Attendance: Namita, Ethan, Raj, Mike, Jack
Agenda:
- Introduction
- Update on Formal: pushed in August
- Virtual event ideas and planning
Minutes:
Formal:
- Re-visit in August/Sept for Formal or smaller event in its place
Athletics:
- League of Legends tournament (Jack)
Ideas for social events:
- Online board games; houseparty with smaller rooms (houseparty needs people to be friends with each other; spreadsheet with houseparty name to coordinate)
- Supporting local businesses (e.g. subsidize orders from local businesses)
- Key idea: how to spend social committee’s money to enhance graduate social life during lockdown?
- Providing discount on food orders to hang out with friends
- Reimbursements for online games
Reimbursement methods:
- Gift cards from Steam, Amazon, Grubhub, Visa
Action Items:
- Put together an email and google form for social committee subsidy requests
- One individual per group event submits a request with details of event (what it is, what the subsidy is for - names and caltech email, who’s attending)
- Keep track of who’s using the money
- Upper limit on game cost (keep this guideline internal?)
- Period of 1 week per month when we receive applications; decide how much to subsidize and let them know; then we subsidize when the event occurs?
- GSC Master steam account: Ellen will ask Steering about setting this up once we have people making requests for Steam games
Are there Caltech rules about reimbursing grad students for alcohol? Ellen: Ask Steering