Meeting Minutes for February 8th, 2007

The regular meeting of the Penn College ACM was called to order at 3:30 pm on February 8th in ATHS E230 by Tom.

Philip Abalos, Dwight Bennet, John Bowman, Edd Carter, Evan Dandrea, Nathan DeGruttola, Thomas Garret, Chad Glasgow, John Hardcastle, Jade Juan, Andrew Kennerly, Andrew Keyes, Michael Land, Brandon Penglase, Stephen Ranalli, Michael Ruschak, Andrew Schwalm, Aaron Sevier

The agenda was distributed and unanimously approved.

The minutes were distributed and approved by Jade and 2nd by Evan.

N/A

• LAN Party report 2.2.07
  • 55 recorded attendees
• Server
  • $961 was reallocated for the new server

• Server Team
  • In want of 2 more people to join the team (must be familiar with Linux)
    • This is so that once the current members on the team graduate, their work won’t fall apart
  • The labs need to be reimaged before the next LAN party
• Bring Your Own Computer LAN Party
  • 100% approved on 2.7.07
  • Possible power problems and solutions were discussed
  • Start advertising now
    • Different design for the BYOC LAN Party posters and regular LAN Party posters
    • Hang the large banners for the BYOC LAN Party in early March
    • Other ways: radio, chalk?, big cardboard, all weather signs, posters, College Town website
    • Lycoming has yet to give a response from the campus events board
  • Sponsorship
    • NVIDIA said our proposal has made it through the preliminary round
    • Bawls – no response yet
  • Logistics
    • Tagging / inventory of participant’s stuff
    • An advisor needs to be present at the LAN party (for how long and who may count as an advisor has yet to be discussed)
    • Parking Lot
      • Police are checking the status and availability
      • Parking tags will be handed out
    • Preregistration should be up by 2.9.07 according to Andrew
    • Develop a sign in process
    • Possible camera in balcony?
    • Rules, regulations, games
      • 1 monitor, 2 speakers no surround sound
      • File sharing (leaning towards yes)
      • Poll of games should be on preregistration form (Field of Combat has been suggested numerous times)
    • Projectors needed (1 for bragging rights, 1 for DDR, 1 for Guitar Hero)
      • Committee for consoles (Jade)
    • CAT5 cable
    • Food
      • Candy?
      • How are we going to monitor food
      • Pizza, hamburgers, hotdogs
      • Cost of food

• Discussed issues for LAN Party

TBA

Meeting was adjourned at 4:38 pm by Thomas Garret. The next general meeting will be at 3:30 pm on February 15th in ATHS.