Meeting Documents

Minutes for 2012-02-16

2011-2012 Admininistrative Cabinet
President

Nathan Pickrell

chair@csulb.acm.org

Vice-President

Frank Lima

vicechair@csulb.acm.org

Treasurer

Andrew Meredith

treasurer@csulb.acm.org

Secretary

David Nuon

secretary@csulb.acm.org

Appointed Positions
Faculty Advisor
Frank Murgolo


AESB Representative
Diana Ignacio

aesbrep@csulb.acm.org

Contact Liaison

David Barahona

liaison@csulb.acm.org


Publicity & Recruitment Chair

Salvador Llamas

publicity@csulb.acm.org

Market Manager

James Coolidge

vendor@csulb.acm.org


Historian
Orion Sakorn
historian@csulb.acm.org

Membership Chair

Donald Herman

membership@csulb.acm.org


Open Positions

Alumni Advisor


Webmaster
webmaster@csulb.acm.org


Event Coordinator events@csulb.acm.org

Fundraising Chair

fundraising@csulb.acm.org

Librarian

librarian@csulb.acm.org

Office Technician

tech@csulb.acm.org

ACM Meeting Agenda for Thursday, February 16th, 2012 at 1:00 PM in ECS-304

  1. CALL TO ORDER
    1. Roll Call
      1. Administrative Cabinet
        1. President: Present
        2. Vice: Present, 1:46 PM
        3. Treasurer: Present
        4. Secretary: Present
      2. Appointed Positions
        1. AESB Representative: Present
        2. Contact Liaison:Not Present
        3. Historian: Present
        4. Publicity & Recruitment Chair: Present
        5. Market Manager: Present
        6. Membership Chair: Present
      3. Project Managers (some not listed to avoid double counting officers/managers)
        1. Socie-D - Ben Chang: Not Present
        2. Women in Computing / Links for Good - Ariana Aguirre: Present
        3. Augmented Ebay - Karan Bhandari: Present, 1:07 PM came in
    2. Approval of Agenda
      1. Sal: I move to approve the agenda with amendments - PASS
        1. James: Pass
        2. Sal: Pass
    3. Approval of the Minutes
      1. Sal: We document things.
      2. Sal: I move to approve the minutes with amendments - PASS
        1. Diana: Pass
        2. Sal: Pass
  2. ANNOUNCEMENTS
    1. Guest Introductions:
      1. Keith: Computer Science, I like game development and software development.
      2. Ian Geogebuer: Computer Engineering, I like web dev.
      3. Victor Tran: Computer Science: Software Dev.
      4. David Martel: Computer Science, game dev.
      5. Nike: Computer Engineering
  3. BUSINESS:
    1. Officer Reports:
      1. Faculty Adviser:
      2. President:
        1. Passwords for Dr. Murgolo
        2. Remind Dr. Murgolo about our meetings
        3. Mac Admin Passwords
          1. Nathan: I would like admin to the Mac.
            1. David: I can give you admin.
            2. Alex: Me too.
      3. Vice:
        1. Sal: These are two things we need to do. We need to find people to do these things.
        2. Surveillance Boost
          1. We need to augment the security system.
        3. Whiteboard Refresh
          1. It is filthy.
          2. Sal: Anyone know where we can get a cheap whiteboard?
            1. James: IKEA.
            2. Ian: We can use large sheets of plexi-glass, but it can get expensive.
            3. Karan: I can try 403--
              1. Nathan: Will not help. It's that bad.
      4. Treasurer:
        1. Reimbursements
          1. Andrew: Receipts?
            1. James: For ~23 USD, for food. For Slim Jims, Twinkies, fortune cookies.
            2. Andrew: I'll wait until you get me the receipts.
          2. Sal: I move to reimburse myself for 14.14 USD for prints:
            1. Ariana: How many did you print out?
            2. Sal: I printed 100 of them.
            3. Nathan: Call for a vote to reimburse Sal: No opposition.
        2. Programming grant from AESB
          1. Sal: We have to spend that money.
            1. Sal: If you need money, we can help you get it from ASI.
        3. How much do we have in out account?
          1. Andrew: We're good. But we can do better.
          2. Sal: Can we have food at every meeting?
            1. Andrew: That's pushing it but it's okay, we need people to get it. Talk to me first.
      5. Secretary:
        1. Current situation with csulb.acm.org:
          1. David: On Tuesday, if you visited csulb.acm.org, any browser or antivirus would give you a warning that there was malware present on the site. It could have been the old wordpress install or an abandoned install of SMF. Either way, it has been all removed, and there is a maintenance page up. I'm working with another person to get the new version of the ACM site up.
            1. David: I propose ACM Redux - PASS
              1. Sal: Pass
              2. David: Pass
                1. David: For now, I'm going to embed the Facebook into the page.
          2. Keys:
            1. David: Keys? Where can I get one?
            2. James: As soon as I talk to David Barahona, then I can talk to David Nuon but first I need to talk to Mike Burg.
      6. AESB Representative:
        1. Diana: Has our budget report been submitted to AESB yet for eWeek? And also update BeachSync with list of officers.
          1. Sal: I will talk to Frank about the budget.
          2. Nathan: I will take care of the list.
      7. Publicity & Recruitment Chair:
        1. Sal: Next week will be eWeek, there are going to be many events. Check eweek.aesb.org for more information.
        2. Student Faculty Mixer
          1. Orion: I'll be able to help.
          2. Sal: ACM Office, 11:45 AM to help out; At 12:00 PM to 2:30 PM is when it starts at the Outpost lawn, Subway will be served.
        3. Beginning of the Year PowerPoint
          1. Sal: Is that in the Dropbox?
            1. Sal: I don't use Dropbox.
      8. Market Manager:
        1. James: I request a reimbursement of 68.79 USD - PASS
          1. James: Pass
          2. Andrew: Pass
        2. Status of the price sign:
          1. James: Good news, Costco has kept their prices the same, so we don't have to change any prices. It'll be done by next Thursday (2/23).
      9. Membership Chair:
        1. Alumni List:
          1. Donald: I've added the people that Nate told me to add. If I need to add anyone else, let me know.
            1. Sal: How many people?
              1. Donald: 15.
              2. Sal: Good enough. Send it to me this weekend.
          2. Donald: I need login for the ACM Facebook page.
      10. Open Positions are available!
        1. Office Technician:
          1. Nathan: I appoint Shane Satterfield as office tech.
          2. Sal: I move to approve - PASS
            1. Sal: Pass
            2. Ariana: Pass
        2. Librarian:
          1. Sal: You guard books.
        3. Webmaster:
        4. Fundraising Chair:
    2. Project/Committee Reports:
      1. Augmented Ebay Project:
        1. Karan: We finished two applications, KurtZac ePage and KurtZac eConverter. Tomorrow, we will submit our business paper. If we win the competition (accidentally), we get to start out own business.
          1. Karan: Mobile app development is over saturated, we want to get into robots.
      1. Programming Team: 
        1. Ariana: It's going.
        2. Sal: We have the programming team every Thursday, 7:30 PM. It's good on your resume.
      2. Socie-D:
        1. Donald: We uploaded the storyboards to the international and US website. We successfully integrated the project.
      3. Crimes Against Humanity:
        1. Donald: We uploaded the storyboards to the international and US website. Putting pathfinding in the game slowed it down.
      4. Women in Computing Startup:
        1. Ariana: It was good, we're trying to reach out a little bit.
        2. Sal: Do you need food for next weeks meeting?
      5. Chess Engine:
        1. Find Johnathan Stoner:
          1. Sal: We need to find John if he wants to participate.
      6. Links For Good:
        1. Ariana: Yeah, we're finding it a little difficult to work with Chimeze, he's in Nigeria. I'm working on managing the project.
        2. David: Refactoring to the Rocky theme is pretty hard core.
    3. Event/Fundraising Reports:
      1. Recruitment:
        1. Sal: No meeting next Tuesday.
    4. Old Business
      1. Xbox:
        1. Nathan: I have a 360 given to ACM up in my office. I want someone to get XNA set up on it.
          1. Sal: This will be good for those interested in Game Development.
          2. Nathan: Please don't use the XBox for actual gaming. It's an original model. I don't want it to red ring.
      2. eWeek: 
        1. RC Battle Competition:
          1. James: Frank's doing well, very well. It's really cool. Bulletproof plexiglass and electricity. Others have saw blades, flippers and pointed sticks. Good luck to all. Competition is Monday, 3:00 - 6:00 PM, at the basketball courts behind the chain link fence.
            1. James: AEM and IBM will be present.
          2. Andrew: I gave 50 USD out of ACM funds, and also 100 USD of ACM money for the robot.I move to reimburse Frank when I get the receipts - PASS
            1. Andrew: Pass
            2. Ariana: Pass
          3. James: When will I be able to inspect it?
            1. Frank: This Saturday.
            2. James: There is a second tier in the competition, which does not have the box restriction.
          4. Ian: Do you do this every year? I'll be bringing my camera too.
            1. James: This is our first year doing this, if this go well, we'll do this more.
        2. ACM LAN:
          1. Frank: We're just about done. 
          2. Sal: I move to allocate up to 90 USD for supplies: - PASS
            1. Sal: Pass
            2. James: Pass
            3. Andrew: 90 USD?
              1. Sal: Butcher paper. Used to block out light.
              2. Frank: It comes in a huge roll, we'll be able to use it later. Also, if you're playing in the party and you choose to install any of the software, uninstall it when you're done.
            4. James: AESB has gold spray paint.
    5. New Business:
      1. Concerning ACM
        1. ACM Summer Retreat:
          1. Sal: Anyone interested?
            1. Sal: We're going to keep this on the table.
        2. Shirts:
          1. David: I'm doing research into them. Grace Hernandez of EAT is helping me with that. I'll be contacting them later this week.
  4. ADJOURNMENT - Meeting Adjourned 1:54 PM