Officers

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Minutes for 2014-02-07

  1. Call to Order 8:22 pm

    1. Roll Call
      1. Administrative Cabinet
        1. President - Johnny Patterson: Present
        2. Vice President - David Gaskins: Present
        3. Treasurer - Christopher Gomez: Present
        4. Secretary - David Martel: Present
        5. Event Coordinator - Diana Ignacio: Present
      2. Appointed Officers
      3. Project Managers
      4. Active Members
        1. Shane Satterfield: Present
    2. Approval of the Agenda
      1. Motion of the floor: Approval of the Agenda: [PASS]
        • First - Christopher: pass
        • Second - David Gaskins: similar
        • Discussion: None

    3. Approval of the Minutes

      1. Motion of the floor: Approval of the minutes with amendments: [PASS]
        • First - Diana: pass
        • Second - Chris: pass
        • Discussion: None

    4. Announcements

      1. Johnny: Jimi officially resigned. Welcome back to school.
      2. David Gaskins: I did a git workshop for an OS class. People responded well. Haney wanted me to teach them git. We made a website with our tutorial and links to others.

    5. Reports

      1. Officer Reports
        1. President: We got emailed from national stating we didn't have minimum membership. I have since updated our membership. Our last general body meeting went well. I have put up fliers and people have been taking tabs.
        2. Vice President: I'm looking to resign, but I will stay until you find a replacement. My free time is only Friday's after work and weekends. Somebody at my work wants to donate books to our library.
        3. Johnny: You can bring them.
        4. Treasurer:
        5. Secretary:
        6. Event Coordinator: We have our eweek event on feb 20 thursday in sspa 110. We have the room from 6 to 10. It is small and full of the individual chair desks. We need chairs and tables. We might dump chairs in the halway or move them to the side.
          1. Christopher: Where can we get chairs. We might have to bring chairs from the office or borrow chairs from members.

      2. Projects Reports

        1. Motion of the floor: Resume sailing game charter: [PASS]
          • First - David Martel: pass
          • Second - David Gaskins: pass
          • Discussion: 1. Chris, Johnny, Diana, David, Shane: Finish by LAN party
        2. David Martel: We have a git repo with stuff in it that compiles.

      3. Committee Reports

        1. Motion of the floor: Close Linux committee: [PASS]
          • First - David Gaskins: pass
          • Second - Christopher: pass
          • Discussion: Long live Linux

    6. Old Business

      1. Workshops: Linux, Git, Programming Skills

        1. Johnny: Should we do it one or two weeks after eweek?
        2. Diana, Chris: two
        3. David: Are we doing the Linux workshop first.
        4. Johnny: Yes. We need to quordinate with Nuon for git.
        5. David Martel: For Linux we need a lab.
        6. Johnny: When will it be.
        7. David Martel: It should be a Friday, and we can bring them to hangout night.
        8. Shane: AESB meetings can last until 3.
        9. Chris: Exams are on eweek and the week after.
        10. Johnny: Feb 28 or March 7 is a possibility. If we want to do two more, it should be on the 28.
        11. David: I am fine with 28 if I get help.
        12. Johnny: So it will be at 3pm on the 28th in a Linux lab. That is two weeks. Git, we need to talk to Nuon. Do we want to do the programming skills workshop? This would contain simplified programming team and practical skills for programmers. We can do it two weeks after Linux. We need to start planning it now. We need sign ups for Linux workshop.

      2. Sign

        1. Johnny: We were going to the woodshop, but that never happened. Dose it cost too much to make it professionally.
        2. David: I should be free next weekend.
        3. Johnny: Can we get a design by Wednesday?
        4. David Martel: We cannot have sharp corners if we want thick letters. (People step outside to discuss sign) Summary: We need to talk to facilities to get permission and find out dimensions. That will influence our design. David Gaskins will talk to facilities.

      3. Hangout nights

        1. Johnny: We will still do them. Do we need an additional flier? Should we have more structure?
        2. David: We should suggest a few ideas at the general body meetings
        3. Diana: Facebook poll. Should we do it before or after the meeting?
        4. Motion of the floor: Polls on Facebook: pass
          • First - David G: pass
          • Second - Chris: pass
          • Discussion: None

    7. New Business

      1. Approve LAN Party Charter

        1. Diana: Will there be refreshments?
        2. David: We will bring the snack shop.
        3. Chris: We should discount the water.
        4. Johnny: Should we have any prizes?
        5. Shane: You should have more well known games.
        6. Johnny: We can do a cube2 tournament, bracket style. That will be at least an hour.
        7. Chris: I can bring super smash bros.
        8. Johnny: We should make a poll to decide the game for the tournament. It should be up by the end of this week.
        9. Motion of the floor: Approval of LAN Party Charter: [PASS]
          • First - David Gaskins: pass
          • Second - Shane: sudo pass
          • Discussion: None

      2. E-Week event participation

        1. Chris: We should go for the golden wrench. I can do paper airplane and jenga.
        2. Diana: Someone should do jenga with me.
        3. Johnny: Participation is mandatory for two events. I can't make relay race, scavenger hunt. I can make the lego and jenga. After we talk to people we will discuss this next week.

      3. Officer meetings

        1. Johnny: Monday night at 9pm?
        2. Motion of the floor: Move officer meetings to Monday at 9pm: [PASS]
          • First - David: Awesome
          • Second - Chris: Mumble
          • Discussion: None
        3. Johnny: We will use mumble and google docs.

      4. Open Officer Positions

        1. Johnny: We should get people to join us and be an officer. David, I think we should be fine with you staying as vp.
      5. Codejams
        1. Johnny: For an hour or two we crashed in 306 and coded. We could do 304, but there are no outlets. It is also an excuse to do something for an hour. When?
        2. Shane: Tuesdays, so we can tell people to come the next day after the meeting.
        3. Johnny: 2pm? We should try it this week.
      6. Programming Team Support
        1. Johnny: Turnout is good and people who read the flier will see it. It has switched to a web app and Gold would like some people to improve it. Ian is working on it right now and it is hosted on our Linux server.
      7. Hackathon
        1. Johnny: At the end of the semester, 3 or 4 weeks before finals, we should do a hackathon. If we get started, we might be able to get sponsors. We need the schools support. We should start a charter, and get people to commit to going to it.
  2. Adjournment 10:04pm