12 Oct 2023


What We’re Going Over:

  • Fundraising for Byte-le
  • Talk Saves Lives
  • Professor Spotlight
  • Updating the Constitution
  • Purchases for the ACM
  • Updates to the ACM Website
  • CSO Standing

What We Went Over:

  • Bank Account
    • $1007.81
  • Fundraising for Byte-le
    • Carson has been talking to contacts to outreach to the companies listed for fundraising for Byte-le
    • The emails will be drafted and sent soon
  • Talk Saves Lives
    • Ian has been talking with a contact for hosting this event
    • Looking into Nov. 27th to hold this talk
  • Professor Spotlight
    • We will begin contacting the professors listed to see if they are interested in hosting a professor spotlight to talk about their career experience
    • Professor contacts have been delegated amongst the board
  • Updating the Constitution
    • We are looking into the process of sumbitting an updated constitution for the NDSU chapter of the ACM
  • Purchases for the ACM
    • We are looking into purchasing some new chairs (four in total + two donated by Carson) and coasters for the ACM room
    • Total running cost of this: $224.88
    • Looking into purchasing this through some of the Digikey funds
  • Updates to the ACM Website
    • DNS for the website has moved to Cloudflare, with the websites hosted on Github Pages
  • CSO Standing
    • Due to an error within the CSO, our standing was deducted to a 3. This standing should be back to a 4 since this deduction was due to an error on their part for re-registeration. This standing should should be brought back up before the end of the month
    • We will be working on bringing our CSO standing up to a 5 by the end of the semester

Board TO DO:

  • Update Constitution (Ian, Brandon)
  • ACM Shirts and Stickers and etc. (Carson)
  • (Nov) Contact MSUM for Byte-le and continue to talk with UND
  • Fundraising for Byte-le Royale
    • Companies to talk to for funding for Byte-le:
      • Microsoft
      • Doosan
      • Bobcat
      • Bushel
      • FBS
      • Scheels
      • NAU Country
      • Blue Cross Blue Shield of ND
      • RDO
      • Noridian
      • Digikey
      • Eide Bailly
  • Continue to look into special game nights (Ceasar, Gunnar)
  • (October 26th) Look into professor talk spotlight (career talk)
    • Dr. Denton
    • Lan Hu
    • Dr. Kotala
    • David Froslie
  • (Spring) Plan on Caesar’s Mother to hold a career presentation (career talk)
  • (Spring) SIG-Collab Projects (current ideas)
    • ACM Branding Style Page
    • Database for Library
    • Bison Robotics Website
  • (Spring) Github Workshop

Upcoming Events

  • FBS Corp-talk: October 11th, 5:00pm at QBB104
  • Halloween Party: October 27th, 6:30pm at QBB104, QBB204