ACM@IIT TODO list

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    We held our first IRC meeting on December 18. For those of you who couldn't make it I have posted the logs. For other meeting minutes check out the minutes directory.

  1. The Big Question
    1. What would people like to see ACM provide? Are we even on the right track?
    2. How would we survey this?
      1. What do other school's ACM's do?
        1. NIU
          1. Speaker Program
            1. Career Center
            2. Software Development in the Financial Sector
        2. UIC
          1. Trip to IBM Innovation Center
          2. Interview Process
          3. Talk with a Microsoft Representative
          4. Practice programming contest for ICPC
          5. Halo 3 release party
          6. Install fest
          7. Newbies' week
        3. U-Chicago
          1. ICPC
          2. Weekly LAN parties
          3. Organizational meetings
          4. Talk on Copyright Law
          5. Talk about AI
          6. Guitar Hero III tournament
          7. PhoenixForge (SourceForge clone)
      2. Survey IIT students
      3. Guesses
        1. Gaming
        2. How to get a job
        3. World of Warcraft
        4. Mt. Dew (Jesse agrees with this)
  2. Events Planning
    1. Social events
      1. Volunteers
        1. Jesse
        2. Yacin
        3. Ori
      2. Something like Programming Tonight
        1. People get together to program
        2. We would need a user base for this
      3. Meeting Points
        1. On Campus
          1. Global Grounds
          2. Center Court
          3. MTCC
          4. The BOG
          5. Starbucks
            1. Probably no free/campus WiFi? :(
        2. Off Campus
          1. Stalk the LUG
          2. Free WiFi is good
          3. People are lazy :(
      4. Pizza sponsored by Google ambassadors
        1. Volunteers
          1. Jeff
        2. Apply over summer 2008
          1. Link
          2. Google is vague about the requirements
          3. Does anybody have contacts?
    2. Guest speaker program
      1. Volunteers
        1. Dan P.
      2. Speakers
          NameemailWWW
          Daniel Bernstein (djb)djb@cr.yp.tocr.yp.to
    3. Install fest
      1. Volunteers
        1. Jesse
        2. Yacin
      2. Materials Needed
        1. Projector
        2. Location
          1. Room is SB?
          2. SB108
        3. Easier to present on a VM
        4. Use a Windows VM for those who don't want to commit?
        5. Provide for people who want to bring their desktops
      3. Joint effort with ChiGLUG?
      4. Distros
        1. Compare different distros
        2. Demonstrate installations of newbie and non-newbie distros
          DistroPresenter
          UbuntuVinny?, Dan S. (Yacin can do this if nobody else does)
          SlackwareYacin + Jesse will fight to the death over this
          CentOSOpen
          FreeBSD?Yacin? (if he reigns victorious)
          Gentoo?Yacin?
      5. Demonstrate how to set up a LAMP server
    4. "LAN party/Hackathon extravaganza" -Ori
      1. Volunteers
        1. Adam
      2. This could bring a lot of people in
      3. Games
        1. Warcraft 3
        2. Counter Strike
        3. Dota
        4. Starcraft
        5. Halo 3
        6. Guitar Hero 2, 3
        7. Linux Games
          1. Armagetron
      4. Turnout to UB's LAN party - 40-60
      5. Materials needed
        1. Wireless?
          1. Lags a lot with more people associated
        2. Lots of pizza, pop
          1. Sodexo has to cater in MTCC or HUB
            1. $20 for a pepperoni pizza
            2. $16 for cheese
            3. Pizza size comparable to what the cafeteria has
        3. Prizes
          1. 15x $25 Best Buy Gift Cards for game winners -UB
        4. A large switch
          1. Joseph Lloyd has a 24 port 10/100 switch -Adam
          2. UB had a 24 port gigabit, a 60 port gigabit, and a 24port 10/100
        5. DHCP server
          1. Jesse can donate his hacked Linksys router for the cause
        6. Joint effort with UB (UB has money)
        7. Lots of CAT5 cable
          1. buy a spool of CAT5
          2. RJ45 plugs
          3. Crimper
          4. Would OTS sell us some? No, we have to buy our own -Adam
      6. Location, location, location
        1. HUB - rent room all night - Sodexho
        2. MTCC ballroom - Sodexho
        3. Commons Cafeteria - Night Owl lab uses it
    5. CS Help sessions with TAs and profs
      1. Volunteers
        1. Yacin
        2. Jesse
      2. Matt said CS Dept will fund this
      3. Matt could gage interest in this for next semester
      4. Get feedback whether this is a good idea
          PersonVote
          JesseYay
          YacinYay
          OriYay
          MattYay
      5. Linux presentation for CS331, 351 students
        1. Vim
        2. Demonstrate the power of the CLI
        3. Provide further resources the students can use
          1. vimtutor
          2. LNAG
        4. Volunteers
          1. Yacin
          2. Jesse
      6. End of the year advising sessions
        1. Volunteers
          1. Vinny
    6. Programming Contest
      1. Intramural
      2. Extramural
        1. Calinescu runs ICPC
    7. Employment Seminar
      1. Students usually show up to these
      2. Students are most interested in finding a job
      3. Career Management Center handles this well
        1. Lovetta Houston
  3. Omega
    1. Volunteers
      1. Jesse
      2. Vinny
    2. Tasks
      1. Expand Omega's HDD space
        1. HDD Requirements Guesses
          1. 2x 500GB
          2. SATA
        2. Backup and Restore Omega on RAID + LVM
          1. Software RAID
          2. Which RAID level?
            1. Not RAID 0 - no failure protection
            2. RAID 1 Requires 2 drives
            3. RAID 2-5 Requires 3 drives
            4. RAID 6 Requires 4 drives
  4. Windows Omega
    1. Volunteers
      1. Vinny
    2. Contacts
      1. Matt
    3. Vinny said this is already set up?
    4. Requirements
      1. Move MSDNAA to this machine?
      2. Windows server
      3. Need a Windows Admin
      4. Give it a better name than WIndows Omega
    5. Specs
      1. Same HW as Linux Omega
      2. Dell Poweredge SC1420
      3. HDD WD800JD-22LSA0 - may be upgraded
  5. Admin Tasks
    1. IRC meeting over winter break
      1. Dec 18, 2007
        1. Attendance
          1. Yacin
          2. Ori
          3. Jesse
        2. Jesse is bummed over low turnout
      2. Jan 2, 2008
        1. Who can make it
            PersonStatus
            JesseUnknown
            YacinUnknown
            OriUnknown
            VinnyUnknown
            Dan P.Unknown
      3. Whois
          PersonHandle
          Jessepenguinflavored
          Yacindjkthx
          Aurimasbigzero
          Ryanrcunn87
          Mattoxmattox
    2. Advertising
      1. Promote Mailing List
      2. Promote IRC
      3. Signs on campus / in Stuart
      4. Bring website back online
        1. Vinny
        2. Redirect to omega
        3. What do we want on the website?
        4. Should we use a CMS or our own site?
            PersonProposal
            YacinMediaWiki
            DePaul LUGDrupal
        5. Link to ML + IRC - Yacin
        6. Advertise events - Yacin
      5. T-Shirts
        1. Find contact from Avelo
        2. Tshirt competition
          1. Computer Scientists turn me O(n)
    3. IRC Bot
      1. Useful uses for a bot anyone?
    4. Mailing list archives
      1. Find out if the ML holds archives
  6. Lobby OTS
    1. Open up IRC to IIT
      1. Volunteers
        1. Yacin
      2. At least open up freenode, others?
      3. Case for opening up IRC
        1. Open source projects
        2. Other chat protocols are allowed
      4. Case for keeping IRC closed
        1. Popular for botnet controls
    2. Don't traffic shape SSV
      1. Ori

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