MeetingAgenda

Guidelines

• Try to give some detail, so people can think about a topic before the meeting.
• Try not to put items on the agenda at the last minute.

2008

2008-11-26

New Business

• Last meeting for the semester
• Elections (Vice Chair)

Old Business

• Reimbursements from Installfest
• Plans for the winter break
• Signing authority

2008-11-19

New Business

• Elections (Treasurer)
• Speaker list

Old Business

• DawgCam modules

2008-11-12

New Business

• Elections (Chair, Secretary)
• Chair absence

• DawgCam

• Installfest

Old Business

• --

2008-10-28

New Business

• Introductions
• What is the ACM?
• What are you interested in?

• Video tutorials -> (Programming, linux, algorithms...etc)

• Programming Competitions
• learning new languages (interpretted vs compilation)
• Project development:
• Flashcard maker
• Image analysis (Dawgfather App)
• Web stuff (website creation, applets, servlets)
• Server maintainance
• Visualization (openGL, animation...etc)
• Android
• Synth/Audio

2008-04-16

• Minutes to be approved

New Business

• Health Opt-out site
• General discussion on progress and future of the chapter

Old Business

• InstallFest

2008-03-19

• Minutes to be approved

New Business

• Volunteer for treasurer?
  • Treasurer would like to step down if there is anyone willing to take over.

Old Business

• Gazette website
  • Kate has started it, really need some people to take over the bulk of it and finish (remember, you'll get paid!)
• Tutorial software
  • Matt: updates?
• Voting project
  • Where are we on this? What is next?
• Financial project
  • No new meetings held
  • Kate intends to work on it until it is finished (even if she graduates first)
• CS Games funding
  • $500 cheque needs to be written
• DSU Stuff

• InstallFest

2008-02-20

• Minutes to be approved

New Business

• SeRG equipment request
  • Motion to purchase following two equipments
    • Ethernet cable
    • External USB Hard Drive

• CrossRoads

  • Open calls for paper

    • Any doing an interesting project should consider publish the work on CrossRoads

Old Business

• ACM Distinguished Speakers
  • One of the speaker contacted us. Are our members interested in this talk?
    • Speaker: Donald costello
    • Topic: Cryptography
  • How was the local cost covered in previous years?
    • As far as I know (treasurer), it was covered by faculty, but we should check with people who organized previous talk
• Financial Project update
• New server
  • Logan, any update on this?
• DSU
  • Honorarium for site hosting
  • Constitution Ratification

• InstallFest

  • Do we have atrium booked?
  • Do we have all the equipment needed?
• CEOS
• Committe Formation
• New Bylaws
• AGM Make-up

2008-01-30

• Minutes to be approved

New Business

• ACM Distinguished Speakers
  • Will we be inviting someone this term?
• Multiple years or lifetime membership?
  • Someone inquired about whether we have lifetime membership. Should we create one?
• Membership Fee Pricing
  • The treasurer would like to have a specific pricing for membership fee

Old Business

• Deferred AGM events
  • Date?
  • Event suggestion?
  • Awards and nomination process
• Tiger Projects
  • Financial Project
    • Next meeting date preferences
    • Next meeting agenda

  • TigerBooks and TigerSuites

    • Anyone interested in help this thing get rolling?
    • The treasurer would be happy to lead as long as there is enough people helping out.

• InstallFest update

  • Date
  • Who will be involved with organizing?
  • Advertisement
• CEOS and Industry Series Update
  • Any update on these two events?
• Ratification Status
  • Any update on constitution revision?
• DSU
  • Any update on cheque status?

2008-01-23

• Minutes to be approved

New Business

• Budget
• Signing Authority Hand-over
• Make-up for AGM
  • Social Event
  • Awards
• CS Games funding
• Recruiting New members
• Membership Fee
  • Those who have not paid the membership fee can pay at the meeting.

Old Business

• Ratification: we didn't
  • need to update constitution to reflect DSU policy
  • Chris Hamilton's fault
• SeRG
  • UCIS will not setup subnet for Eurrecom Honeypot project
    • Should seek funding from local company for getting Internet Connection.
• CEOS and Industry Series
  • Any update?
• DSU
  • Cheque for 2006 Frosh site has been issued
  • Any update on honorarium?

• InstallFest

• Ruby tutorial
• Voting project
  • discussion of current plan (Logan, please attend)

2007

2007-12-19 (Annual General Meeting)

• Minutes to be approved

New Business

• Election
• Financial Report
• We're not ratified
• Membership fees
• Financial project
  • Andrew talked to the VPFO
  • Intending to use Ruby, tutorial in January
• Designate people to handle certain video tutorials

Old Business

• Gazette website: still no word
• Voting project
  • The document has remained empty except for a small part Kate put in
• Plone maintenance
  • has anyone volunteered for this?
• Slammer administration
  • Logan and Aaron have volunteered, Logan currently has root

2007-11-21

• Minutes to be approved

Old Business

• LAN Gaming event
  • Any news on this?
• Installfest re-cap
  • Hardware testing
  • O/S installation
• Gazette website
  • Meeting held, not much covered
  • Waiting for the design
• Financial project
  • This likely will not be started until next semester to focus on the voting project
• Video Tutorials
  • Still don't have necessary software to do this

New Business

• Voting Project
  • Requirements Document
    • Who is working on which sections?
    • Are all sections covered?
    • Does anyone need assistance figuring out how to complete their section?
• SLA for DSU.ca website
  • Are we willing to provide any development? Who is going to do it?
  • Oliver likes to pass Plone administration on to somebody else.
  • Motion to make that a paid position ($200/term). Maybe combine with other tech tasks.
• Plone maintenance
  • We need volunteers to handle setting up and installing add-ons for society/DSU plone sites
  • A service level agreement needs to be done up at some point as well
• Membership Renewal
  • The Treasurer wants to send email out to csannounce and Dal-ACM membership list if it all right with the council.

2007-10-24

• Minutes to be approved

Old Business

• Next social events
  • LAN Gaming event
    • Counter Strike
    • John said he would look into sponsorship
  • Installfest (voting project themed)
• Voting project
  • Meeting failed to take place Monday, next meeting on Monday again
    • book a room
• Root on slammer
  • Aaron volunteered to take over Oliver's responsibilities
• Gazette website
  • Kate still needs to contact them to setup a meeting

New Business

• Programming practices starting soon
  • Kate will be having online/in-person C++/ACM-programming-style tutorials
• Financial project
  • Need to setup a meeting to get this started
  • Looking for suggestions of languages/tools to use for what will be a stand-alone app which can:
    • store data of the spreadsheet variety
    • automatically generate PDF documents from some sort of template

2007-10-17

This meeting could not be called to order as there were not enough members present for quorum.

2007-10-10

• Minutes to be approved

Old Business

• Online meetings
  • Potentially make half of the meetings online
    • Alternate day/time for online meetings preferred?
• SeRG computer
  • Who currently has Dal-ACM computers and what are they using them for?
    • Gilbert and Iain are doing non-Dal-ACM work on two machines
    • Gilbert is gaming on one, Iain is mirroring resources on another
    • Iain has agreed to free up the computer he is using for SeRG
• SeRG Meeting
  • Tomorrow at 11:30am
  • Location: Teaching Lab 3
• Honorarium for Frosh Website
  • We didn't submit an invoice last year, so I have submitted one last week.

New Business

• Gazette website requires assistance building new website
• Next social event
• Voting Project meeting Friday
  • Discuss points that should be covered
  • Create agenda for the meeting
  • Book a room
  • Chair and Vice Chair will be out of town, who can chair this meeting?

2007-10-03

• Minutes to be approved

Old Business

• Online meetings
  • Potentially make half of the meetings online
    • Alternate day/time for online meetings preferred?
  • Discussion of secure methods of voting on motions
    • Emails with a security code
    • Logging onto slammer and using 'write' to submit vote to the chair
• Elections voting (pending approval of online voting)
  • Vice-Chair
  • Secretary
• Voting project meeting
  • Progress thus far on locating online voting research
• SeRG
  • Request for new hardware: Could we issue $300.00 to purchase a Desktop?
  • Study Group
  • Free membership Give away
    • Following Three people won free membership for next year by default
      • Matthew Gale
      • Michael Crowell
      • Jaehyun Paek
• C++ tutorial
  • Too busy to hold it last week
  • Will wait until after APICS to begin them (combined C++ and APICS training)
  • Good time? When are midterms?
• Shell scripting tutorial
  • Jason Kenny will be holding a tutorial later in the term (date TBA)

2007-09-19

• Approve minutes from previous two meetings

Old Business

• Giving out Free membership as the prize for the C and Unix Admin Study group
• Frosh Site
  • Payment has been received for the this year's site.
  • DSU doesn't have invoice from the previous year.

New Business

• Voting project meeting
  • Need to determine a time for developers and interested parties
  • Sean Smith playing advisory role
  • Would like participants to research online voting system prior to next week's meeting
• Security Research Group

  • Can SeRG audit TigerProjects for security?

  • SeRG developing security parts (authentication, access control, etc.) of TigerProjects?

  • Study Group: Planning Session To be held on Friday, Sept. 21, 2007 at the teaching lab 3. It will start at 4:30pm
• Move slammer to TARA?
  • What are we not allowed to do here that we can do there?
  • Can we make money off of hosting?
  • UCIS issues
• C++ tutorial next week, day/place TBA
  • Will be done by Kate
  • anyone interested in helping that knows C++ or even C?

2007-09-10

• Minutes to be approved
• Pizza!

Old Business

• Opt-out site and Frosh site
  • Payment has been received for the last sites (Opt-out)
  • Jon has received his part of the payment for his work on Opt-out site
  • Some update on Frosth site honorarium as well.
• Security Research Group
  • Visualization Project: Will write a visualization plugin for SiLK tool
  • Study group: Instead of tutorial on C and Unix Admin, we will form a study group. Can we give out prize for this?

  • Leurrecom Honeypot Project: Need internet connection. Any contacts at EastLink or Alliant?

  • Reading Group: We will probably have a monthly reading group.
• CEOS
  • What's happening here?
• Industry Series
  • Didn't we discuss about bringing this back?

New Business

• By-election
  • Two positions open to be filled: Secretary, Vice-Chair
  • Start accepting nominations today? Vote at next meeting?
  • Past-chair, Chris Hamilton to be by-elections officer
• Installfest
  • What we have
    • ? (Gil)
  • What we still need
    • Beer (Gil)
    • CDs
    • snacks, who will buy pizza
  • Advertising
    • Some small signs distributed in the CSB already (atrium), emails ads
• Tutorials
  • Java
  • C++ (Kate, start next week maybe)
  • Ruby
  • others?
• Projects
  • Voting system
  • Seminar assignment program (motivated by Shad Valley)
  • Languages typically learned in first/second year?
    • Find projects that can be done for first/second years
  • Languages *not* learned that would be good to have?
    • Develop projects that will use these or find old projects that need maintenance
• Brief summary of activities
  • Can we put together a summary of our activities with concrete figure? This will help when filling out annual report, student chapter award nomination form, etc.
• DSU Leadership Conference
• Our constitution needs some work ...

2007-05-30

• Minutes to be approved

Old Business

• By-election
• Annual Report
  • How many of our members are ACM members?
  • Events for the past year
  • Events for the upcoming year
• Chapter Awards Application
  • Who has the application from previous year?
• Health Opt-out page

New Business

• Dal-ACM SeRG
  • Info Session and Project Presentations
    • Time and place TBD
    • Any suggestion on advertising?
  • Tutorials
    • System Administration, C, and C++
  • We need website!!!
• Committee Reports
• DSU Service Level Agreement (still)
  • What are the technical services we provide to the DSU?
  • Who is responsible of making this happen?
  • What do we get in return?
  • What are the boundaries of our commitment?
• Where does the chapter want to be next year? What are our (as in together) goals for the chapter?

2007-05-16

• Minutes to be approved

Old Business

• Installfest 2007.02 fallout
  • nsluggers want to have short presentations put on during the next Installfest
    • Overview of projects
    • Discussion of technologies
    • 5-10 minutes in length
• Society Plone Migration
  • 3 sites left
  • still looking for volunteers
• Honorarium for Health-opt out Website
  • Received cheque for $500.00
• Membership
  • Can Treasurer email out the list of current members?

New Business

• nsluggers invite to GeekBeer

  • Many nsluggers were unaware of GeekBeer and are interested in attending semi-regularly

  • Interest in making small presentations during the first part of GeekBeer

    • I have heard this has to do with recruitment. Maybe resurrect the industry series rather than try to amalgamate it with GeekBeer? (which is outside of the scope of the ACM anyway)

• Frosh week plans
  • Installfest 2007.03 Saturday of that week
    • Volunteers
    • Need Flyer to send to new students
  • Any other event ideas?
• Summer events
  • Any in particular we want to see happen?
    • Beach Day - June / July ?
• Fall workshops / tutorials
• Ordering Cheque
  • Do we need a vote to order cheques?
• Resignations
  • Dal-ACM Chair

2007-04-11

• Minutes to be approved

Old Business

• Installfest
  • April 22 - don't forget to RSVP
  • Systems check
  • Request for signs for each participant that say what they are doing
    • large name tags essentially
• Plone 2.5 Migration
  • Status Report

New Business

• Summer Plans

2007-03-28

• Minutes to be approved

Old Business

• Dal-ACM Bowling Night
  • Give Chris his money
• Installfest
  • Atrium booked for April 22
  • (We should probably tell that dude who was asking about it)

New Business

• Motion to cover up to $30 for pizza for the Plone administration tutorial
• Health Plan Opt-out: They want us to do it again this year
  • Did they pay us for last year yet?

2007-03-14

• Minutes to be approved

Old Business

• Dal-ACM Bowling Night
  • Budget
    • Bayers Road - after 9:00 - $13.68/hr/lane (tax inc), $1.75 / shoes Sun-Thurs
    • Pizza deal with Vash Toulany
    • There is a bar too

New Business

• Summer Installfest
  • Pick a date
• Keysigning Party
  • Date: Saturday, March 17, 2007
  • Social events
    • Board games
    • Any ideas?
  • Can we sell Pizza and Beer at the party?
    • Can the profits go towards Dal-ACM SERG?
      • I would prefer to sell pizza and beer at cost, it will encourage a better turnout. Or just provide free pizza. Whatever. The SRG is just a subgroup of the ACM chapter, why should it have different finances than the chapter?
  • Any particular reason we are doing a seperate keysigning party (last one was recently @ the last Installfest)?
• SiLK Tutorial
  • Date: Thursday, March 15, 2007
• Dal-ACM SERG Recruitment
  • Any issue with recruiting people who are not Dal student?
    • No.
  • Do all members of SERG need to be Dal-ACM members?
    • Access to Dal-ACM resources informally requires a Dal-ACM membership, so yes.
• Dal-ACM SERG Sports
  • Dal-ACM SERG would like to organize regular squash/badminton nights
  • Can Dal-ACM book squash/badminton courts?
• Transfer of dal-acm.ca to the chapter
  • motion to allocate money for associated costs to the tech committee

• Discussion about DSU SLA re <20070226225614.GB27964@frederic.cs.dal.ca>

2007-02-27

• Minutes to be approved for the last three meetings

Old Business

• Plone 2.5 for Society Websites
  • Migration of old society sites
  • tutorials and workshops
  • call for volunteers
• Dal-ACM SRG Update
  • Invitation for asking people to join Research and Core team sent out
  • First meeting will be held later this week.

New Business

• DCSI Request for an ACM distinguished lecturer
• Dal-ACM Social Night
  • Bowling?
• Membership and Ledger
  • Any reservation on putting membership list, financial ledger, budget, etc., on the google spreadsheet?
• CSCI 1101 Midterm Review Requested

  • topics include LinkedLists, Converting from Infix to Postfix and recursive methods.

• Student Appreciation Night tickets
• Survey for DSU Election Committee
• Discussion about the performance of the Secretary

2007-02-06

New Business

• DSU Exec Review
• Dal-ACM Network Research Group
  • Name and structure of group; mission statement and topics objectives
  • Info Session: Can we cover (part of) the cost of the food?
  • Hardware
    • Is TARA providing anything? Should we ask TARA?
    • Should we contact other organizations (ie, Sun)
    • Do we have a place to store it? (ie. if we got a sister for slammer from Sun, would we want to put it at TARA)
• Give money to the CS Games 2007 People.

2007-01-30

• Last meeting's minutes

Old Business

• Installfest Aftermath

New Business

• Victim is online running Gentoo 2006.1, contact Iain Renouf for access (additional hard drive encouraged), host will be bushido.cs.dal.ca or shogun.cs.dal.ca (waiting for ns records)
• Exploring SAN access or alternate storage for slammer

• Visiting TARA on Wednesday Jan 31st to find Ron McLeod (Iain Renouf and Jaehyun Paek)

2007-01-23

• Last meeting's minutes

Old Business

• Installfest
  • distro's need to be burnt
  • receive hardware expense receipt
  • final emailings
  • any last minute checks?
    • key signing party?
• LAN Party
  • motion to spend $30 on printing a 3 by 4 poster
    • this poster should be update asap
  • initial emailings / web postings
  • consistency of Web contant
  • receive hardware expense receipt
• Budget approval
• Network Security project

  • Contact Ron McLeod at TARA for discussing ideas and getting involved with their own efforts?

• Membership list out of date

New Business

• Image Gallery
  • Get a flickr account?
    • Does this go against our unified Website policy?
• Hardware requests (Who from, what do we want, best way to ask?)
• SSL Certificate Renewal

2007-01-16

• Last meeting's minutes

Old Business

• [:InstallFest:InstallFest Update]

  • reimburse blank CD purchase
  • Attend society shopping this Jan 18 to advertise
• ["LAN Party"]
  • Attend society shopping this Jan 18 to advertise

New Business

• Budget

2007-01-09

• Last meeting's minutes

Old Business

• [:InstallFest:InstallFest Update]

  • What is done
    • Atrium booked - January 27 1-5pm
  • What needs to be done
    • Access to switches, cables, and power bars
    • Distro CDs
    • Key signing party?
    • Beer afterwards?
• ["LAN Party"]
  • What is done
    • Atrium booked - February 17 1-5pm
  • What needs to be done

• MovieNight

  • What is done
    • D-Drive booked - Tuesday's after the meeting
  • What needs to be done
    • Movie selection
• Tiger Projects Update

New Business

• Budget
• New Dal-ACM homepage - the wiki

• Remove acm@cs.dal.ca email account

• This term's tutorials
  • C++

  • MoinMoin / wiki

  • Perl
  • Ruby on Rail
  • System Administration?

• [:BusinessCardSignup:Business Cards]

• [:OReillyUserGroup/BookReviews:O'Reilly Book Reviews]

  • Who wants to do book reviews
• Crossroads Open Call
  • Papers
  • Opinion Columns
  • Book Reviews
  • Art work
• Society Plone upgrade
• Nova Knowledge Membership
• CEOS
  • Start thinking about planning?
  • More importantly, start applying for money?
• Security Management
  • Possible monitoring and IDS tools: SiLK
  • Recruitment
  • Victim Box

2006

2006-12-07 (Annual General Meeting)

Old Business

• Expired memberships
• LAN party summary
• Sun-Rays (a brief rundown of what happened here, and some discussion on what to do next)

New Business

• Preliminary discussion of upcoming events:
  • Movie nights (When will they start again? Who's taking responsibility for this?)

  • InstallFest 2007.01 (When should we hold it?)

  • LAN party (Are we going to do another? What format?)
  • Real-time Code Invaders competition (or something like it). Are people interested in this? When?
• Elections/Appointments of 2007 executive