Minutes of the meeting 5/09/2000
 
Attendance:
	[GMB] Grahame Bowland
	[MST] Anil Sharma
	[YAK] Ian McKellar 
	[TAZ] Tracey Brown 
	[ANT] Anita Mathers 
	[TRS] James Andrewartha 
	[NTU] Nick Bannon 
	[TIE] Chris Coman 
	[ORU] James Devenish 
	[TOM] Tom Lynch
	[BRQ] Bryden Quirk
	[ACK] Luke Slaughter
	[MTL] Mark Tearle
	
Apologies:
	[DTA] Leighton Haynes (?)
	[TDH] David Manchester

Meeting opened 6:06pm

President's Report:

	* Did stuff. Nothing UCC related.
	* Programming Competition was kind of a success. James Hentridge was the only non-standard UCCan. 
	It was fun. We'll probably have another one later.

Vice President's Report:

	* Started a flamewar against self.
	* Found out what a prole was.
	* Tried to email someone at Apple - couldn't find any email addresses.

[MST] What did I do, Anita? I did something.
[ANT] No you didn't.

Treasurer's Report:

	* [YAK] won! That's about it. Well, [YAK] assumes he did, no one else did anything.
	* Map is good. 

Secretary's Report:

	* Quiz Night - Booked Tav for the 6th October. Tav says that we can't start til ~8, but we can get 
	there at ~7:30 to set up and stuff. Will cost $150 for the venue, 
	and we have to be out by midnight. Clashes with Octoberfest - if Leisure
	or Manics are doing something in the courtyard, the Tav will want security.

[GMB] says we should follow up about security and whether we'll have to pay for it.

Correspondence Report:

	* Invoice for AARNet traffic. [YAK] to deal with.

Machine Report:

	* [TRS] broke the rc file on scarlet, so it now attempts to mount NFS before it has network support.

[GMB] Oh shit! I just put a UniSFA couch piece in my mouth.
	
	* Axlotl has been turned off, we now have a DEC server.
	* Door - mooneye's hardware is having problems.

General Business:

	*Programming Competition - Was great fun. Ok turn out, approx 10 people. No new members. 
	Thanks to [BEN] and [GMB] for the problem, and to [GMB] for organising
	it. We spent some money on food and drink, but less than we'd allocated.

	* Quiz Night - [ANT] has written 2 rounds of 10 questions so far. We'll charge $5 for members, 
	and $8 non-members entry, and will have memberships available on 
	the night.
	
	* Sleepout - Keiron and Froggy are doing too much without consultation. Froggy says there is not 
	much happening with PAC, it's currently going through the Guild - the PAC
	President has resigned, but apparently will be back before the next PAC
	meeting. What can we spend the $200 grant on? We'll budget for pizza and drinks. The
	UCC could rent out computers. *general air of amusement* [AHC] might be able to organise 
	PC's if we want them. People can bring their own.

	* [AHC] is back - he said he'd be interested in giving a presentation to interested 
	UCC members on the Squid re-write etc. Could book a room in CS for an
	evening, or something. [GMB] will talk to [AHC]. [GMB] to write
	blurb, [TAZ] to email to CS lists, and [GMB] to try to send to EE.

	* [MST] would like the room re-arranged. We have more graphical machines, and there's 
	not much room. We can't put any outside the room, as we suffer from random
	theft of such items. [TDH] suggested lockable racks for the long
	term. They are ~$2000 each, new - we'd need ~3. We could use them to put machine room machines in
	freeing up that space.

[YAK] moves that we spend $50 on cables and converters, and a keyboard/mouse switch for the machine room. 
Passed.
[MTL] to look around for quotes on racks.

	* Ross' Auction - Viewing Friday, Auction on Saturday morning. We'd be interested in the storage 
	works bricks, 4gb hdds for up to $100, and 18gb hdds for up to $300. We
	have ~$4k in the bank, how much would we be willing to contribute towards
	a good Alpha server?

[YAK] $50k max *g*
[BEN] arrives.
[MST] moves that we spend a max of $500 on bricks.
[GMB] Preferably with 4gb hdds.
[GMB] moves that we spend $2000 maximum, $1 - 1.5k towards Alpha server (with contributions), and $500
on bricks/hdds if we get the Alpha, or $700 on bricks etc if we don't get an Alpha. [MST]
seconds. Passed.

	* We want the Guild to upgrade to Cat5. We'd be willing to put money towards a switch if
	necessary.

	* Monitors - we'll decide what we need next week, after we know the outcome of the auction.

	* Keys - [MEL] has been dragigng this out for over 8 weeks. [MST] to definately make contact
	by next week.

[BRQ] *rings [MEL]* 
[MEL] claims she doesn't know where they are.
	
	* If [MEL] can't return the keys, we will have to find out how much a replacement set will
	cost, and charge her for a replacement set.

Meeting closed 7:00pm.