Minutes

06 Oct 2016

October 6th, 2016 Meeting Minutes

Notes taken by mobyte in emacs

31 people in attendance, including: stringy, hypnotoad, mobyte, giggles, strongth, cpg, pasportit, sphinx, kami, nospace

6:10 PM, On a Thursday, 2225 Kohrman Hall

Event

  • On October 15th, there will be a review session for Dr. Kaminski’s CS 1110 class.
  • This event will be in 2217 Kohrman from 2 PM to 6 PM.
  • This is an opportunity to help Java beginners with any problems they are having.
  • There will be free donuts for volunteers!
  • The following people have volunteered to help out:
    • kami, nospace, strongth, hellbacon, and sphinx.

Server Updates

  • hellbacon, our SysAdmin, wants to improve the security and stability of our servers.
  • He plans on creating backups for important files to prevent any major file losses.
    • sans and leech have been chosen by hellbacon to help with the cflock backups.
  • We also plan on creating an IRC service to link your IRC account to your LDAP account.
    • This is to prevent impersonation of other users or other general chaos.
  • More details on these projects will come in the future.

PLAN

  • sloan and kessler will start recruiting for tournament organizers.
    • They will need people who can spend a couple hours each day during PLAN to help out.
    • Contact sloan or kessler on IRC if you want to help.
  • Fliers will be finalized in the next couple weeks.
    • After that, we will start putting them up around campus.
  • If you want to volunteer for PLAN in any way, please let sloan or kessler know.

Volunteer Hours

  • Honors College volunteer hours are now a possibility through Computer Club.
  • If you are in the Honors College and want to utilize this, ask kami or nospace.

A/V Equipment

  • We may be able to use the projector from another room instead of buying a new one.
  • We can fill out a form and rent it for multiple days.
  • demorest and pasportit have offered information about microphones or other general A/V equipment that we can use. They will let us know in the #officers channel.

Western Herald

  • During the Western Herald Spotlight converage, they did not take any pictures of Computer Club.
  • We need to choose a picture to submit. Then we will email it to them and it will be used in the article.
  • sink has offered his PLAN photos.

Job Opportunity

  • OIT Project Management Office is looking for an IT Project Management Assistant Student Employee.
  • They are offering 25 hours per week at a SE3 rate.
  • This may lead to a potential internship.
  • You can find this job on BroncoJobs at https://wmich.joinhandshake.com/jobs/108580.