Minutes

15 Sep 2016

September 15th, 2016 Meeting Minutes

Notes taken by mobyte in emacs

33 people in attendance, including: nospace, sphinx, strongth, mobyte, buttercup, hypnotoad, tank21, mind

6:00 PM, On a Thursday, 2225 Kohrman Hall

There is a Programming contest called ICPC on September 24, 12:00-5:00pm.
- A team is ran by cpg, ask him for more information.
- Check the #ICPC channel on IRC if you’d like to learn more.
Auto-Owners IT Internship Opportunity.
- A representative may come to club to offer internships.
- This will happen on October 10th, RSVP for October 14th.
nospace is planning the First Showcase Saturday for the semester.
- It is going to be an obstacle course of about 20 problems.
- This should be a good way to learn Java or to get help in Java Computer Science classes.

One of the first big CTFs of the semester is going to be CSAW CTF this Friday (9/16) at 6:00 PM.
The CTF class ran by sphinx at 2 PM will give a good introduction to CTFs for anyone that wants to know more before CSAW starts.
CSAW CTF is a great CTF for beginners and can be a perfect opportunity to learn more about CTFs.
For people that don’t know much about them, a CTF involves finding a digital flag inside a file or using exploits to find a hidden code.
- This can be a great opportunity to learn more about software and security.
There will be pizza, so come by and work on some problems and enjoy some pizza!

We discussed the potential days to hold PLAN meetings, and we have decided that PLAN meetings will be on Wednesdays at 6:30pm.
At the next PLAN meeting, they will be deciding the tournaments. If you want to give input on the organization and planning for PLAN, make sure to come by.

It was offered to buy a program for the Oculus Rift to play more games called Vorpx.
This program could give more access to more games to play.
However, after doing research, we have decided to not invest the $40.

When cpg stepped down, we needed someone to replace him as VP of OPs.
It has been decided in the past couple weeks that kessler and sloan would take his place as organizers of PLAN.
- With two people they may be able to share the weight.
- We decided during the meeting to let sloan and kessler be Co-VPs of OPs.
- sloan has been focusing on organizing and kessler has been scoping out potential businesses for sponsorship.
Additionally, twitch will be made the webmaster, as he has been working on the PLAN site lately.

nospace went to an RSO meeting today and he learned valuable information about other RSOs.
Many RSOs need new websites and need help from us to get more updated websites.
We are considering ways that Computer Club can create websites in exchange for payments.
- Part of the money will go to Computer Club and the rest will go to the person or people that created the website.
To learn more about this, join the #rsosites on IRC.

We would like to have video and audio equipment for talks and other purposes.
We have received an offer from skuld and have considered asking sink for information about what equipment we should get.
Next week are planning to talk about possible budgets for the kinds of equipment we want to get.

nospace wants to start up bi-weekly talks, with nospace starting on September 29th.
We have offers from nospace, mobyte, skuld, demorest, and stringy to create talks.
We are also considering having practice talks for anyone that has not given a talk before.
nospace will create a sign-up form for people that want to give their own talks, so make sure to ask nospace if you’d like to give a talk.
Before starting, it is suggested to get feedback from nospace to make sure the talk is presentable.

Since GIC is gone, we may be able to use their old server (jazz).
We will have to create a proposal or official document to give to Dr. Carr that will give us access to the server.
There will be more discussion about this in the next couple weeks. To learn more about how we will get the server and how we will use it, check the #officers channel on IRC.

Someone named Andrew came by to offer an opportunity to create a website using the Steam API for $800.
It is related to Team Fortress 2 and will use JavaScript and other things related to Web Design.
To learn more about this, email tf2tradingcompany@gmail.com.

strongth is still looking for sign-ups to show our interest in an IBM workshop.
If it becomes approved, IBM will send someone out and provide some materials for a 2-4 hour workshop.
We will need about 40 sign-ups and we currently have 20.
Let strongth know if you are interested and if you want to sign up.