ACM Executive Meeting ACM President
Yesterday is History, Tomorrow a Mystery, Today is a Gift, That is why it's called the Present
Prelude Everyone understands Retreat What is the ACM? Founder: Richard Hamming Founded: 1947 Nonprofit Science and Technology Research Institutes Professional Societies & Associations What is UNT’s ACM Chapter How to use Orgsync Retreat 8/26/13
Prelude: Current Officers President Quentin Mayo Vice President Scott McKeefer Academic Advisor Dr. Renee Bryce Treasurer Danielle Gaither Web master Tawfiq Shah Public Relations and Design Artist Sami Aljabr
Agenda Geek week Career Fair Budget Closing News Guest Speakers IEEE-CS advisor Guest Speakers GitHub Hitachi Consulting Company Important Notes Distinguish Speakers C++ Domain Specific Modeling Fundraising Amazon referral link T-Shirts Work-in Progress CSCE T-Shirt Website Geek week Career Fair Budget Closing
News: IEEE-CS Advisor Dr. Bryce will advising also IEEE-CS Expect more cross-collaboration IEEE-CS President J Mitchell Curran Mission Provide leadership and structure to enable and support interactions relating to technical innovation and the exchange of technical information and services for the benefit of providers and users of all aspects of computing technologies worldwide.
Guest Speaker: GitHub Build software better, together Guest Speaker: Wynn Netherland Available week of 10/28 Build software better, together Collaboration Code Review Code management Open source or private projects Wants to do a workshop at UNT Can cover Git/GitHub Ruby APIs getting started in open source. Want us to collaborate with IEEE-CS
Guest Speaker: Lee Palmer Available: Sept 23, 2013 Important: Prior to the career fair on Oct. 3 Pre-Job hunting and opportunities Collaborate with IEEE-CS
Important Note: Lunch with Distinguish Speakers Two ACM students will be able attend a FREE lunch with distinguish speakers. It will be an officer and one member drawn at random. Must attend the talk and be a member to qualify
Distinguished Speaker: Bjarne Stroustrup Talk: October 11th 2013 Creation and development of C++ Professor and holder of the College of Engineering Char in Computer Chair at Texas A&M University
Distinguished Speaker: Jeff Gray Talk: November 15th, 2013 Associate Professor at University of Alabama Research area: Domain-Specific Language
Fundraising: ACM Referral Link We receive a referral free for everyone that shops through amazon Fliers and emails sent out
Fundraising: CSCE T-Shirts Sami has been working on the shirt design Shirts have to redesign The department will buy the shirts and we will sell them Want to distribute some during the picnic(Wednesday, September 18) (Possible give the first 10 out for free)
T-Shirt Website Work-in Progress http://www.cse.unt.edu/projects/ ecommerce/
Geek Week Schedule Monday, September 16 Tuesday, September 17 2-3pm: Career Fair in a Box – lunch, resume, business card (sponsored by Career Center), DP Library Classroom 6pm: Resume Writing Workshop with TXU/Luminant, B155 (sponsored by IEEE) Ongoing : Launch online game competition Ongoing : Launch Geekiest Internship Ever Contest (sponsored by Career Center) Tuesday, September 17 Various times: E-Games /Demonstrations, various locations at DP 2-3pm : Senior Series – DP Library Classroom (sponsored by Career Center) 4pm : Tour of Center for Advanced Research Technology and Zero Energy Labs, DP 8pm : Outdoor Movie, Library Mall (sponsored by UPC)
Geek Week Schedule Wednesday, September 18 Thursday, September 19 5pm: Geek Week Picnic – organization fair/office fair, dinner, athletic games, music 6-9pm: Ideas to Apps: from ideas to generating code to marketing apps (sponsored by Innovation Greenhouse) Thursday, September 19 ALL DAY- Technology demo - Oculis Rift 6pm: Speaker – Steve Russell, CEO Rite Publishing, location is TBD (co-sponsored with Innovation Greenhouse) 7pm : Gaming Night, Willis Library (co-sponsored with Innovation Greenhouse) FREE Pizza
Geek Week Schedule Friday, September 20 9am-12pm: School Outreach Project
Career Fair Thursday, October 3, 10am-2pm
Current Budget A little over $200 Contact Danielle Gaither for more information
What do we need now? More Help Organization Events Putting out fliers Following through and updates Putting out fliers Social Media Spreading the word Updating Orgsync Updating Facebook Page Photographer
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