==== August 28, 2009 ==== * Semester planning officer attendees: Brandon, Yu-Hong, Sriharsha, and Michael * New first year members in attendance: Ryan Rossi, Joe Pfeiffer, Nilothpal, and Mohamed Kazi * Online discussion board * Officer not present to describe, tabled for a later meeting * Dr. Shin's visit for Sept. 9 * All planning is done, just spread the word * Corporate Partners meeting Sept. 14 * Brandon will put together slides to describe the GSB's role in the department and our activities * Ryan, Joe, Sriharsha also plan to attend * Socials * Late September, volleyball night...either within the department or with ECE/Math * Sriharsha is planning this * Town Hall meeting for mid October, depending on Dr. Mathur's schedule * Early November, movie night in 3102...thinking of movies for ideas * Finals week pizza as usual * Mentoring idea * Proposal was to have a rotating panel of senior grad students, but the response was underwhelming * Alternative is for an informal CS lunch where people meet in LWSN lobby and walk to Union/Boiler Market * Does not necessarily have to be a GSB event * Idea of moving CS department to College of Engineering * This will be a major topic for the Town Hall * Michael/Brandon will summarize the ideas as presented * Goal is to have GSB well informed for the discussion ===== GSB 2008-2009 ===== ==== February 11, 2009 ==== * Send email to mentors and mentee after making pairs * Tech Talk : * Resume review * Ashish can give talk on android * Social Hours : Donuts like last time, go for small ones not the big ones (50$ limit) * Movie and Pizza : book a room for movie, Feb 24, 2009. Yi Xu to take care of it. * Ashish's idea : A forum where people could ask random question regarding Computer Science. It can vary from questions like how I can use Computer Science in biology or civil engineering. like TGIF in Google. * March 4 for game night. We will spend 10$ per person. Rest will be paid by people. Ask people if they want to go to Men's game or Women game. Women game is cheaper, so we will pay 100% for women game. ==== November 5, 2008 ==== * Mentoring Program : * Vijender to draft the proposal * Social Hour * Mary Lou Donuts * Siders * 50$ limit * Camielle and Karthik to take care of it. * Study Group: * Camielle to talk to the girl who needs help * Google Pizza * Chris to talk to Chao * Next GSB Event on next Wednesday * Who will help Renate for CS Employee Appreciation Social? decide through emails ==== October 22, 2008 ==== * Town Hall Meeting * Chris to order pizza * Reminder email for town hall -- chris * Make list of activity and budget * For google activity, talk to people who did intern at google * Ideas : Chrome, Android etc ==== September 17, 2008 ==== * Meeting time changed. Its now Wednesday 1445. * Chris needs to send email to Karthik about IUPUI gathering * Tech Talk * http://math.arizona.edu/~swig * Camille to talk to people about it * Qual Bashing -- What about it? * Travel Grant Meeting to be scheduled * Meet Google people on 18th. * Budget preparation : Tim, Karthik, Bill, Camille to take care of it * Town Hall meeting -- What about it? * Social Hour -- Talk to Renate * High Tech Job Fair -- Let others take care of it * Rohit to ping Nicole for photo * lazy rohit to make private pages for every GSB officer * List of students looking for funding * including their skills * organize an event for this purpose ==== April 17, 2008 ==== * BBQ - move to next week Saturday due to "Lawson Party" * have during lunch * food - Hazem and Karthik * grills - Nate and Chris * reserving Squirrel Park - Hicham * Pizza - Weds. of finals week * Uber CS(&E) meeting - Chris * Next year GSB - 3 so far responded * Travel Grants (2 pending) * need security/database person * meeting Monday at 4:30 ==== April 3, 2008 ==== * Corporate Partners meeting * Can be there entire time - Yinian, Yi, Athul * Have to leave half way through - Nate, Tion, Karthik * Spring BBQ * Hicham reserve Squirrel Park for Friday 18th 5-8:00 (tenetive on weather) * End of year party for graduates * Have Renate take charge on music and entertainment * She should e-mail Barry, Jacques for music.... or just use someones iPod * Tech talks for undergrads - too late in semester for grad students to do this * GSB next year - need to recruit new members ==== March 6, 2008 ==== * Faculty Search - need a GSB person at each talk/meeting * Athul should be this person, or at the very least, find someone to take his place * Grad tech talks - Athul's went well, very positive response from the undergrads who attended * Corporate Partners - need to find reps (Chris out of town) * Top Coder event for high schoolers - need volunteers to help out (2nd Saturday of Spring Break) * Next GSB event - after Spring Break * non-pizza event... maybe Thai ==== February 7, 2008 ==== * CS Banquet * awards - ask graduate student body to come up with something besides Top TA/Prof * Tech Talks - ... undergrads need to take incentive ... * Basketball Game * 20 tickets purchased * meet at CS building at 6:30 * Tion will send out e-mail * UPE quiz bowl - possible food event * Plan on "mid-term" week pizza (right before Spring Break) ==== January 24, 2008 ==== * Grad committee * need new rep - Yi * update webpage, e-mail committee about change * 5 year BS/MS program update * travel grant - proposed change to have students advisor included * ACM chair letter to CS-orgs * see what other departments graduate boards do * tech talks for undergrads - USB/ACM should be driving force * possible undergrad/grad mentor * Grad panel for undergrads * Karthik, Tion, Luke * Purdue basketball game * 17 people RSVPed - going to buy 19 or 20 tickets ==== January 10, 2008 ==== * Plan to have GSB meeting every other Thursday @ 5 PM * Ping Mathur about when faculty search will be starting * Future Events * Purdue basketball game * early Feb. (possibly Mich St. on 12th) * need to determine ticket cost and measure general interest * Video game social - Wiis, DDR, Rock Band and pizzas * Plan on some kind of social T or W @ 6 PM every 3 weeks * BBQ at Squirrel Park when weather is nicer * GSB initiative to possibly spruce up the display cases in the halls of Lawson * Received port complaint - will forward to Renate (or anyone who has control over the Port) ===== GSB 2007-2008 ===== ==== November 5, 2007 ==== * November 6 breakfast attendees: Hicham, Yinian, Karthik, and Chris * Employee Appreciation Social * Need GSB rep. * Need to order more food this year (ran out last year) * Activities * Pizza next week using Google money - Tuesday Nov. 13th @ 6 PM * Thanksgiving break - Weds Nov 21 * skating, bowling, football, etc. followed by food * lack of attendance could be a factor * Thursday Nov 29th - another pizza or non-pizza event? * Finals weeks pizza - Weds Dec 12 ==== October 15, 2007 ==== * Budget - have not received a new statement * PGSG food drive * start early (Nov. 1) since this announced so late * defer this topic to next meeting * Social * BBQ at Squirrel Park - would have to do on the 19th... so probably too late in the year to do this * Indoor activity for next month * Silent Thunder a possibility - GSB subsidize * Food event for midterm weeks * Weds Oct 24, 6:00 * non-pizza * Luke - Google swag??? ==== September 24, 2007 ==== * Townhall meeting with department head (Oct. 1st) * How has new Ph.D. curriculum helped with students with research? Any stats? * Qual standardization * Qual 1 - Issue with students taking qual classes when certain professors teach them * Qual 2 - Standardize among fields? Better communication between student and committee with what is expected from them * Any contingency plans if there is another funding shortage? * BS/MS program * Will this devalue the Master's we receive? * Will students in this program be taking away funding from normal Masters/PhD students (via TA or RA) * Display case in basement * Worth updating? Not many people ever walk past it. * Should we post a calendar of events? * Event for after or during mid-terms * Pizza or BBQ (BBQ at Purdue Village park?) * Budget * Low on funds, need to contact department head * Google pizza money expected within next few weeks ($250) ==== August 27, 2007 ==== * Welcome new officers * 1st year rep: Karthik * Need 2nd CoS rep: Hicham * MS rep: Tion * Travel grant rep: Hoda * Mentoring Event * Pizza event like last year? * Hold it on Wed 9/5 * GSB officers get together - some Friday * Good chance to take group photo * T-shirts? - no, too expensive * Corporate Partners - how involved does the GSB want to get with advertising job fairs and posting resumes (will students even respond to us?) * delegate to MS rep * 9/10 - University President giving talk - part of Corporate Partners meeting * GSB hosting Social Hour - need food ideas ==== May 29, 2007 ==== * Mid-June social possibilities - go-kart, batting cage/putt-putt, bowling, LAN party - Chirs * Mid-July social - BBQ * Contact new department head to inform about GSB - Chris * Contact Abinav about the e-mail he sent - Chris * Set a travel grant deadline - Chris * Maybe do away with a deadline and let anyone submit proposals at anytime * Webpage - hear back from webmaster@cs - Nat