September 8th, 2020
Attendees: Casey AâHearn, Isabel Anderson, Josh Coppola, Elana Elman, Emersyn Harris, Jason Katzner, Lloyd Page, Jack Yu
Important topics covered: Participation points, the future of Help@CIF, event scheduling: First game night is September 19th from 8 PM to late PM
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- Housekeeping of moving all the CIF-affiliated emails to the appropriate people, informing ResLife/CCC/IT of new board
- RA needs to verify election results–easier than other years due to CCC
- Membership interview for Adarsh Kumar–scheduling through timezones
- Will be between 10 AM and 3 PM EDT
- When2meet–Saturday at 1 PM if that works for Adarsh
- Participation points
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- No quota this semester
- Still will have a sheet with names and such
- Helpful for new members to get an idea of what level of participation is required in future semesters
- Also might come into play for breaking housing point ties
- Minutes will be posted on the CIF website again
- Isabel will potentially be retroactively posting old minutes
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- Help@CIF
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- Direct people to Discord
- Limited in-person help–maybe outdoors?
- Lab
- We have lab access! Only two people allowed at a time
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- Scheduling events–all events will be labeled with EDT/GMT or UTC – [time difference]
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- DandyHacks–need someone to give a talk/run a workshop
- Isabel could give a talk on introductory LaTeX
- October 23rd-25th
- Business Academic Council
- How to use gmail for business majors
- They would like the event in mid-September
- Not our typical audience, but name recognition is good
- Will discuss further next week
- CIF event idea–intro to Google Sheet/codename shenanigans
- Sheets and Shenanigans
- Run by Jason
- Next Saturday 9/12 @ 8 PM
- Game nights
- DandyHacks–need someone to give a talk/run a workshop
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- First game night on September 19th, 8 to late as usual
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- In the Discord, different games in each channel
- Announce what games are available
- Online versions of board games, computer games, MMORPGs
- Send out a poll asking members if they have relevant games (Among Us, JackBox, etc.) and if theyâre willing to host the games
- We have server space for games if necessary
- Future game nights
- Roughly once a month for regular game nights (October 17th, November 21st)
- Other weeks could be casual game nights, or collaborations with SIHs, or any other events we can think of
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- Jack has an idea for the game Taboo, but with guessing food and over voice chat
- Event with GreenSpace about ewaste, potentially, since we have a lot of old servers
- Sadly, we do not have access to the tent
- Can be distanced and irl or virtual
- Maybe a seminar about recycling co-led by CIF and GreenSpace–easy to make virtual
- Elana will reach out to GreenSpace to find people who are knowledgeable about e-waste
- Will consult with them further/table the discussion until later since the food trivia event is more fleshed out
- Tech seminars
- 171/172 review session for midterms/finals
- Ideas: Intro to R, intro to Google Sheets, intro to Lisp
- If you have other ideas, let us know!
- The email and LaTeX workshops will also count
- Already had one yesterday about how to do CS in college
- CIFx talks
- Do them when there arenât floor meetings
- In the calendar, but let board know about topics so we know to announce the events
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- Do we want to switch to CCC?
- Potentially, for cleaner-looking emails
- Somewhat low priority for now
- Casey and Emersyn will look into transferring the mailing list to CCC
- Jack needs to update the tech wiki