Attendance
Robyn Smith
Yang Lu
Michael McNeely
Jason Lapp
Valtchan V
Tracy Goldfarb
Sophie Tayler
Trevor Thompson
Andre Lemay
Eric Zamadar
Jonathon Mills
Jameson Reed
Wyatt Carss
Kevin Shea
Jamie Fox-Revett
Ali Tremblay
Matt bond
Paul Vilchez
Josh Gaber

Jon Motions to approve the agenda; Tracy seconds.
12 for; 0 opposed; 2 abstaining

Wyatt motions to table the minues; Kevin seconds.
10 for; 0 opposed; 4 abstaining.

CPES Update
They did a meeting without an agenda.
Nick decided to step down for Social Coordinator so the position is open.
AGM in a couple of months for CPES positions.
January 26 - Club budgets are due.
CSA seats are open.
Career fair on the 26th. Dean needs help. Get food.

Department Update
Discussed the new curiculum. Passing it soon.
Department meetings will be every 2 weeks.
New Majors:
2010: Software Engineering in Computer Science
2011: Human Computer Interfaces; Game Development
New credit ratings; increasing fourth year credit values.
Discussing first year failure rate - it's really high right now.
Discussion of a "pre-university" year.
Why pay more money for what you can get at high school for free.
Maybe remedial mathematics/summer course review for less money (DE)
We wouldn't have to rely on a broken high school system.
Summer mathematics prep/review package?
Hardware
Cell phone reception booster

Do we still want a projector?
Possibly a TV instead. General disapproval.
Volume remains an issue
Prevents work

Wireless router: we had one, but conflicted with UoG's

New box for a Ubuntu repository? Talk to Deb.
Talk to Mat first regarding using Hal for repository.
Jason is on the case!

Event Ideas
Hiking, swimming, camping, inter-murals or other PE events
CS speakers/ alum
CS careers night. Do we want our own separate?
We may be losing population pool
CS relate better to our school than to the college, so we might actually draw more turnout.
Take the old maths/stats/CIS/ and make it our own. Ease into it.
Instead of breaking it up, lump engineering etc in as well for a full mix.
We can advertise regardless.
Engineer employers wasting time when they only want engineers.
RIM park career day February 4th

Upcomming events
Installfest today
LAN party next Thursday. Maybe a new game? Different Genre choices
Different game for FUTURE land nights. RTS & FPS lan nights
Paintball on Jan 29th. Exact details will be in by next week for sure.

Backboard
College royal backboard. Ali and Tracy want volunteers to help.
Talk to Ali if interested

Roboticon recruiting
It is coming up. Make Julia happy to make the department happy to make us happy. Come to meetings so you know what to do if you volenteer the weekend of. Email/ talk to exec if you want in on this awesomeness.

CS games
We start recruiting now.
"Really really really fun" programming competition in Montreal.
70%+ in CIS or 90%+ in 1500 only, you get funded by department.
$20 deposit to prevent flaking. Totally worth 3 days of awesome.
Email exec@socis.ca. Name, year, weather you have 70%+, and anyone you want to be on a team with.

Meeting time
5:45, Thurs, on the dot. show up at 5:30 anyway.

Jason motions to adjourn. Tracy 2nd. 1 opposed. 2 abstaining