September 22nd, 2019

In attendance: Board, Isabel, Jack, Lloyd, Liam

• Good attendance at tech seminar
  • Finished on time with some time available for advanced stuff (Josh)
  • Technical problems with Mac and other issues (Josh)
• Game night started out slow but ended with good attendance (Tommy)
  • People coming and going, but ultimately attendance was similar to normal
  • Should keep advertising to mailing list because need enough people to play games
• Calendar has not been updated yet (Dan)
• R tech seminar coming up at some point with Mike and Ethan
• Saturday, Sept 28^th 7 pm: Movie Night
  • Get theme ahead of time and vote from set of movies at the event (Tommy)
  • Could poll for genre instead of theme (Dan)
  • Need someone to be there to run the event (Tommy), Dan will do it
• Saturday, October 5^th 8 pm: Casual Game Night
• CIFx talk intended from Jack: Picking your first Linux distro
  • October 6^th will be our collection of talks (Tommy)
  • Make sure CIFx is highlighted in the email of events for the week (Austin)
• Sending email about constitution: Dan
• Saturday, October 19^th 8 pm: Game Night
  • Might need to push it back because SIH weekend might be around then (Tommy)
  • Could coincide with Halloween weekend (Isabel)
  • Not sure when SIH weekend will be yet (Tommy)
• Upcoming events:
  • Don’t Freeze 2 coming up again this year
  • How to build a computer potential study break
  • Board satire play event (with fake agenda, stage directions, improvisation; we play each other) (Lucas & Austin)
• CIFplays events in the future (Austin)
• Appointed positions:
  • Still need people to nominate themselves for kitchen goddess, lab lord, king of games
  • Need someone to design the website – might look for outside people
  • In email about appointed positions, link the GitHub page with list of positions
• All floor member dues are in (Lucas)
• Constitution voting:
  • Calling in votes will be allowed (Tommy)
  • Could accept absentee ballots via email (Tommy)
  • But loss of anonymity (Austin)
  • Put a vote in an envelope with your name on it and then secretary adds the vote to the pile at meeting after they ensure the person is not there to double vote
  • Could have a Google Forms ballot where the link is only given to people who are going to vote absentee (Tommy)
  • Could have the form go out at a set time to all people at once (Austin)
• Tech updates from meeting with Tony: (Josh)
  • Upgraded switches last semester
  • Upgrading infrastructure
  • Potentially IT will be able to give us a card reader that we can administrate
  • Might give us a nice printer
  • Problem with the network has been identified (IP addresses are not being handed out, but apparently, it’s not supposed to be by us)
  • New router is being set up
• Closed board discussion on participation points and membership

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.