Minutes

29 Sep 2016

September 29th, 2016 Meeting Minutes

Notes taken by mobyte in emacs

35 people in attendance, including: cpg, mind, strongth, mobyte, nospace, hypnotoad, stringy, kami

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

Someone named Aaron came to Computer Club and is looking for app and web developers.
- His idea is to simplify the way people connect by combining social network platforms.
- He has created a mock UI for this, so he can provide concepts to start with.
- He would like to hire WMU student developers.
- Email aaron.c.mcclendon@wmich.edu if you would like more details.
Andrew from the meeting a couple weeks ago has found a developer for the website he was working on.
- However, he will need someone to help with a web scraping project and he will possibly have more details in a week.
Brandon, a contact sphinx knows, wants to create a website with two separate forms on a page. These forms would lead to a processed page.
- There will be $1000 given to create this website.
- Ask sphinx on IRC if you would like more information.
kyledad7’s old job has now been claimed by giggles.

Last week we talked about a Java programming workshop for beginner programmers and students from CS1.
This date has been set for Saturday, October 15th at 2 PM.
- There will be pizza!
- If you want to volunteer, let an officer in the #officers channel on IRC know.

All Computer Science students have been reminded in a recent email to not engage in any illegal file sharing on campus.
This is a reminder that students should not do illegal downloads on campus or in the Computer Club office.

On Monday between noon and 2 PM, sloan will have an interview with tybalt from WIDR to talk about Computer Club as a part of the WIDR RSO Spotlight.
This will give us an opportunity to have free airtime on WIDR radio for advertising.
- This may lead to other future opportunities to tell listeners about Computer Club.

demorest has brought up the opportunity to have a fundraiser at the Cumin Indian Cuisine restaurant.
The plan is to have many people come in one night and obtain 15% of proceeds.
Here is how it would work:
- Coordinate with the restaurant and sign up.
- Publicize, get people to go there and spend money.
- Computer Club would then get 15% of the money for that night.
The restaurant has a capacity of about 30 people.
Ask demorest on IRC if you want to get more information or if you want to show interest.

nospace is having the first talk of the semester tonight about reversing a binary file after the meeting.
If you would like to sign up for a talk of your own, go to this link and fill out the form: https://goo.gl/forms/oGaElGo3fuDmfBUv1.
It is first-come, first-served, so make sure to sign up as soon as possible.
Reserving a topic and time is not required immediately, but it is important to reserve with your name as soon as possible if you want to give a talk.

We successfully have obtained enough interest to get support from IBM to have a workshop at Computer Club!
However, they originally wanted to hold the workshop next Monday.
They are currently working around their schedule, they may be able to set it up this November.
More details will come soon when we hear back from them through strongth.

We want to take down signatures to send to the Computer Science department to give sphinx recognition.
This would be a recognition letter to show how much sphinx has helped us.
We will have a signatures sheet soon, ask any of the officers if you want to sign it.

The PLAN schedule for tournaments should be on whatistheplan.com soon.
The next PLAN meeting will be next week at some time.
- This time is not yet decided
- Check IRC in the #plan channel to get more information.
In news about sponsors, Dr. Carr has helped us get donations through the Computer Science department.
- This will make it easier for potential sponsors to give us funds.