Minutes of Meeting on 26/10/16 at 6:00pm

Minutes for the second meeting of Semester 1, 2016-17.

Present:

Viktorija Lukosiute, Erin Pigeon, Qais Patankar, Aw Qingzhuo, Martynas Grigonis, Josh Green

Agenda:

GitHub
- They may be lenient about us using Octocat
- GH is running an experiment - tech community training people to get GH to help our community
  - Suggestions needed for pretty things to say
  - What happens if there are disagreements? Are these documented? Erin will check the constitution
  - 2nd semester - give us octocat stickers!
Fresher’s input. Hoodie design competition? Must be safe for work. Back of the hoodies, quirky.. geeky?
- Post on Facebook or send to our email
- Can we do something to get people hyped?
- Winner gets a free hoodie!

Events:

Get HackSig people (deadline: November 19th)
Microsoft: room booked from 6 to 9pm, 3rd November
STMU - Aw:
- Sumdog & King have been spoken to
- Microsoft is in touch
Google Hash Code is on 23rd February 2017
- ILW is Feb 20-24
- We are not registered yet! First waiting for a response from Hoppers
What about the Smart Data Hack?
Wednesday engineer’s fair - ReactJS from 1 till half 3 - with Lunch!
Christmas 🎄
- ~~Christmas dinner~~ / ~~Ceilidh~~: too expensive
- Secret santa?
- Informatics ball? -> InfBall (2nd semester, “not a compulsory black tie ball”)
- Pub crawl? -> Christmas music with christmassy snacks (how would this work in a crawl?)
- Christmas quiz? -> Teviot. Microphones need to be sorted out.