March 21 Minutes

March CommonsLAN successful

• 40 head count
• 20 participants

Next CommonsLAN

• April 21 – Commons Carnival? Talk to Kenny Moore
• Freeplay only
• Cod:BlOps, Portal 2, Halo: Reach

Video Game Lecture

• April 5th, 7p-9
• Tom Carbone, Technical Director, Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy

New Officers

• President: Brandon Conway (incumbent)
• Vice President: Russ Amos
• Secretary: Kyle Liming
• Treasurer: Ming Cheng

Server Donation

• Proceeds from 7 (possibly 12) Xserve G4s donated by McCabe and Cummings Research Groups
• Funds put toward replacement web server

Opening up Officer Meetings to general attendance
Talks
Reviving PollVU

March 14 Minutes

Officer transitions postponed
- next week

CommonsLAN
- Friday
- MvC3
- Jonathan Barrett bossing
- posters going out
- Gamestop sponsoring

Gaming Nights
-

ACE Cooperation
- possible service trade; website for VandyLAN (shirts/posters/banners) designs

Coding Nights
- Alternating Tuesdays 5p-7p
- Start Mar 22

VandyLAN Feedback
- Officers discussed many changes

Constitution Improvements
- Officers (+Kyle) clarified constitution

February 14 Minutes

• Gaming Nights – Timothy will be handling Gaming Nights scheduling.
• CommonsLAN – March 18, Brandon will be handling it.
• Coding Nights
  • One person talks at a time
  • Overall, not too bad, but we need to work on it for next time.
  • (Misc. note: Professor Dowdy is hard.)
• Kyle is working on the t-shirts with Matt Blumenschein
• Mario suit from Gamestop to dance around advertising VandyLAN
  • (not Brandon specifically, but if someone wants to Brandon would appreciate it)
• Sponsorship
  • Maggiano’s and Chik-fil-a likely out
  • Brandon to confirm pizza places Tuesday
  • We have a Sony rep coming with Gamestop to advertise Killzone 3
• Bosses are mostly good, just need tournament rules
• T-Shirts
  • Black shirts for volunteers
  • bright red for bosses/officers
  • forest green for tournament winners
  • distributed at registration
• Arcade Cabinet for VandyLAN…? (maybe)
• Officer Elections
  • If you want to run for office, email Brandon (brandon.j.conway@vanderbilt.edu)
  • Offices
    • President
    • Vice-President
    • Secretary
    • Treasurer
    • Webmaster

January 17 Minutes

Tournament Bosses

Coordinators

• Advertising: Kyle Liming. Report to Tim
• Sponsorship: Keith Jones. Report to Brandon
• T-shirts/Art: Matt Blumenschein. Report to Scott
• Volunteer: Russ Amos.

Possible Prizes

• Amazon Gift Card
• Kindle
• Flip
• Hard Drive
• Gamestop Gift Card
• Kinect
• Messenger Bag/Backpack
• Thinkgeek Gift Card
• VandyLAN shirts
• Retro consoles (DC or PS2)
• Sound System
• Netflix subscriptions

Need speakers

CommonsLAN

scrap the original idea, going to actual “marathon” full of Speed Runs.

• A Link to the Past
• Kirby Super Star
• Galaga
• QWOP
• Battletoads
• Sonic 2
• Super Mario Kart
• Mega Man 2

Registration

Even if you register online, you still have to sign in at the LAN

Tournament registration limited to two tournaments, except LoL and SCII, which are exclusive. Also discussed a better interface for listing equipment (check off what the registrant can bring and then have them list the quantity).