- Suggestion for the next hike:
- Ask the participants sign a waiver.
- Dana wants to buy 20$ stationary and everybody agree on that.
- Parisa will be away for 2 weeks:
- Adam will take care of the coffee break.
- We pre-approve 50$ for coffee break.
- August event:
- We should use the GSS money (DOF).
- Aug 20 and 27 are available dates.
- Aug 27 is preferable.
- To serve alcohol, it need quite bit of work so we won’t probably do it.
- It will be a game night.
- We can invite new-comers. For that, we should ask Anne or Darla.
- Estimate the budget:
- Meeting would be on Thursday to present the budget.
- We will tell them that we will have 80 ece grad and 20 non ece grad.
- Estimated cost:
- 80$ for room (for cleaning).
- 200$ for games.
- 550$ for food which includes:
- 2 slice of pizza per person.
- Chips and cheese puffs.
- 100$ for drink.
- People can volunteer to play music.
- Ahmad would be Adam’s backup for the meeting.
- Seminar for learning week:
- Learning week would be last week of October.
- Detail of the learning week will be available by September.
- We should find some speaker by September.
- Career night:
- Adam, Ahmad and Dana had a meeting with Zahra last week.
- By end of next week, we should decide on date, time and location.
- Ideally, we should have 100 students and 50 people from companies.
- Downtown location is preferable than UBC:
- It’s of course more expensive.
- But it’s better for companies.
- Some prices:
- Vancouver convention center costs 900$.
- Vancouver public library costs 495$.
- We will have different sponsorships:
- Title sponsor.
- Platinum sponsor.
- Gold sponsor.
- Silver sponsor.
- Bronze sponsor.
- The goal is to get 4000$ from sponsors.
- The tickets will be 10$ (early price) and 15$ (late price) for students.
- Parisa will talk to Dave Michelson about career night.