June 3rd, 2014 - 18:00 @ 200-374 Donald
- Call to order: 19:00 (28 members in attendance)
- Review of previous meeting minutes: approved without correction
- Old business
- Hacker jeopardy (Ron): tickets are still available. Please contact
Jay, Alex, Richard or Nate if you need some. This is an important
fundraiser and will be a great time. Please come join us!
- Library partnership update (Jay): Partnership with the library is
progressing. They would like us to work on programming that can be
delivered to youth. This is an important outreach opportunity.
If anyone is
interested in participating, please contact Jay. Jay will be meeting with
library on Friday to review potential project options.
- Newark/Element14 update (Ben): We still have the option of taking
advantage of Element14's offer to provide free gear in exchange
for a blog
post.
- Schwag strikeforce update (Nate): Nathan, Colin C. and Ian are
coordinating an order for T-shirts and good quality stickers. Ian has
agreed to finance this so there is minimal risk to SkullSpace. Please
contact Nathan ASAP if you are interested in getting a shirt so that we
have an idea how many to order. He needs to know size and style (logo or
text).
- Wiki/web hackathon (Alex): We had our first wiki/website hackathon
this Sunday. It was attended by seven members. Tasks have been broken out
onto a dedicated board in the SkullSpace Trello
- New business
- June hackathon - Music (Nate): The planning strikeforce for the
June hackathon will be meeting immediately after the member
meeting. Please
attend if you would like to participate! Collaboration will be done via a
dedicated list in Trello.
- July hackathon - Project Euler (Jay): The July hackathon will be
Project Euler. It will include talks on how some problems were solved as
well as opportunities for people to work on them collaboratively. There
will also b a lively debate on the proper pronunciation of
“Euler”. Please
contact Jay or Mak for more info, or stay tuned to the Trello.
- Comic Con (Ben): C4 is last weekend in October and we will once
again have a presence there. Please think of possible projects
to showcase
and consider setting aside time to volunteer to man our booth.
- Winnipeg JS User Group (Jeremy): The Winnipeg JS user group will be
meeting at SkullSpace on June 18. If you are interested in JavaScript,
please try to attend.
- Partnership with IEEE Young Professionals (Troy): IEEE YP is a
group catering to engineering / technology grads. Troy is interested
fostering a partnership to deliver some workshops. The group was
generally
in favour of this.
- Doors (Colin S.): Our doors are confusing and like to trap people
inside (or outside) the space. Please do not touch the
ambiguously labeled
switch unless you understand what it does as leaving it in the wrong
position can overload the power supply and lock the doors.
- Graphic design course (Rylaan): Rylaan would like feedback on what
applications to use for the graphic design course that he is planning.
General concensus was that open soure applications would be prefered.
- DNS Talk (Ron): Ron is doing a talk at B-Sides Montreal and will be
doing a dry run at the space. The topic will be Pentesting with
DNS and it
will likely be held next Tuesday. An email notification will be sent out.
Everyone should come and provide Ron with “constructive criticism”.
- Ron and Mak are working on a web service based replacement for Ida.
If anyone has experience with front end web development and is interested
in working on this project. Please contact them.
- Adrian is looking for a food dehydrator the process old vtr t tapes
- Adjournment: 18:35
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*Nathan T. Wild*
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