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  • 17Jul

    WICS Meeting Minutes - July 17th, 4:00 PM (TASC 9204)

    WICS Meeting Minutes No Comments

    Attendance:
    - Kate Tsoukalas
    - Winona Wu
    - Brittany Nielson
    - Greg Baker
    - Ming Hua (remote)
    - Kerry Penner (remote)
    - sumo kindersley
    - Santi Santi
    - Crystal Xing
    - Vivian Xu
    (CSSS reps):
    - Chris Parsons
    - Max Whitney
    - Dave Hughes

    Agenda Items:

    1. Report from Kate
    - Kate discussed the end of semester Fireworks, the mentor lunch, and the WICS/Women’s Center BBQ.

    2. Report from Kerry
    - Kerry suggested to design a new logo for WICS.
    - She also discussed t-shirt designs.
    - At this point the consensus was that we should wait till next year to redesign the logo, so we can release all the promotional materials consistently. We are still talking however and look forward to seeing the t-shirt design Kerry is preparing.
    - Kerry will try to get some quotes as well.

    3. Report from Brittany
    - Brittany discussed the budget for the upcoming WICS events.
    - The actual expense for the WICS BBQ will be lower than $100, since the number of attendees downgraded.

    4. Report from Winona
    - Winona talked to CSSS about the Frosh Week: it will be held on September 3rd or September 4th, 12:30PM to 1:30PM.
    - Winona suggested to have catering in the Frosh Week, she will discuss the budget with Brittany later.
    - Winona talked about the My Student Binder project. She motioned that WICS exchanges links with the My Student Binder project. sumo seconded. Kate suggested to add a sponsor page on WICS website to put all the sponsor links.

    5. Report from Santi
    - Santi reported the update of WICS website.

    6. Drinks Table
    - It will be held on August 1st. Kate suggested to put the profit from the event to the travel bursary for WICS members. There seem to be leftover drinks ingredients from the last event. We discussed moving the price from $2.00 to $2.50. We will try to find cheaper ingredients if the leftover ingredients are not sufficient, so as to increase our profit margins.

    7. Open Floor
    - Winona suggested to invite new WICS members to the Frosh Week. There will a “Meet WICS Members Lunch”.

    8. Jeopardy was played. The CSSS expressed interest in using our game (complete with WICS-related questions) at their end-of-semester event.

  • 03Jul

    WICS Meeting Minutes - July 3rd, 4:00 PM (TASC 9204)

    WICS Meeting Minutes No Comments

    Attendance:
    - Kate Tsoukalas
    - Mona Vajihollahi
    - Winona Wu (remote)
    - Ming Hua
    - sumo kindersley
    - Janice Regan
    - Vivian Xu
    - Crystal Xing
    - Brittany Nielson
    - Hiromi Matui
    - Dave Hughes (Treasurer of CSSS)
    - Chris Parsons (President of CSSS)
    - Judy Seo (Highschool attendee)

    Agenda Items:

    1. Report from Kate and Winona
    - The Ruby on Rails workshop will be held on July 7. Brittany volunteered to organize the workshop with Winona.
    - Kate got some T-shirts for next year’s ChicTech.
    - Kate reported the progress of the BBQ organization — we will postpone the BBQ and keep it a closed event (not a fundraiser).
    - The end of semester beach trip will be held on August 2nd, 2008.

    2. Report from Brittany
    - Budget for the BBQ is set to $200.

    - Budget for the Ruby on Rails Workshop is set to $30.

    3. Grace Hopper Conference
    - A few students and faculty members from SFU are going to the conference.
    - Kate reported some updates about the conference.

    * Early bird registration is now open. If you applied to volunteer, you can wait till the results are out.
    * CTO lunch applications is open, the deadline is August 1st. (The CTO’s from Sun, XEROX and INTEL)
    * Please submit resumes now online if you want to interview.
    * You can still apply to be a hopper. The deadline is August 1st.
    * You can apply for $100 travel funding from CSSS.
    - Kate suggested that the people who plan to go to the conference and are interested in group traveling email her by the end of next week (July 11).

    4. Open Floor
    - sumo motioned WICS reimburse Santi’s cost for the food safe certificate (this is no longer necessary).
    - Winona will contact CSSS about the Frosh week.