Officers Meeting
UPE Officers
Oct 4 2005 - 8:00pm
Oct 4 2005 - 9:00pm
Soda Hall, rm 320
After the Google infosession. We'll break out the ice cream after Google's pizza.
One hour long.
!! Agenda
* Chatting, wassup
* Server status
** Jeremy set up the server. Now running on dual RAID.
** Mail services up. Are people getting mail?
** You have an alias!
** Can someone write a cron job back-up script that backs up DB and website?
* Historian: photos are up! (thanks to Fu and Bryce)
* Secretary
** All notes online! :D
** General meeting notes?
* Alumni rel update (Peng)
** Interviews
** Mailing list
** Incentives
* Ind rel update (Chris)
** Fu ~ chevron?
** Steve ~ Lockheed: resume book only
** Steve ~ Tellme thinks we're HKN.
** Chris ~ Yahoo?
** Chris ~ should we beg Dana? Why is HKN getting all of the infosessions?
** Chris ~ any resume books checked off for candidates?
* Stud rel update - any event dates? (Alex L)
** Video game tournament
** AUWICSEE/HKN/IEEE contact?
** CSUA workshop dates/times?
** TeleBEARS tabling times ~ Oct 17
** Where are the shirts in the office?
** Factset donut run
** PHP workshop (Chris, Bryce)
** Need help?
* Dept Rel
** EECS Student Calendar project
** User testing of CS website
*** Asked Collin for prizes
** Faculty-student dinner meeting
** Interview questions database {opt}
* Candidate affairs
** It's been three weeks: anything to report?
** Targetting graduate students
** New requirements --- were candidates informed?
** Contact candidates with specific interests?
** Need to work with Activities Director, Student Rel on planning events.
** GM2 topics (everyone)
** Post bios and photos online: have each officer interview one or two candidates, and post a little bio about the candidate online, and have each candidate post a little bio about the officer online.
* Publicity
** Python back-to-back flyer
** Ind rel brochure (Jen+Chris)
** Website theme improvements (Jen+vice presidents+candidates) {opt}
*** e.g. icon
*** HKN is revamping their website
*** and our website might not look too friendly for industry, faculty people
*** Should we evaluate our website's effectiveness?
* Website and Project Planning
** Critiques. is it too hard to use? (everyone)
** Tour of officers pages
* Office
** Moving plans (Fu?)
*** Begin by Craigslisting all the crap we don't need? Like that printer?
** We need a desktop computer. (by Chris Willmore, Peng, ...)
*** I have a Pentium III I can donate (Steve)
*** Or, if anyone else has a spare computer.
*** How many ethernet ports do we have available to us?
** Where are the shirts?
** What is the room combination?
* T-shirt
** Let's just get it for alums, officers, members/candidates pay, and if there is sufficient interest from other people, we can take pre-sign-ups and ''then'' print it (rather than print 200 shirts that nobody wants).
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!! Candidate activities
* Office move-in
* Alumni relations
* Interview questions database
* Research database - evaluate
* CS dept website evaluation
* Org faculty-student dinner
* Org Python help-session
* Org any workshops
* Improved themes for UPE site
* Peer-advising tele-bears tabling
!! Attending
* Jen - no
* Bryce - no
* Ray - not there. (?)
* Varun, Kaisen (possibly Chris, Alex Jaffe) - late b/c of 191
!! Meeting notes
* Peng will contact a few alums with interview questions.
* Plan out stuff for an alumni rel tema to do. (get Peng an alumni rel team)
* Get Peng a computer to use!
* T-shirts: one design, shoulder with logo, ringer shirt, design in front. color scheme is weird. just sell upe shirts for everyone.
CS turns me on is popular.
* Bryce: get office hours from Jen
* Chris Willmore: we're getting microsoft infosession
* Wei: taking care of faculty-student dinner stuff
* Alex L: date set for video game tournament; no replies yet from other clubs; getting other events
* Fu: will have info from Chevron on funding next week?
* Brian: setting up social event/game nights next week.
* Computer monitor.
* Ray: needs to contact graduate students.
* Ray: why is nothing planned for candidates?
* Carolen: checked off
* Alex L: broomball already scheduled by HKN without
* We are no longer using online forums or projects. We'll use officers @ upe . cs instead.
* Jen: create a color brochure with Chris Willmore's text to send to companies
for all other news, and the t-shirt design, please see
http://upe.cs.berkeley.edu/node/223
* server + Jeremy: will install X windows when we move.
* steve needs to make designs for fu (who will order 50 t-shirts)
!! Revised t-shirt design
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