UCC Committee Meeting on the 9th August 2023

  • Last committee minutes have been uploaded to the website

Attendance

  • [BLU] Grace Fowler, President
  • [I2N] Lorenzo Iannuzzi, Vice President
  • [GPO] Gary O'Donovan, Treasurer
  • [LTX] Celine Wang, Fresher representative
  • [MCW] Lara Frcej, Ordinary Committee Member
  • [BRZ] Bryce O'Connor, Ordinary Committee Member
  • [BRD] Cormac Sharkey, Ordinary Committee Member

Apologies

  • [KKZ] Ariel Carter, Secretary

Absences

Start Time

  • 17.42

Circular motions

  • [I2N] motions to ratify the circular motion to reimburse [BRD] for flyers printed for club carnival $46.55
    • [BRZ] seconds
    • unanimous

Committee Reports

President's Report

  • went to club carnival
  • had a miserable start but we got a couple sign ups
  • went to sem2 welcome
  • "gently persuaded" people into rsvping

Vice President's Report

  • went to join camp, proj night, and fresher welcome
  • working on uccmd
    • our version of hedgedoc :)

Secretary's Report

  • not here

Treasurer's Report

  • Westpac Main $6,429.57

  • Westpac Savings $46,010.12

  • Westpac Card $41.21

  • Guild Account $2,002.00

  • waddap

  • ohsted 3d printing tech talk

  • didnt go to club carnival (working)

  • went to sem2 welcome, project night

  • fixed porcupine

Fresher Rep's Report

  • Went to fresher welcome
  • Attended joint camp subcom meeting

OCM Reports

  • - went to project night and was super busy trying to get stuff working before the supercomputer goes down for 2weeks </3
    • attended cam hall quiz night subcom meeting
    • went to sem 2 welcome
  • - went to [GPO]'s 3d printer workshop
    • did setup and cleanup for club carnival
    • went to sem 2 fresher welcome
  • [BRD]
    • went to 3d printing, cam hall quiz, project night
    • mouse pads are here (they are very sexy)
    • working on octoprint server

Action Items from Last Meeting

  • [BRD] can talk to uwanime for relay for life
    • forgor
  • [GPO] will make us a poster for fresher welcome
    • yep
  • [BRD]: do your EMP for tech talk tonight
    • approved
  • [MCW]: ask tech talkers for event discription, date and time
    • done a little of this for upcoming events
  • [GPO] will try to get combank account sorted so we can start going into this
    • in progress

Machine Technical Reports

Servers

  • looking for newish hardware for mollitz

Network

  • no response from UWAIT

Desktops

  • porcupine needs a new GPU
    • we will try to fix its current one first though
    • might be a temperature issue
      • if we buy one, itll be second hand GPU
      • it has a ryzen 7 right now so we arent limited for waht GPUs we can get

Misc.

  • [GPO] will try to fix the previous 'old' 3D printer
  • having two is nice
  • SLAC is keeping an extension cord of ours

New Equipment

  • mousepads

    • very lovely
    • also mouse feet and grip tape from the seller of the mousepads

  • [BRD] will talk to them for more prizes

    • needs pictures of previous cam hall quiz night to persuade them that it is a good idea

  • ender 3 V2 (3D printer) was received from [NIX]

  • also got some filament

  • we need to put the filament somewhere where it isnt in the sun and not out in the open

    • we will put it on some of the shelves
    • we will put 3d printing filaments in the club carnival box

  • [LTX] exits 17.59

Drinks and Snacks

  • we need to go on a food run
  • [GPO] plans on going on one this weekend
  • got caramello koalas and chocolates
  • we need to confront people about leaving rubbish on the floor
    • basically if you see someone do this let them know

External Entities

Mail

  • been checked
    • nothing

Guild/SOC

  • nothing

Other Entities

  • nothing...

Events

Past Events

3D printing workshop

  • not many people showed up

  • mostly just regulars

    • probably poor advertising?
      • it could be popular
      • [GPO] happy to do it every semester
    • [GPO] still went over some printing

  • considering putting up posters around cameron hall

  • also we should put events into the discord events tab

    • some events can be lost in the #annnouncement channel

  • for advertising

    • discord annoucementt
    • discord events tab
    • posters on guild screens
    • facebook event

Club carnival

  • started setting up outside

  • it started raining on us

    • people told us to move undercover

  • next to ref and slac

    • [BLU] asked slac if we could use their power
    • they closed before club carnival and we have lost our cable in there

  • we have a couple sign ups

  • 7-ish signups

  • marquee tent thing was wet so we have hung it up in the loft..

  • we could use a rock pi/raspberry pi as a computer down at club carnival/oday in the future

    • all we need is a monitor then
    • sometimes it is nice to have an actual PC though

Semester 2 welcome

  • a good number of people showed up!!
  • saying that we have VMs is a big thing to mention
    • especially for compsci students
  • our speech on the fly was pretty good when [MPT]s powerpoint decided not to work
  • new people seem interested

Confirmed Events

Tech Talks

  • Intro to Linux:

    • [BRD] make a poster tonight
    • also write up a short description
    • wednesday at 2pm

  • Svelte

    • [GPO] will get more info for that
    • week 6 thursday at 3pm

  • Python tech talk

    • pulled out

  • Mark

    • will ask about an event in week 8

  • Enterprise Storage

    • [LGM]
    • week 10 tuesday 2pmm

  • [MPT] has shown interest in running building the internet next year

  • A tech talk about making a website on the uccs services

  • neocities tech talks about basic web design (and shill ucc webs services)

  • VM hosting could also be one

    • could rebrand it to "how to make a minecraft server"

49th Anniversary

  • [GPO] has a file with all people attending
    • looking like 30ish people
  • [GPO] will have a chat with them mikys

Artemis LAN

  • week 5 26th of august
  • 11am
  • we dont rlly have any prep for it, just need to make a poster
    • pretty much all PCs will have it
  • almost anything can run this game
    • emp WILL be approved soon

UCC x unigames collab

  • [BLU] hasnt talked to jackie
  • Table top simulator event
    • LAN like event
    • its gonna be entirely on discord
    • dont need everyone in one game

Tentative/Future Events

Another LAN event

  • jackbox
  • Halo
  • quake
  • depends on how many people show up
  • also VR will be out
    • bring a smaller PC to the CSZ for takelings

50th anniversery

  • nothing much

Relay For Life

  • [BRD] forgot to mention

Cam hall quiz night

  • theme ideas:
    • monster mash: ucc likes this
    • once upon a quiz night: ucc thinks this is mid
  • start looking for prizes

Joint camp

  • already booked
  • some committee members need to renew their CPR
  • if coxy brings rockband then we should be able to set it up properly this year since we have the tarp
  • send in your certs
  • cerberus camp!

Club Collaboration

  • nothing0

General Business

  • did we forget about the curtin thing
    • we are not attending

Action Items

  • [BRD] talk to uwanime
  • [BLU] talk to jackie about club collabs
  • [BRD] make a poster tonight for his tech talk
  • [BRD] will talk to the mousepad people for more prizes
  • [GPO] food run this week
  • [MCW]: ask tech talkers for event discription, date and time
  • [GPO] will try to get combank account sorted so we can start going into this

End time

  • 18.53