acm@UCR first general Meeting


*Meeting held every even Tuesday 5-6 @ WCH 205/6

Agenda

  • Recurring Events
  • Social Events
  • Fundraisers
  • Lab cleanup
  • E-Week
  • DevOps Seminar
  • Web workshop
  • Technical Office Hours
  • Passing the baton

Recurring Events

  • ACM@UCR Lan Party
    • Week 9 (Friday, March 8)
    • In ACM Clubroom (WCH 226)
    • Starts at 5PM (can change)
    • There will be pizza
    • Everyone is welcome!
  • Local Programming Competition
    • Shooting for Week 5 or 6, probably on a weekend
    • Prizes unofficial as of today
    • Allowed languages: C/C++, Java
    • Compete in solving algorithmic problems chosen by professors

Social Events

  • Chess Tournament (w/ the Chess Club@UCR)
    • Planning for sometime around Week 6-7 (2/11 - 2/22)
    • Must be a minimum of 6 teams for tournament to happen
    • Teams consist of three members
    • Tournament will be single or double elimination depending on amount of teams
    • If interested, send an email to acm.at.ucr+historian@gmail.com

Fundraisers

  • Planning to have official fundraising events after midterms
  • Considered locations:
    • Boba Teahouse
    • Rubio's
    • Lollicup
    • Yogurtland
    • Jafang's
  • If you have any preferences or better suggestions, please email acm.at.ucr+vicechair@gmail.com

ACM Lab Cleanup

  • Lab is getting dirty again, so let's clean it up
    • Week 4: Friday, February 1st
  • Plan:
    • Show up to clubroom at 5PM and start cleaning
    • Optionally help clean downstairs labs to help systems group
    • Go hang out at The Getaway afterwards
  • This will be re-announced and officialized in the next meeting

Engineers Week (E-Week)

Engineers Week celebrates the positive contributions engineers make to society and is a catalyst for outreach across the country to kids and adults alike. Engineers Week is part of many corporate and government cultures and is celebrated on every U.S. engineering college campus.
- National Engineers Week Foundation

E-WEEK Details

  • The Week of February 17th - 23rd
  • Most likely in MSE Breezeway or outside of WCH
  • We're making a new display because the posterboard is old and outdated
  • If you would like to have your projects/contributions/research added to this new display, please send them to us by February 1st
  • Either speak to chair personally or email acm.at.ucr+chair@gmail.com with a subject including [E-WEEK]

DevOps Seminars

  • Development and Operations seminars
  • Held by Victor Hill, lead Systems Admin for the CS department
  • Dates unofficial
  • Learn the thought processes, best practices, and tools used in real-world development and systems administration
  • A great opportunity to jump into setting up personal servers and developing sanely
  • Familiarize yourself with basic unix/linux before attending

"How do I shot Web(sites)?" - An end-to-End look at building websites

  • Not official until there are at least 20 signups
  • Email acm.at.ucr+webmaster@gmail.com
  • Topics planned to be covered:
    • Running websites on localhost
    • Purchasing a domain/server
    • HTML/CSS/JS
    • Templating languages
    • A look at the backend: PHP/JS/Python/Ruby
    • Storing data: SQL/NOSQL/Amazon AWS
    • HTTP servers

Technical Office Hours

  • We'd like to hold a sort of "office hours" time where anyone can come in and ask questions about various CS problems they're having and what to do
  • These would be open to everyone to come to
  • If it becomes popular, we could possibly get Victor Hill to attend and share his knowledge
  • If interested, email acm.at.ucr+chair@gmail.com with [OH] included in the subject

Passing the Baton

  • Spring quarter is coming up soon and some members of the ACM Officers will be moving
  • Now is the time to start preparing your campaign if you'd like to take over as a future officer of ACM
  • A good idea would be to get in contact with the current officer who you'd like to take over for
  • Remember, you can contact them easily by emailing acm.at.ucr+position@gmail.com

Special Mentions

  • Gabriel Limon has started a project called "forker" and is looking for people to join the team
  • From the Github Page:
    Forker will be a website where programmers can collaborate socially and with code. It's an attempt to combine both the social and professional aspects of software development.
  • For more info, email him at glimo002@ucr.edu

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