Meeting opened at 1:00 p.m.

ATTENDANCE

Matthew Johnson, Sarah Sharlit, Ben Ratzlaff, Steve Kobes, Daniel Rivers, Suresh Nandiraju, Ty Buetow, Hagan Franks, Tom Slattery, Darin Dubie, Sandeep Walia, Martha Narro, J. Matt Peterson, Jacob Alm, Marianne Gibson, Jason Buchanan, Matthew Ferguson, Curtis Miller, Brian Shucker, Tal Shaked, Teena Werley, Kelly Heffner, Eve Tzinas, Ryan Starks, Jennifer Sartor, Andy Lenards, Stuart Reges.

INTRODUCTION

By Stuart Reges and Andrew Lenards:

• ACM is the worlds first scientific and educational computing society; founded in 1947
• ACM is now a international body consisting of over 80,000 members
• ACM members include the all CS Department's faculty
• ACM has Special Interest Groups (SIGS) for fields such as Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Graphics (SIGGRAPH), and Programming Languages (SIGPLAN)
• Founding members of the 2000 Student ACM Chapter: Kelly Heffner, Andrew Lenards, Jennifer Sartor and Teena Werley
  

BENEFITS

• Annual ACM dues are significantly less; $17 or $38 as opposed to $100+ for regular members
• Opportunities to attend conferences such as OOPSLA at reduced rates
• Opportunities to participate in regional, national and international coding competitions
• Access to ACM publications such as Communications of the ACM and Crossroads, which is published by ACM student members.
• Access to the ACM Digital Library

ELECTIONS

• Chair:
  • Self nominations for Chair: Matthew Johnson, Jennifer Sartor, and Teena Werley
  • Nominations from the floor for Chair: Andrew Lenards by Teena Werley
  • Vote count: Matt 10, Teena 7, Jennifer 6, Andrew 2, Total 25.
  • Matthew Johnson elected to the position of Chair
    
• Vice - Chair:
  • Self nominations for Vice-Chair: Andrew Lenards
  • With no other nominations for Vice-Chair, Andrew Lenards elected to position of Vice-Chair
• Secretary:
  • Self nominations for Secretary: Sarah Sharlit and Teena Werley
  • Vote count: Sarah 11, Teena 15, Total 26 (Discrepancy on total due to additional member entering the meeting late)
  • Teena Werley elected to the position of Secretary
• Treasurer
  • Self nominations for Treasurer: Jennifer Sartor and Eve Tzinas
  • Vote count: Jennifer 8, Eve 18, Total 26
  • Eve Tzinas elected to the position of Treasurer
    

COMMITTEES

• Discussion of possible committees to be formed and their function
• Coding Competition Committee
• T-Shirt Committee
• Funding Committee
• Philanthropy Committee
• Webpage Committee
• Various Events/Programs Committees
• Other committees will be appointed as needed
  

CODING COMPETITION

• An ACM Student Chapter Coding Competition is planned for Saturday, October 21, 2000 - A committee will be appointed to administer the competition
• The top three teams, consisting of 3 members each, will go to the Rocky Mountain Regional Programming Competition in November 4, 2000.

T-SHIRTS

• Two different T-shirt designs were suggested, one for the members of ACM with the UA ACM logo and one for the CS department in general. The latter would be sold to generate funds.

• Ryan Starks, who has connections with a local silk-screening business, will provide assistance in getting the T-shirts and other customizable items made for the chapter

MEMBERSHIP DUES/FUNDING

• A committee on fund-raising could be appointed to assist Eve in soliciting and generating funds for the chapter for items such as T-shirts, travel expenses for members going to competitions and conferences
• Dues and their amount of the dues and whether any perks such as a ACM T-shirt need to be decided.

WEBPAGE

• Matthew Ferguson, Steven Kobes, and J. Matt Peterson volunteered to do the webpage for the chapter
• Matthew and Stuart will obtain account space and cgi privileges

OPERATIONS

• Teena will obtain information on UA Trademarks & Licensing for the webpage, t-shirts and any publications.
• Andy Lenards has some draft logos for ACM up at http://www.goodnet.com/~lenards/acm
• Logos, alternate names for the chapter, motto, etc. to be decided at a later date.
• Teena will set up a mailing list for all members using the CCIT's Listserv

CALENDAR

• Officer's meeting Friday, October 6, 2000 at 3:00 p.m., in Stuart's Office
• "How to apply to grad school" seminar hosted by Stuart Reges, Monday, October 9, 2000 at noon. Location TBA
• Next general assembly meeting, Saturday, October 15, 2000 at 1:00 p.m. Vice-Chair Andy Lenards will not be in attendance since he will be at OOPSLA and Secretary Teena Werley will also not be in attendance.
• 1^st Annual UA ACM Student Chapter Coding Competition, Saturday, October 21, 2000
  

Meeting closed at 2:05 p.m.

Please notify Teena Werley at teena@cs.arizona.edu for any correction to the minutes