Installfest ideas

I know others in the group have mentioned this in the past, but I think we should host an installfest at the beginning of next semester. Christian has Ubuntu discs galore (though they're the gnome versions and not the Kubuntu editions) we can use as a starter. I'm willing to support folks with KDE and Kubuntu.

I think Gentoo's a bit much, but holding an installfest for the easier-to-use distros would be a great publicity thing.

We might be able to hold one just before finals this semester, too.

I'll volunteer to head-up the planning of the event if you all want to do it.

LDI summary - it wasn't just food

Christian and I attended a couple of the Leadership Development Institute workshops Saturday morning, and have gotten some more insight into either how the school's policies work, or ideas to use in our organization. I went to the fundraising workshop in the first session, since I thought it would be a good idea to know what Elon does and does not allow in terms of raising money.

Christian can give a run-down of what he heard at today's meeting.

As an aside, we need to make sure we contact campus security to have an officer at the LAN party at the end of March (it's $25 to be in compliance with the rules).

F3 Meeting

It has come to my and others attention that F3:Reloaded is more of an endeavor than I originally thought. Thus I propose that we create a F3:Reloaded only meeting outside the ACM meeting. What is an available time for everyone else?

on t-shirt designs and dave powell

Congratulations Dave Powell, I think you have been demeed more popular than Chuck Norris. Thus I would suggest that we replace Chuck Norris with Dave Powell on the shirts. In addition... this would explain why we got the GPA quicker after Dave said something to Google.

Dave Vs. Chuck Norris

Trivia

Who can be the first person to correctly answer this question: Why is our parent organization "the ACM" called the Association for Computing Machinery, and not simply the Association for Computers or something like that?

Faculty Frag Fest 2

Just fyi, the registration page for F3 is up at http://www.elon.edu/f3 so get your teams signed up.

Also, I contacted Bawls regarding sponsorship for the Lan party.

Any other comments regarding the lan party go in this post.

We are in talks with SUB and Steven has emailed RSA.

I think the cost should stay the same even though we are no longer having to pay for food. (10 bucks for teams and 3 bucks for individuals - money going to prizes probaly) What's everyones thoughts on this?

-Matt

where's the love?

Who pilfered the mag stripe reader? Is there a ransom? Should I set up a bounty for its return?

Possible dues restructuring for 06-07

How would you all feel about offering two 'levels' of membership in our local chapter? We have budget money set aside to pay for our officers to be full members in the national organization, but the $42 student membership is out of the reach of many of our members.

The ACM has a different option, however, that only costs $19. It is a reduced-print version of the membership, but still grants access to their electronic archives. Perhaps we could offer to cover that lower membership by offering a $30 local membership, with one of the officers being responsible to submit the local member's national application?

Additionally, as we are now sponsoring more activities on campus, I am proposing a dues increase from the current $10 to either $12 or $15, beginning with next school year. We can vote on this at today's meeting.

And a quick reminder, a complete list of paid members (ie those allowed to vote) is available on the right side of our blog page. If anyone else at the meeting would like to join, they can pay Megan (today) $10. If anyone has paid already this year, and isn't listed, please send me an email: wmyers2 at elon dot edu.

We have been ambassadeeded

Just letting ya know.. after months of heckling, Dave_Powell'ing (its a action verb now) , and probaly other stuff, Google has finally got on the ball and sent Eric a couple hundred bucks in am express gift certs for pizza and some other stuff. Christian and I are assuming we are getting stuff shortly, but as it is Presidents day, mail didn't arrive today.

We'll keep you posted.

Co-GPA Matt

Budget proposal and vote

Hey guys. I have this year's proposed budget ready, and we need to vote on it as an organization at Tuesday's meeting. Last year the school issued us a total of $768 in several different categories (ACM Dues, Travel, Food, Speaker). I've wrapped this year's proposed budget into three categories: ACM Dues, Events, and Conferences.

We were warned in the meeting last week that budgets are not likely to increase much if at all for the next academic year, so our initial proposal has back-out segments. Our initial request to the SGA is for a total of $1628, broken down as follows: Conferences - $660; Events - $800; ACM Dues - $168.

This is about a %100 increase from this year, so if they won't go for it, We are prepared to drop and/or the Conferences item, and to trim the Events item if they won't give us any increase at all. I think that we inadvertently confined ourselves with this year's budget, so I hope to be able to expand our flexibility a bit, and give some more definite goals for next year. Matt & Megan should have copies of the budget printed out, along with some comments/explanations I've given them, to present it in its entirety at the meeting Tuesday.

We have had a membership increase over last year, and if we turn in our proposal early, as I plan to do this Wednesday morning, we should have a better shot at an increase. I will call as I leave work Tuesday afternoon to answer any other questions you may have about the proposed budget.

I'm excited about the possibilities for this upcoming year, so let's hope the SGA goes along with us :)

T-shirt design &c

Hey folks. We need a T-shirt design soon. Last year, Garreth [sp] did a great job with Phlux, and Megan and Joel did a wonderful job getting him up on the wall in Carpenter.

Ideas for this year's shirt need to start rolling-in so that we can vote on them, and get the T-shirts ordered.

In other news, we are submitting our budget proposal next week, and will have our budget hearing the week following. I will let you know what we have as soon as it is approved.

reminder of budget mtg

Reminder of the budget meeting:

February 15th, from 6:30pm - 7:30pm in McKinnon Hall

My understanding is that mholt and cfunkhouser will be in attendance. May the force be with you.

more carpenter lab fun

How about something like this for the Carpenter lab?

V-Day

Happy Valentines day.. heart shaped mouse pads for everyone.

on a more serious note, pretend you never saw this post. thanks.

NVIDIA Sponsorship

The NVIDIA Sponsorship application has been submitted, so pretty soon we should be rolling in the video cards [hopefully, on the other hand that might be painful]. Anyways, if anyone else has suggestions for organizations that would be likely to sponsor us please tell me or leave it in the comments. By The Way: I'm in the process of trying to get sponsorship from the Student Union Board [the ones who did the Halo tournament last weekend].

Officer Nominations

As Megan so deftly pointed out, we need to have elections for next year's officers. Matt and I can't be elected as we're seniors, Matt planning to graduate in May and myself in December.

What I'm hoping is that the officer nominations won't just be a free-for-all this year as they have before. Maybe we could have a semi-formal nomination time before the election meeting?

So, go ahead and nominate anyone you would like (in the organization) to be an officer (even yourself). Available positions: President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer.