June 9th, 2016 Meeting Minutes

Notes taken by mobyte in emacs

6 people in attendance, including: mobyte, stringy, tank21, nospace, hellbacon, typo

6:08 PM, On a Thursday, 2225 Kohrman Hall

Showcase Saturday

• This Saturday, come to Computer Club at 2:00 PM to show off new projects you have been working on.
• This gives you the chance to talk about your code in front of other people.
• Any types of projects are welcome, feel free to join us.
• If you would like to present or get some of your own ideas, check out this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pTzhp31Dd8LRXgOTDCshvUZe9kaQH_S1ky3g-_7yf0c/edit.

Monitors

• We got 8 new monitors from pasportit’s office.
• What do we want to do with them?
• An idea we thought up was to create a giant display wall out of all of the monitors.
  • With this, we could display new announcements in the room.
• If you’re interested or have any ideas of your own, let us know in the #activities channel.

Orientation

• cpg still needs help with Freshman Orientation.
• We need people that can talk about Computer Club to new potential members.
• Some upcoming times that you can help out at are June 8th, June 13th, and June 15th.
• Each day it is at 6:20 PM.
• If you would like to help out, please sign up at the following link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Af5JPge2ZR9hNfdFX-RbNfJ2cUBwSLJI6dEPIq2ne2Q/edit#gid=0.

Arcade Cabinet

• The BeagleBone works.
• We need to work on wiring to the arcade cabinet and installing games.
  • We need help from anyone that can give us advice on wiring for the old arcade cabinet system.
  • We are struggling to figure it out.
  • Please let tank or nospace know if you are good with wiring or have experience with the arcade cabinet.
• It will run SNES, NES, and GameBoy games.

Projector

• We are still thinking about projector possibilities for the office.
• nospace is still looking for sponsors to possibly help us out with the cost.
• We are also looking for help from anyone that would be willing to help us pay for it.