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<2015-11-09 Mon>Planning meeting

Topics to bring up

New issues
- Get well
- Shorten Portfolio workshop
  - This involves going to one of our clubs and running it
Issues carried over
- Attendance data should be added to attendance sheet
- Workshops being run

The Ballad Of Prophet Orpheus

What the hell just happened? That was all Triceracop kept thinking as he clenched a gloved hand against his throat. It didn't stop the blood from pulsing between his fingers. Already a shockingly wide pool had formed in the dirt next to his face. He was on the ground somehow. Although he couldn't see the gash, the pain told him the wound was deep. He rolled onto his back and stared up at a stretch of spotless blue sky.

His usually methodical mind sped frantically through the possibilities—like

Chapter 1: Tether

Background: 

The mining tether's simplicity was its best feature.

It worked just like the blood rushing into your fingers when you spin in circles
with your arms extended.

Parallax Star background in CSS

Using a very simple sass function, and CSS animation keyframes, built parallax scrolling stars in space. The sass function creates a random star field on each load.

SASS function: https://coderwall.com/p/nqxusa by Kushagra Gour @chinchang457

Forked from Saransh Sinha's Pen Parallax Star background in CSS.

MEET Hack Series recap<2015-12-19 Sat>

Run through of schedule

https://github.com/jonleung/hackclub/blob/add-playbook-mvp/playbook/FACILITATOR.md

Setup

Hackers arrived much earlier than planned
- Hard to balance between setup and greeting hackers

Hackers Start Arriving

“Warm” greeting was not clearly communicated
- Be personable (be a host)
  - “If you need any help, please just ask”

MEET Recap of Hack Series Cohort 4<2015-12-21 Mon>

What was different about this cohort?

Facilitator Planning
- Sam did a run-through
Conversations initiated between hackers
- Already existing conversations roped in new hackers
- Hackers reached out to other hackers about projects/other interests
During break
- Conversations initiated between hackers who didn’t know each other
- Jam session involved hackers who didn’t know each other

Diary of a Madman

On a Marxist website
- Cannibalism as a symbol of consumerism and greed
The beginning of the story says the Madman later ‘recovered’ and took up an official post
- We don’t objectively know what happened to the older brother
- Back then mental treatment was not great, and saving face was important. Ending up in an official post after recovering seems too good to be true.
Being consumed by one’s familiar
- Horrifying theme
“Save the children”

Diary of a Madman

On a Marxist website
- Cannibalism as a symbol of consumerism and greed
The beginning of the story says the Madman later ‘recovered’ and took up an official post
- We don’t objectively know what happened to the older brother
- Back then mental treatment was not great, and saving face was important. Ending up in an official post after recovering seems too good to be true.
Being consumed by one’s familiar
- Horrifying theme
“Save the children”

	Question Of The Week:

	_How might we better service our community?_

	Tasks:

	- Positive 10% Slack growth(@hellyeah)
	- Upload last week's metrics to spreadsheet(@hellyeah)
	- Create metrics repo(@hellyeah)
	- Discuss with club leaders what curriculum they will run in their meeting and create any materials that are needed (@jonleung, hackedu/meta#313)

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