2005-11-23 Meeting Minutes

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CSSS Meeting Minutes Wednesday, November 23, 2005; 5:00pm @ CSSS Office Roll Call: James, Jenny, Charles, Rachel, Andrew N., Chris, Arash, Peter, Mark L., Nakisa, Andrew T., Andrew R., Tristan, Jake, Jason, Derrick

Classroom Announcements

  1. Wine and Cheese - Friday Nov. 25, 7-11pm @ CS Undergrad Lounge, tickets $5 and include food and non-alcoholic beverages, tickets not available at the door, semi-formal, featuring CS band “Lango Lock”, graduating students attending are entered into draw to win one of three $70 gift certificates at Evangelos Photography
  2. Clothing Orders - pick up from CSSS Office, bring receipt
  3. theCube.ca - new web address

1.0 LAN Party Post Mortem

  • projector worked well

  • ordered 12 pizzas

  • foosball tournament went well, gave away the XBox game

  • various other games: Risk, Ragdoll Kung Fu

  • gave away the last umbrella during poker

    2.0 Clothing Orders

  • they owe us two T-shirts

  • we have a few extra sweatshirts

  • some possible missing and erroneous orders

  • be sure to verify orders before you distribute them to students

    3.0 Wine and Cheese

  • ticket sales going slow

  • go door to door selling tickets to faculty

  • take tickets and sell in classrooms

  • space for up to 60 attendees

  • grad students have 25 tickets, sold around 15

  • decorating -> balloons, turn off lights, use candles

  • doors lock at 6pm

  • Jenny is in charge of decorations

  • figure out what we have, then go shopping (Jenny)

  • Chris needs help picking up 50 bottles of wine (Tristan)

  • anyone can serve because it’s a private function

    4.0 Career Fair

  • 4 companies registered, 4 more seem definite

    5.0 Day in a Firm

  • visit a company, listen to presentation, tour facilities

  • food usually provided

  • 30-40 students attend

  • plan to target EA, IBM, Microsoft, Sierra Systems, Bell, Rogers AT&T, HSBC, Business Objects, Accenture

  • best bet so far are Business Objects and Accenture

  • both were not very interested when approached by MIS because MIS is so small

  • hopefully by partnering with us, this will sweeten the deal and companies will take interest

  • Microsoft probably won’t because they’re in Seattle

  • IT Night: host a discussion, informal networking, and thank yous to companies at UBC

  • contact MIS and find out more information (Mark L.)

    6.0 How to Get a Job Workshop

  • IBM guy was impressed by CS students’ knowledge, but not their self-marketing skills

  • discussing the possibility of having a panel discussion sometime in January

  • 2 IBM panelists, 3 others

  • focus on breadth -> prepare for IT career beyong just coding

  • have people who actually hire students talk about what they’re looking for

  • bring in HR people, have them look at resumes and talk about what they look for

  • info sessions and career fairs -> usually talk about entry level positions

  • instead, we wish to focus on the big picture, how to move to the next level

  • email Andrew R. with suggestions

  • what’s the path to becoming a manager in the IT field?

  • what are companies looking for in resumes?

    7.0 Getting Information from Committees to Students

  • some committees have useful information -> space committee, teaching and learning

  • we have an undergrad rep on each committee

  • send out emails to reps asking for updates

  • create committee updates section on website

    8.0 Movie Licensing

  • tie in food sales to offset the cost

  • money goes to individual distributer of film

    9.0 CUTC Funding

  • Paul writing a letter of support

  • sell movie tickets to raise funds? no

  • fundraising -> donut sales? might want to do something