Committee Meeting Minutes 2013-08-23 Present: [SAS] [ODF] [SZM] [VAN] [GOZ] [XON] Apologies: [RNZ] [NEO] Other: [BG3] Meeting opened at 15:21 [ODF] leaves 15:39 [ODF] re-arrives 15:48 President's Report ------------------ - I don't believe a huge amount has happened this week - Everyone should come to the Electronics Hackathon tomorrow, starting at 11 - We have received quite a few sign-ups over the past week - Over the 250 mark in total current members - [SAS] tries to steal [SZM]'s report about the tech talk Vice-President's Report ------------------------ - Tech talk on Wednesday didn't go ahead - Julian cancelled - Next tech talk is Wednesday 28th of August, 2013, at 5pm. - Not April, definitely not April - It's 5pm - 5pm - 5pm - To reiterate, please don't use the computers when a tech talk is on - That's just rude Treasurer's Report ------------------ - Treasurer is absent, [SAS] gives some info - About 4,300 in Westpac - About 1,400 in Guild - [NEO] is to do a financial report some time in October - [NEO] has been doing charity vigil stuff Secretary's Report ------------------ - The Dinner has been postponed from the previously mentioned September 14th to sometime in late October. - Haven't heard back from Susie/Susie's dad, nor the sales guy from RPYC (who I think has been either not sending emails or sending them to the wrong address) - Peace out Fresher Rep's Report -------------------- - Freshe - Lack of a talk of the tech variety - [SZM] set me up by putting me in charge - I was plotted against - Combtail graphics what - Action item disappeared, wasn't in minutes - That's what they all say - Didn't realise [VAN] had to organise it. Special OCM Report ------------------------ [ODF]'s Super Special report - There has been a lot of robotnik trolling this week - Like an immense amount - Wednesday from 5pm onwards, troll sounds were playing at max volume - [SZM] and [GOZ]: The solution is to delete robotnik [GOZ]'s Special Report - I've put a sign on the bin, don't be filthy pigs Machine Technical Reports ------------------------- Servers - motsugo has just gone down, during the meeting - *@#& you motsugo - Secretary should download minutes instead of editing them online - mussel is also down - mylah got a kernel upgrade - was happy for a while, then shut down suddenly after midnight /home,/away,/mp3s broke - CoderDOJO want some webhosting - [SZM] volunteered curious Network - Unisfa wireless is done - Thanks [BG3] and [GOZ] - [BG3]: [GOZ] broke things - Wireless is still crummy Desktops - combtail has not been upgraded - [VAN] to get right on that - GNOME3 is still bad - the login manager doesn't properly lock the account - [GOZ]: Windows is the solution! - [SZM] moves that the UCC officially recognises that GNOME3 is shit, [GOZ] seconds - Motion passes, 5:0 (note that [ODF] was absent for this vote) - The UCC officially recognises that GNOME3 is shit - [SAS] opens floor to alternatives - OpenSUSE is proposed - [SAS]: The problem is that it takes a while - [SAS], [GOZ], and [SZM] volunteer to reinstall Linux distros, pending Resistance (this game thing they play) - [SAS]: Hmm, but what about the Hackathon/other people, they won't be happy! - [BG3]: Nothing could be worse than crashing two servers in one day - Snack machine is derp ([SAS]'s words) - appears to be working now - someone had a swap file in cfg, silly person - that file has been deleted New equipment - nothing Drinks and Snacks ----------------- - got a bunch of drinks - thanks to [BLZ] and [AMS] for picking them up - geez [NEO], you should have been there! - there was a LAN on the weekend (wow [SAS], way to not put this in your report) - it was good - I think we made a bit of a profit on it - we have a machine full of snacks External Affairs ------------------- Mail - [XON] to get mail after machine - Done, nothing (side note: receptionist commented that our box was empty 'again', should definitely look into a subscription) Guild/SOC - SOC meeting last week - meanwhile, [SAS] is bleeding from the eye (around the eye, at least) - Next meetings are sometime in the next few weeks - tenancy meeting on 9th of October Other Entities - [SAS] will try to organise a CHforum meeting sometime (Council of Elrond) - People talk about the tenancy stuff again, "talking" about the Guild (the usual whinging) Action Items ---------------------- - Is the anniversary dinner organised yet, [XON]? - See report - [NEO] to investigate cash counter, and other clubs' possible input - [GOZ] spoke to Ryan from Unigames, he's "mad keen on the idea" - [NEO] to send $400 deposit to Camp Lesch - [GOZ] sent the letter off - We don't know what [NEO] did General Business ---------------- [BOB] : somebody from committee to spend their own time buying piece-of-shit-non-mechanical-keyboards to replace our existing piece-of-shit-non-mechanical-keyboards - [GOZ] suggests buying on of those cherry browns [BOB] suggested - [SZM] opposes buying the keyboard that [BOB] proposed, cites price as an issue - [SAS] opens floor to alternative keyboards, or whether we need new ones - [ODF]: Cheaper ones - [GOZ]: We have lots of old ones, we could use those instead of getting new ones - [SZM]: We should treat the keyboards with more respect! - [BG3] shows us some $30 keyboard from logitech - people are all like, "yeah, doesn't look the best" - [ODF]: The durability of mechanical keyboards shouldn't be that relevant if people stop abusing our current keyboards - [SZM] investigates the keyboards, finds them perfectly satisfactory to his standards - [ODF]: Is there no middle-ground between expensive mechanicals and cheap keyboards? - [SAS] suggests someone investigate keyboards, then come back in a week, for reals - [ODF] volunteers [SAS] : Buy 15-25m CAT5e/6 Cables - We had a problem the other day with the CAT5e uplink cables - [GOZ]: We don't have enough long ethernet cables - We don't need many, just a few to get them - [GOZ] to investigate which CAT5e cables to buy - [GOZ]: [BG3] to terminate some CAT5e cables, which the club is then to buy - [BG3] wants all the money for it - [GOZ]: They're usually $1 a metre, give him $40 - [BG3] volunteers to drop it to $30 - Someone investigates prices of cables online - [GOZ] moves that the UCC purchase a 15m and a 25m CAT5e terminated and tested ethernet cables from [BG3] for $30, [SZM] seconds - Motion passes, 6:0 - [GOZ] to buy the cables from [BG3] [SAS] : Time Capsule - Other club people are putting photos etc. in a time capsule - [ODF]: Put a USB with a virus in it - Someone suggests Spartan's Fork bomb - [GOZ]: Get [SLX] to put some encrypted message in it - Discussion of what sort of tech to put in it - Discussion of what degrades over time and what doesn't - Other suggestions are floppys, dvds, a time-lapse of [TPG]'s of the webcams, a video of the committee, a photo of the committee, a combination thereof - Discussion of what things would be cool for the future people to find - [SAS] might be able to get something bulky from the UCC to get a place - So much more discussion - To the lists! - [GOZ] to send this email to the lists [NTU] : Can the Loft be booked for ACMS(WA) on Sunday 2013-10-06 10:30-12:00 ? - [SAS] will book the loft for them - Discussion of what machines may be used/taken - manbo is included Meeting closed at 16:15 Current Action Items ------------------------ [SZM] to sort out curious for CoderDojo [ODF] to investigate keyboards for the club, mechanical and otherwise [GOZ] to send an email to the lists about what the UCC should put in the time capsule [SZM] to email [XON] the minutes - Done [GOZ] to buy 15m and 25m CAT5e cables from [BG3] for $30 [VAN] to investigate and purchase upgrades for combtail, with assistance from exec member with access to money