Minutes of meeting 07-08-2012 Meeting open 17:59 [SLX] Standard Time Committee Present: [TPG] [SLX] [EDO] [*OX] [JAB] Others Present: [SAS] [BOB] [NTU] Apologies: [DTK] Absent: [ASH] [M12] President's Report ------------------ - The fridge still has stuff in it - First week of semester was interesting - [BOB] It's only first week - Clashes are wonderful -- [EDO] I don't have any --- [TPG] you - Thanks to [SAS] for organising club carnival - Reserves [BOB]'s rights -- Does anyone knows what [BOB]'s rights are? -- Yes: Everyone who cares, does. Vice-President's Report ----------------------- - Semester II has begun, and it already sucks - Am rather busy. - Club Carnival happened -- Huge suceess (not really) -- It rained. -- Thanks to [SAS] and [DTK] and others for volunteering. -- We got no new members, and lots of things wet Treasurer's Report ------------------ - we have money - guild account has $2781.22 - westpac account has $2374.73 - safe has $0.05 - Westpac paperwork has been submitted, should take effect soon - We should spend some of our money on cool things - General shock and awe at the treasurer suggesting such a thing - It should wait until after the camp. Secretary's Report ------------------ - I've been sick for most of the last week, and haven't really done anything. - Club carnival - both poor and pour. -- Groans abound; [TPG] votes for PUNishment Fresher Rep's Report -------------------- - Yeah, Uni started: that was fun. - Driving test and Piano exam passed. Huzzah! - Turned 18. Can now go to the Tav. - Fresher of the week might not happen: -- There are no new, exciting freshers hanging about. -- Will do a fresher of the week when finds a new fresher. -- [BOB]: We can introduce the freshers from today's club carnival --- Oh wait... - A fresher rocked up to the cleanup: Kai -- That's awesome, thanks! -- Not a hallucination: it's on the webcam archives. OCM Reports -------------------- [*OX]'s report: - Unsubscribed ocm@ from some spam email. -- Remember, guys, you can bounce email to spameater@ucc - Tech talk last week was Amaaaaaazing!(TM) Thanks [DJA]! - Need to do a new talk -- Maybe how to organise a wedding? - Did anyone email committee@ about clubs carnival? -- No. We are lazy. And only really started organising it twenty minutes before it started. [BOB]'s report/rant: - Should have emailed committee@ about cleanup. - General obligatory argument about how it should have happened. - The clubroom is a mess, and [BOB] just needs to rule it! :P - Hoods take over. (i.e. People wore hooded clothing and were silly) Machine Technical Reports ------------------------- Servers - We have them - No explosions -- Except 'ls' executing time. Network - Do we have one? Not a new one! - New network migration pushed back a week. - Possible firewall issues. Desktops - We have them - Catfish is still sick. - Everything else works* - *for some rather vague definition of works - Exchange of pinball and porcupine's monitors has been met with great success. -- Especially as 'remmina', the remote desktop client works on porcupine. -- Perhaps we should get another non-terrible monitor? New equipment - We got a new server. It's big and big and not really a mylah replacement. -- Yes, the second big was supposed to be there. It's big. -- But it's a good emergency/parts server. -- Thanks Brad! -- Could do fancy case modding. Might need to cut holes in it. Drinks and Snacks ----------------- - There was apparently a snack run that [DAA] did which [EDO] does not know about. -- There was, we have Mars bars in the machine room. - We are out of green solo, and solo++ has been reinstated. - Needed some config file hackery. - Terrible pun from [*OX]: 'solo*=2' is 'duo' not 'solo' -- Groans! -- He deserves his fate! - Would UCC be in favour of Unigames taking the Mothers to relieve UCC of the need for a fridge. -- No. Mail, Guild and SOC ------------------- - [SAS] had a peek at the mail, but couldn't see because it was dark and he doesn't have a key. - No one actually checked properly. :( -- [TPG] volunteers to do so when next he is around. - SOC busybee on the weekend, thanks to everyone who showed up. -- Things are a bit cleaner. Action Items ------------ - [ASH] to purchase a trial clubroom laptop. - In progress. Apparently done. No-one has seen the beast, yet. - [SLX] to camp. EMP, talk to other clubs, budget, etc. - Poster in progress. - CASSA: In progress. - ComSSA: Yet to happen. Waiting on response. Will prod further. - EMP: Remember kitchen stuff / food handling. - Internet: Ideally one telstra, one optus for redundancy. - [TPG] to look into this! - [BOB] to fix heathred. - In progress: Low priority. - [*OX] to look at the calender system. - Is aware it exists, but hasn't looked at it. - Apparently [DJA] is bored and might look. [NTU] Arrives! General Shouting ---------------- [TPG] : Club Carnival / Open Day - Should we have a stall? - [BOB]'s slow clap processor is functioning correctly. - [DTK]: Open Day? Yes, we should. The peak time we're looking at is 11-2pm. I'll be around until 2pm when I'm scheduled for demos in physics. - Posters in CS might be good. Chalk in the tool cupboard. - Open Day is on Sunday. - [BOB] has an awesome poster: 'Does subliminal advertising work?' - [EDO] to do posters, [BOB] to help [EDO] with procedure for doing posters. -- Not worth doing anything else [DTK]: [SAS] got our club carnival presence set up today - thanks. - He bought people drinks as incentive to mind the stall - discuss reimbursing. - [SAS]: There were four. - [EDO] to reimburse [SAS] for these drinks. [NTU] : Can PLUG hold a talk on its audio/video streaming project, this time, next week in the loft? Tuesday 20120814-1900 plus some early setup time? I'll check with the UniGames list too. - [*OX]: That's the Tech Talk problem solved! - [NTU]: A previous venue didn't work out. - [*OX] to organise booking of loft + plugging PLUG's talk. - Generally pretty awesome! - Talk about lotterywest grants for PLUG's Video Streaming project. Do you need a not-for-profit certificate? -- Not really. -- Website for Video Streaming project: http://www.plug.org.au/projects/video [*OX]: We should buy lots of books. - Knuth's 'The Art of Computer Programming' volumes 1 and 2 -- We already have volume 3, and it's feeling lonely. - The TeX book. -- We have a TeX book, but want another for some reason. - "The C Programming Language" -- It's a classic. An expensive, expensive classic! - There is much shouting - We will wait until after camp before we commit to spending money on nice-to-haves. - At this point, everyone starts shouting about their shopping lists: -- [BOB] likes chairs (our existing ones do not sufficiently respect the arse, apparently) -- and a new mylah - So we should wait until we're certain of how much money we have before we spend it all. Current Action Items -------------------- - [ASH] to setup new clubroom laptop. - [SLX] to do camp stuff. - [TPG] to organise camp internet. - [BOB] to fix heathred. - [*OX] and/or [DJA] to look at the calender system. - [EDO] to reimburse [SAS] for four drinks. Meeting closed 18:48 [SLX] Standard Time Minutes uploaded by [SLX] at 20:25 on 2012-08-07