14 Sep 2023


What We’re Going Over:

  • CSO Meeting
  • Byte-le Sponsor Ideas
  • Constitution Changes
  • ACM Membership Price Increase
  • Library Changes

What We Went Over:

  • Bank Account
    • $1117.28
  • CSO Meeting
    • For outside events, we might need to get insurance depending on the event
    • Food is not refunded by CSO
    • Will need to check the mailbox once a week
    • Funding
      • Fundraising is allowed, as long as we send the form to CSO and explain the situation
      • Can do fundraising for programming competitions and prize pools
      • Looking into things to sell for raising money for the club
        • Idea of partnering with IT and selling cookies while teaching about (internet) cookies
      • CSO can cover up to $50 for advertising, mainly for programming competition advertising
      • Budgets will need to be sent January 12th, 2024
    • Current CSO Rating is at 4
  • Byte-le Sponsor Ideas
    • Will be talking to companies that show up for corp-talks
    • Will talk to alumni for fundraising
    • Can look into looking for sponsors at career fair
  • Constitution Changes
    • Will need to update the date of Constitution on website and myNDSU
    • Discussed allowing unpaid members to vote in ACM elections so long as they have been registered as a member of the club on myNDSU the month prior to the month the election held
    • Discussed not allowing paid members who have registered for membership the month of the election to vote
    • Added: giving the election committee the power to revoke a member’s right to vote if it invokes the member interfering with the election
    • Added: special events (duties of the Vice-Chair) can be delegated to the Member at Large or the Secretary
    • A final draft will be made soon after discussed with the Advisor and sent to the national ACM
  • ACM Membership Price Increase
    • Will increase the price of membership all around by $5 (Semester: $15, Year: $20)
    • Price increase will be enacted at the start of next semester
    • People that have already paid for the membership for this year will not be have to pay this increased price
  • Library Changes
    • Added some more books and a QR code with the updated list (9/10/23)
    • Looking into getting a new bookshelf

Board TO DO:

  • Update Constitution (Ian, Brandon)
  • ACM Shirts and Stickers and etc. (Carson)
  • Contact MSUM for Byte-le and continue to talk with UND
  • Companies to talk to for funding for Byte-le:
    • Microsoft
    • Pedigree Technologies
    • Optum
    • John Deere
    • Doosan
    • Bobcat
    • Bushel
    • RDL
    • Case New Holland
    • Devii.io
  • Continue to look into special game nights (Ceasar, Gunnar)
  • Look into afsp.org and Talk Saves Lives
  • Plan on Caesar’s Mother to hold a career presentation (career talk)
  • (Nov-Dec) Look into professor talk spotlight (career talk)
  • (Spring) SIG-Collab Projects (current ideas)
    • ACM Branding Style Page
    • Database for Library
    • Bison Robotics Website
  • (Spring) Github Workshop
    • Topics to look into:
      • terminal and desktop
      • branches and pull requests
      • feature based branches
      • common problems (merge conflicts, stash changes)
      • git ignore

Upcoming Events

  • FAST Corp-talk: September 21st @5:30pm at QBB104
  • September Game Night: September 29th at the ACM Room
  • Digikey Corp-talk: October 2nd, 5:30pm at QBB104
  • FBS Corp-talk: October 11th, 5:00pm at QBB104