Minutes

Minutes - with guest Secretary MrWilson

Present:

Dirtus, Cranman, Agaeki, Moltenfire, MikeCobra, Murtag, zed0, ruth, MrWilson, James

Minutes

• James and MrWilson have had haircuts.
• James baked some bread and showed us pictures. The exec were in awe.
• James doesn’t want to drive a train when he’s older

The Durham Situation

• Some kind of collaborative programming competition
• What? Irc bots, programming language design, game AI (defcon was mentioned).
• How? Communication through IRC, source sharing through github.
  ACTION: Ruth to speak to Durham_Guy

Bletchley

• Everything seems to be going according to plan.
• Provisional charge of £3 per person.
  ACTION: zed0 to send e-mail nownow
  ACTION: zed0 to advertise Bletchley Trip in DCS

Starcraft

• Advertisement: Free stuff from companies was suggested
• < agaeki> Apart from blizzard
• Varying amounts of money spent on top prizes (£50,£25,£15,£10 was suggested)
• Registration event in DCS at gaming, marketed as a “Launch Event” in which Starcraft is played.
  ACTION: Ruth to send out e-mails
  ACTION: zed0 to make posters.

MONEY MONEY MONEY (The Budget)

• Pretty much the same as last year.
• Events: 6 LANs, 1 IBM Trip, 1 Bletchley Trip, some amount of progcomps.
• Buying cool prize support for the tournaments - Starcraft, UkraineComp, etc.
• James’ Raspberry Pi was in danger of being delivered on schedule, so has been set back another three weeks.
  ACTION: Ruth to chase up IBM for sponsorship details
• JP Morgan wants their name on an event of some kind.

Intermission

• Something about Pacman, I don’t know.

Inventory

ACTION: James to do inventory of Dijkstra_Cupboard and Backus_Cupboard on 24/04/2012 at 5pm.

Grant Request

• < Moltenfire> “I can put in a request for money. We have over £4000, can we have £500 please?”

IBM Things

• Summer progcomp: IBM are all like “No shiny prizes, but we’re cool to be involved.”
• Potential launch at BFL
• IBM’s Get Hired event tentatively scheduled for Week 8 of Term 1.
  ACTION: Ruth to speak to Yvonne

Unruly Event

• Friday, Week 4, Room not booked yet.
• Post event meal in the Duck, followed by Gaming/XING
• Advertising:
  ACTION: Someone to speak to reception about putting it on the Boards
  ACTION: Someone to speak to Jackie Pinks about spamming the undergrad mailinglist.

LAN

• Week 2
• Exec to fill out Rota
  ACTION: Someone to speak to Roger about trolley

Other Business

• No Barcrafts this term, due to exams
• Possibility of screening events during ExamLAN in Lib 1.