Everyone welcome Ashley Riley, our newly elected ACM secretary, for the remainder of the 2011/2012 term. Also welcome Niko Bessinas as our newly appointed Public Relations officer.

Welcome back for the spring semester, we will be having an ACM Special Event this Thursday, 01/12/2012. We will bring forth our SIG leaders and have them talk about their projects and what they'll be doing this semester. In addition to that, we will have a networking event after the presentations.

Food and drink will be provided.

Location: SEO 1000

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM.

After the networking portion of the meeting we will be handling some ACM business. The ACM needs a new secretary to finish up the Fall 2011/Spring
2012 term. The current secretary, Allie, will no longer be at UIC this
semester so we are going to hold an election during the business portion
of the Thursday meeting mentioned earlier. The duties of the ACM secretary
are detailed in the ACM bylaws, http://acm.cs.uic.edu/bylaws, and can be
summarized as such:
- Keep meeting minutes
- Sending out certain notification
- Participating in general ACM business and decisions
Anyone interested in running for the position will be required to go to
the meeting and state their intent to run. After that there will be a
popular vote will be taken amongst the members present than the Executive
Council will elect the new secretary. The only requirement for running is
being a paid ACM member, which can be taken care of at the meeting or in
the immediate future.

Winter break LAN party in the ACM, no need to signup, just bring some pizza money and your rig.

Good luck to everyone taking finals next week on behalf of the ACM.

As promised last meeting, an anonymous survey has been created to help us improve the ACM experience for next semester. Please take your time to complete this brief, 15 minute, survey.

There is no prize since it is anonymous.

Survey

The ACM will be hosting a meeting on 11/10/2011 with Eric Hansen and Alex
Thaler, they will be talking about Orbitz's Streaming Air results and the
technologies behind it

About Orbitz Worldwide:

Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. is a global online travel company that uses
technology to enable leisure and business travelers to search for and book
a range of travel products and services. The Company provides customers
with the ability to book a set of travel products and services from
suppliers worldwide, including air travel, hotels, vacation packages, car
rentals, cruises, travel insurance and destination services, such as ground
transportation, event tickets and tours.

Location: SEO 1000
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Food & Drink Will be provided!

Hope to see you there

Modification to the Meeting time of the Minecraft Modification Meeting.

We will now be meeting at 5:00pm instead of 4:00pm.  We are still
meeting in SEO 1000

I'll admit it, using minecraft as a mod target was kind of gimmick, I
wanted to code in a group, and it was my "hook" to get people
interested.  It turns out that it actually works pretty well as
platform.

Why I like Minecraft as a platform for code/modding:
1. You start from a working game.  Worst case scenario: your mod
sucks, you don't use it, you still have minecraft.

2. You don't need to master (or understand) every video game
development discipline to get started.  The amount of work that goes
into creating a full game can be divided among these lines:  gameplay,
graphics, physics, animation, networking, audio, engine, performance
tuning and asset generation.  (admittedly, this list is an
oversimplification)  To create a game from scratch, I would have to
work in all 8 groups (plus others I may not be aware of).  With a
minecraft mod, I can pick one to tweak, see what happens, then tweak
some more.

3. Minecraft manages to set the bar low, while being really fun.  It
becomes accessible to people like me to make a change to the game
without the change feeling really hacky.  I would not be able to do
this on a higher production value game.

4.  The Minecraft Modding community is fairly friendly to programming
beginners.  They take documentation fairly seriously, as
bad/incomplete/ or inaccurate documentation usually gets at least 1
discussion thread started.  Several of the attendees were able to get
a Bukkit Plugin out in less than a week.

So,  If you want to get involved in the Minecraft modding group, this
Monday is a good time to start coming.

The ACM will be hosting a meeting on 10/27 with Robert Blackwood from Adage Technologies. The topic is TBA.

About Adage Technologies:

Adage is a Chicago web development firm that creates engaging web sites with robust and simple content management that puts you in control of your site.

Location: SEO 1000
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Food & Drink Will be provided!

Hope to see you there

Yes folks, it's about that time again (it's always that time), the LAN Party for this month will be held (officially) on Saturday, October 29th starting at 12PM Noon and going on until Noon the next day.

We will be doing setup BEFORE movie night (We will be watching Nightmare Before Christmas that night) at 4:30PM so please come and help out if you can!

Sign up at acmlanparty.com and pick a seat! It will be $5 if you register BEFORE NOON the day of, $10 otherwise. So go and register yourself right now!!

Lastly, we need a clean-up committee to help set the rooms back to normal, I would like to do this sometime after the usual food-run that happens around midnight. You all should be able to throw away your own trash, this is more to reorganize the tables

By the way, since is our Halloween LAN Party, costumes are entirely and wholeheartedly encouraged.

SIG Build Meeting Today
5pm
2264 SEL