24 Aug 2023


What We’re Going Over:

  • Topics / Ideas Discussed Last Year

What We Went Over:

  • Bank Account
    • $ 854.93
  • Member Meetings and Events
    • Fall Kickoff Meeting: September 1st @5:30pm in QBB 104
    • Idea for member meetings prior to game nights proposed
    • Idea for special game night with replay games in downtown Fargo
    • Rest to determine later
  • National ACM resources
    • Not much found on potential resources for the ACM from the national board
    • Potential for national ACM corp-talks, but board would like to focus on local businesses
  • Digital Debit Board
    • Venmo or something similar account for the ACM will be looked into for next meeting
  • Updates to Constitution
    • Looking into how to approach banning the attempt to buy out votes for ACM board elections
  • ACM Merch
    • Idea for merch store scraped for just selling shirts, stickers, etc.
  • Byte-le Advertising
    • Talk between NDSU ACM and UND ACM for having them participate in Byte-le this year. Discussions will continue with them
    • Look into other colleges, such as MSUM
  • SIG-Collab and SIG-Workshop Ideas
    • Idea to have one big project instead of multiple ideas for SIG-Collab
    • May need better advertising for more members
  • Github Workshop
    • Carson working on becoming Github expert, meeting may be organized next semester
  • Fiscal Report 2022-23 ACM Fiscal Report has been filed
  • Visiting 160-161 Classes for Kickoff & Planning
    • We will be visiting 160-161 classes to introduce new students to the ACM and invite them to the fall kickoff meeting
    • Posters advertising the event have been made by Grace and will be distributed across campus
    • Catering is being looked into
  • Professor Spotlight
    • Idea for, similar to corp-talks, have professors come in to speak about their experience in the computer science work force
  • Involvement Expo
    • A table will be set up for the ACM at the Student Involvement Expo on August 30th at 11am-3pm
  • CSO Meeting
    • A representative from the board will be attending the Mandatory Leader Training CSO Meeting on September 13th at 6pm
  • Rules Channel
    • Idea to make a rules channel for the ACM discord

Board TO DO:

- Venmo or similar payment option account for the ACM (Carson)
- Digital forms for library changes (Caesar)
- Update Constitution for not allowing buying votes during elections (Ian, Brandon)
- ACM Shirts and Stickers and etc. (Carson)
- Contact MSUM for Byte-le and continue to talk with UND
- SIG-Workshop (Brandon)
    - Form for what times works for everyone posted on general chat on Discord
- SIG-Collab Projects (current ideas)
    - ACM Branding Style Page
    - Database for Library
- Github Workshop
    - Topics to look into:
        - terminal and desktop
        - branches and pull requests
        - feature based branches
        - common problems (merge conflicts, stash changes)
        - git ignore
- Outreach Committee (Carson)
- Companies to talk to:
    - Microsoft
    - Pedigree Technologies
    - Optum
    - John Deere
    - Doosan 
    - Bobcat
    - Bushel
- look at list of companies that attend Career Fair
- Rules Channel (Ceaser)

Upcoming Events

- Student Involvement Expo: August 30th from 11am-3pm
- Fall Semester Kickoff Meeting: September 1st @5:30pm at QBB 104