ASA Meeting Minutes
10/23/08 8:00-10:00
Attendance: Keone, Rishi, Shan, Nan, Zhou, Rachel, Gillian

allocating mailboxes -- system up and running, small thing but good
and important
GPI postering on lobby 10, leaving tape residues
possible unclearness with murj on office space

Rishi: Tried fysm on php over summer for kicks; no good. Moving it to
python. .. maybe we should move to usb, or paper/book mailing.
Shan: group recognition, esp. re provisional groups. Rachel proposed
something, it looks fine, do we need to have it approved at GBM to put
it into effect? No, good.
For provisional groups, decided that: voting at GBM yes, LEF/ARCADE
yes, CAC reservations with SAO's approval, use of MIT name yes, etc ..
Details will be posted on the ASA website. (edit: obsoleted by
subsequent discussion)
Instead of {full, provisional, sponsored} status, a better system is
fundable/non-fundable, since really we want (almost) everybody that
wants it to have access to non-limited resources (eg. rooms, MIT name,
fysm). Details will be on the website, and groups are encouraged to
come to the town hall meetings to talk to us about it. Existing full
and sponsored groups won't really be affected, but current provisional
groups might be. Will be voted on this GBM.

Townhall meetings before then: Wed. Nov. 5, Tue. Nov. 11, both at 7:15 pm
GBM: 34-101, Mon. Nov 17. Check-in starting at 7, meeting starting at 7:30

Rachel:
Nerds for Christ: 7-0-0 provisional
Greek IV: 6-0-1 sponsored by ResLife
UAV: didn't get back to us
Film Coop: 7-0-0 full contigent on Campus Movie Fest being dead
BE UB: maybe they think we're getting back to them, whereas we're
waiting for them to get back to us
Paper Saving: waiting to hear back

Let's meet with Dean Columbo. He's living in Next House, so meeting at
night is feasible.

Nan: FAQ -- some low hanging fruit: eg. questions regarding database access.

Our grad student didn't have edit access to the database till recently.

Gillian: bulletin boards -- should tell groups to put their names
prominently. Also, we probably don't have the keys to our own boards.

Probably could just pick the lock, but maybe the CPs will be unhappy
if they catch us.