Lazy Foo

I was in student organizations for years and I can tell you biggest mistake that people make is that you never ever measure your success as an organization by how many people show up to your meetings. There's no value in having someone gawk at you, your officers, or a guest speaker for an hour a week.

 

There's only one thing that matters in student organizations: Output that will help you in your career. Once you graduate, how large your mailing list is is a trivial matter. You goal is to churn out as many resume bullets and connections that you will be able to use when you get a job.

 

Secondly, people who just show up to your meeting to stare are going to waste. Give them something to do. Also, you should have means to allow people to propose their own ideas.

 

Thirdly, accountability is everything. Learn parliamentary procedure and take minutes. In the organizations I was involved with, and project/event we started had a charter that specified who was in charge, who was working on it, and a specific outline of the scope and timeline. Projects always go to hell and the first thing people do when things go wrong is not make things better, but start pointing fingers. Make sure people who are honest and responsible are protected.

Edit: I just checked. My laptop supports OpenGL 3.3. Do you guys think that it's better to just learn OpenGL 3.3, instead OpenGL 4?

Depending on what you want to do, the differences aren't all the big. The fundamentals of sending vertex data to a shader haven't changed much since OpenGL 2.1, but OpenGL 3.3 is missing nice stuff like tessellation and compute shaders.

You can check out the history of opengl to find out the differences between the different versions. If don't understand what a feature means, odds are you won't miss it.

I made this OpenGL tutorial to teach the basics of rendering geometry, texturing and shaders with OpenGL 2.1/3.0. I recommend http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/ as a follow up for the more advanced stuff.

I made these game programming tutorials. You might find them helpful.

I recommend just dabbling in a bit of everything until you find something you like.

I recommend these although I may be biased.