2023-11-15 00:00:00 +0000 - Written by Bilal AbdulRahman

Minutes of the Programming and Hacking Communities Meeting

November 15, 2023, 12:10 EST

Meeting Chair:

• Mark Schramm (MS)

Meeting Secretary:

• Bilal AbdulRahman (BA)

Present:

• Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson (MVJ)
• Jonathan Hanon (JH)
• Bilal AbdulRahman (BA) (arrived 19 minutes late)
• Edward Miller (EM)
• Sreehari Kalloormana (SK)
• Joshua Rollins (JR)
• Rose Wong (RW)

The meeting was called to order at 12:10 EST.

Proposal for Agenda

1. Approving the Agenda
2. Review Minutes
3. Collection of Priority Bids
4. Unfinished Business
5. Reviewing Pull Requests
6. New Business

Item 1: Approving the Agenda

The agenda was approved unanimously.

Item 2: Approving the Minutes

Motion by JR to suspend the rules for the approval of all changes to minutes at once, seconded. Motion passes unanimously.

• Fix SK’s name in the minutes
• Change “abstraction” to “abstention”
• Switch Mark to his acronym

MS calls for a vote; minutes approved as corrected unanimously.

Item 3: Collection of Priority Bids

• JR proposes spending 3 points on PR 73, 74 each.
• ZJ proposes spending 7 points on PR 63, 64 each.
• BA proposes spending 20 points on PR 66.
• MVJ proposes spending 21 points on PR 70.
• JH proposes spending 21 points on PR 62, 65, 69.
• JH proposes spending 16 points on 69.
• JR proposes to revise his bid to 1 point each on all his previous pull request bids.
• BA proposes spending 25 points on PR 66.
• MVJ proposes spending 26 points on PR 70 and 11 on 69.

JH returns to the meeting at 12:38 pm.

Order of pull requests: 69 - 27, 70 - 26, 66 - 25, 62 - 21, 65 - 21, 63 - 7, 64 - 7, 73 - 1, 74 - 1

Item 4: Unfinished Business

Pull Request 69

• Amendment proposed by EM and withdrawn.
• Point inversion proposed by MVJ and seconded by BA.
• Point inversion denied by majority.
• Call to question by BA, seconded by JR.
• Approved by majority.

Motion rejected by majority. Ayes: ZJ, JR, RW Nays: BA, SK, MVJ, EM Abstention: JH

Pull Request 70

• Amendment proposed by MVJ to change “is” to “are.”
• Amendment passes by majority.
• Amendment proposed by MVJ to remove 354 from the rule.
• Amendment passes unanimously.
• Amendment proposed by JR to add a line in the event of absence; the penalty will be multiplied at the time of nomic adjournment on that day.
• Amendment passes by majority.
• Amendment proposed by JH to make the rule an update to 354.
• Amendment passes unanimously.
• JH proposes an amendment to make the update make sense.
• Amendment passes unanimously.
• Amendment passes by majority.
  • Ayes: RW, SK, JR, BA, JH, MVJ
  • Nays: EM

Pull Request 66

• Motion by MVJ to table pull request until spelling mistakes are fixed.
• Motion passes with the majority.
  • Ayes: RW, SK, JR, JH, MVJ, EM
  • Nays: BA

Pull Request 62

• Motion by JH to amend the language to add an amendment clause and add a 20-point penalty to manipulate pull request.
• Amendment passes by majority.
• Motion by JH to add a definition of manipulation of pull request numbers.
• Amendment passes by majority.
• Motion passes by majority.
  • Ayes: RW, SK, JR, ZJ, EM
  • Nays: BA, MVJ

Pull Request 65

• Point inversion called by BA.
• Motion passed by majority.
• Motion by MVJ to make quorum to 9 students.
• Motion denied by the majority.
• Motion accepted by majority.
  • Ayes: RW, SK, JR, ZJ, EM
  • Nays: JH, MVJ

Pull Request 63

• Motion to fix language by BA.
• Passes unanimously.
• Motion to fix language by SK.
• Passes unanimously.
• Motion to call to question.
• Passes unanimously.
• Main motion passes by the majority.
  • Ayes: RW, SK, JR, ZJ, BA
  • Nays: MVJ, JH, EM

Pull Request 64

• Pull request is tabled until the language is fixed.

Pull Request 73

• JH, MVJ, JH propose an amendment to count absent penalties separately from the rule.
• Amendment passes by the majority.
• Call to question by EM.
• Passes by the majority.
• Main motion passes by the majority.
  • Ayes: RW, SK, JR, BA, EM
  • Nays: ZJ, MVJ, JH

Motion to adjourn by BA, seconded. Meeting adjourned at 13:40 EST.

Total Player Points Gained/Lost on Nov-1-23

• BA: -19-15+10 = -24
• MVJ:-11-26+10+93+10-10+5+5 = 76
• JH: -16-21-21-10+51-10-53+5+5 = -70
• EM: 10+5+52 = 67
• SK: 0
• JR: -1
• RW: +10
• ZJ: -7-7+10+46+5 = 47
• MS: 0

Note: This does not include point corrections to previous minutes, only those gained/lost on the above date.