Robert Capra, Nathan Conklin, Chad Wingrave, Wendy Schafer, Pankaj Poddar, Vijay Hanumolu

Not present: Mir Farooq Ali, Tracy Lewis

Meetings:

We have decided to have a "Computer Science Graduate Student Council General Meeting" at 5:30 on Monday, February 12th.  This meeting will be open to all graduate students.  The goal of the meeting is to present what the grad council accomplished last semester, what we plan for this semester, and to get feedback on what other students would like to see be accomplished.

We will each get a chance to present what we are doing in our committees.  An example of the type of feedback includes the
following:

It has been mentioned that Masters Thesis students can too easily back out of the thesis option.  They can set up for a thesis, establish funding as a thesis student, begin research and then drop back to the level as a Independent Study student.  This has happened to many students this semester.

We will present a plan of activities for the upcoming semester.  This includes plans for social activities.

Wendy will look into $4 pizza from the Underground
Rob & Chad will look into gift certificates from local restaurants
Nathan will get software from Pete (office 526 - below Narens)

We will use email to continue to work out plans for this meeting. Everyone should send Rob information about what they would like to speak about.

Objective:

This meeting was designed to discuss status of several pending issues.

Qual Meeting

The meeting had good turnout.  An overview of the options resulted in Option 2 being rejected with Options 1 and 3 showing moderate to strong response.  When asked if the current method of evaluation should be changed, the was an strong response of "Yes."

CRC

Chad's response to the meeting was that they had no defining plan for system management.  He presented the problems about csgrad but focus is needed towards establishing a plan.  We need to be stronger in response to more recent problems.  This include the csgrad /u2 mount running out of disk space and the license expiration.  These are problems that could be planned for not problems that creep up.  One option that should be brought up is to consider having the admins present documented reports about outages.  This could be similar to reports ppresents by the modem pool.

More examples of problems include an unused RAID system, machines and a second printer not available in the gradlab, and machines not available in Brodie or 565 McBryde.

The current system seems to be strongly reactive instead of proactive. There is current plans to close reports that are outstanding.

GSA Committee

GSA meeting as normal.  The mailing list is messed up.  It is still going to Cheryl - causing information to not get out quickly about
events.  This should be changed.

Treasury

Rob has a lock box for Pankaj.  There are funds in the box.  What kind of accounting for funds do we have?

Social

The ice skating event is planned for Saturday, February 17th.

Constitution

Nathan has not received position descriptions from anyone.  He will proactively obtain the descriptions.

Space Allocations

Returned applications numbers around 17 applications for space.  We went to Sandy and have been granted the remaining Brodie space.  This means that we have 117,115,113, and 109 (shared with SDQ).  Rob will discuss computer availability for McBryde and Brodie in a future meeting with Vince.  Rob and Tracy will meet together to work on space allocations.

GPC

Vijay mentioned that the GPC is tending toward Option 1 proposal regarding the quals.  This will be presented at the faculty meeting
this Friday.

Submitted by: Nathan Conklin February 2, 2001