Minutes 12/3/2010

Present:

MrWilson, Dirtus, Dangerman, PokeForCake, Sinjo, Estel, Cranman, Connor, Agaeki, Fyorl, Mulletron, Bucko, Zed0, SigmaD, Monk and TeamDoherty

Minutes:

Agenda:

• An agenda would be useful, maybe googledocs

Gaming:

• Fyorl got Diablo 2 working.
• Steam:
• TeamDoherty wants to get steam working.
• People need to own games to play is a benefit.
• Connor reckons that with enough work, most steam games could be run.
• Fyorl has server access and has giventhe appropriate people Aurora access.
  Action: Mulletron and Estel explaining how Aurora works to Agaeki.
• Gaming officer/president still need login password.
• Coventry university gaming day next friday.

Company contacts:

• ‘They’re in a small database completely contained within my head.’ - Connor

E-mails/Mailing List:

• E-mails to be switched to new exec.
• Fyorl to do switchover
• Fyorl added himself and was added by Monk.
• Sinjo to put Fyorl on the root users mailing lists.
• ‘Trivially filterable into somewhere you don’t need to look.’ - Sinjo

Publicity handover:

• ‘Do you know the Phantom Coach’s phone number?’ - Mulletron
• ‘Yeah’ - Dirtus
• ‘Sorted.’

Keys:

• Have been handed over.
• Another pair might be good as Sinjo and Connor continue to do maintenence.

If Servers explode during the holidays:

• MrWilson is mostly nearby, Mulletron will also be available.
• ‘So it’s me then.’ - Mulletron

Codd Downtime:

• Codd went down, at this time nobody knows why.
• There is an incident report on the techteam wiki (Possibly a hardware issue?)
• If no cause is found, it may go down again in the future.

Academic Plans:

• ‘Um…’-MrWilson
• ‘He stopped breathing there for a minute’ - Mulletron
• Arrange similar events.
• Contact IBM.

Connor’s Shopping List and other things to buy:

• New cases for the servers and ‘Extreme Massive airflow fans’
• The above costs about £340.
• The society has about £2000 in the account.
• ‘I’ve gone for serious fans.’-Connor
• ‘Not shit’ boxes for carrying stuff.
• The cupboard should be measured to find the right size of box.
• ‘Make a ProgComp about it.’-Monk
• ‘Boxes from Ikea have labels saying don’t put babies in boxes.’-Bucko
• ‘You’ve got to put babies in the right box.’ - PokeForCake

Cables for LAN:

• Need more small cables as they disappear after LANs.
• It would be too much trouble to make cables.
• ‘I can do the bitch work.’ - Dirtus
• Dirtus to make 100 short cables.

Events:

• Gaming needs to not last a week.
• Adding events 3 weeks in advance is suitable.

Budget:

• Draft budget needed very soon.
• Monk and Cranman will sort out the budget tonight.
• The budget can have a photo.
• ‘Do you want to pose for a picture Bucko?’
• Buy a huge screen so you can play games standing on the other side of the room.
• ‘The Union is bust’ - Monk
• ‘We could pay the union’s debts.’ - Estel
• ‘Having a plan is a good plan.’
• The budget is the plan for next year

Pokemon Thing:

• Judged the time wrong - actually tomorrow.
• ‘So you go to Nuneaton to get a pokemon…’ - Sinjo
• ‘It’s not a real animal.’ - Mulletron

Football:

• The playing fields are booked until the end of term.
• ‘Football is like DotA, you pretend it’s a team game.’ - Monk
• ‘Stun him!’ - Monk
• People only want to play a casual game, as opposed to entering leagues/competitions.
• ‘That means we can beat them easier.’-Monk

The reason for not playing on the field next to maths:

• “What if it’s cold?”

Compsoc Paintball:

• CompSoc vs PaintballSoc is traditional.
• Mary is on the paintball exec.
  Action: Dirtus to talk to Mary about paintball.
• Dirtus has gokarting planned for week9

Clothing:

• The costs for digitising the logo too big to be given to the 6 people interested.
  Action: MrWilson to talk to Sadiq about clothing.

Various Admin:

Action: hand in change of exec form

• The Exec contact list in the cupboard needs updating - can be done after meeting.
  Action: Exec to update bios.

Misc:

• Azurit is probably watching Sharpe.
• ‘Calm down Bucko.’ - Mulletron
• ‘Not DDRCS.’ - MrWilson
• ‘We should get a brothel and charge for it.’ - Fyorl

Next Meeting:

• Wednesday 17th March