Minutes

12 Feb 2015

##February 12th, 2015 Minutes

Meeting begin 6:12pm

###Head Count:

###Trenary:

Wants to see us all institutionalize ourselves better
Get better at making a regular processes for the club (Agenda, feeding & caring of younger members, inclusivity)
Have younger members or any memebers jump in and help with projects and events more
Steve Carr is willing to talk about the possibility of officers getting 1 credit hour for being a part in the club per semester.
Think of new and better ways to bring up new members so they are always very involved
We’re putting out a newsletter to get some publicity for the club.
Demorest: WMU is offering vpn access to have place to play around and hack, maybe getting a subnet set up to play with and break stuff. This would be super cool for the club! We need someone to take the lead on setting it up.
Start building up a database for club contacts old and new
IRC is for everybody. Argue/Debate constructively.

###Agenda Mechanics:

Anyone in the club can add topics to the agenda using !agenda command (Implemented in botler after friday)
This will be on the minutes page of our website on the right hand column

###Bounty board reminder:

###Bonzai Brawl:

Michigan tech univ. bonzai brawl. You get a period of time to create an AI which plays a game http://bonzai.cs.mtu.edu/
Head of this organization contacted us to do testing and maybe host a competition for one of these games
We need people to beta test before hand and host the event itself
April 11th would be the date this is held
Typo is going to be help running this, we heart typo

###2 New IRC Channels:

#ai Channel to talk about AI competitions (Bonzai/ Ant wars) and other AI related topics. https://cs.wmich.edu/~antman/index.php
Implement an Ops policy for channels so we have codified rules for the moderators.
#irc : Specific use channel for talk about Ops policy. Create a doc, throw it in the topic. Get started.

###Middle School Event:

Maple Street middle school for the arts, right up Howard street
Settled on doing robatics using lego mind storm with the kids
The idea is just to guide them.
Renix is super interested! As is sphinx, flay. Talk to demorest. His wife runs the thing.
Would be around 3:30 ish to 5 ish
Channel will be named #msr (middle school robotics)

###Card for Kapenga:

Kapengas wife passed away earlier this week, typo has a card to sign if you would like to give your condolences
This will mean a ton to him, please sign!

###Officer meeting:

This sunday at 2pm, anyone is welcome to come! Especially if you are interested in being an officer

###RPI Order:

###Hackathon:

This is what many of you joined for.
Tomorrow @ 5:00pm (Friday)
Stringy will be here to make sure we are all working together. Stringy is the bomb
Anyone who wants to learn how to program collaboratively should come!
Food will be brought

###When is Plan?:

Weekend of March 27th
Apparently Renix is taking care of doing shirts again!? Weeeee. SEND HER DESIGNS PLZ?!!?
Thinking sundays for weekly plan meetings maybe around 1?

###TedX:

###Boston Key Party at the end of this month

###Sphinx tonight was voted in as a LIFETIME MEMBER OF CCLUB! because we love him and he is amazing.

Dear sphinx. You are one of my favorite people, because you put more people in me. Signed Cclub
Due to a his exemplary service to the club, in matters such as increasing our revenue with the msp430 launchpad kits, assisting club members with homework for hours on end, and for being a general force for good in the club, we have voted sphinx as the newest lifetime member.

###Stringy Begins Git Talk *We recorded it! Talk will be listed in coming “videos” section of our site

##Meeting ends at 6:47pm

###Ben Got hired at apple *Went to gallaghers. Ben bought 6 pitchers of beer. *Much screaming *All praise ben.