✨ Hello New Organizers!

Welcome!!!!!

High-level goals and philosophy:

• Purdue Hackers is our thing 💛
• The goal of Purdue Hackers should be to create a friendly community of people who build their own project
  • Building and shipping your own projects is one of the most gratifying things you can do and boosts your self confidence!
  • Coding and making projects is hard, but having a community to help you just makes it so much better
  • Building your own projects gives you really marketable skills, sure, LeetCode and a Resume can help you a lot but projects will definitely set you apart
    • Going to an event shouldn’t feel like you’re there to advance your career (this sounds boring)
    • Every event we run should be super high-energy and feel like a party focused around building things 🥳
  • We should be building Purdue Hackers for a specific person rather than a group of people
    • “If you’re building a club for everyone, you’re building it for no one”
    • “I want to build Purdue Hackers for the me in 2017”
      • Someone new to coding
      • Finding people to connect with
      • I having no idea what I’m doing
      • Be the best version of themselves
    • “Picture a person / group of people we’re building Purdue Hackers for”
  • As organizers, we need to hold ourselves to high standards and make sure we’re doing our best work
    • It should feel like we’re working on a really cool start-up
    • Engineering: You should be working on really cool technical projects that people will use
    • Logistics: Focus on running the best events ever (teaching people how to code X or build their own projects)
    • PR: Make it IMPOSSIBLE for someone to not know what Purdue Hackers is
    • Design: Make it IMPOSSIBLE for someone to see one of our marketing materials and ignore it
  • Right now, we’re young, scrappy, and hungry

✨ Hack Night

Last week thoughts:

Shriansh (Tbolt):

Mikail:

• A lot of really cool and creative projects
• Grad students were there
  • Competing against each other with an AI 😮

Matthew:

• Someone did something with MIDI Keyboard!!!!!!!!!!!
  • They’re probably coming back next week!
• Good: ~30 people there, enough where it didn’t feel dead
• Bad: A couple people left within the first 20 minutes, maybe have an organized way to help people out so they aren’t disengaged
  • Mikail helped someone out with brainstorming and coming up with libraries to use
  • Possibly group brainstorming sessions
• No Ugly!
• Would be cool to have a Hack Night run until midnight!

Rachel:

• Loved the energy
• Not sure if I can bring pizza again, I skipped lab last week 😢

Tomorrow:

• Come to tomorrow’s Hack Night!!!!!!!!!! Especially if you’re on Engineering!

What If: Open Meetings

⭐ Shader Workshop hosted by Mikail!

Hacking section is going to be really cool! Might be hard to do under an hour

Dry Run: Sunday! Time TBA, see #logistics

Details: Wednesday, September 28th @ 7:30 - 8:30 PM in WTHR 420

🤔 Workshop / Event Ideas

Fractals Workshop! (Tbolt)

Discord Bot Workshop! (Neil)

🤠 Team Lead Check-Ins

Design (Evan): Love the direction everything is going in, design is in an awesome shape but trying hard with promotional material

Engineering (Willy): Talked about some ideas, had a short intro meeting but meeting tomorrow to discuss what kinds of projects we’ll be working on