Meeting Minutes (8/29)

Vanderbilt Computer Society
8/30/2006
Meeting convened at 6pm

See the complete minutes after the jump.

Members present:
Jason Roberts (President)
Matt Huckabee
Aaron Thompson
Matt Berg
Brian Turnbull (Vice President)
Jon Ahlbin
John Wisneski
George Sewell
Matt DeVries

I. Introductions were made and new members introduced.
II. LAN Party
- Oct 27th
- Time: TBA
- Location: Sarratt (all 3 levels) or FGH
- We are being sponsored by Digital Life and ITS, they are giving us a budget of $5000 per LAN Party
- We will have four tournaments:
-DDR
-Console (2x XBOX 360′s -> One will be a door prize), we will play GhostRecon
-PC (FFA game of Quake 4)
-PC (4v4 team games of CounterStrike: Source)
- The possibility of LAN Party t-shirts was discussed
- The options for LAN Party food was discussed
-The Pub will cater inside Sarratt for ~$1000
III. Web Design Classes
- Any interest?
- We need to find designers, graphic artists, and Photoshop people -Contact your friends! They will be paid!
IV. Projects
- Middle Easters Student Association
- Vanderbilt.edu webpage?
- TAAL
- Voting System
V. Elections
- Interhall:
-Sept. 10th (Freshman elections)
-Sept. 14th (Upperclassmen elections)
- SGA:
-Sept. 19th (Primaries)
-Sept. 26th (Finals)
- Alumni
VI. VandyCS Game Server
- ITS will give us bandwidth if we provide the server
- We are planning to buy a new server (~$1300), this purchase depends on the current budget
VII. Recruitment
- Engineering School Fair (contact Burgess Mitchell)
- Sept. 15th, Venue Night
-Arcade gaming (LAN Party promo -> console games)
VIII. Gaming Night
- Tuesday nights
- Every other Tuesday: CS: Source
- Alternating Tuesdays: any other game
IX. Action Items Before Next Meeting
- Work on moving VandyCS to an official Engineering Student Group
- Formulate tentative operating budget
- Work on VandyCS Constitution

–
Matt Huckabee
Secretary, Vanderbilt Computer Society

matthew.m.huckabee@vanderbilt.edu

1 Comment

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  By Jason Roberts, August 30, 2006 @ 5:11 pm

  I actually wanted to comment; the budget is $5000 -total-, not per LAN party. My mistake. So the budget from ITS for this LAN is $2500.

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