2006-02-23 Meeting Minutes


CSSS Meeting Minutes Thursday, February 23, 2006; 5:00pm @ CSSS Office Roll Call: Arash, Nakisa, Jamie, Peter, Mark S., Tristan, Eugene, Andrew R., James, Mark L., Rachel, Derrick, Charles, Jake

1.0 Exec Photo

  • Sunday Feb. 26, 4pm @ Evangelos Photography -> 3156 West Broadway, near MacDonald

  • execs and reps both invited

  • will be formal wear

  • Enigma for dinner afterwards

    2.0 Grad Gift/Class Act

  • collect donations from graduating students, amount will be matched by the department

  • photocopier? ask department what they would like

    3.0 Grad Event

  • boat cruise? (James)

  • hold it a week before class ends

  • Saturday April 1 - tentative

  • probably get 100 tickets, never sell out

  • hopefully charge less to encourage greater attendance

    4.0 Women in Computing Movie Night

  • Friday March 24, 5:30pm @ CS Board Room

  • probably order sushi

  • expect 20-30 people in attendance

  • sponsorship?

  • 24% of CS students at UBC are women, one of the highest rates in Canada

    5.0 Beer Garden Post Mortem

  • same turn out as last time

  • worked out better by using the entire lounge

    6.0 Game Night

  • dual XBox 360, board games, poker

  • Friday March 17

  • tentative

    7.0 CS-MIS IT Night

  • 8 companies so far, space for 15 total

  • 35 tickets for CS, 35 for MIS

  • MIS setting up website for registration

  • suggest getting registrees to pick up a physical ticket

  • we need to pick a speaker

    8.0 Student Excellence Service Award

  • 3 awards, $500 each

  • nominate fellow CS student, approach a professor for reference letter

  • due March 31

    9.0 Yearbook

  • trying to find out details

  • submit pictures to yearbook(at)thecube.ca

    10.0 Exec Elections

  • March 13-17 accepting nominations, vote March 21-22

  • vote for president, vp external, vp internal, treasurer, secretary, SUS rep, social coordinator x2

  • apply for webmaster -> let next year’s exec choose

  • let next year’s exec choose all the reps (sports, BCS, 1st/2nd/3rd/4th year)

    11.0 Project Video

  • contact Nakisa if know anyone who is interested in making a 2-10 minute video of their CS project

    12.0 Evangelos Gift Certificates

  • have draws for all

  • 3 for Class Act donators

  • 1 for yearbook picture submittors

  • 5 for boat cruise

    13.0 Exam Database

  • Paul says it sounds good, will find out more from department decisions

    14.0 Digital Camera

  • do we need to buy one?

  • probably not, execs can bring their own