Next meeting: Yet To Be Determined

• December 1, 2006
• October 6, 2006
• September 15, 2006
• September 8, 2006
• July 22, 2006
• January 20, 2006
• December 5, 2005
• October 12, 2005

ACM Election Meeting - December 1, 2006

• Members in attendance:
  • Houssam Barakat
  • Abdulmajed Dakkak
  • Thomas Harris
  • Artur Maryamov
  • Adam Michaelis
  • Jason Owens
  • Isaiah St. John
• Nominations:
  • Chair:
    • Artur Maryamov
  • Vice-Chair:
    • Abdulmajed Dakkak
    • Alex Walch
  • Treasurer:
    • Abdulmajed Dakkak
    • Alex Walch
  • Secretary:
    • Isaiah St. John
• Outcome:
  • Chair: Artur Maryamov
  • Vice-Chair: Alex Walch
  • Treasurer: Abdulmajed Dakkak
  • Secretary: Isaiah St. John

ACM Programming Contest Organizational Meeting - October 6, 2006

• ACM Programming Contest 2006
  • November 11-12, 2006
  • University of Michigan - Dearborne
• Members interested:
  • Houssam (Java, C)
  • Isaiah (Java)
  • Joe (Java, C/C++)
  • Artur (Java, C/C++)
  • Chris (Java, C++)
  • Alex (Java, C++)
  • Abdul (Java, C/C++)
• Team 1:
  • Joe - captain
  • Chris
  • Artur
  • Alex
• Team 2 - Euler:
  • Abdul - captain
  • Houssam
  • Isaiah

General Meeting - September 15, 2006

• Members in attendance:
  • Abdul Dakkak - Chair
  • Eric
  • Paul
  • Artur Maryamov - Vice Chair
  • Houssam
  • Adam Michaelis - Secretary
  • Dr. Heuring - Faculty Advisor
  • Jason
  • Chris Bright - Treasurer
  • Brian
  • TJ
  • Isaiah
  • Thomas
• LAN party September 22, 6:00 pm
• Intro to Unix/Linux September 27, 7:00 pm
• ACM Meeting beginning of October
  • form teams for programming competition
• Ohio Linux Fest September 30 - Columbus, OH
  • VoIP
  • Security
  • Community
  • Virtualization (IBM & VMWare)

General Meeting - September 8, 2006

• Members in attecndance:
  • Abdul Dakkak - Chair
  • Artur Maryamov - Vice Chair
  • Chris Bright - Treasurer
  • Adam Michaelis - Secretary
  • Jesse
  • Ramesh
  • Balla
  • Houssam
• Due to low attendance, we will hold this meeting again, discussing events of this semester, next Friday, September 15, 5:00pm.
• On the following Friday, September 22, we will have our LAN party.
• The next Wednesday, September 27, at 5:30pm, in Palmer 3020 there will be a UNIX/Linux meeting for new users.
• IBM Mainframe contest open for registration.
• Ohio Linux fest 2006 in Columbus, OH, is Saturday, September 30, 8am-5pm.
  • You must register online before September 22.
• ACM Programming Contest, November 10-11. We will be sending two, four-person teams. Three to compete, and one as a backup.
  • Houssam, Artur, Chris are interested.

Officers' Meeting - July 22, 2006

• Bawls Fundraiser
  • Bawls is a caffeinated energy drink made from the Guarana berry
  • Bonbright Distributing Inc. in Dayton sells 24 bottle cases of bawls for $24. If we buy from them, we can sell Bawls for a reasonable price and still make a profit but we will need to drive to Dayton to pick up the Bawls.
  • We can also order Bawls from the internet (thinkgeek.com) but it will be more expensive.
• LAN Party
  • We still need a name for the event and a website
  • Planned for early fall semester so the new freshmen could meet the upperclassmen.
  • The game that will be played will ether be Castle Wolfenstein: In Enemy Territory or Unreal Tournament
  • We can do a BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) event or reserve a lab
  • BYOC Event
    • Will take a lot of work to set up, will most likely need to be a weekend event
    • We will need a space. The main hallways in Nitschke will be perfect
    • We will also need some tables, chairs, switches, networking cable and monitors, keyboards and mice in case the students donÕt bring their own
    • CDs of the game to be played
  • Reserving a Lab
    • Quick and easy to set up, we will just need to get permission from ECC
    • The game can be included in a temporary image. The lab that will be used can be ghosted with the temporary image before the even and then ghosted with the standard image after the event.
  • Sponsors
    • NVIDIA, ATI and OCZ sponsor LAN party events
    • NVIDIA - http://www.nvidia.com/content/sponsorship/frmsponsorship.asp
    • ATI - http://www.ati.com/gitg/promotions/lanparty/index.html
    • OCZ - http://www.ocztechnology.com/lanparty/lan_form.html
    • We will need to fill out the sponsorÕs form 8 to 4 weeks before the event and submit a Post Event Report within 2 weeks after the party
    • We will also need to display the sponsorÕs promotional material during the LAN party and on out website and provide them with pictures of the event
• ACM-IBM Annual Programming Contest
  • November 10 and 11, 2006
  • Do we need to register online for this event?
• Ohio LinuxFest 06
  • Takes place on September 30, 2006 in the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus OH
  • Free admission but registration is required by the September 22 deadline. There is also an optional $65 All Admission Pass which includes a ton of free stuff from the corporate sponsors.
  • We can carpool to the even or could UT provide us with a bus is there is a large group going?
• Q-Zar Laser Tag
  • The details still need to be worked out but it is scheduled for around Thanks Giving time.

ACM Meeting - January 20, 2006

• Members in attendance:
  • Artur Maryamov - chairman
  • Scott Balmos - vice chairman
  • Adam Michaelis - secretary
  • Ramesh Kumar Ganesan - treasurer
  • Dr. Heuring - advisor
  • Abdul Dakkak
  • Jason Owens
  • Chris Smith
  • Tom Hetrick
• Artur: What do we want to do this semester?
• Moussam: What if we tried to fix the wi-fi network?
• Dr. Heuring: We’d have to go through ECC.
• Scott: We’d have to submit a written request.
• Scott: I would be best to go to Greg or whoever… it’s going to be a negotiation.
• Scott: So, who wants to contact Greg Gaulstad?
• Artur: I guess I will since I’m the president.
• Artur: Any suggestions for things we can do for e-week?
• Artur: I guess we’re doing a LAN. Any suggestions for games…?
• Tom: Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory?
• Chris: America’s Army is free but not very fast.
• Adam: So, we’re going to go with Wolfenstein? Then how do we get it?
• Tom: Google it.
• Adam: Ed stopped by a few days ago and asked if we wanted to share a display box in the hall with IEEE.
• Scott: Ok, what do we put in it?
• Scott: I donated a Tandey 100 laptop to Dr. Standley last year.
• Adam: Then we have the painting.
• Scott: What about one of the Apple core posters?
• Tom: You should probably put something in there for some of the things ACM will be doing later this semester.
• Artur: T-shirts; any ideas?
• Scott: As president of another student organization, let me suggest you try something other than t-shirts.
• Artur: Back to the “apparel;” do we want to try to sell them, or just use them within the group?
• Tom: We could just make a generic engineering shirt instead.
• Tom: We could make a “Freshman’s guide” to engineering for the new students next year.
• Adam: How long have we been here?
• Scott: You mean the college itself?
• Dr. Heuring: We bought NE from OI and the University wanted to have someone over here, so EECS moved in Spring 1988.
• Adam: So what if we did "UT ACM, crossing Douglas since 1988."
• Adam: Since we’ve stalled on this discussion of t-shirts, I think now would be a good time to announce the ACM website available at http://eecs.utoledo.edu/~acm/.
• Artur: Anyone interested in a local programming contest?
• Scott: When?
• Artur: Closer to the end semester. Last week of March.
• Adam: What if we did a web design contest or something like BGSU’s techfair?
• Dr. Heuring: We’re getting behind to do anything with the high schools. Last time we did something like this we had the first set of mailings out in November.
• Tom: What if we did a collegiate contest with the general student bodies or local ACMs?
• Jason: We could do a tri-state ACM contest.

ACM meeting - December 5, 2005

• Members in attendance:
  • Tom Hetrick
  • Adam Michaelis
  • Chris Harwood
  • Abdul Dakkak
  • Artur Maryamov
• Nominations for President:
  • Artur
• Artur president by default
• Topics for later:
  • e-week - fun events to attract college and high school students’ attention to the college
    • LAN party okayed by Chris Smallman
  • t-shirts

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ACM meeting - programming competition 2005 - October 12, 2005

• Members in attendance:
  • Tom Hetrick - chair
  • Scott Balmos - vice chair
  • Adam Michaelis - secretary
  • Dr. Jerry Heuring - adviser
  • Chris Harwood
  • Artur Maryaamov
  • Chris Bright
  • Joe Coutcher
  • John Ferrara
  • Abdul Dakkak
  • James Cotton
• November 4th & 5th 2005
• University of Michigan - Dearborne
• U Mall cafeteria


• Schedule of competition:
  • Friday, Nov 4th
    • 5-6:30pm - registration
      
    • 7-7:25pm - demo of contest environment
      
    • 7:30-9pm - practice contest
      
    • 9:05-10pm - Q&A (pizza & pop)
  • Saturday, Nov 5th
    • 8:30-9:30am - breakfast
      
    • 9:30-10am - assemble for contest
      
    • 10am - 3pm - contest time
      
    • 10am - 3pm - coaches lounge
      
    • 12pm - lunch
      
    • 4-5:30pm - banquet & results
      
  
  
• Team 1:
  • Scott Balmos* - Scott.Balmos@utoledo.edu
    
  • Adam Michaelis - AJMichaelis@gmail.com
    
  • Chris Bright - Christopher.bright@gmail.com
    
  • John Ferrara - jferrara7@email.com
    
• Team 2:
  • Chris Harwood* - Cherwoodeng@yahoo.com
    
  • Joe Coutcher - lnxpenguin4ever@gmail.com
    
  • Artur Maryamov - Artur.eng@buckeye-express.com
    
  • Abdul Dakkak - Abdulmejed@gmail.com
    
  
  
• Scott: How many teams will be there?
  
• Tom: At least 20 or so.
  
• Tom: Who has been to a programming contest?
  
• -Chris and Scott acknowledge that they have
  
• Tom: I like to have someone with experience lead each team.
  
• Dr. Heuring: It would be a good idea to group the teams by preferred language.
  
• Tom: Three people and an alternate per team.
  
• Tom: I like to have each team plan a practice or two.
  
  
• Team 1 meeting: Wednesday, October 19, 8 pm, EECS Lounge
  
• Team 2 meeting: Friday, October 15, 9:30-10:30pm, EECS Lounge
  

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