Club Moz:Meetings/November 9, 2006

Meeting Notes

Hack Day

Thoughts on the last one

• Not enough people to justify having a whole lab
• For now we will be holding it in the Linux Club which has the added benefit of allowing food and drink
• If the situation changes in the future (we hope it will), we will move somewhere bigger.

Advertising

• Things to do in the future
  • Flyers
    • Ask the student council if we can get these printed at zero cost (Phil)
    • Ask David if he can print them for us
    • Ask Dave Manley if we can use his logo for them
  • Put an announcement on My.Seneca (Vanessa)
  • Put an announcement on the TVs around the school (Vanessa)
  • Send an e-mail to all the CS profs asking them to tell their students
  • Talk with non-CS profs about informing their students (GAS, arts, etc)
  • Make a point of telling DPS909 students that we are feeding them to do their homework

Future Events

• We'd like to invite non-CS students as well. To do things like Bug Triage, Litmus, etc.
• People without a specific project could do those on well if they want to
• We will be having Super Fun Hack Day every Tuesday for the rest of the semester (not including exam week)

End of Semester Party

• December 15, 2006
• Starts after BSD exams are over (someone update this with the time please)
• Ends around 6
• At the Hive
  • See if it's available (Phil)
• Pop/chips/crackers will be provided
  • First 2 cans are free, then $.50 each
• We want to play video games on the TVs
  • Can we hook up 1 system to each TV? (Phil)
• No alcohol at this event

Wiki Page

• The wiki page has not been updated nearly enough
• Phil is in charge of updating the main page
• Ben will be posting meeting notes

Web Stuff

• Contact Mozilla about obtaining an @mozilla.org address (Liz)
  • We still need to decide exactly what we want it to be
• Contact Mozilla about getting webspace from them (Liz)
  • Need to decide what the subdomain would be

Event Ideas

• We would like to start helping out with Internationalization
  • Brian Perry is involved with these. We would like to speak with him more about it
  • We plan to invite him to a meeting to tell us what exactly he does and how we can help (Tom)
• Test Days/Bug Triage Days
• "Get to know us" day at the start of the semester

Future Meetings

• Open to everybody
  • Advertise them on the website and wiki, maybe an optional mail reminder
• Ben: See if Wedneday meetings will work
  • Update: Yes, Wednesdays at 6:30 are fine - bhearsum
• Meetings for the rest of the semester will be help at 6:30pm on Wednesdays in the Linux Club
• Meeting notes will be posted online from now on (Ben)
• Anyone with a gmail account should send Ben their e-mail address to receive Google Calendar events.
  • Should there be a Club Moz calendar?

Firefox Party Post-Mortum Discussion

The Good

• It turned out very well despite lack of proper planning
• Much was learned

The Bad

• No plates, napkins, serving trays
• No water, no non-junk food
• It was tough to get people to come upstairs to the party
  • The security guard wasn't nice
  • People couldn't bring up their alcohol
• Giveaways were not stored in a secure place. People grabbed them up without permission

The Future

• Inform any non-club people (Hive staff, security, etc) what they should be telling people
  • IE. Not "You can't go upstairs"
• Make a party checklist (Phil)
  • Food/drink required
  • Things that will be given away
  • Things we need access too
  • Maybe make it a form that we fill out before-hand so we don't forget anything
• Make sure we request everything we want in advance, specifically with SSF

Long Term Ideas

• Maybe change from the "Mozilla" club to the "Open Source" club

Misc.

• Get people started on small Mozilla projects to get them involved with the community
• Get people within the community (former DPS909 students probably) to help out and mentor new people
• We still have a lot of food and drink leftover from the Firefox party. We decided to store it in lockers until we use it up