New LAN Date

Hey guys,

The LAN date has been updated! LAN for Fall 2009 will be held on Nov. 6th! It’s a bit late, but was the best option we had to work around breaks and other events.

Thanks,
Hamy

Student Org Fair

Hey all,

We are registered for the org fair. It will take place Friday, August 28th, from 3-6pm in the Commons Center.

Thanks,
Hamy

Officer Meeting Report

So we had our first officer meeting just now, and had a few more cool ideas:

Recruit freshmen by showcasing our projects to freshmen classes
Create an open problem tab on our site : flash based game for commons that involves two or more persons

VandyLAN Advert ideas!
Juggling outside buildings!
VandyLAN Pep band!

VandyLAN Date: Friday, Oct. 23!Friday, Nov. 6!

Hamy

______________Who is handling wha??______________________

-Put in possible gaming server – Evan has $500 to do with what he will
-Put in gaming intercom – Raffi will look for mics that are suitable
-Informal coding competition – Hamy
-Revamp the website, throw away a lot of old material. Perhaps buy a custom theme – Hamy
-Top Coder Presentation (with local IEEE branch) – Hamy
-Have web page automagically update from posts to ListServ (maybe two way) – Hamy
-Student/Faculty presentations – just a few throughout the year, not like fifteen
-Sweet presentation video for the student org fair – Ben

Hello from the New Officers!

Hey all,

We are excited about the upcoming year, and can’t wait to see how this unfolds! To get things started, here is a quick list of ideas we have had for the upcoming year:

-Put in possible gaming server

-Put in gaming intercom

-Informal coding competition
-Revamp the website, throw away a lot of old material. Perhaps buy a custom theme?
-Top Coder Presentation (with local IEEE branch)
-Freshman recruitment
-The Hacker Consortium

-Have web page automagically update from posts to ListServ (maybe two way)
-Student/Faculty presentations
-Fair/showcase for the freshmen and at our first meeting to interest them in CS/CE/EE (Raffi mentioned getting SAE involved)
-Sweet presentation video for the student org fair (Ben said he could put it together)
-What can we do over the summer for anyone interested in coding? Perhaps they could help on the EECE projects, or try to do them and make sure the level of difficulty was manageable?

Also, we will meet sometime after next week is over and done with to wrap up! Chris would like to get a date set for the next LAN, so we can inform sponsors over the summer!

Thanks,
Hamy