Board Meeting Minutes
December 5th, 2021
12/05/2021
Board Meeting Attendance: Ryan ODell, Craig McIlwrath, Lloyd Page, Casey A’Hearn, Keegan Matthews, Josh Coppola, Ronin Ross, Elana Elman
- Recap
- Don’t Freeze Together 12/03
- Turn out was surprisingly good, we had a fairly large number of people present, including members of AIF and MIF
- This will be something to repeat again next year
- Tech Seminar 12/04
- Really good attendance (we had 15 people turn up!)
- Made contact with CHS (CIF for RIT)
- They have indicated interest with collaborating with us for future events, so we will be reaching out with them next semester for that
- Otherwise, nothing to really note save that we need to make it clear that people need to bring questions for us to answer in the future; this should really be a Q&A more than anything else
- It was a lot of helping people with projects
- Game Night 12/04
- We now know to expect a low turnout for game nights on the week before finals week; attendance was very low compared to the rest of the semester
- Accordingly, it may make sense to run very low commitment events around finals if we do decide to do so, if the goal is to provide additional point opportunities
- Semesterly Recap
- Tech Seminars
- First half of the semester started rough attendance wise
- We need to revisit advertising methods and what we’re covering
- With that regard, we should be tying our tech seminars with in-class announcements which are relevant
- Second half of the semester generally went better attendance wise
- Game Nights
- Generally speaking, we had attendance increasing over each game night, with the exception of the December 4th game night (which was previously covered)
- There wasn’t really a whole lot we could do to increase attendance, it would appear that our hands are generally tied by the university’s guidelines and institutional memory (like we’ll get more numbers over time due to us simply continuing to build up a core group of people attending again)
- CIFX Talks
- We need to revisit this, as people are mostly doing them just for points and not really showing up
- It may make sense to do this instead a once-a-month basis, or to have them on same day as floor meetings; just something for the next board to consider
- Tech Updates
- Craig will try to work on the backup server after Wednesday
- Participation Points
- If you’re at 18pts or above, we have created a waive line
- Housing
- Ryan will be posting to everyone to see who (if anyone) will not be living floor next semester
- If so, then he will be filling out a form for Reslife
November 21st, 2021
11/21/2021
Board Meeting Attendance: Ryan ODell, Craig McIlwrath, Lloyd Page, Casey A’Hearn, Keegan Matthews, Josh Coppola
- CIFsgiving
- There was an issue where people were made unaware of when and where we were doing the CIFsgiving. Accordingly, this must be adjusted in the future with additional notifications with both the time and location accordingly. This was also an issue in tandem with alums, so going to a system in which we sent out an email in the beginning of the semester and in addition, another one which will be sent out in like a month or so in advance (so as to ensure that they have sufficient time to prepare accordingly.)
- As people graduate, the collection of effective emails will be an asset moving forwards (try not to get a UR email, as some people have theirs disabled.)
- The cooking went relatively smoothly, like it was done in an orderly manner and the majority was done in a reasonable manner.
- All and all, it went well.
- Don’t Freeze Together
- Casey will be reaching out to Danica and Julianne to reserve the fire pit for “Don’t Freeze Together.”
- AIF will be cosponsoring with us, as well as MIF and Greenspace. We’ll be taking point with regards to reservations and the like.
- Game Night
- URSGA has agreed to advertise for our December 5th Game Night, though they will be unable to send members due to them having a mandatory event on at the same time.
- Tech Seminar
- We will need to reach out to Professor Pawlicki and Professor Purtee for advertising about this review session.
- Elections
- No new nominations have come in thus far.
- They are in two weeks.
- Tech Updates
- Josh made the wiki for the server
- Lloyd made progress on getting a new card reader for the Lab
- Responsibilities
- Ryan – Reservations for the Game Night, Tech Seminar, and CCC
- Craig – Prepare for the Tech Seminar, and migrating the servers
- Josh – Help with tech if possible
- Casey – Update the posters for the Game Night, poking the SIH chat to coordinate with the other boards for “Don’t Freeze Together”
- Keegan – Stop by the Sue B Area office with receipts for reimbursements for the semester’s expenditures
- Lloyd – Sending emails to Pawlicki
November 14th, 2021
11/14/2021
Board Meeting Attendance: Craig McIlwrath, Lloyd Page, Keegan Matthews, Josh Coppola, Ryan ODell, Casey A’Hearn
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- Past Events
- Night to Code on Wednesday
- Not much happened there
- Attendance was pretty low, which was unsurprising given the lack of lab and the general nature of them
- Game Night
- Attendance was good
- Game night ran until midnight
- URSGA Game Night
- Their president will be bringing it up at their board meeting
- Ryan will inform us of any updates
- Flyers for the Tech Seminar and the Game Night
- Upcoming Tech Seminar
- This will be a review of CS171 and CS172 in preparation for finals week
- We will be reaching out to others to see who else will be able to assist there
- Don’t Freeze Together
- Ryan and Casey will be reaching out to the SIHs to join us for this
- Reading Week
- We will not be hosting any events over reading week, though should anyone want to do an event on floor, board will be assisting with the planning for that
- CIFsgiving Sign-Up Sheets
- Josh created a sign-up sheet for those who will be cooking for the CIFsgiving event
- We will be bringing up at the floor meeting about a sign-up sheet to determine when people are cooking and plan accordingly
- We will be bringing up at the floor meeting the need for the suites to be cleaned up in preparation for CIFsgiving
- Turkey
- Craig will be cooking the turkey for CIFsgiving
- Vehicles
- We will be bringing up at the floor meeting organizing who will be able to drive people to Wegmans to pick up supplies for the dinner
- Election Nominations
- We will be bringing up nominations for the upcoming board elections at the floor meeting
- The nomination period will be three weeks
- Participation Points
- CIFX
- We will be doing a call out for possible CIFX talks
November 7th, 2021
11/07/2021
Board Meeting Attendance: Craig McIlwrath, Lloyd Page, Keegan Matthews, Josh Coppola, Ryan ODell, Casey A’Hearn
- Recap of Events
- Minecraft Night had very good attendance
- At its peak for the 5th, we had about 10 people on at a given time
- This included members from AIF and alumni
- Not much to change
- Tech Seminar
- Significantly improved attendance, with 5 people there as opposed to the past two where attendance was nonexistent
- Attendance was brought via verbal communication
- It was mostly interaction, less focus on the slides; this improved the flow of the event, all around well received
- Craig says it was the best tech seminar he’s given
- Keegan has reached out to all individuals who we were concerned about for participation points
- Tech Updates
- Back up server coming soon to a theater near you
- Email from Leadership Programs
- A representative from the Presidents’ Council will be sitting in on the board meeting for the 14th
- Night to Code
- That will be this Wednesday, November 10th
- Esports Smash Night
- No planning for us required
- On Friday, November 12th
- Game Night November 13th
- Posters will be printed tonight
- Keegan will be poking the poster boys to get those out ASAP
- They will be needed to go out 5 for Douglas/Wilco, 2 for mail center, 4 for Jackson court, 5 for tunnels, 4 for engineering quad
- Ryan talked to the President of URSGA
- Provided we give them two weeks’ notice, they are interested in a co-sponsorship
- We will likely be doing it on December 4th ideally
- Ryan will bring this up to their president, and will contact us when he receives word back
- CIFsgiving
- We have two weeks before that happens
- CIFsgiving will operate as a potluck
- Typically, we have an alum cooking the turkey, and from there some percentage of the membership provides food
- Everyone must bring some sort of dish
- We highly encourage people to cook it themselves
- Stuff that can be made before it should be made before
- 1pt for store bought food, 2pts for cooking food
- Vote for an opt-in to sharing the food; the points will be unaffected by if you opt in or not (if you bring for yourself, you’re only allowed to eat your own food, but if you bring for everyone then you can eat from the potluck)
- Unanimous vote
- Further unanimous vote for it to be called “The Lloyd System”
- We’ll be reaching out to AIF to allow us to use their kitchen here
- Turkey
- We will be reaching out to alumni about a turkey or to members about that
- Alumni Attendance
- If an alum is coming and they don’t have a room to sleep in, then they should reach out to the suite that they live in before arriving
- Vote on alumni being allowed to come
- Weather permitting, we will try to be doing it outside; if not, then we will adjust accordingly
- Elections!
- We will be sending out vote nominations next week at the floor meeting
- There will be a three-week period nomination period then afterwards
- Elections will be occurring on the 5th of December
- Things to Do
- Keegan- Organize the poster boys and talk to Julianne about housing stuff
- Ryan- Registering the tech seminar and talking to the President of URSGA about a co-sponsorship for a game night on the 4th
- Lloyd- Poking alumni about CIFsgiving
- Craig- Work on the backup server
- Casey- Working on the posters and getting ready for the elections
- Josh- Helping Craig with the backup server and printing flyers
October 31st, 2021
10/31/2021
Floor Meeting Attendance: Craig McIlwrath, Lloyd Page, Keegan Matthews, Josh Coppola, Ryan ODell
- Night to Code had low numbers of attendance
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- We may need to ask people if they actually have any interest in future “Nights to Code”
- Not running it out of the lab also may be hindering things a bit, though that can’t exactly be helped at all
- Halloween Game Night
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- Game Night went reasonably well
- Highest attendance of the year
- Fliers went out in a timely manner
- Information went out in the weekend highlights
- It appears that attendance will likely rebound with time, as we are doing everything we can on this front
- Though numbers are still down from pre-pandemic days, things are still better than expected on the attendance front
- We should try to reach out to AIF and URSGA for future collaborations
- Ryan will reach out to URSGA about what they would be interested in
- Candy went fine, though that’s probably going to be the extent of food that will be present at events for the foreseeable future
- Potential AIF Co-Sponsorship
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- That will not be happening, as there’s a conflict of scheduling between our two organizations
- We will attempt to see of they would be willing to have one on a differing time than our usual Minecraft Nights
- Tech Seminar
- Keegan will print out the fliers for it
- Lloyd and Craig will be making a presentation for it
- Professor Loprocaro will be getting back to Josh tomorrow about whether or not they’d be fine with advertising for this one
- We should also lean on our members more about this one
- Participation Points
- The mean is coming in at around 13pts
- The median is coming in at around 13pts
- For those who are presently below 10 points, an email will be sent out
- For everyone else, a brief reminder will be brought up at the floor meeting (except for Craig who is evidently an overachiever)
- Tech Updates
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- We have a color printer now!
- Ryan has greeted the printer
- The busted printer will be moved to Anderson 310
October 24th, 2021
10/24/2021
Board Meeting Attendance: Ryan ODell, Craig McIlwrath, Lloyd Page, Casey A’Hearn, Keegan Matthews, Josh Coppola
- Meeting with Julianne
- Casey said it was a nice meeting because Julianne is a legend!
- Julianne will poke WCSA to figure out why they have issues with us and to prod facilities speed up the work on the lab
- We think that WCSA would help SIHs with advertising, get us listed as a club for CCC, and allow us to be at the activities fair
- Minecraft Night
- We had decent attendance, though it limited to one suite
- Casey recommends that we get an announcement out sooner than on the Discord to give people time accordingly to get here and participate
- There will be one more on the 5th, and Ayiana from AIF requested to cosponsor it with us
- Board voted unanimously, now we are pending their approval
- Ryan will get us the answer as soon as he has it available
- The server went off without an issue, no lag to report
- We’ll ask AIF about flyers for the Minecraft Night
- Tech Seminar
- It went rather poorly, as there was no attendance
- There appears to have been a light Dandyhacks, which may have contributed to the lack of attendance with the tech seminar
- Moving forwards, we will need to advertise directly to professors, starting with the Tech Seminar on the 6th of November
- This one will be dealing with internet privacy
- A presentation will be readied within the next two weeks
- Josh and Ryan will be taking lead on asking the professors, we will also poke the Discord about this
- We will need flyers for the tech seminar; Casey will take point here
- Halloween Game Night
- We will have to get some decorations from the lab before Tuesday afternoon so that Casey has an idea for what to get from Party City
- Casey will not be going insane with buying the decorations this time, though they intend on getting some cool decorations
- We will have to account for food in our risk management plan for the Halloween Game Night, with the food being served being in all likelihood being candy or other wrapped foods
- Vote on $25 for Candy: Unanimous in favor
- Night to Code
- That will need to be announced for the Night to Code on Thursday
- Lab Update
- It is unclear if there is still a leak in the lab
- Josh found a printer and making the purchase shortly
October 17th, 2021
10/17/2021
Board Meeting Attendance: Ryan O’Dell, Craig McIlwrath, Lloyd Page, Casey A’Hearn, Keegan Matthews, Josh Coppola
- Game Jam
- We got roughly 8 people
- It was better than expected, all CIF members
- No one had a finished game, though fully within expectation
- All and all, it went well
- There was interest in this becoming a semesterly event
- Advertising must be better in the future
- Advertisement
- We have a poster design ready for the Halloween Game night on the 30th of October
- Keegan will take care of the printing after the meeting
- Keegan will become the go-between for handing the posters to the poster boys
- Someone will need to email Dandyhacks to see if they’ll allow us to join on (as admittedly we were late with responding to them)
- This will be done tonight
- If we’re doing it in junction with Dandyhacks, we won’t have to worry about advertising; if we are unable to do so, then we will have to kick the tech seminar back a week
- Pushing it back a week will require flyers
- CCC
- Ryan has put in an event request for CCC to approve our Halloween Game Night, which is awaiting approval
- Starting this week, everything will be scheduled on CCC as well, save for CIFsgiving and CIFX Talks
- Co-sponsorships
- Vocal Point and OBOC have both offered a co-sponsorship for their respective events
- We have an event going on for the Vocal Point event, so that will be impossible for us there
- We will be bringing the OBOC event up to the floor at the floor meeting
- Keegan will be the point of contact here, as he was the one that the emails initially were sent to
- Night to Code
- We will not be externally advertising this event, given that we will not be having access to the lab
- Accordingly, there will be no advertising for this event
- Meetings
- Josh and Casey will be discussing how things are going with Julianne, including events and the elevator
- Purchases
- Needs
- Soap- vote on buying soap
- Unanimous in favor
- Dan would like to inform us that soap has been taken care of now, Board owes Dan $5
- Paper Towels- who ever is able to a store with paper towels will take care of that (Josh may be going to the store, though if he’s unable to by Tuesday, Keegan will run to Hillside to get paper towels)
- Printer- per Joe Pascarelli, we can’t get in on the University’s toner discount, but per Tony, they will see if they have a retired color printer floating around (odds are slim that one would work with Windows 10). If Tony finds something, we intend on paying for a color printer and also take the one that Tony offers; two printers are better than none (we’ve already voted on this in a prior week)
September 26th, 2021
Board Meeting Attendance: Ryan O’Dell, Craig McIlwrath, Lloyd Page, Casey A’Hearn, Joshua Coppola, Keegan Matthews, Emersyn Harris
- Tech Seminar
- Will be rescheduled at a future date
- Planned Date: October 9th
- Time: 2-4pm
- We’ll need to start postering ASAP
- Sophie will be willing to design posters for the tech seminar, so we’ll reach out to her
- This poster will need to be done October 1st if possible
- Theme: GIT
- Will have a room for it when possible
- Game Jam
- October 8th-9th, 24hr session with a tech seminar in between
- Will need posters
- Meliora Weekend
- Josh and Casey will not be there for Meliora Weekend
- Lloyd will take point on the 2nd
- Keegan will be on point for the firepit as he has the training for it
- Tech Update
- Color Printers
- There was no luck on YouTube for videos on how to fix the printer; it appears to be something of a lost cause
- We’ll have to do some research for a more professional grade printer
- Preliminary Budget for the printer: $300
- We’ll vote on this when we find something
- Craig and Lloyd will check the lab
- Floor Meeting
- There’s a floor meeting on the 3rd, so Lloyd will take charge of the meeting
September 19th, 2021
Board Meeting Attendance: Ryan ODell, Craig McIlwrath, Lloyd Page, Casey A’Hearn, Keegan Matthews. Dan Cohen, Sarah O’Connor, Liam Hainsworth, Emersyn Harris, Ronin Ross, Joshua Coppola
- Â Budget
- 09/18 Game Night
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- Was successful for the post-pandemic conditions, not to pre-pandemic levels
- Will need to make flyers more accessible/lean on the fly boys to get this taken care of
- They need to go up faster in any case
- Flyers for the four of the Quad and the Tunnels did not go up at all, will need to be done
- Tech Seminar
- Flyers will have to go up immediately
- Michael, the SIH advisor, can offer assistance in putting the flyers up
- Casey will be contacting him immediately
- The old tech seminar flyer template will work here
- Meliora Weekend Game Night
- Casey won’t be there, but will attempt to cover the design for flyers for the game night
- Weekend Highlights
- Ryan will resume the practice of sending out weekend highlights
- Minecraft night, tech seminar, literally anything short of the board and floor meetings will be on there
- We will also be including the CIFX Talks in the weekend highlights
- Minecraft Night
- Craig will update the server
- Collaboration
- The Videogame Development club is in the process of changing their eboard, so it’s unknown when they will be able to offer collaboration
- We have contacts with URSGA for collaboration (Ryan, Sarah, and Liam are all possible leads)
- Co-sponsorship for the game night on Halloween is a possibility, will need to reach out
- Late Nights still in existence, could be another option for collaboration, Ryan will reach out
- Fire Training
- There’s a fire training session on Friday at 3pm
- Keegan Matthews has agreed to see it done
- The smores event can be scheduled
- Will circle back to it at the floor meeting if anyone else wants to do it
- October 1st at 8pm is the expected date and time for the event
- Tech Updates
- The color printer is still being problematic
- Lloyd and Josh attempted to take it apart, were unsuccessful thus far
- They will look into YouTube videos to see if there’s anything else to be done to salvage it
- If they are unsuccessful there, it will likely then be beyond salvaging
- Facilities moved ahead on fixing the leak
- It’s unclear about when they’ll move on fixing the outlet
- In the near future (tomorrow,) we will be losing access to the lab. We must move immediately to clear out that which we need from the lab, post-floor meeting.
- Constitution Protocols
- We need to have 75% of all membership to pass the constitution
- That’s roughly 21 people total
- We will have to make ballots
- If this fails, we will have to re-propose it as an amendment or alternatively we could leave it up to the present membership
- This will be 66% membership as required, with a simple majority required
- Start by going over everything, then procedural vote on how we’re voting on this, then finally vote on the constitution itself
- Failure to reach quorum will likely mean that we revisit it in the Spring Semester
- Appointed Positions Meeting
- Flyer Boy- Ronin Ross
- Objectives: Facilitate that all flyers get put up, either with Sophie (the other fly boy) or by other members of CIF
- Social Tsar- Emersyn Harris
- Objectives: Manage the Facebook page, create an Instagram page for CIF, connecting with other groups on campus, taking photos
September 5th, 2021
Interview Attendance: Farouq Alsalih, Craig McIlwrath, Ryan O’Dell, Casey A’Hearn, Keegan Matthews, Lloyd Page, Josh Coppola
- Interview Minutes
- Name: Farouq Alsalih
- How They Heard of Us: From a flyer for the activities fair
- Interest Level of Membership: Associate Membership
- Vote: Unanimous in Favor
Probation Meeting Attendance: Ronin Ross, Craig McIlwrath, Ryan O’Dell, Casey A’Hearn, Keegan Matthews, Lloyd Page, Josh Coppola
- Case
- Reason: Lack of participation points from last semester
- Defendant: Casey A’Hearn
- Defendant dabs on the charges
- Outcome: No probation because of shown improvement in points
- Unanimous vote in favor of the outcome
- Defendant dabs on the outcome
Board Meeting Attendance: Ronin Ross, Craig McIlwrath, Ryan O’Dell, Casey A’Hearn, Keegan Matthews, Lloyd Page, Josh Coppola
Board Meeting
- Tech Updates
- All printers save for the color printer
- Color printer needs toner
- $30 to be spent on toner
- Discord
- Random Discord bot which should not have been there will be removed
- Vote for removing the bot
- Vote for CIF to be added to the UR Student Hub
- PKT Smash Bros Tournament
- Date: Tuesday 7th, from 6pm-8pm
- Location: Bridge Lounge
- Will be advertised to our members
- Application
- Updates to the application have been completed
September 4th, 2021
Board Meeting Attendance: Keegan Matthews, Josh Coppola, Casey A’Hearn, Emersyn Harris, Craig McIlrwrath, Ryan O’Dell, Lloyd Page, Elana Elman
- Co-sponsorships
- Esports- Emersyn is in touch with the esports board to possibly do a collaboration with the Super Smash Bros people
- Other SIHs- We will continue to attempt to collaborate with other SIHs, though they appear to be something of a wild card with getting them over to Jackson Court
- We actually have contact with Lillac this time around, they could be an option for collaboration pending on the strength of their membership and how active they are
- Esports and SIHs
- Emersyn proposed that we do a combined SIH and Esports Super Smash Bros tournament in November, will discuss in the future
- It has been approved, will preferably be done on a Friday, Esports will take lead on this one
- Wicmic- Unsure about the degree to which we have contacts there, if we don’t then we will have to reconnect with them for the CIFX talks and other events
- Google Student Developers- We will be looking to possibly working with them, though nothing is certain yet
- Video Game Developer Club- Still fairly uncertain about their numbers, they will be a group to keep an eye on for co-sponsorships
- Game Jam could be an event that they could be perfect for co-sponsorship
- Undergraduate History Council- UHC has agreed to co-sponsor a CIFX talk, possibly future cooperation in the future
- Other SIHs- We will continue to attempt to collaborate with other SIHs, though they appear to be something of a wild card with getting them over to Jackson Court
- We actually have contact with Lillac this time around, they could be an option for collaboration
- Makerspace and 3-D Printing
- Reach out to Rettner for a possible 3-D printing event
- We will need to make contact with Makerspace about collaboration
- Also will need to gauge the interest in this prospect at the floor meeting tomorrow
- Other Undergraduate Councils/Groups
- Ryan proposed that we propose on the floor meeting tomorrow that we reach out to members if they have contacts in other groups
- Movie Nights
- This will be dependent on when we can have access to the lab, and if we can’t have access to the lab in the foreseeable future, we will be unable to
- Scheduling/ Events we want to do
- CIFX Talks- Josh proposed that we potentially have CIFX talks after the floor meetings, pending on how many people sign on for the CIFX talks
- A lack of people doing them could mean that we don’t do CIFX talks after every single meeting
- Staying on days that we have board meetings on weeks we don’t have floor meetings, 9pm-10pm
- Specialty CIFX will be TBD
- Tech Seminars
- Tech Seminars will be once a month at the discretion of the tech directors
- They will be the off weeks from the game nights
- Perspective Dates
- September 25th
- October 23rd
- November 6th
- December 4th
- Example of topics include internet security/privacy
- CIFsgiving
- Date will be the 20th of November in the early roughly 3pm
- Night to Code
- Would like to bring them back, will be members only until the lab is open
- Thursdays before game nights at 8pm until people no longer have the desire to work on their projects
- Minecraft Night (possibly being revived)
- Need to have the Minecraft server updated, Craig is on it
- Will be on Friday nights on the weeks of the Tech Seminars at 8pm
- Don’t need to advertise it, it’ll be a chill event
- Won’t be one in December
- Don’t Freeze Together
- Date will be the 3rd of December at 8pm until late
- We will need to ask at the floor meeting for people willing to be fire trained
- Game Nights
- Game nights generally will be on a Saturday at 8pm
- 1st Game Night will be the 18th of September
- October 2nd will be another game night
- October 30th will be our Halloween game night
- November 13th be another game night
- Themed game nights will be making a reappearance after
- Casual event will be during reading week, members only and members driven; it will be like a study break, very informal
- This will be revisited at a later meeting
- Game Jam
- 24hrs starting at 2pm on Friday until 2pm the next day
- October 8th-9th
- Talk to members for tomorrow’s meeting
- Meliora Weekend
- Friday night smores
- Game night Saturday night
- Alumni Outreach- we will need to get a Facebook group, with a QR code for people to join
- This will correspond with the meeting tomorrow with the appointed positions
- Mostly we’ll be relying on alumni to reach out to alumni, though Discord and the Facebook page will be handy for our direct outreach
- CCC Page
- All members have been theoretically accounted for (still some issues with Josh’s CCC and Lloyd’s CCC)
- We are reregistered
- Member list will have to be updated
- Advertising events- we should put them on CCC, as well as Discord and proper flyers like in the past (black and white as well as color flyers)
- We will have to purchase toners in the near future
- Talk to Tony about getting a colored printer next Friday
- Appointed Positions
- Points per month
- 1pt for good job
- 0.5pts for an average job
- 0 for a bad job
- We will discuss more about this tomorrow
- Application
- Return of “How did you hear about us” question seems very likely, so as to figure out what advertisement works vs what is less effective
- Will tweak it more as needed
- Interview and Probation Meeting
- Interview: Tomorrow at 7:30pm there will be an interview
- Probation Meeting: Tomorrow at 8pm
- Program with Makerspace and
- Announcement
- Approved announcement from Ayiana for studio X announcement
- Name Tags
- Will put out a poll to figure out a theme for nametags, to be discussed tomorrow at the floor meeting
- Emersyn’s mom is willing to make the nametags for us
- Goals for the Semester
- The first goal will be to get events happening again to a similar cadence to pre-pandemic levels
- Second goal will be restoring attendance to somewhat similar pre-pandemic levels
- The lab will hopefully be utilized more frequently when possible as well as the VR stuff being further incorporated
- We would like to reevaluate recruiting practices and application interview processes, updating the numbers of members along associate, full, etc. status
- Tech Directors- restore the card reader, migrate the servers away Cent-OS8
- Maintaining our responsibilities to the E4E
August 29th, 2021
Board Meeting
Casey A’Hearn, Emersyn Harris, Craig McIlwrath, Keegan Matthews, Joshua Coppola, Lloyd Page, Ryan O’Dell, Bailey Rike, Ronin Ross
- Tech directors need delegated emails, will have to make a meeting with Tony
- CIF Email may need an updated password, as it has been 2½ boards since last change, Lloyd will take point
- Past board members must set up a meeting with new board members
- SIH
- Four Main Categories + Leadership Training
- Programming: needs 2 programs for the fall, 2 for the spring
- Membership involvement: don’t worry about it
- Membership retention and recruitment: should be easier since the pandemic has lifted
- Community service: printers, the CIF lab and tech seminars
- Leadership:
- President must be at 75% of meetings
- meet with advisor,
- connecting with and working with the leadership ambassadors (a new group that could give us money) every month with strings attached
- at least 3 board members must attend leadership training, leadership transition process in the spring
- 25% of our group encouraged to participate in the Medallion program by April 1st, CAN GET A STAR
- We are getting $100 a semester, works like club budgets but for Reslife (looking to increase or decrease as needed)
- Chairs needs contact the advisor to meet with Reslife contact to discuss…something, unknown objectives of the meeting (preferable that both chairs go)
- E3 went well, can be used as a model for the future E3 events
- Higher ups want increased collaboration between CIF and other groups on campus
- Specific talks with the UHC and Esports club for CIFX talks and possibly a late semester trip
- Collaboration between Eboard positions to do the spreadsheets and the possibility of consequences for missing dues and the participation points
- Define our goals at the event planning meeting and movie nights
- Recruitment
- Update advertising materials
- Rolling admissions in a less conspicuous location on our website, stickied application link in the Discord for accessibility, link for lab access form pinned as well
- Increase foot traffic on our floor
- Incentives: same as last year
- Programming
- Use tools as necessary (IE Google Calendar), open board meetings should be advertised and encourage non-board members to participate
- Possibly move the suggestion box to the general on the Discord, bring back the physical suggestion box on the floor (anonymity optional)
- Contacts
- Keep the Gmail and the Discord updated as far as memberships status goes
- Specify what the membership change occurs in the Gmail, nobody should be decreasing membership in the Discord
- Encourage emails over Discord for membership stuff
- Change “mailing list” title to “friends”
- Update the Website Board
- Needs to Happen
- Lloyd will mentor Craig on this
- Participation Points and Dues
- Dues will remain at $25 for the semester
- Unknown about the Reslife matter as far as an additional revenue
- Participation Points Requirement: 20pts
- Non-voted Positions
- Appointed positions will be discussed at the next floor meeting
- Keeping all positions save for Hall Council Rep and Paparazzi (paparazzi will be rolled into the Social Czar position)
- Punishments for the Past Quota Violations
- Probation meetings handled on a case-by-case basis
- There will be a probation meeting for one on-floor member to be handled over next week’s meeting
- 5 events as of August 29th
- Interviews
- Starting Sunday, we will be open to scheduling interviews in done with the default being in person, though we will have the option of online interviews if needed.
- At the moment, we have one official applicant, with two possible additional ones to be scheduled at a later date.
- Last Night’s Game Night
- Better than Covid-era game nights, not as good as pre-pandemic conditions
- There was limited advertisement and extremely short notice, so all things considered, this was successful
- Themed game nights are back in discussion, will be tabled until further notice
- Event meeting will be done on Saturday, September 4th at 1pm until dinnertime or until we finish; this will be open to everyone
- Constitution
- We are discussing updating the Constitution! Contact board if you are interested in reading it!
- New Channels
August 23rd, 2021
Attendance: Isabel Anderson, Cole Balacek, Dan Cohen, Josh Coppola, Emersyn Harris, Jason Katzner, Tianyi Ma, Keegan Matthews, Sarah O’Connor, Ryan ODell, Lloyd Page, Div Patel, Sophie Stahl
- Just because Isabel is gone does not mean we need to replace her re: points obsession
- This is important information
- Things to discuss: The Lab SituationTM, elections, Isabel’s half-baked mel weekend, constitution, leadership training, activities fair
- SIH tabling opportunity
- We are not allowed to table at the activities fair–heck you WCSA!
- One of the actual adults has suggested tabling in ResLife areas at the same time–this is a bad idea since it won’t get as many people–we could table before the fair instead
- Alternatively, we can show up with a table and kind of go rogue since it’s outdoors and we have the space
- Probably won’t chat with advisor about this, but will talk to other SIH groups
- Conclusion: we need to table before (1-3 or 2-4) and/or nearby (whether in WilCo or outside)
- Emersyn will suggest both to advisor
- Lab update
- The card reader is offline thanks to a leak that shorted the card reader out
- I cannot emphasize enough that this is not our fault
- Rugs were damaged
- Facilities is working on this but to fix it there will be asbestos access issues in the meantime since it is a multi-floor issue
- AC is working again
- Servers are still running
- As a result, we will be doing the following:
- Removing printers so they are still accessible
- Moving furniture and games into suites ASAP
- Moving a few servers out so we can prepare them for after
- This sucks, but it is out of our hands and facilities is at least making progress
- We will hopefully get some notice about when we will lose access
- Moving furniture out of the lab will be tomorrow at 7:00 PM
- SSL certificates are expiring September 19th, Tony has offered to work with us to renew certificates
- We will designate a point person after the election
- Tony is also offering us some monitors, but we do not need them
- Nauticock update:
- Ryan transitioned half the Nauticock functionality to Discord’s new features
- The other half is pronoun roles: we will get a premade bot for that, and copy-paste the nauticock code into a new bot and not lose the API key this time
- Elana will pick a pronoun bot and set it up
- Elections
- We will have lots of board positions up for election (everyone but Ryan)
- Josh’s idea: nominations starting tonight (via online form), elections Sunday
- Emergency floor meeting Wednesday at 9 PM to collect nominations
- We will need to get the RA involved for the impartial ResLife representative
- For contested positions, we will do ranked-choice voting 🙂
- Elections: Sunday at 9 PM, board meeting right after at 10
- Leadership training for SIH
- This Saturday, 1-4 (gross)
- We will send Ryan and possibly the chair nominee
- Isabel thinks it would be a good idea to do a mel weekend meetup for alums (October 1-2)
- This needs to be planned once there exists a new board–tabled until two weeks from now
- Evening event with s’mores, weather permitting, and game night
- Constitution
- Josh wants to pass a new one, and now is a great time to reopen that
- If anyone wants to take a look, he will present the draft at the floor meeting this weekend
- Main update from his prior version is to add ranked-choice voting officially
- “Maybe the real floor meeting was the friends we made along the way”
Floor Meeting Minutes
December 5th, 2021
12/05/2021
Floor Meeting Attendance: Ryan ODell, Craig McIlwrath, Lloyd Page, Casey A’Hearn, Keegan Matthews, Josh Coppola, Ronin Ross, Elana Elman, Cole Balacek, Emersyn Harris, Arthur Masiukiewicz, Div Patel, Sarah O’Connor, Lyrica Yanaway, Alex Prideaux, Blake Curlee, Tianyi Ma, Dan Cohen
- Elections
- Why we do it for the calendar year?
- So that we have the previous board around to assist for the following semester
- Each contestant will be giving a 5-minute speech before doing a brief Q&A. For contested elections, we
- President
- Candidate – Keegan Matthews
- Result – Vote Unanimous for Keegan
- Logistics
- Candidate – Ronin Ross
- Result – Vote Unanimous for Ronin
- Secretary Treasurer
- Candidate – Cole
- Candidate – Elana
- Result – Vote Unanimous Elana
- Senior Tech Director
- Candidate – Craig
- Result – Vote Unanimous Craig
- Junior Tech Director
- Candidate – Cole
- Candidate – Alex
- Result – Vote Alex
- New Board
- President – Keegan Matthews
- Logistics – Ronin Ross
- Secretary Treasurer – Elana Elman
- Senior Tech Director – Craig McIlwrath
- Junior Tech Director – Alex Prideaux
November 14th, 2021
11/14/2021
Floor Meeting Attendance: Craig McIlwrath, Lloyd Page, Keegan Matthews, Josh Coppola, Ryan ODell, Casey A’Hearn, Dan Cohen, Emersyn Harris, Cole Balacek, Div Patel, Sarah O’Connor, Elana Elman, Ronin Ross, Arthur Masiukiewicz, Lyrica Yanaway, Alex Prideaux
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- CIFsgiving
- This will be an opt-in potluck
- You can either cook for someone, for yourself, or just show up and you will be getting points regardless
- There will be a link in the Discord for a signup sheet
- Vehicles
- Casey and Ryan will be willing to assist on Fridays, with Ryan also being free on Tuesday mornings and Wednesday nights
- We will be trying to coordinate kitchen times accordingly, so please indicate how much time you’ll need for your cooking on the sheet
- Suites have to be tidied up for serving food and the like, so please clean off your tables in advance
- Assume that we’ll be doing it indoors unless the weather allows otherwise
- Tech Seminar December 4th
- This will be a review for CS171 and CS172
- We are looking for those who are willing to pitch in and help with the review
- CIFX Talks
- Josh will be giving one on USB stuff
- Reach out to others if they want to do them
- Don’t Freeze Together
- December 3rd
- Those who have contacts in the SIHs should let us know so that we can reach out
- Last Game Night
- That will be Saturday, December 4th
- Election Nominations
- Terms will run from the start of the Spring Semester until the end of 2022
- Nominations are open until the elections in three weeks
- President – facilitating meetings, making sure that the rest of the board is doing their jobs, communicating with Reslife and other SIHs
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- Logistics Director – in charge of all the logistical aspects of CIF, like sending out the Wednesday emails for the events of the week, reserving spaces for events, event planning in general, reaching out to other organizations for co-sponsorships and the like, setting up interviews for perspective new members, orchestrating the housing meeting (and everything housing related)
- Senior Tech Director – responsible for handling the tech issues that crop up and the lab
- Junior Tech Director – responsible for handling tech issues, under the senior tech director
- Secretary Treasurer – handles the finances, points spreadsheets, and general stuff like that
October 31st, 2021
10/31/2021
Floor Meeting Attendance: Emersyn Harris, Elana Elman, Ronin Ross, Ryan ODell, Craig McIlwrath, Josh Coppola, Dan Cohen, Lloyd Page, Keegan Matthews, Cole Balacek, Arthur Masiukiewicz, Sarah O’Connor, Div Patel, Lyrica Yannaway, Blake Curlee
- Night to Code
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- Interest is still there for Nights to Code, though the date will be likely needed to change
- For the date change, we will be moving it to Wednesdays
- Participation Point Quota
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- Reminder has been issued for those to attend events for participation points
- Folks have been asked to bring people to attend events and reminded about the minimum point requirement
- Minecraft Night and Tech Seminar
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- Reminders have been given for both events
October 17th, 2021
10/17/2021
Floor Meeting Attendance: Ryan ODell, Craig McIlwrath, Lloyd Page, Casey A’Hearn, Keegan Matthews, Josh Coppola, Sophie Stahl, Sarah O’Connor, Emersyn Harris, Div Patel, Dan Cohen, Ronin Ross, Elana Elman, Alex Prideaux
- OBOC Co-Sponsorship
- We will be unable to attend the OBOC event due to scheduling conflicts
- Events
- Minecraft Night- this Friday
- Dandy Hacks- Dandy Hacks will be running Friday-Sunday
- Tech Seminar- this Saturday, where we will be discussing GIT
- Sunday CIFX Talks
- Keegan- 16th Century Portuguese Colonization
- Josh- How to build a computer
- Open to further suggestions!
- Night To Code will be happening next Friday
- Halloween Game Night will be happening next Saturday
September 19th, 2021
Floor Meeting Attendance: Ryan ODell, Craig McIlwrath, Lloyd Page, Casey A’Hearn, Keegan Matthews. Dan Cohen, Sarah O’Connor, Liam Hainsworth, Emersyn Harris (who is a hydrated gorl), Ronin Ross, Kestor Brown, Cole Balacek, Sophie Stahl, Div Patel, Tianyi Ma, Elana Elman, Lyrica Yananay, Arthur Masiukiewicz, Bailey Rike, Blake Curlee, Joshua Coppola
- Constitutional Vote
- Vote for the Constitution as an amendment
- Vote for the New Amendment (which is the new constitution)
- Masking
- Communicate on whether or not you’re masking in your suite
- Appointed Positions
- Meet with board to discuss your position
September 5th, 2021
Floor Meeting Attendance: Casey A’Hearn, Emersyn Harris, Craig McIlwrath, Elana Elman, Dan Cohen, Div Patel, Lyrica Cannaway, Lloyd Page, Sophie Stahl, Arthur Masihkievicz, Alex Prideaux, Blake Carlee, Spencer Schuelman, Ronin Ross, Josh Coppola, Sarah O’Connor, Keegan Matthews
- Fire Training
- Dan and Alex are fire trained
- Game Jam
- There is clear interest in doing so
- October 8th-October 9th, details incoming
- Appointed Positions
- These are positions can be passed to others as needed
- Can hold multiple positions at once, balance to the discretion of the board
- There are participation points attached to each position, based upon the performance of the person involved
- Kitchen Goddess
- Alex, Ronin, and Sophie are interested in the position
- Lab Lord
- Sys Admin
- Emersyn and Arthur are interested
- Flyboys
- Sophie and Ronin are interested
- King of Games
- Alex, Blake, Lyrica, and Ronin are interested
- Social Media Tsar
- Constitution Proposal
- New constitution proposed
- All members should be there, absence= no (so show up if possible)
- 17 people in attendance for today
- Vote will be at the next floor meeting on the 19th of September
- See constitution for change details
- Door Tags
- Poll for door tags coming out in the near future