September 3rd, 2020 Meeting Minutes

Notes taken by Taylor in vim

18 people in attendance or so: Zurek, Tank21, Kahrl, Taco, drewr, john_constantine, CPG , Lenny Lin, Alu, spacedog, Alex Maldonado, Kessler, aron lawrence, Strongth, girrockss, Sphinx, taylor, Lucky backbutton, and hammer

6:00 PM, On a Thursday, on google meet

Welcome back

• introduction of any new members
• one new member: hammer

Distancing Plans

• for now, all meetings will be online
• investigating a different platform than google meet to enable an “online club room” that people can just drop in to
• google meet doesn’t allow this functionality
• jitsi looks like a good alternative and is self-hosted
• also complies with the accessibility standards set by the university

• just need web browser to join meetings

• access to club room fairly limited
• kohrman is technically open mon-thurs 7:00am-9:30pm
• still, please talk to an officer if you want to physically be there, there are limits to the amount of people that can be in a room
• plan is to disinfect about once a month or so, but still clean up after yourself
• girrockss picked up disinfectant and will be out for people to disinfect the areas you interacted with

requirements for using the club room:

• ask an officer first
• wear a mask if there is someone else in the room
• disinfect whatever you touch
• distance- this means multiple people can’t use a single part of the club room at once (elect. workbench etc)

Event Plans

• career talk by Kevin khaw
• former highering manager at google
• “an inside look into hiring at google”
• either Sept 24 or Oct 1

• thanks, alu for organizing this!

• game jam soon (1-2 weeks from now probably)
• new format
• still 48 hours but you don’t have to do it in single weekend and get a week overall
• no prize probably
• stricter judging (only club members or people that made games can judge)

• Alu thought it would be cool for 2 game jams

• high interest in (online) game nights

• no plans yet

• high emphasis on member talks this year
• some incentive maybe?
• badge on riot maybe???
• $10 snack credit if in person???
• pins and stickers???

• to claim a spot just edit the spreadsheet, link is in the topic of officers

• no official dinners but maybe some unofficial sneaky ones
• lots of members miss dinners

• we got takeout and when to someones backyard over summar

• still have midterms and finals study parties somehow

• open to suggestions!
• still trying to keep club live and active

Club Business

• waive $10 yearly fee for new members?
• this is not much of income flow for club
• this is a good idea
• new members only
• we voted to wave the fee for new members
• msp430 funding pipeline potentially broken
• cs2230 not using msp430 kits because of the online classes
• this could come back
• not as bad of a situation as we thought

Vague, Large, and maybe too Ambitious plans for this semester

• door bot 2.0
• we have approval
• has to be invisible from outside
• use chat to open the door
• girrockss showed interest in leading this project
• constitution revision
• need to clarify some gray areas
• pview demo station (yes, we’re still doing that!)
• got large amount of money from cs department to build a demo station for tours and to build interest in the cS department
• got 3 new gaming computers
• still on the hook for the station
• bought almost all components but the VR

other business

PNC

• we must go update some records at PNC
• john_constantine will schedule

wali

• launch small satellite into orbit
• cool project
• to learn more, please talk to john_constantine and Kahrl
• they need more people!

other things

• you can get GitHub pack, O’Reilly textbooks, and many others by just using your WMU email.