HKN Mu Chapter - Fall 2008 - The Midnight Meeting Minutes - 12 May 2008
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Start:	12:28AM
End:	~2:00AM
Scribe:	clay


ATTENDANCE
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PRESENT: ackner, aimee, clay, kmowery, alanwu, 
achaudhari, sjavdani, ingrid, dwong, siddharth, 
jhoffman, bkim, arjun, jyan, rzheng, mattea, 
kylim, brandon, pearce, gkchou, hzarka, gowda, 
davidzeng, georgechen, min, zhangz, wsandy

LATE:

ABSENT: mtao

GUESTS: ed, ramesh, sahand, michelle, johnny, 
jared, suhaas, ben, lahini, evan, niels, 
darren, mychang, hari, stephenwu, albert, brlam


SPECIAL THANKS
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-Enjoy the food!
-Special thanks to blam and georgechen for the foothill late night snacks!


AGENDA
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1) Semester Motto
2) Ryan's Account Talk Time
3) Duties Files and Prot
4) HKN Retreat
5) Finals Week Office Hours
6) Exec Meetings
7) HKN Semester Report: Spring 2008


1) SEMESTER MOTTO
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Rejected Mottos:
-"****ing Johny Tran since Spring 2008"
-"HKN Fall 2008: Lahini Appreciation Edition"
-"You're so smart, you should be in HKN"
-"HKN Fall 2008: No Potholes"
-"Double-Fun Jiggling Since Spring 2008"
-"HKN Fall 2008: Quit Saying HKN Spring 2008!"
-"HKN Fall 2008: Never gonna give you up"
-"HKN Fall 2008: Never gonna let you down"
-"The end is Nir"

Fall 2008 Motto: "Life Sucks: At Least We Have HKN"


2) RYAN'S ACCOUNT TALK TIME
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HKN Logins
-officers get user accounts on the HKN machines (hkn ihtfp bridge oldhkn)
-please use a secure password!
--you cannot make your password "nicole7" or "hunter2"
-don't do stupid or illegal things

Mailing Lists
-ask ops@hkn to subscribe to any mailing lists
-do NOT mail attachments to mailing lists
--or Keaton will HUNT YOU DOWN. and then Ryan will eat you.
-reply to confirm you read the compserv policy email


3) DUTIES FILES AND PROT
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Duties Files
-old officers: write your duties files
-read your duties files ~hkn/

Prot
-check out hkn.berkeley.edu/prot


4) HKN RETREAT
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-labor day weekend aug 29-31
-attendance is mandatory!


5) FINALS WEEK OFFICE HOURS
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-mandatory!
-you are responsible for making sure your OH is covered
-sign up for two hours with Suraj / Tutoring Committee
-tell tutoring your previous coursework


6) EXEC MEETINGS
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-open to everyone
-ask ops@hkn to get on hkn@hkn (or suicidal@hkn)


7) HKN SEMESTER REPORT: SPRING 2008
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WHAT WAS GOOD: ^_^ =)
-officers were very approachable
-officer cohesion / turnout
-candidate-->officer conversion rate!
-after-OM dinners
-creek cleanup
-GM speakers
-esports mailing list
-rock climbing (overbudget?)
-E4K and E&M science club >> pies
-paintball FTW
-Niels' and James' BBQ skillz.
-fast elections! (with air conditioning...)
-banquet was AWESOME!
-SLIDESHOW WAS AMAZING (rick astley we love you)
-P VP performance
-indrel candidate bbq
-many many awesome review sessions
-bridge, indrel committee projects


WHAT WAS BAD: >_< =(
-OH scheduling
-OH "early" morning attendance
-merger status / info
-some officer casualties X_X
-timely MINutes
-candidate cohesion
-timely challenges / motivation to do challenges
-RSVP confusion
-HOSERS.
-Retreat: too short (frickin' potholes)
-Alumni Broomball scheduling
-Alumni Appreciation Dinner: pf changs
-better drinks at events
-cross committee communication (exam files, compserv)
-bridge: pictures on the soda wall 


WHAT WE COULD DO BETTER:
-more brainstorming meetings
-better communication from officers to members / candidates
-regular inter-committee meetings / dinners
-vp: discuss initiation milestone details at GMs
-vp/deptrel: essay writing requirement (needed for faculty presentation in fall?)
-rsec: member encouragement at a personal level
-rsec: members section of webpage
-csec: more candidates per course surveys
-act: reservations for Fenton's
-act / compserv: note on events page, "Events for Members Only" 
-exam files: exam conversion requirements (get rid of?)
-indrel: HKN at CalSO, advising for freshmen
-indrel: professional help for members (as in industry, not psychology)
-publicity: welcome week tabling
-publicity: HKN apparel! (t-shirts actually coming...)
-tutoring: tutoring checkups / enforcer (Suraj Gowda)?
-tutoring: start OH scheduling earlier