#February 1st, 2018 Meeting Minutes
Notes taken by cookie in vim
19 people in attendance, including: taco, dolphin-phone, DrewR, spacedog, taylor, zurek, Kahrl, Tank21, ohaimark, sphinx, cookie, sgt, leech, mind, typo
5:57 PM, On a Thursday, 2225 Kohrman Hall
Chili at Club
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Tomorrow night(Friday) at 6:30 Kahrl and Zurek are making there award winning chili at club.
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Please join us in the club office!
Strongth’s Words of Advice
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Strongth has two words he would like to share with us
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IBM ,which is where Strongth works in Texas, have internships in software development available for this summer that they are currently looking to fill.Click here for job opportunities
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Strongth will be giving a workshop on TDD(test driven development) with J-Unit and java. The event will take place on Friday 2/8, we have 9 people interested in going.
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If you are interested in applicable experience that would help in an AGILE practicing work place or if you will be taking senior design soon this is good knowledge for you.
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Talk to Kahrl and Strongth if you are interested in either of there opportunities.
Club Finances
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The club currently posses $5500($1500+ from last year) between our paypal and bank account.
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Kahrl proposes that we should allocate some of these resources for PLAN including prizes and advertisement.
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We voted and majority rules that we should allocate $1000 dollars to make this PLAN the best plan yet using the money for the prizes and additional advertisement.
Matrix Finance
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Matrix(The software on which our chat system is built on) recieved a donation of $5,000,000 which is great for our chat platform!
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We have in the past discussed contributing to Matrix in support of a product that we use, but in light of this sizable donation they just received we will bring that the topic back up at a later date.
Jobs
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A new #jobs room has been made in riot for people to post any job offers that they feel might interest club members.
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Sphinx still needs a third person for a network administration job at Parkview for network related tasks security related things. Talk to sphinx if interested.
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Striker is looking to hire software development interns for this summer. If you are interested in applying talk to the mind.
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IBM in Texas is looking to hire summer software development interns as well. Talk to Strongth if you are interested.
Embedded Systems Venture Project
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Dr. Al-Fuqaha is offering and Embedded Systems Venture certificate that can go on top of your degree.
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The course last over two semester, the only pre-requisites being CS2230 and ECE2500
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Talk to Kahrl or Dr. Al-Fuqaha if you are interested.
GFS
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GFS decided that they would allow us a club to get a membership for discounts at GFS.
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There is no membership fee so we might as well join so that if someone is not around with a wholesale club card we have a cheaper option for shopping than the super market.
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They also allow online order so that we can just walk in and pick up the goods.
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As long as you know the our membership number you are free to use it for personal use whenever you want. (Will be posted upon receiving)