• CSA Room Schedule
  • Everyone needs to add their availability to the google doc
  • Focus on only opening and closing the room
  • Aiming for 3 days a week (at least 2 days)
    
• CSA Merch
  • Need to allow members to vote on desired merch types (t-shirt, long sleeve, hoodie, etc.)
  • Suggested hosting a design competition, where students can submit their own designs. (We could provide a few CSA leaf images for reference?)
    • Use stages of voting (Qualifying, qualifying, semi-finals, finals?)
    • The student design that wins gets one free merch item.
    • Design contest to be held before the reading break in February
  • Cost of merchandise needs to be confirmed
    
• Future events
  • Global game jam (Not hosted by us, but we can provide a room, snacks, etc)
    • We could also host our own on a smaller scale.
    • Russell can help us organize this event
    • It may be possible to use the computing facility for funding
  • Chilliwack tech hackathon
    • Not much involvement will be required on our part other than promotion.
  • Coding competition
    • Russell can help run this event
    • A lot of promotion needs to be done (Posting around campus, asking instructors of your classes to re-post, etc.)
    • Provide some good prizes
    • Look into gaining some funding from computing faculty
    • Two divisions (div 1 and 2)
      • Division 2 has easier questions than division 1
    • Planning for 2-3 hours
    • Get a room booked (expected max of 25 students in attendance)
  • Tech panel 2025
    • Computing faculty will most likely ask for a speaker from our side.
    • Faisal Neem has more information about the tech panel
  • Social event at Redeye Lounge
    • The last event was very successful
    • Interested in hosting one later in the semester (March-April)
    • We will try to get the lounge for 5-6 hours this time
    • Better prizes
      
• Collaboration and Student involvement
  • Suggested collaborating with the computing department to develop more effective computing class tutors
  • Assisting the faculty to make lab monitors more effective.
    • Usefulness of lab monitors is class and instructor dependent
      • It is common for lab monitors to simply go to class and go home without being able to assist students very much.
    • We want to provide more avenues for lab monitors to engage students
      • Office hours
      • Anonymous forum posting
        • Allegedly possible with the new Brightspace system
    • Unsure of who to speak to in the computing faculty about this.
  • Hosting small talks or workshops
    • We could invite guests, such as instructors or students, and allow them present something
    • Examples of some recent events last semester
      • Zia Hossain hosted a networking research presentation over zoom in November
      • Ishwak Sharda (a computing student) hosted a blockchain workshop at Abbotsford
    • Some instructors like Russell can replace a course assignment with the student completing something at a workshop.
    • People to speak to
      • Research coordination chair
  • Club-wide open-source project
    • Something that the club could spend the next year working on
    • Ask the club what they want to work on (or provide a list of choices) and have them vote.
    • Project involvement would be semi-organized
      • Members can work on their own time
    • We also set up weekly or bi-weekly project meetings to discuss progress, ideas, etc. (Could be on campus or online.)

Action items

- Mason will discuss tutors with Frank (will see if theres any relevant contacts as well)

- Sabreen will meet with Russell about the programming competition/game jam

- Merch voting and starting the design contest needs to be done very soon.

- Finalize CSA room schedule

- Determine the open-source project to propose to the csa members.

Let students present their applications over a short presentation