{"id":797,"date":"2014-04-03T19:16:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T03:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/?p=797"},"modified":"2014-04-03T19:16:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T03:16:55","slug":"meeting-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/2014\/04\/03\/meeting-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Minutes, 2014\/03\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"
Meeting start:<\/b>\u00a01:10 PM
\nMeeting adjourned:<\/b>\u00a02:00 PM
\nChair:<\/b>\u00a0Eka, Mikale
\nAttendees:<\/b>\u00a0Eka Grguric, Mikale Fenton, Anna Ferri, Monica Swamiraj, Krista Parham, Matthew Murray, Samantha Mills, Hedda Monaghan<\/span><\/div>\n
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1. Excel workshop<\/b><\/div>\n
Sam and Mikale put together an Excel resource list on google docs for beginner level users. It can be used as a ready-reckoner during job interviews, at the job etc. Sam\/Mikale will send the list to google group and Matthew will publish it to the blog.<\/div>\n
(P.S: Sam already sent the list:\u00a0https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1GhjPVjkdZhxeuUaLNHQYFo-dDLxzaAoMliZWKi65_14\/edit<\/a>)<\/div>\n
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Jeremy Buhler, Jonathan Kift, Jonathan Schatz will be interested in hosting a workshop for SLAIS students later on.<\/span><\/div>\n
Matthew mentioned Google\/Open Refine, which offers some neat features for cleaning up data including facets for non-numerical data<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
2. Raspberry Pie for Raspberry pi<\/b><\/div>\n
Krista (our new treasurer) will keep the proceedings from the bake sale and deposit them later. Krista, Stephanie and Eka will pie-sit the day of.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Why raspberry pi? We are building a robot to facilitate learning at SLAIS. Students can borrow from ASIS&T to do school projects. Matthew mentioned that Woodward has arduino kits to borrow.<\/div>\n
(P.S: Event over! Krista sent an update on our collection: $188.90)<\/div>\n
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3. Elections!<\/b><\/div>\n
Here’s the result of our elections:<\/div>\n
Co-Chair: Hedda<\/div>\n
Treasurer: Krista<\/div>\n
Secretary: Monica<\/div>\n
Web master\/communications officer: Matthew<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Matthew proposed a new position Chief Robot Officer (CRO) and nominated Stephanie. Everyone at the meeting liked the idea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
4. ASIS&T conference<\/b><\/div>\n
This year at Seattle! We could car-pool to go south and come back. Cost for students would be around $150-200. We can arrange lodging with students at UofW through ALA\/ASIS&T chapters. Students are welcome to submit paper\/panels\/workshops\/posters.<\/div>\n
(P.S: Matthew forwarded the Call for papers for the conference)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
5. Other business<\/b><\/div>\n
a. Eka proposed organising “Coding meetups”\u00a0on Monday\u00a0nights where anyone can bring things to code. The idea is to keep it open so folks from HCI concentration\/CS students can also join in.<\/div>\n
General consensus was to have it later in the week, say\u00a0Thursday. Eka will send an email to confirm.<\/div>\n
b.\u00a0Thursday\u00a0(March 27) evening there is a Maker education meeting, Matthew and Sam are attending. We have received preliminary approval and now have a table at Maker Faire.<\/div>\n
(P.S: Matthew forwarded the confirmation email to the group)<\/div>\n
c. BCLA mixer is happening\u00a0next Wednesday\u00a0(April 2) night. Information will be posted on Twitter\/Tumblr. Watch that space for an exciting opportunity network.<\/div>\n
d. THAT camp is on\u00a0April 5th. We could all go together from SLAIS.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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