================================================ UCC Committee Meeting No. 5 1998 - 17th April 1998 Meeting Opened: 18:17 Present: [PGW] Peter Wilsmore [NRR] Nick Rohrlach [SGC] Simone Collins [SYN] Swan Yap [TDH] David Manchester [DTA] Leighton Haynes [DGC] David Chinnery [WAZ] Warrick Mitchell [MIB] Richard Sather (late) [HEL] Helen Duffill (late) [LJW] Lachlan Wallace (late) [NTU] Nick Bannon (late) Apologies: [YAK] Ian McKellar [ZAP] Simon Baldwin Reports: President - Room for speaker confirmed - G3 Ordered (Tuesday arrival perhaps) - Club Room desperately needs clean up - Games Night happening now Treasurer - $4346 in account (after Barnes' cheque goes through) - $200 from John West still outstanding Machines - Trying to get the HP up this weekend - P Bus Terminator needed. - Reptile is bringing in VMS on a VAX - starfish - Real Soon Now (tm) - [TDH] suggested that means sooner than last week - merman went up then down. It's looking to become an OpenBSD box with Squid proxy - mola working /service and /home/wheel will be moved on Sunday (downtime accordingly) - one x-term is dead due to lack of mouse - one ELC is now working thanks to [SAF] -- [MIB], [HEL] and [LJW] arrive Business: -- [NTU] arrives Sponsor Thank Yous - [SGC] subtly reminded [PGW] to do these. Future Projects - purchase another computer (of the ALPHA, SGI or PC variety) - [WAZ] spoke to SGI for an Indi without monitor. They will get back to us. - [SGC] asked "What for?" - [PGW] - "Funky things" - [WAZ] - "Increase diversity of machines" Future Hardware Projects - Super parallel machine ($2000 - $3000 required) - CD-Rom Burner - [NTU] suggested ReWriteable instead (all agreed) - Frame grabber - Robotics Future Software Projects - Paul McAlpine interested in doing some graphics stuff - PVM (Parallel Virtual Machines) suggested by [MIB] - mulitple cheap computers would be needed - HURD - VMS cluster - suggested by [TDH] - Fundraising needed for all projects :) Guild Joys - We have too much visible junk - Clean up on Saturday (12pm) - Things need to go to Shenton Park Pigeon Holes - [SGC] suggested they be re-organised. - [SGC] is happy to do them and will CLAIRE FERGUSON-SMITH - Door Access - Moved [PGW], Seconded [NRR] - Passed without dissent - [NRR] to inform her and ensure she knows responsibilities - [DGC] to add her after [NRR] given all clear Photos - Of Coke, Wheel etc. members - [TDH] to talk to James about loan of his camera, other wise he'll get one from his work. Keys - Need to be reallocated and registered - [SGC] to do it Newsletter/Magazine - [DGC] accepted as editor - [PGW],[NRR] and [TDH] as co-editors - [DGC] suggested an end of deadline - Alias (mag@ucc) to be set up by [DGC] for submission/questions. Committee-Only Alias - Old committee on it still. - [PGW] to edit it - [DGC] to remain on as Immediate Past President Minutes - [DGC] suggested action list to be sent out with them to remind all of what they promised - [NRR] will oblige Closed: 19:04 Next Meeting: April 23rd, 1998 at 5:45pm ============================================