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Minutes - 14 March 2001

Wed 14 Mar

During the drive from Uni to the City Arms Earlsdon, this snippet was overheard and reported to your trusty Secretary.

Minnits - 7 March 2001

Wed 07 Mar

Before the meeting, several people wanted to get some quotes in. Tom is mind-bendingly Evil -Jake Chris S’s useless -Tom Cropper

Minnits - 28 February 2001

Wed 28 Feb

In the frantic few minutes in the opening of the meeting, the exec decided not to have any affiliations on the budget. The server was discussed; for details see section 2. Another item bought up was that of magazine subscriptions. If anyone has an idea for a magazine to which they’d like to subscribe, bring it to the exec’s attention. You should at least know the name of the magazine and the subscription cost.

Minnits - 22nd February 2001

Thu 22 Feb

HolyChris has booked LaserQuest from 3:00 - 4:00 on Wednesday 28 Feb for 16 people. With NUS card, the price would be five of our finest English pounds for three games. The attendees will meet in Rootes Reception at 2:15, to leave by 2:30.

Minnits - 15th February 2001

Thu 15 Feb

The Antichris has obtained contact details for one Mike Cowlishaw (sp?) in DCS, who apparently has somethingorother to do with IBM. Mike (Squire, not Cowlishaw) to talk to Mike (Cowlishaw, not Squire), since he at least sort of knows him.

Minnits - 8th February 2001

Thu 08 Feb

Chris Salmon will chair the AGM and count the votes, and do all that osrt of stuff becuase he’s easy to bribe. Um, because he’s impartial, since he’s leaving and isn’t running for a position next year. We will hold the vote via a paper ballot, each voter given a slip of paper with the positions contested and a gap to write a number - each candidate for a position will be given a number, and they can write their vote for each position next to the position on the paper. Each candidate, prior to voting, will be given 5 minutes or so to give some sort of speech - if they so wish - or if they are not present, may send a speech to Chris Salmon to be read out on their behalf. Jake to print voting slips.

Minnits - 1st February 2001

Thu 01 Feb

Tim Clark still hasn’t got back to us, Chris Salmon to follow it up. Rumours of an anti-Linux inquisition roaming ITS have yet to be confirmed.

Minnits - 25th January, 2001

Thu 25 Jan

We went - as a whole, with Tom Worley in tow - to a meeting with Ian Brown, who is with the Onion. Essentially, he had nothing against the idea of us having a server in The Onion, but only if it was running NT - for which the university could give us a very good deal at only three hundred pounds. Three hundred pounds. Ian Brown didn’t want a server running Linux in his office since he didn’t know enough to be able to administer it himself in the event of an emergency. We then emailed Tim Clark of ITS, who was very enthusiastic about Linux, but had no idea where we could put the box… He is currently “investigatin’” and will be back to us on Friday. To those not already /in the know/, ‘Linux’ is pronounced as if it were spelt ‘Leinnucks’. Roughly. /Not/ as if it were spelt ‘Line-Ucks’. That would be wrong. So very wrong.

Minnits - 18th January, 2001

Thu 18 Jan

The order for the switch has actually really been faxed now. We wait, but we don’t panic. Yet. Since Scan do next-day delivery, we should have our largely-unworthy hands on this wonderful piece of equipment fairly soon. Unless the Onion interceeds again.

Minnits - 11th January, 2001

Thu 11 Jan

At the Refresher’s Fayre last Tuesday, we managed to sign up 5 new members - but also spent £10 on a backboard for the event. Which was blue, but not /Compsoc/ blue[1]. Whether this should be deemed as a success or a loss (or both) is left as an exercise to the reader, However, high spirits ensued for the day with the exec, due to the penning of a new Balloon Policy, by which the society executive shall be governed in the prescence of uninflated balloons.

Minnits - 8th December 2000

Fri 08 Dec

We have now emailed the ‘Computer Console Society’ twice - once to their ‘Yahoo’ account, and once to the ITS account of the president. If we get no response from either by the time of our first meeting next term, then we will have to go to the Onion and see what we can get done /without/ their cooperation.

Minnits - 1st December 2000

Fri 01 Dec

Newsletters should go out roughly once every two weeks - but not strictly. Include new events first, then a reminder of pending events, then finally a hint of future plans.

Minnits - 24th November 2000

Fri 24 Nov

“This is all my fault” - Chris Salmon The minutes should, in future,

Minnits - 18th November 2000

Sat 18 Nov

Seeing as Baz is going, and Tom (Worley) is going, we will have enough hubs, and a BNC uplink. Henry (Southgate) is bringing a Linux box to use as a bridge, so we should be able to configure the network quite easily.

Minnits - 9th November 2000

Thu 09 Nov

Baz has details on the switch we plan to buy - to give these to Ryan and organise the purchase of said piece of equipment.

Minnits - 2nd November 2000

Thu 02 Nov

Barry found a good deal on an 8-way switch - and whilst the particular price he found was a limited-time offer, it was decided that it would be a good idea to get one. Kit comes with three network cards and three lengths of cable. Barry to talk to Ryan and start purchase.

Minnits - 26th October 2000

Thu 26 Oct

Gaming and the last LAN party have been going well - but we could do with more organisation at LANs, specifically with getting the network set up. A Hub was suggested, or a Switch - Baz to investigate the possibilities. We would need at least 8 sockets - probably no more would be needed since member’s hubs could be daisychained. Henry Southgate also mentioned at the last LAN that he may be able to bring a Linux box to act as a bridge. Talk to Henry nearer time of next LAN.

Minnits - 19th October 2000

Thu 19 Oct

It was proposed that a sign be made for gaming sessions, to put on the door to warn non-members of what is going on, so they don’t walk in, look confused and lost and disturb people. Jake to create.

Minnits - 10th October 2000

Tue 10 Oct

Chris Smith wanted it minuted that he was impressed with the flyers. (Used to spam first year CS pigeonholes)

Minnits - 2nd October 2000

Mon 02 Oct

Chris Salmon, as his first Act Of Iron Dominance for the year he serves as president, decreed that the Minutes should bve written up /without/ the vernacular humour that graced earlier editions. The Secretary and Vice President noted that this institution was in fact started by him, but nonetheless, terms such as ‘Jedi Persuasion’ shall be now absent from the minutes writeup, and the minutes shall correctly be correctly spelt and not referred to as the ‘minnits’.