Meeting Minutes

Board Meeting Minutes

October 20th, 2019

In attendance: Board, Jack, Liam, Isabel, Josh, Cole

Emergency election tonight at floor meeting
- Need simple majority of voting members to vote yes
Full elections coming up soon
- Nominations November 3, election November 17? (Tommy)
Game Night Saturday, October 26
- Theme: graveyard of everything that’s died since last year
Movie Night Saturday, November 2
DandyHacks Intro to Git seminar says it’s by CIF? (Jack)
- Run by Jack, Liam, Cole
- Sat, Oct 26 Genesee 309 4:30-5:30 pm
- Could put a sign in sheet for CIF attendees to get points
Game Night & Meet CIF Saturday, November 9 (SIH Weekend), 7:30 for Meet CIF
- Could order Costco pizza
- Tentatively 6 pizzas, around the same cost as the two sheets we normally get
SIH weekend collaborative study break event: Sunday, Nov 10 3-5 pm in Welles-Brown Room
- Food, board games, etc
Tabling during SIH weekend available any day at Danforth lunch, scheduled for Friday lunch
- Could also do Thursday dinner (Austin)
Potential movie night Saturday, November 16? We have an open weekend
- Could have a casual game night instead? (Dan)
Need a tech seminar to happen soon
- R tech seminar – having trouble planning it still (Tommy)
- Could put it on the weekend of November 16 instead of movie night or game night
CIFgiving Saturday, November 23
- Emails going out to alumni soon (Dan)
- Food sign-up sheet out around November 2
- Have to find someone who can cook the turkey (traditionally an alum)
- Looking into reserving other floors’ kitchens for cooking
Don’t Freeze Together 2
- Cosponsor with AIF, MIF, Lilac Living?
- Hot chocolate and s’mores
- December 7 weekend; pick specific day as it gets closer
Build a Computer seminar study break event
- Potentially Friday, December 13
Check in with Tristan and Ian November 3 weekend
- Ask them to come to the board meeting
Website is still in progress
- Need it to be functional for SIH weekend (Josh)
- Going to put in new certificates this week (Austin)
Card reader access is still not working
Closed board meeting discussion

Floor Meeting Minutes

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.