acm@UCR first general Meeting

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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.

• 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• We're making a new display because the posterboard is old and outdated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]

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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