C Committee Meeting Minutes 2013-08-30 Present: [XON] [SAS] [GOZ] [VAN] [NEO] [ODF] [SZM] Apologies: [RNZ] Other: [BG3] Meeting opened at 15:07 [EDO] arrives 15:26 [BOJ] arrives 15:26 President's Report ------------------ - Fairly relaxed week - Awesome tech-talk by Julian - Spoken to Guild about leaks in roof - Unfortunately leak-fixing means that the clubroom is out of commission for a bit - Going to install postfix for Science Union mail Vice-President's Report ----------------------- - The clubroom has more leaks than the NSA - The projector screen is nowhere to be found. Thanks ebay. - At least it didn't arrive on fire. Because it didn't arrive. - Don't worry, I wasn't reimbursed. - Tech Talk 0x09 on Wednesday, it was awesome, thanks [JRE] - At this point there is a shortage of Tech Talks (again) - I will give Tech Talk 0x0A at some point. - The first aid kit that was reported missing on 2013-08-16 is not. - Just thought the minutes should know. Treasurer's Report ------------------ - Camp Lesh has received the money and sent us an invoice - Something else last week I no longer remember - Will be doing Cash books this week sometime - Just over 5 grand in the bank account - As a result I think we should splurge and buy some keyboards - Guild money is unchanged since last meeting Secretary's Report ------------------ - There was mail for [NEO] Fresher Rep's Report -------------------- - Fres - GTX660 for combtail - something is happening - It's a pre-overclocked Gigabyte card, this is good as it reduces the amount of effort required by club members. - We're getting this card after the meeting Machine Technical Reports ------------------------- Servers - SAN appears to be FITH - Some server is getting used to test CEPH - Server went down this week - [GOZ], [ODF], [NEO] blame [BOB] - red1 was overloaded - SAN broke itself even more - mp3s weren't mounting, thus robotnik wasn't the best - [BLZ] broke something, now the mp3s are still loading Network - SAN appears to be FITH - Sharpchin hasn't failed yet - Someone was testing the Unisfa uplink, then shut it down when they had finished Desktops - SAN appears to be FITH - Catfish is being not the best - refusing to cache profiles correctly - [NEO] wants to change the name of Rai to Cockgrunter - [ODF] voices his opinion against it - [ODF]: First as the donating person, "F@^# you guys"; Secondly as an OCM, I think it's wrong that someone donates a machine with the name, that you change it after the person donates it - No name change New equipment - Need a new SAN Super Special OCM Reports ------------------------- [ODF] rejects to having his report to so low - [BoB] broke stuff, knocked out Unigames and Unisfa - Committee was mean to me [GOZ] declines a Super Special OCM Report Drinks and Snacks ----------------- - Still have a bunch of drinks - [SAS] asks if anyone wants to go on a drink run - [GOZ] comments that we shouldn't especially buy energy drinks as [BLZ] (the previous large consumer of them) strictly drinks water now - [SAS] updated the snack prices - [NEO] charged $1.70 for Milky Ways - [NEO]: There's a reason we have 5 grand in the bank External Affairs ------------------- Mail - Phone bill arrived Guild/SOC - SOC meeting in 3 weeks - 2 weeks from next week Other Entities - Cameron Hall Forum Meeting Tues 3/9/13 4pm - Feel free to come Action Items ------------ - Someone who cares to put the action items in this agenda - [XON] did this [SZM] to sort out curious for CoderDojo - Basically done [ODF] to investigate keyboards for the club, mechanical or otherwise - Not done [GOZ] to send an email to the lists about what the UCC should put in the time capsule - Done - At this point, the fanciest looking suggestion was a sheet of machine stainless steel, laser etch it with stuff [SZM] to email [XON] the minutes - Done [GOZ] to buy 15m and 25m CAT5e cables from [BG3] for $30 - Cancelled because [RME] found us a better deal, thanks [RME] [VAN] to investigate and purchase upgrades for combtail, with assistance from exec member with access to money - Happening after meeting General Business ---------------- [SAS] : Investment Interest Accounts - [NEO] and [SAS] have been looking into setting aside the term deposit - Put money into an interest account for the club - Current proposition is creating another Guild finance account - [SZM] suggests that since this is a large change, emails should be sent to committee@ (at least) regarding the changes - [EDO] agrees - [NEO] to email committee@ [B0B] : can I buy the spare USB relay module off the club for $50 - Committee feels this is fine - [SAS] moves that we sell the spare USB relay module to [BOB] for $50, [SZM] seconds - Motion passes, 7:0 1,1 [GOZ] : CAT5e cables to be bought - 15-20m were cheaper than the ones we agreed to buy from [BG3] - [GOZ] moves that we buy a couple of god-damn ethernet cables for up to $30, [SZM] god-damn seconds - Motion passes, 7:0 [NEO] : Keyboards - There are $99 keyboards, not from Das - Various people comment on Das/Ducky - The Duckys are too flashy (???) - This discussion dies, like all your hopes and dreams. - [GOZ] notes that two members said that they were disappointed we did not get mechanical keyboards Meeting closed at 15:41 Current Action Items ---------------------- [ODF] to investigate keyboards for the club, mechanical or otherwise [NEO] to email committee@ about Investment Interest Accounts Someone to sell spare USB relay module to [BOB] for $50 [GOZ] to organise purchase of CAT5e cables, up to $30 Minutes uploaded by [XON] at 16:09 on 2013-09-01