Minutes 29/9/10

Present:

MrWilson, TeamDoherty, Kuros, Cranman, Connorhd, SigmaD, Dirtus, Fyorl, Trip, dangerman, Zed0

Minutes:

Posters:

• Connor bought a box full from Sinjo’s cupboard.
• There are extra flyers in Backus’ cupboard.

Banner:

• The union use ratios: 1x2, 1x6, 1x12
• Our current banner design is 1x3
• Connor will fix the pdf and order the banner.

Fresher’s fair:

• Dirtus doesn’t have a timetable yet, so doesn’t know when he’ll be free.
• A google document should be created for the Societies Fair.
• The societies fair takes place on Thursday. (Non-academic societies on Wednesday)
• Assume everything we ask for isn’t there.
• We shouldn’t send anyone to the societies fair in order to help the Union out of its massive debt.

Atrium booking for gaming tournament:

• TeamDoherty has been given the form.

Events

• Dirtus has put up events for the year.
• MrWilson will write something on the website to greet the freshers.
• “Hi, I’m fabulous.” - cranman
• We should re-implement the flaming text website for freshers.

Alton Towers

• Cancelled due to lack of interest.

Freebies for the fresher’s fair

• We have the mugs from IBM and Rubik’s cubes from Bloomberg.

Room Booking

• Warwick Skills Certificate have LIB2 for most LAN weekends. We have been given LIB1 instead.
• LIB1 has insufficient power for LANs.
  Action: MrWilson to contact WSC about swaping LIB1/LIB2 for LANs.
• We have LIB2 for the week6 (first) LAN.

Academic Talks

• Wednesday early afternoon is no good.
• Pizza should be provided.
• Decided on Wednesday 6-8pm.
• Sinjo has offered to do a talk in week 2.
• MrWilson will sort external talks.
• Connor has offered to do a talk.
• Need tiered room, S0.19 suggested.

Computing Society Funds:

• CompSoc has £4,000.
• We could buy out Coventry University.
• MrWilson: “Why would we buy that?”

Bloomberg:

• A separate meeting is necessary.
• With Sadiq if possible.
• A large venue is required.
• Hiring computers for a day for the programming contest was suggested. (dell?) (Seems unfeasible.)
• We should book LIB2 & LIB1 (for overflow).
• Bloomberg will print publicity.

Term 1 Gaming Tournament:

• Should take place in L3.
• The chairs have been fixed!

Gaming:

• Dirtus proposes:
• Online weekly Steam event, possibly on Thursday.
• Vote for what game people want to play.
• TeamDoherty proposes TF2 lobby system.
  Action: TeamDoherty to look at this.

Phantom Coach:

• Need to be phoned before next time.
  Action: Dirtus to phone the Phantom Coach.

Dr Watson’s Data Centre Tour:

• Was popular last year.
  Action: MrWilson to talk to him.

Backus’ IRC:

• Fyorl wants to delegate the problem.

Minibus Speed Restrictions

• Some minibuses only have speed restrictions in 5th gear, not 4th.

Thought For The Day:

‘If this sheet is not wanted, please recycle it!’