Computer Club at WMU meeting minutes for January 30th, 2025

Minutes taken by fet

Attendance

• fet
• rezenee
• dree
• kahrl
• hammer
• hansito
• alu
• scarz
• estlin
• thrawn
• krakentosh
• irissh
• brian
• alliexpress
• samthesaxman
• snakesalad
• girrocks
• typo
• Hoping
• blacksanta

• ~9 new people!

CClub Stuff

Welcome to cclub!

Open House Next Friday

• 1-3pm
• we will set up a table.
• Volunteers needed
• Promote club

Hackathon news!!

• March 22-23rd
• 24 hour event
• Given topics to choose from
• Can build or program a project
• Free food
• Energy drinks
• ACP’s company is sponsoring this hackathon
• $1000 prize split among 3 categories, ~$333 each
• Talks/presentations given by alumni

Feel free to take pizza/icecream/soda

New server rack xoxo

• New metal server rack
• Way better quality
• Kahrl got it for us from engineering campus
• ALU donated the server
• 512 gb of ram
• Commercial grade server
• Free to use for anyone in club
• Servers on engineering campus run our matrix chat server

HSPC in April

• Highschool Programming Competition
• Competition for all kzoo highschools
• On a friday
• L33tcode style challenges for highschool students to complete

Board game Club

Book Club

CTF ran on weekends

People go by chat names in club

24/7 access to the cclub room provided you know passcode (ask for it)

Lots of tools and PC’s available here

• soldering station
• computers new and old

Dead laptops we might fix

Snacks, can pay for them using kiosk

Project Raven

• ran by tosh and thrawn
• Cybersecurity RSO that exists inside computer club
• Research
• Outreach
• CTFs
• Experience-focused RSO
• Make sure cybersecurity students have actual cybersecurity experience
• Help people succeede in the field
• Planning to also train people to get cybersecurity certifications