UCC Committee Meeting on the 22nd of September 2023

  • Last committee minutes have been uploaded to the website.

UCC Committee Meeting Minutes 2023-09-22

Attendance

  • [BLU] Grace Fowler, President
  • [I2N] Lorenzo Iannuzzi, Vice President
  • [KKZ] Ariel Carter, Secretary
  • [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

Absences

Start Time

  • 18:06

Confirmation of Previous Minutes

Committee Reports

President's Report

  • Went to quiz night.
    • The UCC table came 4th.
      • "L statement tbh" - [I2N], who was on the table that one.
  • Uploaded the Cam Hall Quiz subcommittee minutes to Discord and the wiki.
  • Did the poster for the TTS event.
  • Did the advertising for the Azure tech talk and TTS event.
  • Asked people for UCC photos throughout the five decades cause I want to make a slideshow for the ball next year.

Vice President's Report

  • Didn't really do anything since Guild elections
  • Helped Gary with getting data to send to UWAIT about internet being bad

Secretary's Report

  • Fixed minutes upload/titling on website.
  • rip.
  • I miss you guysss!! T-T

Treasurer's Report

  • Sent msgs to UWAIT to try and resolve packet loss.
  • Helped redbull set up internet for tav event.
  • Attempted to help organise unilan sem2 meeting.
  • Went to Quiz Night and Project Night.
  • Attended Tech Talk.
  • Went to camp subcommittee meeting.

Fresher Rep's Report

  • Went to camp subcommittee meeting.

OCM Reports

  • [BRD]

    • Went to project Night and Quiz.
    • Fixed the integration for the UCC 'Have I been pwned script'.
    • Was on the table that four.
  • [MCW]:

    • Went to Tech Talk and Project Night.
    • Hosted Quiz Night.
  • - Went to Quiz Night.

    • Went to the Azure talk.

Action Items from Last Meeting

  • [BLU] will write something about it (?Code of Conduct).
    • In progress?
  • [MCW] will send out a whenisgood for 50th.
    • Done.
  • [GPO] will resend email to publisher who asked about our snack machine.
    • Done, no response.
  • [MCW] talk to CSSC/CFC/PCS about a collab tech talk.
    • No response. :frowning_face:
  • [GPO] will purchase Tenda e33 ax5400 tri-band gigabit wi-fi 6E PCI-E adaptor from PLE.
    • Not done.
  • [MCW] write EMP for the Azure tech talk and make poster.
    • Done.
  • [GPO] and [I2N] will try to arrange a meeting with Tony Zhao.
    • Not done.
  • Committee: Work on sponsorship prospectus.
    • In progress.
    • [BLU] actions [MCW] to work on prospectus.
  • Committee: send certs and availability for roster.
    • Done.
  • [GPO], [I2N]: Will try to get commbank account sorted so we can start going into this.
    • Not done.
  • Committee/Wheel: Start on data retention policy.
    • Not done.
  • [GPO], [BRZ], [I2N]: Do more packet loss tests for UWAIT.
    • Mostly done.

Machine Technical Reports

Servers

  • Still serving.

Network

  • Packet loss still happening.
  • Test the purple switches to see if they work.

Desktops

  • New CPU for Venice arrived courtesy of Bones.

  • Will reimburse after we get receipt.

  • Cobra is oddly slow, part of it is that it's booting of of an HDD, but not the whole issue.

    • We will get an SSD for it and see how that helps.
    • If not will be on the chopping block.

Misc

New Equipment

  • Soon will have a new CPU.
  • Labels for label maker arrived.

Drinks and Snacks

  • Gary found a new place, 'Campbell's Cash and Carry'.

    • Decent prices on lots of things, if they are on special it's a very good price.
    • Good deals for chocolate and drinks, bowls, noodles.
    • Anyone can make an account with them if they have an ABN.
    • Can't get Coke for under a dollar per can. :sad:
  • We should probably raise our prices.

    • Make it 5c cheaper than other clubs?
    • We need to aim more at selling for decent prices, rather than keeping it at a historical arbitrary price.
    • We are making 5c profit on some things which is not reliable.
  • The vending machine is a service, we don't need to rely on it for profits but we need to keep up with inflation, and computer parts are increasing in price at the same time.

  • [BLU] actions Committee to go on the next food run (if available) to discuss the future of our pricing.

External Entities

Mail

  • No mail for us.

Guild/SOC

  • SOC meeting Tuesday 26th September 6pm.
  • Planned power outage Monday 9th October 6-7am.
    • [GPO] to email Kelvin at Guild Tenancy about power outage.

Other Entities

Westpac

  • Missing money from Charity vigil, didn't deposit in ATM?
    • Ongoing issue.

Events

Past Events

Cameron Hall Quiz Night

  • Total float $305.40.

    • Difference of $133.40.
  • Need to release funds from TriBooking into UCC account.

  • Overall went very good.

  • Liked the minigames.

  • Organisation seems good, not too rushed.

  • People turned up early and has some issues ejecting them.

  • Food provided in the ticket came out really late.

    • Miscommunication between kitchen and manager.
    • Kitchen said food was coming out 6:45, they waited for us to tell them to bring out the food.
  • [I2N], [MCW] & [BRD] leave 19:16.

Azure Tech Talk

  • Was enjoyable.
  • Maybe a touch dry but that's the nature of such topics.
  • Attendance: 7 in person, ~5 online. 12 total.

Confirmed Events

TTS with UniGames

  • Wednesday 5pm UniGames Discord server ONLINE.
  • UniGames has done the EMP.
  • Advertising is done.
    • UniGames permanent Discord invite on advertising.

Project Night

Tech Talks

  • Enterprise Storage tech Talk 3pm Week 10.
    • Tried to get in contact with other clubs about it, ended up contacting presidents directly.
    • Need to check if we have an EMP.

Tentative/Future Events

  • Week 11 Another LAN? Or VR night.
  • Week 12 Probably nothing. (Chill out week)

Club Collaboration

  • UniLAN meeting tomorrow.

    • [GPO] and [KKZ] to attend.
  • [GPO] Talked to Will from URC about keyboard building workshop.

    • Probably wont run this year.

Closed Section

General Business

Important/Get Done Soon

Miscellaneous

Major plan/ideas to do this year

New equipment we should get

Action Items

  • [GPO] to email Kelvin at Guild Tenancy about power outage.

  • [BLU] actions Committee to go on the next food run (if available) to discuss the future of our pricing.

  • [GPO], [I2N]: Will try to get commbank account sorted so we can start going into this.

  • Committee/Wheel: Start on data retention policy.

  • [BLU] will write something about it (?Code of Conduct).

  • [GPO], [BRZ], [I2N]: Do more packet loss tests for UWAIT.

  • [GPO] will resend email to publisher who asked about our snack machine.

  • [MCW] talk to CSSC/CFC/PCS about a collab tech talk.

  • [GPO] will purchase 'Tenda e33 ax5400 tri-band gigabit wi-fi 6E PCI-E adaptor' from PLE.

End time

  • 19:28