CSSS Meeting Minutes Wednesday, November 30, 2005; 5:00pm @ CSSS Office Roll Call: Rachel, Andrew T., Derrick, Chris, Tristan, Jamie, Andrew R., Mark L., Frank, Peter, Charles
1.0 Joint MIS IT Night
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Thursday or Friday evening in March, 5-9pm
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probably a Thursday in the first or second week of March
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consists of: presentations, dinner, networking game, open networking
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presentations -> CS/MIS professor talks about an issue, company delegates discuss how they address this
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networking game -> break the ice
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open networking -> also resume collecting? maybe at the discretion of company delegates
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last year was partially sponsored by Accenture/Business Objects, and partially subsidised by the Commerce Undergraduate Society
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will be held at the David Lam Forum unless we find a better place
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last year 50-60 participants, 10-20 of which were company delegates and alumni
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this year’s theme -> data management
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costs mostly coming from the food
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business-formal attire
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if the idea of networking seems to intimidating the most CSers, refrain from advertising it as such
2.0 Wine and Cheese Post Mortem
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low turn out, ~30
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went pretty well, good food, good wine, good music
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12-13 bottles of wine consumed
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random draw needs to be done (Chris)
3.0 Career Fair
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10 companies said they’d come
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4 have paid
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Engineering Physics and IEEE combined have only one company
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all companies on list contacted
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greater push for company recruitment next term
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SUB Ballroom has 35 booth capacity
4.0 Ideas for Next Term
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post on forum
5.0 Space Committee
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we may be able to get lab 005 if no one else takes it
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might be secure enough to house the projector
6.0 Class Act Glass Thing
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we’re supposed to deal with it
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we’ve been told don’t repair it, don’t throw it out, but store it