UCC Committee Minutes 17-03-2009 Meeting opened at 16:03 Present: [LOL] [M12] [SJY] [RVS] [DJA] [CJS] [DAA] [TRS] Apologies: [VIX] Absent: President's Report ------------------ - Had our first event yesterday, Monday at the Movies. - Not much else to report. Vice-President's Report ----------------------- - Monday at the Movies was good. Treasurer's Report ------------------ - Paid some bills. - Balance is roughly $3500 - Have applied for SOC grant. - Sent an excel spreadsheet to SOC with Oday claims. - AARNET has changed their charging model, to discuss in general business. Secretary's Report ------------------ - Checked mail today, there was none. Fresher Rep's Report -------------------- - Freshers appear to be happy. Machine Technical Reports ------------------------- Servers: - New rack is now in the machine room with some of the new servers installed. - Olive is back online. - Madako went down briefly because of multicast. Network: - Have reallocated some of the IP range to ugg after it was running out of IPs. Desktops: - The Mac is dead. - Acquired [HAL]'s computer from his parents with donations from members and the balance of his coke account. - We have a number of new machines since last committee meeting. Appliances: - Printing from Windows to Phosphorous is now working. Drinks and Snacks ----------------- - [MRD] went on coke run today, also [M12], [LOL] and [RVS] on tuesday. - Snack machine has more snacks than last year. Mail, Guild and SOC ------------------- - No mail. - Haven't heard much from SOC. - Contacted SOC about budgets and was told "wait up". Action Items ------------------ - [LAW] to follow up business school machines - Canceled. - [NTU] to organise getting computers off of [FEL] - Canceled. - [VIX] and [LAW] to sort out details of UCC dinner (in progress) - Canceled. - [LAW] to do t-shirt design - Canceled. - [ROW] to fix snacks cupboard (needs new hinge) - Redelegated to [DAA]. General Business ---------------- [RVS] : Photos for web site - [LOL] to bring in camera next week. [RVS] : Lamination pouches for membership cards - [DAA] to buy more lamination pouches. [SJY] : Nick Tay [BUT] for door - [BUT] is not here, deferred to next meeting. [CJS] : Cans collection box - Replace box with one of the many bins in Cameron Hall. [M12] : Breach of copyright - [M12] sent mail to ucc-announce@ as requested by ITS. - [SJY] sent email to David in response to this breach of copyright notice. - Do not know who was torrenting, could have been anyone using our network, particularly with our unsecure access point. [M12] : the 'unofficial' cameron hall ball - [CHZ] wants $150 from UCC to hire the back room at Pot Black in Northbridge. - The committee would prefer that this be an official UCC event if UCC will be funding it. - To be discussed further next meeting. [M12] : AARnet changes - AARnet has changed their charging model. - We can save money if we accurately estimate our bandwidth usage for this year. - Vote to select the 41-50 for $700 to be paid in Quaterly instalments. - [SJY] to clarify that on net traffic remains free. - [SJY] to investigate return to Mr Bills. - [SJY] to send information about new charging model to ucc@. [M12] : ucc lan (April fools) - Not going to happen. - Already have scheduled the Easter UCC Lan on the 11/04/2009. [M12] : Securing ugg - Motivated by copyright infrigement notice. - Copyright infrigement was adequately dealt with. - The unsecure access point has not caused any serious harm, and we don't know if it was the cause of the infrigement notice. - ugg is not a descriptive name for the access point, does not relate to UCC. - Motion to rename ugg to "University Computer Club", passed unanimously. [M12] : locking of CHZ's account - [CHZ] created an account called "thebiggestjerk" to receive mail at that address. - [SJY] noticed this, told him it was not the correct procedure. - [SJY] created an alias for [CHZ], and tried to delete the account. - [SJY] contacted wheel@ for assistance deleting the account. - [MST] then said the account had to be locked, and did so. - Drama followed. - Motion to unlock [CHZ]'s account, passed unanimously. [M12] : Wheel Locking account - Wheel needs the right to lock accounts to protect the system from malicious users. - There should be guidelines in place for locking accounts. - Individual committee members, door members and wheel members should have the power to request account locking until the next committee meeting. - [DAA] to send draft of account locking guidelines to committee-only@ for discussion. - To be discussed further next week. [LOL] : New aircon, as mentioned on tech@ - Could anyone with comments on this, please post to tech@. - To be discussed next meeting. [SJY] : offensive language in the clubroom - Not only does this drive members away, UWA takes discriminatory language quite seriously. - Members who swear loudly and frequently so they can be heard outside the clubroom should be warned and then doored. - Door group should be in charge of enforcing this, and should use their own discretion. - Littering in the clubroom should be approached the same way. - [SJY] to email door@ to set up meeting for door members next week at 5pm. - Door members who do not respond before the meeting or do not show up at the meeting will be removed from the door group. New Action Items ------------------ - [LOL] to bring in camera next week. - [DAA] to buy more lamination pouches. - [SJY] to clarify that on net traffic remains free. - [SJY] to investigate return to Mr Bills. - [SJY] to send information about new charging model to ucc@. - [DAA] to send draft of account locking guidelines to committee-only@ for discussion. - [SJY] to email door@ to set up meeting for door members next week at 5pm. Meeting closed at 17:23