HKN Officer Meeting
9/22/03 7pm Cory Hall

Present:
amywu, amywung, andypang, atsao, awang, awei, bheilers, chan,  
connie, dhsu, isaac, jan, jcwest, jluo, kevinw, kgao, 
mimi, nikitas, quarl, rchen, rgulati, ttd, vu, wsim

Guests:
alex, lnliu, nchen

Late:
brandono, james

Missing:
eroller, geoffcm, cling (due to EJC presidents meeting)


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* DIRECTIVES *
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So many...
...places to go!
1.) Tues 9/23 EE Grad School Workshop by Prof. King, 3-4:30 @ Wozniak Lounge
2.) Tues 9/23 Western Digital Corporation infosession, 5-7 @ 10 Evans
3.) Thur 9/25 Altera infosession, 5-7 @ 105 Northgate

...things to do!
1.) All current officers must participate in calling companies for jobfair. 
    Call your first company by Friday.
3.) Committees need to prepare music (upload it to hkn, and then email chan so 
    he can download it), and short speech for the candidate meeting
2.) Look over Bridge's updated yearbook, printed copies in both offices

...people to talk to!
1.) kgao to request office supplies, etc. to buy with $100 restriction-free
    EJC money
2.) rgulati to RSVP for HKN California Convention on Nov. 1 (detailed email
    forthcoming)
3.) chan to request candidates, giving an upper & lower bound. also tell chan 
    planned projects for candidates


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* AGENDA *
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1.) Faculty Mixer (atsao)
2.) HKN California Conference (rgulati)
3.) EJC report (bheilers & rgulati)
4.) Indrel report (vu)
5.) Studrel report (mimi)
6.) Bridge report (jan)
7.) ASUC funding (kgao)
8.) Candidate report (chan)


1.) Faculty Mixer
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Faculty Mixer has been scheduled for Oct. 28, 11am-1pm.  Calendar is updated.  


2.) HKN California Conference
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* Actual conference is all day Sat Nov. 1, so people will leave Fri. Oct. 31 and
return Sun Nov. 2.  We will drive there and hopefully stay at people's places, 
unless people want to put up the money for a hotel room.
* To get ASUC funding, we need to fill out a form and get an exact headcount.
rgulati will email everyone and take RSVPs through email.


3.) EJC Report
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* E-Day Fri Oct. 31 (note, people are leaving that day for the HKN conference)
  We can submit funding request for a booth.
  EJC planning many contests including pumpking bowling & costume contest
  EJC wants to see more technical activities at our booths, such as demos. Ideas?

* Career/Grad Student Panel
  To be scheduled sometime late Oct.
  Volunteered alexf as possible panel member.

* FICOM meeting Thur 5pm 220 Bechtel
  Unclear if all HKN members are allowed to participate, but if so then eveyone
  should attend because financial decisions are made here.

* Broomball
  EJC will begin charging $2/game, but this will allow them to have more games
  Still meet at Hearst Mining Circle, 8pm.  

* Ultimate Frisbee tournament still being scheduled, act look for emails about it

* new High School Outreach program manager needed, contact EJC if interested


4.) Indrel report
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* help with infosessions

  Altera: Thur 5-7pm @ 105 North Gate (help setup projector, etc.)
  4:30-5:30 - connie, chan, vu
  5:30-6:30 - jan, vu
  6:00-7:00 - dhsu
  6:30-7:00 - mimi
  act please arrange food, $300 budget

  Western Digital: Tu 5-7 @ 10 Evans
  4:45-5:30 - amywung

* All current officers, cold-call your company about jobfair by Friday!

* recap of Aerospace incident: Miscommunication about jobfair led to Aerospace 
  rep. flying to Berkeley on Sept. 18. Impromptu table setup outside IEEE office,
  pizzas were served and flyers were posted.  Pretty good turnout.

* just picked up IBM infosession

* pub, get "TODAY!" stickers from vu

* Western Digital doesn't want food at infosession, but all flyers and emails 
  already advertised food.  HKN will provide small amount of food so as not to
  disappoint the masses. Will delegate $40 for cheesy stix, $10 for drinks.
 

5.) Studrel report
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HKN/IEEE/SWE Casino night scheduled for Thur Oct. 23.  Will be free to the 
general public, but people must pay for the food (unless EJC is willing to pay 
for the food.)  Will be held in Bechtel in the lounge area or a conference room.
Prize for the top chip holder, rest of the chips cashed in for raffle tickets.
Event will hopefully will be mostly funded by EJC.
    

6.) Bridge report
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New printed copy of yearbook in both offices by tomorrow.  Please look through 
and add in information about events that you went to, helped organize, etc.


7.) ASUC funding
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* EJC has $20,000 from ASUC + $10,000 from other funds.  But restrictions on ASUC
  money, for example no food, no flyers unless they say "ASUC sponsored event,
  wheelchair accessible."

* EJC is giving each society $100 without any restrictions.  
  Current requests: staple gun for flyering & manila folders for examfiles
  Submit additional requests to kgao

* Discussed putting "ASUC sponsored event, wheelchair accessible" on infosession
  flyers, so we can use ASUC money for the flyers.  Concerns about extra 
  restrictions and not being able to use our own printer for the flyers.  kgao
  will investigate the details about this and will email officers.


8. Candidate Report
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* Committee heads tell chan how many candidates you want, giving an upper and 
  lower bound, by Friday!  Also submit ideas for candidate projects.

* Committees must prepare short speech for candidate meeting & pick a theme song.
  Upload music to hkn, and email chan so he can download it. Do not email the	
  music file to him directly!  

* Discussed kgao's request for candidates to create online database so officers
  can handle reinbursement & spending online.  Concerns about security, time
  commitment on such a big project, and needing access to hkn.  Will delegate
  project to compserv instead.


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* FUN STUFF *
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These and many more delightfully nerdy lightbulb jokes can be found at
 http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~omri/Humor/lightbulb.html.

How many electrical engineers does it take to change a light bulb? 
- We don't know yet. They're still waiting on a part. 

How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb? 
- One, but if he changes it, the whole building will probably fall down. 
- Wait! Maybe the bulb isn't broken. Let's try it again. 
- The change is 90% complete. 
- We looked at the light fixture and decided there's no point trying to maintain 
  it. We're going to rewrite it from scratch. Could you wait two months? 

How many C programmers does it take to change a light bulb? 
- None, they forgot to declare it first 

How many Lisp programmers does it take to change a light bulb? 
- Hmmm, I'm not sure, better find out.... Hmmm, I'm not sure, better find out....
- (((H)mmm,) (I'm ((not) sure, better))) (find (out))... 

How many developers does it take to change a light bulb? 
- The light bulb works fine on the system in my office . . . 

How many IBM engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb? 
- None. They just let Marketing explain that "Dead Bulb" is a feature. 

How many Microsoft engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb? 
- None. They just define darkness as an industry standard. 

How many operating systems are required to screw in a light bulb? 
- Just one-Microsoft is making a special version of Windows for it. 

How many Apple employees does it take to screw in a light bulb? 
- Seven. One to screw it in and six to design the tee-shirts.