UCC Committee Meeting Minutes 2013-08-09 Present: [SAS] [ODF] [NEO] [SZM] [GOZ] [VAN] [XON] Absent: [RNZ] Other: [BG3] [SLX] Meeting Opened at 15:17 [*OX] arrives 15:49 [ODF] leaves 16:18 President's Report ------------------ - Club Carnival was great - Eventually got power and 7 signups! - [SZM] did an amazing job at CoderDojo - If you want to mentor signup on the CoderDojo WA Facebook Page - [SZM] looks fabulous on Facebook - Hasn't emailed about the SGM, is questioning his proposition - Went to UESC Meeting and Tenancy Meeting - Met some cool people - Brought up the fan, and the leaking issue - There was Turkish bread - At UESC, Education Council Pres is organising club positions to be put onto academic resume - Probably won't be OCMs, just people who filled in Office Bearer Forms - May be opt-in - Probably be dependent on nature of the club - Open Day is this Sunday! - You should come and help out with the UCC stall - Attending the UEC Engineering Expo (15th August) and IEEE Careers Expo (14th August) - Need help with these - [NEO], [SLX], [GOZ], volunteer, [VAN] as a maybe. - People from IEEE approached me about their tech expo - Has big names, Google, IBM etc. - Essentioally a jobs expo - Wednesday 14th August, 6:30pm in Business school - UCC has been asked to help [SAS] closes laptop in disgust, "I blame Mitch/[BG3] (for the wireless)" Vice-President's Report ----------------------- - GitHub is amazing - Project Management is not awesome - Talked about Python at Codedojo - Apparently the world knows about this thanks to Facebook - Violated the "be cool" rule - Said we'd offer web hosting (probably on curious) - Tech Talk about Configuration Management on Tuesday 13th August 5:30pm - Will hopefully have projector screen by then - [TRS] to pick up his projecter screen from the machine room - [DTA] to pick up his mast from clubroom - Forgot about Tenancy Meeting on 7th August - Will remember to attend Open Day on Sunday 11th August - Will not be able to go to Engineering Expo on 15th August until after 6pm - Poor time management was used in writing this report Treasurer's Report ------------------ - Purchase of automatic coin counting machine - Opened safe, almost died from coins - Can buy Aussie coin counter for $100 - [SZM]: We won't have any coins left to count! - Would be good for current and future treasurers - [SAS]: For reference, last week we went to bank, accounts were off terribly, plus the teller didn't count so good - [SLX]: Traditionally, the treasurer counts the coins more frequently so they don't get squished - [VAN]: Can't we just use one of those counting machines at the bank? - Banks want you to count the money as well - Someone will put foreign currency in the safe just to screw it over - As the year goes on, more shrapnel appears - [SLX]: That's the point, to get rid of them - [NEO]: Save me from the coins, let me have it please - Deposited $1,707 into Bank - Includes GigaLAN proceeds - $678,70 from GigaLAN - $200 float, $400, $150-ish for power - Less than $100 loss - $4,660 in Bank - $1,783 in Cash Reserve - I did mention a LAN last week - Going to see Guild about night pass for LAN, next Friday/Saturday Secretary's Report ------------------ - [CTH] has spoken to Andy (OR guy) - Andy has (sort of) agreed to allow the OR be used by the club (not general purpose, for specific occasions) - Conditions: Someone he trusts (such as [BOB], or any old guard member) be there to supervise it, since it requires his PC be there as well (it has the drivers and such). - Royal Perth Yacht Club may have lost the initial form, I've spoken to their sales rep. - Investiagion of the sales guy and IRC (thanks [DAA]) revealed that old member "Susie"'s dad sponsored the club previously. Susie has said she'll speak with her dad when he comes into mobile range (he's in the Kimberlys somewhere at the moment) - [GOZ] says his uncle may be a member of the RPYC - Revelations, [NEO] is apparently a member of the RPYC - Nope, now he's at the South Perth Yacht Club - No mail - [SAS]: The Guild secretary says we should get a magazine subscription so our mail isn't empty - [SZM]: Tell [BOB] to buy more crimping tools Fresher Rep's Report -------------------- - Freshers - Picked up new handset. - Who was phone? More like new was phone. - We have a new phone - It is black - Submitted my LOLCAT, twice (dity filthy attachment peasant) Machine Technical Reports ------------------------- Servers - We have them - We have spare ones - [GOZ]: There's a tech meeting tonight about them - The SAN is a little bit unwell - It will break everything, destroying the known world - [SZM]: We can move stuff onto mantis - Something something LDAP (like, I seriously don't know) - Discussion of people who get emails multiple times when sent to lists. Network - Apparently s@@@, according to [SAS]'s laptop - [SZM]: Can we add a section "laptop", where we note the state of everybody's laptop? - Otherwise, fine (unless you count the SAN) Desktops - [GOZ] is touching Characid - Basically reinstalled Windows, took awhile - Had a bunch of viruses - It is fixed - Thank you [GOZ]! - [SZM]: Did anything happen with Deep Thought - [SAS]: Unisfa hasn't approached us yet, don't know - [SLX]: I've installed KDE on linux machines that don't have it already - GNOME is a pile of manure - [SAS] recalls that committee didn't like GNOME3, then next week liked it - [SLX]: As a non-committee member, I officially condemn GNOME3 - Discussion of GDE as log-in - [ODF]: My machine works - It's fully sick - [SLX]: Everyone agrees Windows 8 is sick, yes - There are some taskbar problems - [ODF] suggests Start8 - Is it freeware, is it not? New equipment - Got a new phone, thanks [VAN] - It needs a name - [ODF]: If it has a name, do we need to answer as it? - [GOZ]: There's a species of fish that make sounds - Scientific name (Cianidae?), commonly called Croakers Drinks and Snacks ----------------- - 54cpc Coke at Coles - [SAS]: Anyone for a coke run? - [NEO]: I have no petrol. - [VAN]: No petrol, rich kid? - [SLX]: Why don't we take the yacht? - Snack machine had some issues this morning - [NEO]: I got some skinny people to switch it off/on External Affairs ------------------- Mail - None Guild/SOC - Tenancy Meeting last Wednesday Night - Guild wants us to promote Student Learning Experiences & Teaching Survey - Is here www.guild.uwa.edu.au/slets Other Entities - UESC Meeting on Wednesday was good - Talked about the upcoming careers expo - We still have a stall at this event - [SAS] [SZM] [NEO] have free tickets, anyone who wants to volunteer also gets free tickets. Action Items ---------------------------- - [NEO] to reimburse [BOB] for VRMs for donated server - [NEO] received no receipt - [NEO] reimbursed him for the cables - [SAS]: We need proof of purchase - We need to buy things - [SAS] moves that the UCC purchases the items (VRMs for donated server), for $37.50, [SZM] seconds - [*OX]: But they're second hand, shouldn't have to pay full price. - Motion passes, 7:0 - [ODF] shakes his head at [BOB] for his slack attitude - [SZM] to look into CompCon - An email was sent - [SLX]: Was anything done about travel assistance for that? - [SZM]: If anyone wants to go, sure, but I don't think anyone will want to go. - [BG3]: Give them some UCC shirts - [SLX]: I think UCC should help - By getting the University to pay - Maybe [SZM] will put it on Facebook as well - People not reading email -[SAS] interjects - Can tonight's tech meeting involve pizza? - [GOZ]: If we don't get money, we can sell crimson for it - [VAN] to email Telephonists about fixing our phone - Done, [VAN] got a new phone - [SAS] to send email to whom he decides, informing them of possible SGM - I've decided thought the issue that- - [SZM]: Are we committee-ing suicide or not? (credit to [VAN] for the pun) - [SLX] gives the pun his seal of approval - If our committee is competent enough, we can stem the issue of old committee not preparing for new committee well enough - If we still wanted to change it, the earliest would be early September - [ODF]: Wait, what is this about? - [SAS]: Does anyone have any opinions? - [ODF]: I still don't understand! - For the uninformed, the idea was to move the AGM to October - Committee would be able to plan better for the majority of events - [BG3], put the knife down ([SZM]: Don't point it at me). - [BG3] was cutting his can. - Discussion of implications/presence of Shadow Co-REDACTED. (Wow what a shoddy retraction) - An OGM would be held in early Semester 1 for Fresher Rep - [ODF]: That would be unfair for Freshers, they wouldn't vote on their reps. - [GOZ] to book next year's camp - Sent an email, they haven't responded - [SAS]: Keep sending emails - [XON] to continue dinner booking - Continuing - [XON] to write UCC blurb for the Pelican - Rough draft done, at home - [SAS] to email tech@ regarding new graphics card - Nvidia 660 and Radeon 7870 are some proposed alternatives - [SAS] has reservations with ATI cards - [SAS] moves that we purchase an Nvida 660 for less than $250, [SZM] seconds ("Treasurer is looking at Facebook or something", [SZM]) - Motion passes, 7:0 - [VAN] to purchase graphics card, with Exec member with Master card. - Someone made a joke - [SAS]: Did [BG3] make the joke, he's laughing the most? - President is disappointed. - [SZM] to purchase projector screen, up to $200 - In progress - [BG3] to continue with Unisfa wireless - It is happening, when I'm not asleep - [SZM]: Would be impressive if you did it in your sleep - [SAS]: This is something for the Shadow Council to do tonight - [*OX] and [SZM] oppose this name (for the Cabal). - Someone to do a coke run - Not done General Business ---------------- [BOB] : buy a cherry brown keyboard for a gaming machine so pinball can have one of the DAS keyboards. $129+postage from http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=113_1276&products_id=23394 - Discussion of the pink version - It is $20 more - [ODF] was going to motion to purchase the pink keyboard, until [GOZ] found it was out of stock (President magic whoosh whoosh). - [SZM]: Democracy foiled by stock. - Discussion of some louder keyboards. - [SZM]: To the lists! - [VAN]: No! It needs a decision, not investigation! - [VAN] has multiple alternatives. - [SZM]: I love Friday meetings. - Discussion of keyboards dies. [SAS] : IEEE Careers Expo - [SLX]: Does anyone know what it stands for? - Internet Evil Evil Explorer? - They've invited us to their careers expo - Has Google, IBM, other big names - People should go, gives you some contacts - Unfortunately, same day as SOC meeting - They've officially asked us to help out. - 6:30-9 at Business school (14th August, Wednesday) -[SZM] will go, if someone else goes - [BG3] and [SLX] will go as well. - [SAS] lists the jobs which need to be done at the event - [SZM]: I'm less enthusastic now that they want slaves - Food is provided. - An email is to be sent, reminding these people. - [SZM]: I'll wear a shirt - A UCC one [GOZ] : Consider getting a second/larger bin. Or be meaner to door members. - [GOZ]: People are disgusting and I hate them - [SZM]: Exhibit A (points at loft bin, which is overflowing) - [NEO]: If we throw our rubbish outside, will the cleaners pick it up? - Discussion of Guild, bit of a circlejerk - [SZM]: Can we reactive the robotnik script that tells people to clean up? - Yes, yes we can. - [NEO] suggests changing it to "Cain, don't leave your rubbish around", just to mess with him the first few times [VAN] : [VAN] submitted LOLCAT - [SAS]: Application was fine, chuckle chuckle - [SLX]: Officially you're meant to email coke group 48 hours before the meeting - Committee has powers, powers you've never seen before! -[SAS] motions to add [VAN] to coke, [SZM] seconds - [VAN] vanishes. - Motion passes, 5:0 - Welcome to coke, [VAN]. - [SZM] adds him. - [NEO] is reimbursing things, asks [SAS] how to spell his name. - [SAS]: Finger me. Meeting closed at 16:29. Current Action Items ---------------------- - [SZM], [SLX] and [BG3] to attend IEEE, Wednesday 14th - [SAS] to remind those people to attend the IEEE - [VAN] to purchase graphics card, with Exec member with Mastercard - [GOZ] to keep sending emails to Camp Lesch - [NEO], [SLX], [GOZ], and [VAN] (maybe) to help at Open Day - [SAS], [SZM], and [NEO] to attend UEC meeting - [XON] to continue anniversary dinner booking ----------------------------------- Meeting minutes are also available at http://www.ucc.asn.au/infobase/minutes