • Tiebreaker challenge – write the worst code they can
  • CSB 209
  • Advertising to the entire school, would be nice if CIF told
  • Getting judges is the hardest part
  • Number of judges needed per category for next week
    • Need ballpark 5-10 people
    • Will be getting some WiC mentors to judge
  • Will bring this up during the floor meeting tonight
• Will be doing peer mentoring meetup Feb 15
  • Want us to do a presentation on unix
    • Moving standard unix seminar to this
    • Cosponsored event
  • Peer mentoring matches majors with nonmajors
    • Monthly meetup
    • Because of coding challenge have not been able to plan standard events
    • Combination seminar and pizza party type event
  • Already have a tech seminar Feb 22 – move to 15th?
    • Afternoon, standard time as a tech seminar
    • WiC already will have 50ish people
  • CIF members can come
    • Can advertise to members – participation points for cosponsoring

Tech update

• Schedule has a setback because some of our hardware has had its drives deprecated (specific raid cards deprecated by red hat)
  • Week of testing probably?
  • Worst case buy new raid card
  • Print server slower to come online
  • Deprecating older hardware will be slower
• Hallway reorganized
  • Added printers and print release station
  • Had to reorganize because of only outlet in hallway
  • Color printer is having toner issues
    • Looking into replacement parts, warranty
• Slowly upgrading lab machines to SSDs
  • Will be putting OSs on them soon
    • Linux and windows (if windows cooperates)
• Will be interviewing a person who can help with the lab

4 interviews coming up on Tuesday – starting at 8, members welcome to come

Will be putting out call for codenames during floor meeting and in email tonight

• Due Feb 2, 2020

Asking people for mousepads

• Only need about 5 good ones
• $5 dues waived or participation points

Closed Board Meeting

February 11th, 2024

Attendance List:  Fenway, Jack, Rory, Ilan, Tristan, Winter

Previous events: 

• Lab improvement 
• S’mores Night 
  • They need to give us better wood so that we aren’t forced to do unspeakable things that we will not reference.
• Minecraft Night
  • Low turnout

Future Events

• Housing meeting 
  • Posters update?
    • Print tonight distribute tomorrow ASAP 

SIH stuff

• Gained access to @u.rochester.edu email
• I assume we’re not going to go for the 4th suite? 
• Ryan meeting on monday
  • Fire wood 🙁
  • Ask if he got a response for it about the minecraft thing 
  • How to get our posters hung up by RAs

Other 

• Printer update? 

Responsibilities 

• Tristan: housing packet 
• Jack: Research the printer. And the weird accounts situation that Ari presented in the previous email.
• Everyone: Distribute Advertisements

February 4th, 2024

The Constitution has been ratified. Co-Presidency is now official and associates no longer exist.
Dues due 2/18 $25
Minecraft Night on 2/9 @ 8PM
S’mores Night 2/10 @ 8PM
CIF Housing Q&A 2/15 Genesee 308 @ 2PM

January 21st, 2024

Dues:
They are due on 03/18. All full members must pay $25 in dues.
Upcoming events: Unix Tech seminar: 02/03 likely at Douglass 404 at 2Pm.
Codenames form will be released soon.

November 13th, 2022

Upcoming Events:

• CIFGiving (11/19): We need more people to bring food/related items, and are giving out points per item brought!
• SIH Winterfest (Dec 4): We will need people to table/present, and of course, simply show up
• CIF-Greenspace Collab (11/18, 3:30-5): Please show up if you are at all interested in sustainable technology (there will also be a CS related talk)!

Elections:

• Co-Presidents: Nate and Samson
• Logistics: Ronin
• Senior Tech: Craig
• Junior Tech: Fenway vs. Cole (Fenway won)
• Sec-Treas: Nikhil

October 30th, 2022

Upcoming Events:

• Tech Seminar coming up on the 12th, will be on LaTeX  (time/location TBD)
• Minecraft Night coming up
• CIFGiving coming up later on (please fill out the RSVP form), and volunteer to bring things

Election/Nominations

• Positions up for nominations include Co-Presidents (one person can nominate themselves although 2 are encouraged), Logistics, Junior Tech Director, and Secretary-Treasurer
• Elections will be happening on the 13th (the next floor meeting)
• Even if you are not running, it’s important to attend
• Nominees will have to pass an easy constitution quiz (probably open book) if they are elected
• New officers will have the support of previous board members with many years of experience (called Shadowboard)
• If you want to nominate yourself, please reach out to Board and notify Sarah if possible so you can be added to the list of candidates
• Currently, there are no nominees for Presidents

October 16th, 2022

• Upcoming Events
  • Lab Events
    • Alex will be hosting a lab event dealing with the sound system on Saturday, time tbd
    • Craig will be doing a lab event on Saturday at 6pm
  • Halloween Game Night 10/29/2022
    • Food and Drinks will be provided
    • Open to everyone, will be cosponsored by URSGA and the Video Game Development Club
    • If you are interested in dressing up for the Halloween Game Night, feel free to do so
• Election Nominations
  • They are in two weeks, so if you are possibly interested in running for a position, keep that in mind
  • Nominations for Officer Positions begin on October 30th
  • Positions open are as follows
    • President
    • Logistics Director
    • Senior Tech Director
    • Junior Tech Director
    • Secretary-Treasurer
• Greenspace Cosponsorship
  • Greenspace is looking to do an event with CIF, possibly on the 5th of November
  • Floor members and Board have indicated interest, more details will be necessary

October 2nd, 2022

• Board meeting gets participation points easy
• Floor meeting on the 16th – mandatory for all full members
• Minecraft Night on the 13th
  • People, who want to reset the server?
  • Also will be a poll on the Discord server
• Dandyhacks upcoming
  • Between 13-15th
  • CIF will be having tech seminar on the 15th at 11:30 AM on how to use Git
  • Will be in the Douglass Ballroom
• Video Game Club Jam all month Oct.
  • The link to their server will be posted in Discord
• Halloween upcoming
  • Game Night on the 29th, open to all members
  • Can dress up!
  • Will be hybrid video game/board games
• Participation points reminder
  • 16th of October = halfway point of the semester
  • The quota is 15 points
  • Ask Keegan what his codename is or get one to him real quick
  • Can be found via the footer of CIF’s website
• Sanitation announcement
• Craig passes out ballots
• Lab events 6-7 on Saturdays
• Elections:
  • Cole
  • Sarah
  • Nikhil
• Sarah goes first
  • Business manager training, previous treasurer experience, has been to almost every board meeting this semester, very veteran CIF member
  • Her schedule:
    • More busy on Tuesday but otherwise not super busy
    • She likes windmills both modern and old-fashioned
• Cole goes next
  • He can complain and will complain to make CIF better
  • Will ask for little screwdrivers and textbooks that are not older than himself
  • Textbook to classes CIF members are taking
  • If a printer breaks down, Cole will have the tech directors fix it
  • Cole thinks windmills are good, all the best kind, the ones that are giants
  • Cole will fistfight a windmill at Waffle House
  • His schedule:
    • 4 classes, most free on Monday, Weds., Fridays and most of the weekend
• Nikhil goes next
  • Philosophical discourse on the meaning of treasury, money, and how trustworthy of money. Money is meaningless and thus Nikhil can be trusted with it
  • What does he value in life?
  • What is his inflationary power
    • Stage a coup
  • Physical goal as treasurer
    • Rooming points and getting to know CIF better
  • Willing to fist-fight printer?
    • Yes
  • What do you think about windmills?
    • The industrial revolution and its consequences
    • Windmills are a product of the industrial revolution

September 4th, 2022

• asic introductions
• Appointed position nominations:
  • Kitchen Goddess – keep floor kitchen clean: Keegan
  • Flyboy – distributes flyers across campus: Ronin, Jack
  • Sysadmin –  help Craig: Emeryson, Kestor
  • Social Media Czar – runs social media, gets up to date recruitment visuals: Kento
  • Game Master – handles board games for game night: Keegan
  • Lab Lord – cleans lab: Kestor
  • 1 point per poster created on an individual basis: Emy, Ryan, David
• Dues
  • 25$ this semester
  • Due by the 18th
• Codenames also due by the 18th
• Need volunteers for tabling
  • 1 participation point per tabling session
  • Ideally one old and one new member
  • Word of mouth is also helpful for recruitment
• More members increases fun!!!
• Form for tabling by tomorrow (?)
• Events coming up:
  • Cosponsored event with Nat’l Society of Black Engineers
    • Douglass Leadership House – Frat Quad
    • Good way to introduce yourself to a peer group
  • Minecraft night
  • Open to everyone
  • 15 point quota this semester 
  • Tech Seminar on the 24th on Unix, Douglass 302
  • House of Marsha, 2nd, Movie Night on Alan Turing
• Next board meeting next Sunday, etc. 

March 13th, 2022

• Game night this Saturday (3/19)
• UHC Strong field trip on April 1st
• Formal game night 4/2
  • Members only 
  • Dress nice
  • Alums will be there!
• Cifnic 4/3

• Mask mandate: do what you feel safe with in your suites.

• Recruitment! Please recommend us to your friends.
• Housing meeting on the 20th

• Also on the 20th: Amendment voting.
  • Proposing now. 
  • Pretty much, this amendment formalizes existing policy.
  • [Josh read the amendment. Please read the highlighted section of the constitution document.]
  • Dan suggests adding the option for board to mediate a mutually agreed on community standards agreement without a disciplinary hearing involved.
  • If anyone has further or private comments, please reach out over email or discord.
  • If you won’t be at next week’s meeting, you can vote online by emailing mailto:urcomputerinterestfloor@gmail.com.

• Tabling:
  • We’ll put out a sign up sheet over Discord for tabling: Tuesday about 4:30-6:30, likely also Monday and Wednesday.

February 20th, 2022

• Upcoming events: internet privacy tech seminar on saturday at 2
• Give Elana dues ($25) and code names very soon!
• We’ll be fixing up the lab early Sunday afternoons, extra hands appreciated
• For health reasons, please come to other board members than Keegan for CIF questions and responsibilities.