Overview:

The mission of the CSUA has always been to enable and educate computer science students at Berkeley, but I'd like to take this further - make the CSUA the spearpoint of entrepreneurship at Berkeley and in the Bay Area, and to have the entire technology industry recognize the computer science department at Berkeley above others.  Instead of just being an internal community, we're going to bring in more alumni, more notable entrepreneurs, and more industry leaders to Berkeley. 

• In Progress                                    
• Politburo Brainstorms
• Politburo Minutes
• Wish List - what do you want?

• Logistics and Operations                                                     // FAQ for Execs + Office hours holders 

• Jessica Mah                                                                       
• Brandon Liu                                                                        
• Mikey

For Reference:

• Constitution 
• The Magic CSUA System Handbook                                    // We're down! What is this shit and how do I get it working?!
• To Politburo and the Executive Team                                   // New to Politburo or the Executive Team?  Read this thoroughly.
• To the Office-Hosers                                                           // Every Office-Hoser should read this.

Recurring Events:

- CSUA Brainstorm every Tuesday at 8PM in the Bunker - dinner served, too!

- Weekly Hacking Hours every Thursday, 6-10pm.  Everyone in the bunker will be coding, so join us!  Dinner served.  

Booked Events:

Jan 27:    eTalks with Drew Houston from DropBox.com

Feb 5/6:  Zynga Hackathon!

Feb 24:   eTalks with Sam from Loopt.com

Mar 10:   eTalks with Chris from Github.com.

Mar 12:   (GM#2 with Marc Andreesen, Paul Bucheit?)

April 3:    TEDxBerkeley

Apr 14:   .....

Apr 30:   (GM#3 with Steve Wozniak, Eric Schmidt?) 

Prospects:

- Peter Thiel

- Chad Hurley

- Shawn Fanning 

- Linus Torvalds

- David H Hansson

- Jeremy Stoppelman

CSUA Roadmap:

1. Website Revamp. (Brandon) - Let's rethink, what's the purpose of the CSUA website?  Currently, it's to serve current members.  But I think we need to expand the scope of the website, having it represent Berkeley as an instution, showing how great CS students here are to both prospective students and to industry leaders. Toulouse will lend a hand and offer advice.
2. Recruitment and Membership. (Mikey + Brandon) - How do we make it even easier to signup as a CSUA member, and how can we make the perks even better for existing members?
   1. Big TV for outside auditorium.
   2. Easier Signup, Business Card / T-shirt perks
   3. Scouting - go to 2nd, 6th, and 7th floors giving out free food or something, then tell them CSUA is sponsoring it.  Interested in hearing more about the cool stuff we do, just fill out our sign up form using our laptop.
   4. Coordinate with ALL CSUA members to promote events and our group in classes... especially CS161, which is right before eTalks and Community Meetings.
3. Entrepreneurship (Jessica) - how can we encourage more entrepreneurship among CS students at Berkeley?  This involves everything from working with Haas to ramping up our eTalks speaker series.
4. 1. Hackathons (Brandon)
   2. TEDxBERKELEY, (Brandon, Sushi?)
   3. eTalks (Jessica, Brandon)
   4. Startup Fair (IEEE spearheads this, but help them out with referring a few dozen startups to get their own table)
   5. Biz Plan competition (Haas people)
   6. Infosession for Lightspeed Venture Partners. (Andy Su, Jessica Mah)
5. Ongoing Events (Sean) - All other events that we should have.
   1. Community Gatherings (how can we make these a key part of the CSUA?)
   2. Broomball / Paintball
      1. Get us a limo limo limo!
   3. Update the CSUA Events list
      1. Coordinate with IEEE calendar, Haas EA calendar, cross promote with them.
   4. Faculty Talent Show.  CS professors strut their stuff!
   5. More (good) food, more often.  Sponsored dinners by CSUA.
   6. Programming Contest (Brandon)
   7. LAN parties on Friday nights.
   8. Engineering Meet&Greet (with IEEE, Women in Engineering, HKN...)
   9. Workshops (internship hunting, job hunting, graduate school, etc...)
6. Content Strategy.  (Kitty + Lil' Chris) - How about videos and articles that we publish on a section of our website, dedicated to giving new students the edge on dealing with CS at Berkeley?  This can also act as a way to recruit new students to the CSUA.
7. Bettering the Bunker. (Wes)  - how do we make the bunker a funner place to hang out?
8. Reputation^2. (Jessica + someone creative) - how do we make sure our reputation as the leading CS/entrepreneurial school gets accomplished?
9. Class and Professor strategy. (Sam Kimbrel + Jesse Toth) - how do we best engage professors so that they help out CSUA members, and take a more active role in the CS community at Berkeley? Professors and their curriculums will be an integral part of executing on the CSUA mission.
10. Alumni Relations.  (Evan) - how can we keep better in touch with alumni?  This is important because alumni are often open to helping current students, many of our notable alumni would love to speak at eTalks, and give back to the CS department. Possibly setup an externship or mentorship program?
11. Funding and Money. (Angie) - basically, how do we get more money, more efficiently?
12. Longevity (The CSUA President) - We want future CSUA members and officers to carry on this mission for decades to come.  Make the wiki the core point of all officer communication and collaboration, and emphasize recruitment of future officers from the start of a new president's term. 

Everyone executes on the CSUA mission.

• Wesley                                                                                // What's the Secretary up to?
• Angie                                                                                 // What's the Treasurer up to?
• Mikey                                                                                 // What's the VP up to?

Having officer positions is great, but it doesn't go so far for executing on the milestones we set in place.  Therefore, I'd like to break up the roadmap into individual projects with someone different spearheading each project.  One person will focus on making eTalks awesome every week.  Another person will focus on alumni relationships and building a means of engaging them.  And someone else will help with Startup Weekend, TEDxBerkeley, and other meaningful industry events.  Essentially, this will be a way for every CSUA member to take a meaninful leadership role in the organization, and to build up their personal rolodex in the software industry.  All of the people who spearhead these individual projects make up the CSUA Executive Team, which is an extension of what's currently Politburo. 

At the start of every semester, I think the first job of the newly elected president should be to update and formalize the CSUA's semester roadmap, and to begin appointing or renewing memebrs' roles in each project.  Again, the key thing for every president to keep in mind is longevity, and to be recruiting successor(s) for ALL execution roles from the moment they start their term. 

Politburo will be run slightly differently.  A nice non-pizza dinner will be served at every meeting, and all CSUA execs are encouraged to give a status update on what they're doing, and to solicit feedback and ideas for their projects.  If we're working so hard towards making Berkeley a better place, I think we deserve to treat ourselves to a nice dinner every few weeks or so :)  Officer perks and incentives need to be increased - people should feel proud to be leaders in the CSUA, they should get more industry contacts, and be rewarded by free (and good) food.  One different faculty member should be invited to each politburo meeting, and we can build a relationship with them by doing so.  (and leverage them towards making the CS department even better!)