Wyatt Carss - Chair
Trevor Thompson - Co-Chair
Jared Cooperbaid
Alexandra Tremblay
Michael McNeely
Claude Fox-Revett
Michael Pratt
Laura Richards
Carolyn Pugh
Daniel Recaskie
Joe Peric
Ed Armstrong
Joseph Brown
Kelvin Lau
Gary Lehman
Jordan Goldberg
Michael D. Hoyle
Danielle Fudger
Zeeshan Qureshi
Shen Zair
Joey Vansteenkiste
Nick Presta
Martin Lindsay
Lingam Lakshmanan
Jason Lapp
Eric Zamadar
Andre Lemay
Tracy Goldfarb
James Kelley
Jonathon Mills
Kevin Shea
Matt Bond
Juan Moreno
Rob Smith
Scott Dougan
Sacha Bagasan
Chad Chabot
Gabriela Henriques
Lisa Sichewski

MTA Agenda, Ally Tremblay, Michael Hoyle, Unanimous
Candidates will have to decide between themselves the who goes first.

Extreme Programming Results:
3rd Eric & Andre
2nd Robyn & Mike
1st Sacha & Sophie

Constitutional Changes
Recommendations will be made to the future exec at a later date

Elections
There was a breach of Constitutions during one of the advertising campaigns. Presidential Candidate Michael Pratt made a post on Facebook.
Facebook is considered a public broadcast. Only a speech and word of mouth is allowed.
Executive who are not running for re-election will visually verify that all members are in CIS.
Mike McNeely, Joey Brown , Joe Peric CANNOT vote in the election.

President
Michael Pratt
2nd year CompSci
Promises
Revamping SOCIS lounge: Permanent executive office outside of the lounge
Events: More events, more campus wide events, Fund-raiser for Sick kids
Keeping fresh 1st year members

Where will the office be?
Storage room next to LOCIS.
How do you feel about current events?
Advertising and advanced notice is required.
Are people unaware of big events like Roboticon?
Even I don't know about it.
How are we going to distinguish as SOCIS events?
Open area, and give the participants something in return, eg prizes for fund-raisers.

Rob Smith
4th year CompSci
Involved since first year O-week
Class rep & system staff
Com Lia -> Vice Pres -> Pres
Only missed five meetings in all four years
Started executive meetings
Set up book keeping for money
Helped make the first outdoor meeting ever
Changes: use of track
Use of room next to LOCIS is not likely to be usable
Seminars
campus wide cops and robbers/ capture the flag etc

What are you going to do for members who aren't interested in the implementation details?
Push more to the open Exec meetings.
What kind of outreach efforts have been successful? What will be different next year?
During ComLia time, took the place of class reps, in the future would like to have posts in labs
Is the current lounge inviting to "non nerdy" people?
It is intimidating, but the recent rearrangement should help. Bring them in during o week

Vice President
Joey
1st year PHD
Looking to become a prof.
%40 research %40 teaching %20 service.
Part of orientations
ACM team & coaching
High school judging
Student senator
Trying to active, part of newly formed ACM group
Wants to help do more

What in specific do you want to do?
Bring out more people to the events
Too much bureaucracy, not enough fun
Has done constitutional stuff before, so will be involved in that
Take Help the president to achieve goals
Does the outsiders perspective give you an advantage?
Yes. For instance, no one here knows about ACM

Ali
Re-election for VP
Experience
Exec rolls since high school
Various Exec rolls, Creative director for Roboticon and organizer for CS games
Reliability
Took over when a position came open
Did semester during full time job
Next semester, even more time can be even more dedicated
Drive
CS games is the biggest money item.
Planning to make sure it is open to everyone, and CS games prep will occur
Collaboration with other clubs

CS games prep didn't happen this year, why will it this year?
Stepped in mid semester so with more time it will be more organizer.
How do you respond to the bias in organizing CS games this year
Tried to remove self from bias and leave as many decisions to vote by CS games attendees
Will we be working with CISters?
Having SOCIS and CISters working together particularly in regards to Grace Hopper conference is a major point.

Secretary
Jon
Experience on student councils
High attendance to SOCIS, and participation
Would like more sport related events. This would help bring in non "nerds" into the club
Can help out with pop runs
What makes you ideal for Secretary
Excellent note taking in regards to other people
Will not go along complacently with points when there is a valid argument to bring up.
What events would you personally run?
One of the sports events. SOCIS baseball game.
How about record keeping?
Shouldn't be a problem with both hard and soft copies

Kevin
Experience taking notes.
Class rep this year, doing announcements.

What events would you want to run?
Open to ideas.
Are you aware of procedures?
Aware. Will memorize constitution and Robert's rules should he be elected.
How are you bringing in first years?
Getting the information out early.

Treasurer
Eric
Good with money
Has done a budget and expense report
Doesn't have a car but knows people who would be willing
Will keep up with book keeping

Would you be willing to bus pop to the lounge in the event of unavailability of a vehicle?
Yes
Where did you do the budget?
For SOCIS this year
What will be the system to keep book keeping available and up to date?
Current record keeping using log/receipt system, and look into making electronic copies.

Community Liaison
Tracy
Running for re-election
Dedicated and enthusiastic Reliable
Implemented whiteboard in LOCIS now has event listing and announcements
Did first new College Royale board in years
Announcements have gone through Facebook, newsletter, Class reps
Has had leadership experience in high school
Events idea all night laser quest

Would you be willing to post newsletter in labs? What else are you going to do for outreach?
Yes, and have posting of events separately so people aren't discouraged by too much writing
What about o-week?
Bringing in first years
Does not being a computer science major is a help or hindrance?
It is a help. SOCIS is an interest group as well as an academic club.
Brings a new perspective and new set of skills to executive.

Kelvin - Disqualified for making mention of another candidate by name during question period
Want to bring in more fresh faces, particularly those under department an CPES
Current CSA and CPES rep, and can help represent us
Has appropriate connections
Need to drum up excitement, not just inform people that they are occurring

Are you currently elected as CPES?
Currently appointed, and can be so next year
Why are you going to continue this time?
More experience, and better equipped
How would you go about bringing in people who are interested in CIS
Mostly interested in CIS people
Why did you leave?
It things were not being done effectively.
What would you do to change the situation
With new skills it can be handled more effectively

System Administrator
Martin
Documenting current services and how it works
Was Assistant sys admin, and sys admin in the past
Join up for system staff!

What is SQL injection and what is a DDOS attack?
(Answered correctly)
What are you going to do in addition to documentation?
Fix up and internalize so we aren't bouncing stuff around the university network
How flexible are you with adding new services?
Request a package
Are you going to follow through with the docs?
Yes

Assistant System Administrator
Andre
Interested in our services and improving them
Keep track of suggested improvements and keep people up to date on the changes
SOCIS battlebots: LEGO carnage!

How is your base Linux knowledge?
Dual boot with Linux. Working to learn more
Are you comfortable with Apache?
Can become comfortable with it
Why not real battlebots?
Engineering and money/supplies

Michael
Has been using Linux for years, runs Apache and SQL server
Experience breeds speed

Would you be up for setting up a Free BSD box?
Why not?
What are your plans for encouraging system staff
Bother SysAdmin
How have you participated, given you are not in class
Attended all the Exec meetings
Has helped out at College Royale
How are you going to make sure people have access to servers
Mostly advertising on website
What about events?
Get people out to event ideas meetings
VI or Emacs?
VI improved

Webmaster
Yang
Maintained high school website
Friendly and open to suggestions

What web scripting are you familiar with?
Dreamweaver was used in high school
Do you have any plans to upgrade the website?
Yes, quickly by request
Do you have any immediate ideas for the website?
Open to suggestions but likes to decorate
Are you comfortable being yelled at by Heisler if you make a mistake?
No

Lingam
3rd year compSci
Has previously been Secretary, and proved reliable
Bring knowledge from school to the table
Add pictures from events to website
Website moderation
Will get training from previous web master

Would you be OK with setting up twitter or something like that?
Anything that helps get SOCIS out
What is your event?
Has done paintball, Lan party so experience will help
What web tech are you familiar with?
HTML, CMS, Javascript, some php

Pres - Rob Smith
Vice Pres - Ali Tremblay
Sec - Jon Mills
Tres - Eric Zamadar
Com Liai - Tracy Goldfarb
Sys Admin - Martin Lindsay
Assis Sys Admin - Andre Lemay
Webmaster - Lingam Lakshmanan