Minutes - 3/3/2010

Present:

MrWilson, Mogmiester, Dirtus, Cranman, Fyorl, TeamDoherty, Agaeki, Zed0, Azurit, Trip, SigmaD

Minutes:

Emails/Mailing List and Website:

• Fyorl needs the mailman password to do things.
• Monk may or may not have added people to the mailing list already.
• Exec Bios need updating
• Admins can rewrite the entire website. (Don’t do that)

Dirtus’ Si… Football:

• Dirtus wondered if anyone was interested in a 5 a side game.
• Will be mentioned in newsletter.

Pokemon Social:

• There is an event advertising Heart Gold/Soul Silver.
• Taking place in Nuneaton.
• Sometime next month.
• TeamDoherty suggested using the union’s people carriers.
• WGD is also interested.(Forging better relations isn’t a bad idea.)

Gaming:

• Agaeki is now gaming bitch/officer.
• Steam: There are some fixes for macs, so maybe there will be improvement for linux?
• “Expect something in the next 2-4 years”-TeamDoherty
• Agaeki needs access to Aurora.(Admin for games)
• Check Steam status.
  Action: Agaeki and Fyorl need to talk to Roger to get gaming passwords, ideally with Mulletron.

Keys:

• Fyorl will have the Tech. keys.
• Agaeki will have the Gaming keys, since TeamDoherty has no DCS access.
• MrWilson will have the academic keys.
  Action: MrWilson needs to get the keys from Sinjo/Connor

Game Tournaments & Posters:

• There is a tournament framework on the website.
• Fyorl suggests a RUA tournament.
• People could enter in pairs in a L4D tournament.
• Trip makes awesome posters, but already makes posters for 4-6 societies.
• Having a publicity officer make posters is better than random exec making rubbish posters.

Real Ale Festival:

• We should ‘just go’ and meet outside.
• “Oh yeah, shit, it’s tomorrow” - Dirtus

Budget:

• Need to talk to Monk.
• Things that may or may not be budgeted for: Server racks, Servers, Wires, Power supplies, Aero-dynamic computer cases, Generators, Components for a nuclear reactor.
• Budget needs to be done by end of term(Unconfirmed).

Future Exec meetings:

Action: Secretary will make something on GoogleDocs to establish what times people are free.

• Dirtus should make a tea social after every meeting.

Misc:

• TeamDoherty could do with a sandwich.
• The Secretary has pens wrapped for freshness.
• Dirtus may as well schedule CuriosiTEA events every day.
• MrWilson is in favour of perpetuiTEA.
• The Secretary needs better shorthand.
• We should play Sins of a Solar Empire: “See you next week.”
• MrWilson likes pie charts.
• Girls stack with diminishing returns.

Next Meeting:

• To be Confirmed.