Meeting Minutes

Board Meeting Minutes

December 8th, 2019

In attendance: Board, Isabel, Casey, Jack

Don’t Freeze Together went well
- A lot of people showed up from CIF, MIF, and AIF
Casual Game Night was pretty small
Should figure out when spring SIH week should be
Transition future board members
Build a computer study break: Friday, Dec 13 2:30-4:30 pm Douglass 401
- Reservation is for 2-5 pm
- Can get points for attending and helping run it!
Housing changes have been figured out
VR headset is still waiting to be shipped
- There is a safety waiver thing for people to sign when they use the headset so that board is not liable for potential injuries (just don’t walk into things, guys)
White elephant has 8 people currently signed up
- People can get one point for participating
Have not bought a board game to add to the collection for this semester yet
- Sushi Go party edition? (Jason)
Should get candy and snacks for lounges when people are studying there
Isabel wants to do an event on Wednesday to decorate cookies
Tech directors meeting with Tony and Dave this week
Closed board meeting to discuss participation points

November 24th, 2019

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

Don’t Freeze Together: Dec 6, 6 – 10 pm
- AIF and MIF will be cosponsoring
- Reservations not processed yet
Casual Game Night Dec 7, 8 pm – late
Should consider board game to buy for the semester – $50 left in the game budget
Still waiting on room reservations for the study break
- Put the study break in the study break list by all clubs
- Fri Dec 13, 2:30-4:30 pm, Douglass 404 (if we can get that room)
- Would need volunteers to help – would they be able to get participation points?
- Maybe two points for volunteering/running, one for attending
Studying together event during reading period – need to get snacks
- Maybe Costco trip on Wednesday, the last day of class
Get an estimate of people who would participate in white elephant
- Write up a set of rules for the gift exchange
Probably no board meeting the Sunday after break (12/1)
Appointed positions points:
- Kitchen goddess: .5
- Lab lord: 0
- Sysadmins: Jack: 1, Lloyd: .5
- Flyboy: 1
- Paparazzi: .5
- King of games: .5
Purchasing a VR headset for the lab
- It’s within our budget and would be fun for members
- Self-contained system for $500
- Austin wants to make the lab more like a social space than a using-the-computers space
- Borrowing policy where a tech director holds the ID of the person borrowing (Austin) and the set cannot leave the lab (Liam)
- Games are around $30 and keep games on the shared CIF account
- IT has accounts for Rettner stuff we could ask about? (Jack)
- Get input from floor to see if people would be interested
- Proposed spending $560 ($500 for the system, $60 for games)
- Send out a poll and get a majority of people responding who are interested in order to buy it (maybe 10 yes’s)
- Voted and approved
Could rent out the monitors we have in the lab (Cole)
We have like $50 left in the RA budget
Want to take all Windows 7 machines offline by the end of the semester (Jack)
Someone keeps turning off the AC, please stop ☹

November 17th, 2019

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

CIFgiving:
- Tristan is going to help clean up
- We will be able to use other floors’ kitchens
Don’t Freeze Together Dec 6, 6-10 pm
- Won’t have conference room until 7
- Should put posters before break
- Tommy will go to get supplies sometime the day before the event
- Tommy is bringing his switch
Casual Game Night Dec 7?
Computer Building Tech Seminar study break Friday Dec 13?
- 2-5 pm Douglass 403
Study hall type event for reading period
- Snacxs like hot cocoa and other things for each lounge
Remaining board and floor meetings for the semester:
- Board meetings 11/24, 12/1, 12/8
- Floor meetings 12/8
Follow up with people with concerning participation points after CIFgiving
- Should contact the people who are low and not planning on bringing anything before CIFgiving to remind them of the points opportunity
Closed board discussion

November 10th, 2019

In attendance: Board, Isabel, Josh, Jack, Lloyd, Jason, Maryfrances

R tech seminar coming up next week with Mike, Ethan, and Tommy
- 2pm-3pm Saturday, Nov 16 Gavett 244
Movie Night Saturday, Nov 16 7 pm
- Poll going out soon
CIFgiving:
- Alums have not responded
- CIF is paying for the turkey
- People who want to attend should bring something
- People can also help clean (and can get a point)
- Dan offers to be in charge of cleanup
- Should be able to use kitchens for floors 2, 4, and maybe 7 in Anderson
- People who use other kitchens MUST BE SURE TO CLEAN THEM
- Probably need to get plates/dishes/pots to use in other kitchens
- Make a list of kitchen supplies to purchase before CIFgiving
- Could have people bring their desk chairs out for enough seating
- Associate members can only attend if they are dues-paying
Plus-ones will be okay for Formal Game Night
Don’t Freeze Together 2 Friday, Dec 6 6pm-9/10pm
- Cosponsor with AIF/MIF/Lilac?
- S’mores, hot chocolate, cider, candy canes, premade stuff
- Tommy will try to get RHA funding for this
Secret Santa/White Elephant
- Probably White Elephant, $10-20
- Sunday, December 8 after floor meeting
- Could ask if people are more interested in secret santa
- Please put in good gifts, not random stuff
Elections next floor meeting, updated list
- Chair: Lucas, Lloyd
- Logistics: Jason, Casey, Liam
- Secretary-Treasurer: Jason, Casey, Liam
- Services: Josh
- Maintenance: Jack
Constitution quiz after board meeting
Member interview for Ryan ODell
- Associate member

November 3rd, 2019

In attendance: Board, Isabel, Jack, Josh, Ian, Maryfrances, Tanamaya, Casey

Participation point check ins with probation people
Some people are still likely not on track to meet quota
- Still about 22 points available remaining in the semester
- 18 when not counting board meetings
- Probably a few more points than that available due to flyering opportunities
Ian will be getting points for the Minecraft server
- 3 points minimum suggested (Dan), approved
Email people who are low on participation points requesting a response and mentioning consequences (anyone below 10-12 maybe)
CIFgiving follow up email is drafted in the CIF gmail
Appointed positions:
- Kitchen goddess: 1
- Lab lord: 0
- Sysadmin: 1 for Jack, .5 for Lloyd
- Flyboy: 1
- Paparazzi: 0
- King of games: 1
Nominations at this floor meeting, elections next floor meeting
Constitution quiz will be held next Sunday after board meeting
CIFgiving food sign-up sheet is drafted and in the CIF drive
- Includes dietary restrictions and if you need to use the kitchen
- If you’re bringing multiple things, please fill out the spreadsheet multiple times
- No updates on reserving other kitchens yet
SIH Weekend tabling Thursday night for dinner at Danforth
- Starting around 4:30, probably don’t need to stay much longer than 5:30
- Might want people to stay to catch people as they leave (Austin), maybe until 6:30
Meet CIF & Game Night Saturday, Nov 9 7:30 pm
- Need flyers and also mini flyers for tabling
- Costco pizza
Collaborative event 3-5 pm on Sunday, Nov 10 in the Welles-Brown Room
Movie Night Saturday, Nov 16
R Tech Seminar Saturday, Nov 16, time undecided
Tech updates:
- Website is back up
- One camera is being weird

October 27th, 2019

In attendance: Board, Isabel, Josh, Jack, Jason

Following up with members on probation still at the time decided previously
Closed board discussion
Member interview for Yudi
- Associate member
- Voted and accepted
Nominations for next board next weekend (Nov 3)
Need to update the constitution quiz for next election
- Could add a ‘match the responsibility to the position’ section
Elections two weeks after nominations (Nov 17)
Juliane is going to bring up reserving kitchens for CIFgiving for us soon
No news from alumni about CIFgiving yet
Want to have CIFgiving food sign-up sheet ready by next weekend
- We will be probably providing plates/cups/utensils
Ian has made a very nice game-tracking Google sheet
CIF website issue is IT’s issue (Jack); we got the wrong certificate
Secret Santa planning soon
- Could ask about it in the next-next floor meeting (Nov 17?)
- Start getting signups around that time
- Event itself could happen Dec 8? (last week of classes)
- Gnome of Unbeknownst Bestowing
- Could do White Elephant instead
Should announce CIFx talks at floor meetings so people remember that it’s occurring (Isabel)
Suggestion: make board agenda publicly viewable
Josh has proposed a new constitution to propose and vote on at the same meeting
- Could have additional floor meeting Nov 24 (right before Thanksgiving break) (Tommy)
- Could have open ballot with the suggestion box and an envelope collecting names to prevent double voting (Jason)
- Could have the suggestion box be carried around by one person to ensure there are no counterfeit votes (Josh)
- Proposal could be at nominations meeting and then voting at the next week’s game night (Sat Nov 9) so it doesn’t overlap with elections; final call for voting at next floor meeting (elections) and final count

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

October 6th, 2019

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

Need to find a time to hold the disciplinary meeting
- Make a list of times that work for board and send to him to choose
- Potentially 4:30 pm on Friday, 5 pm Thursday
- Potentials next week: 5 pm Thursday the 17^th
King of Games: Ian
Lab Lord: Richard
SIH Weekend: Nov 8-10
- Collaborative event Sun, Nov 10, 12-5pm Welles Brown Room (“study break”)
- Borrowing games from URSGA to bring to the event (Tommy)
- Standard game night probably on Saturday, Nov 9 (want to pick a theme)
- Could do a Meet CIF before game night (Tommy); get pizza for game night (Austin)
- Could get Costco pizza (Tommy)
Need time for the next tech seminar on R (or plan the seminar after that for SIH weekend)
- CS career workshop talk? (Austin) – get career center to cosponsor (Lloyd) or WIC (Austin)
- Course selection help right before registration (Jason)
- Want the talk to likely be before advising week, which is going to be too soon (might want to do this in spring semester instead)
Next floor meeting Sunday, Oct 20
Remove voting abilities from people who have missed more than 3 floor meetings?
- Moot point for associates as floor meetings are not required for them (Josh)
Send an email to associates who have not attended anything so far this semester (Tommy)
- Ask if they want to retain membership
- Could word it as “reply if you want to keep membership” or “reply if you want to remove membership” (Tommy)
- People who don’t attend might not check emails anymore (Josh)
- Constitutionally we should do the latter (opt-out) (Austin)
- “Respond back if you want to stay on our mailing list”? (Jason)
- Could do a “respond back to opt in OR opt out” and try to get a response from everyone (Tommy)
- Could have “inactive vs active” members rather than automatically removing people when they don’t attend (Jack)
Proposed amendment to the constitution: 13.1: “An amendment may replace this constitution with a new document” – change to “may not”
- Email-in voting
- Changes to voting percentages
- Link to view: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qs1d_oqPy3_ijR6_ae0VonET4TEc2SqswY_u1MkfNL0/edit#heading=h.hxv5q6f8ckmu

September 29th, 2019

In attendance: Board, Jack, Liam, Isabel, Jason, Ethan

Picking the movie theme beforehand was a good idea, will keep this idea for the future (Dan)
Calendar will be updated with board and floor meetings soon
Casual game night this Saturday, Oct 5^th
CIFx talks Sunday, Oct 6^th
Next game night 19^th or 26^th? Next president’s council meeting this Tues to find out for sure when SIH weekend is, so likely the 26^th
- Want an event that weekend to advertise (Tommy)
- Might end up being Halloween themed
Think about dates for CIFgiving (Tommy)
- Around 4 pm, maybe on Nov 23^rd
- Costco trip to buy big amounts of food for CIFgiving
- Douglass community kitchen won’t work for the event (Tommy)
- Require people to bring food (Isabel)
- Take care of supplies and utensils as board (Dan)
R seminar: need date/time but it should be happening (Tommy)
Ethernet is fixed and Frank has been replaced (Jack)
Austin’s friend can make a website for CIF at a discounted rate ($60-100)
Appointed positions:
- Flyboy: Isabel
- Sysadmin: Jack, Lloyd
- Kitchen Goddess: Casey
- Paparazzi: Sifan
- Still need King of Games, Lab Lord(s), Hall Council Rep
Have not received any further write in votes

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^thwill 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

September 15th, 2019

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

26 people attended the floor bonding event (Lucas)
- Only some leftover food
Should have a Don’t Freeze Together again this semester (Tommy)
Potential Jackson Court bonding event? (Tommy)
- Drama House interested in hosting an event at their house with us
- “Best of CIFx” (Dan)
Casual game night Saturday at 8pm, email out to members and events list (Tommy)
- No posters, theme, weekend highlights; just casual hangout; can bring friends
Unix tech seminar Saturday 3:15-4:15 Douglass 401
- Jack will talk to workshop leaders to advertise
- Contacting CS 161 (Isabel volunteered), 170 (Cole volunteered), 171 (need volunteer, MW 10:25-11:40), 172 (Isabel volunteered), 173 (need volunteer Jason volunteered, MW 2-3:15), DS majors, BIO 208 (need volunteer Jason volunteered, MW 11:50-1:05), DSC 201 (volunteer), CS majors (Austin)
- Need people to attend some of these classes to promote the tech seminar (can get a participation point!)
- Taking volunteers till end of tonight
- Still need someone to advertise to CSC 171, MW 10:25-11:40
- Could also email the math majors (get list from Mark Herman)
- Need volunteers to actually host the seminar (Austin, Josh, Jack, Lloyd)
Potentially make a poster spot in front of Rettner (Dan)
- Tape posters up in Wegmans? (Jason & Josh)
- Tape things up on windows in Rettner (Jack)
- Talk with Lisa about this (Lloyd)
Next official game night Saturday, October 19th 8pm (Tommy)
- Poll for themes at floor meeting
- Oct 5^th is Meliora Weekend, Oct 12^th is fall break
Casual game night Oct 5^th Mel Weekend? (Tommy)
Google calendar with updated CIF events would be good (Jason)
- Allow people to subscribe to it for updates
- Could make an appointed position for keeping the calendar updated (Dan & Jason)
- “Agenda figure” – Jason
- Not necessary to make it an actual appointed position, just have someone do it (Austin)
Movie nights on off weeks from game nights (Tommy)
- Highly requested, but not highly attended
- Uncertain if we will continue these (Tommy)
- But not that difficult to host (Dan)
- Some people complained that the movie nights ended up being a movie they didn’t want to watch (Austin)
- Select a movie choice at the start of movie night (Josh)
- Make a list and get a few movies to choose from, and then pick at movie night (Jason)
- Themed movie nights with a collection of types of movies? (Lloyd)
- Have a poll of potential ones and take the top few and have people choose which specific one from those (Jason)
- Could have first movie night on Sat, Sept 28^th, 7pm
Tech updates:
- Router config is broken and will need to be replaced to fix the ethernet (Josh)
- Found two extra DNS servers (Austin)
- Limit the number of static IPs (Austin)
- Non-CIF room is on non-CIF ethernet now; in the future will need to remember to change it back (Austin) Room 332
- Suggested new appointed position for web development (Austin) (frontend developer)
- Essentially commissioning a nice-looking website (Dan)
- Need more paper ($50-60) and new router ($60) (Josh)
- Had planned purchase for paper from end of last semester that we need to re-make (Tommy)
- Purchase paper first and refund later (Josh)
- Voted on purchases; passed
Missing 8 dues, 9 codenames
Ian would like to pay dues with cookies worth $1.49 as well as the rest in cash; approved
Budget; voted and approved
Let people know they can have a one shot at casual game night (Isabel)
Casual Magic tournament at game night (Isabel); gauge interest at floor meeting
Next tech seminar topic & date:
- R or Git (Austin)
- Need volunteers for R (potentially Tommy, Ethan, Mike)
- Git would need more time to prepare (Austin)
- Want a smaller audience for git seminar so instructors can be one-on-one (Austin)
- R seminar preferred, because earlier in semester there are R-related classes that need it

September 8th, 2019

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

Game night yesterday went very well, decent amount of people for Meet CIF (Tommy)
- Snack setup went well
Floor bonding moved to Friday, Sept 13^th at the firepit, 7-9 pm (Tommy)
- Get food (S’Mores, maybe other snacks and drinks)
Casual game night on the 21^st, 8 pm, not flyering
- Can still get points for attending and bringing food
- Advertising to mailing list as well as general members
Still waiting on vems confirmation for Saturday the 14^th for tech seminar (Tommy)
- Can go into weekend highlights
- Unix and command line
- Contact CSC 161, 171, 172 professors (Lloyd & Austin)
- Can talk to the other 172 workshop leaders (Jack)
- Austin should contact professors about advertising tech seminar (Tommy)
- Hoping to finalize reservation by tomorrow (Tommy)
Network stuff is falling a bit behind (Austin)
Sending email reminder soon for dues and minutes (Lucas)
- Also mention appointed positions (Austin)
Budget to be voted on next week (Tommy)
- Furniture expenses will go in the miscellaneous category and have a larger amount allocated, as kitchen supplies are already a separate category (Lucas)
Tommy met with Julianne earlier in the week and we are ok
- Soon, Dan will be meeting with Julianne and Tommy will be meeting with Brian instead
- Tommy goes to RHA meetings
CCC is still being weird (Tommy)
Tanamaya is excused of $20 worth of dues for a game donation this semester (Lucas)

September 1st, 2019

In attendance: Board, Lloyd, Isabel, Liam

Participation points
- Suggested to drop to 20 quota (Tommy)
- Suggested to drop to 22 (Josh)
- Waiver at 20 (Austin)
- Three people from last semester below 22 (and also the same 3 are below 20)
- There was complaining when we raised the quota to 25 (Tommy)
- Two board game nights a month to make it easier to meet quota? (Austin)
- Concerns over it being then “too easy” to get points for food, setup, and attendance for each game night (Josh)
- Only a few people normally helped set up and they would have done so regardless in the past (Josh)
- 22 is good because it’s easy to drop down to 20 later (Josh)
- CIFx talks will continue and maybe projects? (Josh)
- Expand CIFx talks because Drama House wanted to host events for us (Austin)
- Will need more people to be doing CIFx talks before we aim to do that (Josh)
- Could cosponsor with the TEDx group as a future goal (Austin)
- Keep track of which CIFx talks go well and recap the best ones (Josh)
- Voted on 22 points being the quota; passes
- Re: Double game nights; one “official” game night, one “casual” game night, with one open to the public and one for members only? (Austin, Josh, Isabel)
- “Casual” one will have no advertising and decoration, but can bring friends
- Concern about fall off in attendance, but overall attendance might go up (Josh)
Dues
- $25 is what it has been for many years; voted and passed
Budget
- Anticipated tech expenses: keep budget about the same as last year
- Could always dip into extra unallocated funds (Josh)
- Need more paper (Josh)
- Put in allowance in the budget for paper purchase if needed before we hear back from RHA (Tommy)
- Note for the spring to allocate more money for Formal Game Night food in case we run out quickly (Tommy)
- Furniture in budget (Josh), tables and chairs for the lab
- Furniture could go in the Miscellaneous section and make that a larger allocation
- Want new whiteboards and markers
- Maybe $150 for tables, chairs, whiteboard? (Austin)
- Planned to have whiteboard be the largest expenditure; furniture should be used
- Want to keep kitchen supplies in the budget (Tommy)
- More budget for game collection if there’s going to be more game nights (Tommy)
- Could “feature” a game at game night with some less-played games (Austin), could award bonus points to people who opt to lead these games (Lloyd)
Floor bonding event with Zane, firepit event?
- Could be Friday night before game night (was tentatively decided for Friday the 6^th, 6-9)
- Food for the event: S’Mores, hot chocolate, drinks, people can bring snacks
Meet CIF & game night Sat; Meet CIF at 7:30, game night at 8
- Want people to give room tours
- Print more flyers
- Could experiment with going no-flyers for some events? (Josh) – too much of a loss during fall semester when first years want to learn about organizations
- Flyering the wall right in Sue B stairs area is a good place
Cosponsor request from juggling (Wed the 11^th, Juggle for Good, teams compete in games not necessarily involving juggling, and winnings go towards a charity of your choice)
- Requires 5 members to attend with registration at $4 per person
- Bring this up at floor meeting to see interest
- If a CIF member is already a juggling club member, they wouldn’t count towards the 5 requirement for CIF cosponsorship
Date for next game night
- At floor meeting, ask people to start thinking of ideas for events
- Get pizza for this week’s game night & meet CIF, Salvatore’s
- Next game night on the 21^st
- Could get Costco pizza in the future (Tommy)
First tech seminar
- Intro to Bash, intro to command line (Austin), slides are already ready from last time
- Weekend of the 14^th? Lloyd and Jack can maybe help
- Expected attendance probably under 15 people
- Midday, 2-3? Half hour buffer for reservation on either side, Sat 14^th, Douglass 401
- Posters asap, could just reuse last one
- Get it on weekend highlights
Don’t Freeze 2 this year
- Cosponsor with other groups, AIF, Lilac Living, maybe MIF
Build a computer tech seminar
- Did a proof of concept last year with floor members only
- Need more screwdrivers, but went well overall
- Could be a good idea as a study break (Austin), gives us time to prepare and get materials and reserve a large room
Appointed positions went well for last semester
- Give them a “score” of points for the job they’re doing, and have them come in only if needed (Tommy)
- Paparazzi, kitchen goddess, lab lords, pantheon of cleanliness as kitchen goddess’ underlings
- Get rid of sysadmin? (Austin), Josh has a plan for what to do with them
- Pantheon of cleanliness could have the same “grade” of points? (Tommy)
- Could just have a bunch of kitchen goddesses, so they all have the same job (Austin)
- Librarian for games so people can borrow them? Added into the responsibilities of king of games, and bring that position back to put games away (Isabel)
- Request nominations at next floor meeting, not today’s one
Participation point code names due next floor meeting, the 15th

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