First General Meeting

Aug 31, 2016

Cyberinfrastructure Association

Meeting Agenda

  1. Call to Order

  2. Roll Call
    • Officers present: Matthew Whitlock (President), Brandon White (Treasurer), Cameron Mehmken (Membership Chair)
    • Total Present: 12
  3. Open Issues:
    1. Current Communication and services - Discussion
      • Sign up for slack to recieve up-to-date information on club meetings, etc.
      • Email with be used sparingly
    2. Membership Fees - Yea or Nay
      • Vote was ‘all in favor’ or $5 annual membership fee
      • Special Fun Distribution - Yea or Nay
        • Vote was ‘all in favor’ to earmark the membership fees to be used for membership discounts. Alternative uses require a supermajority vote.
    3. Club funds - Discussion
      • AFAP at the end of the fall semester - have a plan to present to SGA
      • College Councils are good funding sources but usually stipulations (A&S, CEAT, etc.)
      • Also think of offices with a common/similar mission who could provide cosponsorship - again, usually with stipulations
      • Corporate sponsorship for special projects (Like building the cluster?)
    4. Club goals for the year - Discussion
      • Main foal this year: to provide educational and skil-building opportinuties for CIA members - building the cluster, attending conferences, competitions, workshops, etc.
    5. Attendance requirements - Yea or Nay
      • Those in attendance feel the $5 membership is probably enough incentive to keep members involved, but encourage Slack communication among regular members
  4. New Business
    1. New Cluster Computer - Discussion
      • Members will contribute ideas for cluster components, ideas, etc. over the next month before meeting in the Tiny Titan Slack channel
    2. Creation of “Teams” - Yea or Nay
      • All in attendance agreed project teams were a good idea, but suggested that it’s important to make sure the teams stay connected and don’t get siloed
    3. Call for further topics - Discussion
      • Association of Computing Machinery - Meeting was at 5:30 that day
        • The “unofficial” computer science club
      • 2016 OK-LSAMP Research Symposium - Sept. 24
  5. Adjournment