Meeting opened at 6:30 p.m.

ATTENDANCE

Matt Johnson, Teena Werley, Sandeep Walia, Steve Kobes, Matt Ferguson, Takae Harrington, J. Matt Peterson, Darin Dubie, Andy Lowe, Jason Buchanan, Stuart Reges

CODING CONTEST

Teena will request that Pat announce the contest to pre-CS, ugrads, and grads, Honors, ECE, and MIS mailing lists.

Stuart will allow contest contestants coding in Java to use Textpad. Those who will be coding in C or C++ will use vi or emacs on lectura.

Friday at 5 pm is the sign-up deadline.

Helpers for the competition will be welcome.

COMMITTEES

Matt J. talked about possible committees that need to be manned. Because of the light turnout for this meeting, no committees were formally staffed, just announced.

• Programs: headed by Andy Lenards as outlined in the charter
• Publicity: headed by Teena Werley as outline in the charter
• T-shirts
• Funding: Sandeep Walia agreed to start investing potential sources of funding and to work with Eve, the treasurer, on this
• Recruitment: Sandeep agreed to find out more about presenting ACM to freshman orientations

DUES

Do the ACM members want to pay dues?

Pros: Provides instant funds for activities

Cons: Exclusionary practice

Do we want to provide a T-shirt in conjunction with paying a due? If that's the case, then perhaps it is best just to sell a T-shirt for profit, regardless of membership.

PHILANTHROPY

Brief discussion about doing an ACM Student philanthropy.

Teena was going to do AIDSWALK2000, but because of limited time to gather donations, she cancelled her plans.

CALENDAR

• 1^st Annual UA ACM Student Chapter Coding Competition, Saturday, October 21, 2000 at 1:00pm Harvill lab.
• Next General Meeting is October 28, 2000 at 1:00 pm, GS 701
  

Meeting closed at 7:15 p.m.

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