Meeting Summary 8/24/12

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Aug 24, 2012, 6:14:35 PM8/24/12

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I believe this covers everything we talked about at today's meeting. Please inform the group if I missed anything.

This semester we have a few regularly scheduled meetings. These are:
Fridays 11-12 noon: Faculty/research presentations (location?)
Fridays 12 noon-12:30: Preparation for ICPC
Fridays 12:30-1: Regular club meeting

There is also the Functional Café, which meets Tuesdays at 6:30 pm at the M Mountain Café. They are currently going over Haskell problems. Interests include functional programming topics and informal code review. Daniel has written a Haskell code for DFA validation and visualization, and is interested in helping others learn Haskell.

We are looking at doing a field trip to the Natural History Museum in Albuquerque on an upcoming Saturday. They currently have an exhibit about technology startups in Albuquerque, including the early days of Microsoft. We are looking at doing this on Saturday, September 8, all day. We would leave Socorro around 10 or 11 am, and have a picnic lunch before going in to the museum.

Agenda Items

· Available fundraising opportunities for the ACM

We could use a few hundred dollars/year for things like a real SSL certificate. We are also looking at sending members to Schmoocon. Schmoocon can be funded similarly to DEFCON.

We could also look into getting sponsorship for the club or specific activities from local businesses.

Action: Sam will bring information about SA fundraising activities for next week

· Community service projects we could participate in

Some level of this is required as an official club. We need to volunteer for SA events, probably 49ers. Hours required are based on club size. Minimum club size is 20.

Action: More information after SA meeting.

· Mandatory SA club meeting

Action: Russell and Tony will attend the meeting on August 29 from 6-8. They will return with information and club packets we need to actually fill out this year.

· Club Fair planning

We will not be attending club fair. The general audience is not suitable for our club. Recruitment will instead take place through in-class presentations during CS classes.

Action: Organize presentations to classes and give them. (Schedule?)

· Status of the CTF project(s)

The current version of our framework code (not puzzles) is now on Github, under “Superdeluge” (https://github.com/NMTACM/SuperDeluge).

The local repository for the CTF project is kind of a mess—there isn’t really a consistent structure. But at least our repository has puzzles. Puzzles are a good reason to maintain our own private repository.

We have contacts a various other schools interested in similar efforts to our CTF.

Brigham Young University (who?)

University of Missouri (who?)

“Some school in Kansas”

NYU Poly – CSAW

Evan is strongly connected with the organizers.

Julian (from HatesIrony closed CTF team) is an organizer.

Rhode Island (University of Rhode Island?) – From the DEFCON talk, a service oriented CTF.

Sam has specific contact info.

Action: Clean up the CTF repository.

Action: We need to develop a review process for puzzles (or code?) going into the CTF system so we maintain high quality puzzles and keep our organization consistent.

Ongoing Action: We will develop 1 good CTF puzzle per week this semester. (These will probably be simple problems)

· CTF/Programming Competition team organization and participation

We will be fielding a team in and hosting (!) the NM regionals for the ACM ICPC (http://icpc.baylor.edu/welcome.icpc) competitive programming competition.

Our website for this is currently http://cs.nmt.edu/~acm/icpc.

Preparatory meetings for the team for Fridays from 12 noon until about 12:30 in the Cramer conference room.
ICPC will be held Friday night and Saturday of the last week of October.

Action: Sam is working with Dr. Shin to organize the ICPC meetings.

· Speakers scheduled for this semester

Action: Sam will post speaker event information to the NMT calendar.

Right now we have 3 speakers scheduled for this semester:

o Dan Driscol (sp?) from Microsoft sometime in October

o Layla & Chris September 19-20 (in conjunction with Career Fair)

§ We have a schedule for this visit:
Wed. 9/19: 1-3:30 Casual booth somewhere visible to CS with coffee/drinks for students to stop by and chat.
Wed. 9/19: 4-5:30 Networking mixer put on by Career Services
9/19 6:30-8 pm Resume workshop in the Library, hosted by ACM
Thurs. 9/20 9am – 2:30 pm Career Fair
9/20 3:30-5 Student research presentations
Presentations given by: Ian Burns (End-to-End Encrypting Android Phone Calls)
Russell & Tony (Overview of the NMT ACM)
Action: Have the ACM overview talk ready for club review no later than Sept. 14
Possibly presentations by: The Sensor Nets research group, ICASA, and mobile (Zheng’s group).
9/20 6:30-8 Tech talk “A Tour of .NET”

o Competitive programming instructor (name?) from the University of Baylor (who apparently organizes the broader ICPC competiton).

§ Dr. Shin is putting together funding for this visit for a talk/presentation, as well as faculty meetings and discussions of potential collaboration opportunities.

§ Action: Sam will post more information and contact info for this person.

· The practicum class

Due to lack of time to prepare, the practicum class is not being held this semester. This semester will be spent developing the purpose, syllabus, and materials for the class. It will be held in the Spring with a focus on competitive programming. The delay is largely to meet Dr. Mazumdar’s standards for an acceptable class. The practicum class will be 1 credit hour when held. In place of this class, we have the block of time for ICPC preparation this semester.

· Fall ’12 activities: National Lab CTFs, or others

Scheduling of outsider CTFs has been passed to Dr. Mazumdar, who can better coordinate the efforts. It looks like this semester will see Sheri Gaines (sp?) from Sandia with a new-to-Tech CTF, and possible Neale with his CTF.

· Post-DEFCON word from Neale

Neale had mixed feelings about our participation at DEFCON. He felt our organization was poor, but appreciates Tony in particular for helping at the booth. He will be returning to Tech to further the collaboration sometime this fall, however Sam will no longer be his POC here.

· Summer CTF debrief

The summer CTFs were excellent for networking. UNM would be happy to have more events. We can work with Jed, a professor interested in Security there to make these happen.
SFCC is also interested in another event, although they would like it to take place during a semester when people are actually there. This summer’s SFCC event saw attendees from Sandia and LANL (an instructor from UNM-LA), and the debut of the new framework written by Chris and John.

· Follow-up with administration for DEFCON funding

Action: We still need a trip summary from Russell.

The administration doesn’t seem to particularly care, and appear to be happy we accomplish anything.

The department would like to see our efforts in similar areas continue.

· Funding reimbursement issues

Sam is handling his side of the remaining paperwork here.

Action Item Breakdown

Ian

· Write this summary

· Be ready to present research to Microsoft Sept. 20, with club review Sept. 14

Russell

· DEFCON trip summary

· Attend mandatory SA meeting

· Return with SA packet and more information on structuring official club

· Have the ACM overview talk ready for club review no later than Sept. 14

Sam

· Move content from http://cs.nmt.edu/~acm to http://acm.cs.nmt.edu.

· Bring information about SA fundraising activities for next week

· Organize presentations to classes and give them. (Schedule?)

· Sam is working with Dr. Shin to organize the ICPC meetings.

· Post speaker event information to the NMT calendar

· Post more information and contact info for this person

Tony

· Attend mandatory SA meeting

· Return with SA packet and more information on structuring official club

· Have the ACM overview talk ready for club review no later than Sept. 14

Everyone

· We will develop 1 good CTF puzzle per week this semester. (These will probably be simple problems)

Unassigned

· We need to develop a review process for puzzles (or code?) going into the CTF system so we maintain high quality puzzles and keep our organization consistent