Chico ACM

Hey All, We will be having our first meeting Monday February 9th at 5:30pm.  We will be hanging out and discussing some upcoming events and ideas.  We are hoping to get more people involved in leadership and more involvement in the club.  About a week after the job fair we are hoping to help out when Chico tech companies come and do presentations on campus.  We are also thinking of doing monthly programming contests, which the local tech companies might be interested in sponsoring.  Hope to see you at the meeting. 

We will be having weekly meetings from this point in the semester on at 6:30PM in OCNL 246.  I will post what we have planned for each meeting.  For tonights meeting we are going to plan out what we want to do for the coming months.

We are having our first meeting tonight for the programming team.  We are preparing for going to Stanford in November.  Here is a link to the google group, please join if you are interested.  Programmers of all levels are welcome!

It’s been a while since updating.  We are still alive.  We are having our first meeting Thursday the 11th at 4pm in O’Connell 246.  During the meeting, we hope to get an idea of what sort of things people will want to get out of ACM this semester.  We have a lot of options whether that be taking on a project in the Image Cup or doing career building things like mock interviews or company tours at local companies.  We hope to do social events as well with CSLUG and CGC like LAN parties or Ultimate Frisbee.

We are planning on going to the ACM ICPC programming competition in November so we are putting together a team for that.  The team will hopefully practice once a week on either Monday night or Wednesday night(not sure yet.)  If you are interested be sure to join the google group I created for the competition so we can get this thing organized.  Here is the link.

We had around 11 people arrive, 7 with their computers. An X-Box 360 was playing Rock Band on the other side of the room. There were no tournaments, but people started up games with Unreal Tournament 2004 and Halo.

I’d like to take a tally of games that people would like to see being played at the LAN party. Currently, these are the selections that I think most people would like, but we are open to other suggestions. For more LAN party details go here

Tou’s T-shirt Design

We took a look at Tou’s Designed, then enhanced them.

It is Dark Blue, with wavy design on the front and back also with binary going down the sides.

AS Voting

We gonna set up a booth this week in oncl lobby to encourage people to vote their share of the revenue to our department.

Lan Party:

            Saturday 5:00 – 1:00 ish @ Sylvesters.

            All are welcome.

            Paul will get Terry to send an email to everyone.

            Lan Party volunteers need to show up to an extra meeting at oncl 246 Friday 3:00
Company Meetings:

            Auctiva && Improvement Direct

            Get More info by emailing: tours@acm.org

**Upcoming Events**

Company Tours

            Improvement Direct:

                        Coldfusion / Java—More focused on recruiting for IT

            Auctiva:

                        .Net

            Both will buy lunch and give tours to small group of 5ish.

            Get more info at tours@chicoacm.org

Scavenger Hunt:

            Traverse the surrounding area of CSU Chico finding cool, unusual stuff.

            Start on April 21^st 

COD4 Lan Party:

            Put on by CGC on ~May 3^rd.

Our Lan Party:

            ~April 26^th

            Primarily Console Based, but maybe some Pc’s

T-Shirt Design:

            Come up with your own Design to show next meeting.

            Tou wasn’t here so we didn’t get to see his design yet.

RIA Camp:

            Wednesday, April 9^th, 2008

            Internet Applications is explored along with FLEX during this all-nighter event.

ULocate

            Cool programming contest that deals with GPS and its applications

            More info at www.where.com/contest

ExOrg

            Talk presented by CSLUG

**The Meeting**

Pictionary:

            We played pictionary.

We are trying to see who would be interested in doing tours of local companies.  We’ve been talking to Improvement Direct, Landacorp and Auctiva.  They are willing to talk about the IT part and the programming part of their business.  Email tours@chicoacm.org if you are interested.

Right now Google is accepting applications for their summer of code program in which they will sponsor students to work with an open-source project over the summer. In the program you communicate with a mentor from an open-source project(Here is a list of programs) who will guide you in taking on a programming task for their project. I think Google is giving $4500 to each student who successfully completes the program. It sounds like something fun to do over the summer and it would look good on a resume. The application deadline is March 31st. Go to the Summer of Code page for more info.