Meeting 0005 Results

UNHM Programming Club

Attending

  • Karl Miller, President
  • Adam Morvant, Discord Administrator
  • Bryan Robbins, Discord Administrator
  • Kaitlin McManus, Secretary
  • Derek Satiago, Trustee
  • Anthony Clark, Trustee

Resolved

  • Elected Miheala Sabin as faculty advisor (6-0)
    • Miheala Sabin as faculty advisor was endorsed by Professor Shallow

Other Discussions

  • Discussed other possible officer positions & duties; quartermaster, treasurer
    • quartermaster organizes field trips etc
    • quartermaster organizes supplies
    • quartermaster handles event and travel planning
    • treasurer manages club finances
  • Elections: discussed options:
    • nominations - people can get self conscious about nominating
    • “name in pool” nominations
    • self-nominations
  • Having asynchronous voting in discord through the bot
  • Discussed the status of the constitution:
    • interested parties will submit “options” to the draft which will later be voted on and discussed
  • Having all member meetings every other week and board meetings on off weeks
  • Pull requests: membership requirement
    • creating a new repositiory and commiting does not count towards request
  • Discord open to faculty and they can contribute to projects
  • Discussed faculties and memberships rights
  • Discussed having a member database
  • Pull Requests:
    • any member having difficulty with completing pull request requirement can ask in help channel and someone will help them via screen share or anything else they need
  • Discord:
    • Bryan has discord bot working well
    • Pinned a new welcome message to explain to register with the bot
    • Discussed role of faculty and non-member students in Discord and on club platforms
  • Ongoing Projects:
    • Discord Bot
    • Vignere Cipher just about finished
    • Physics Simulator
    • Chkpi bash script for python linting

After the meeting:

  • Discussed how we might handle conduct issues that anticipate could arise
  • Discussed possible events we could use funding for, like Pax-east
  • Discussed that there is an API for canvas that could be interesting to explore
  • Discussed fundraising options; ads on a popular web widget, computer cleaning service, donation fundraising

Next Meeting:

  • Discuss options in constitution, hopefully vote on election procedures
  • Discuss results of reaching out to faculty about budget, officialness
  • Discuss ongoing and new projects
  • Hopefully have a timeline for constitution completion and going official