Minutes - 13th May 2013

Agenda
Present: zed0, james, argha, olibacon, hir142, dDirtus, ruth, Veltas, Murtag

Academic

• Ruth has found the SIBE hackathon to be completely fair for the programmers involved.
• Code will be used for open source not-for-profit reasons.
• It seems the organisers are hoping a campaign organisation will take it over.

Gaming

Recent LAN

Tournaments

• Murtag felt the tournaments at the recent LAN were reasonable.
• zed0: SC2 tournament could have started earlier.
• zed0: Should utilise a mic or something to control the events so everyone’s informed throughout.
• Veltas: Not enough preparation for CS:S tournament, was lots of fun but a little inconclusive.

Bins

• Ruth: We need to maintain the bin throughout the LAN.
• If it’s full, take it out. There are bin bags provided.
• dDirtus: Suggests recycling.
• Veltas: Should definitely arrange recycling for BFL, most rubbish in LANs is recyclable.
• It was suggested there was a bucket for left-over drink.
• zed0: Punishment for unplugging LAN is now drinking from the bucket.

Upcoming tournament prizes

• Upcoming tournament prizes were discussed.
• zed0: Not memory sticks, most people don’t need or want a 1GB memory stick.
• T-shirts, mugs, mouse mats suggested.
• Shirt sizes are hard to get right.
• Mugs should be exclusive prizes for gaming.
• dDirtus: Foam mug should be exclusive prize for DoTA.
  ACTION: Murtag to research drum peddles for Guitar Hero etc..
• Considering getting a double bass.

BFL Sponsor

• It has now been repeatedly suggested that BFL should be somehow sponsored.
• There are a few local game companies that should be considered first.

Tech

ACTION: Argha to buy new Dijkstra stuff.
ACTION: james to do inventory.

• james: Loads of spare HDDs in there.
• Most of Dijkstra is anime music.
• Argha: Server now has SSL certificates now.

Boar website

• The boar would like us to host their website.
• They have said that we may not be able to meet their requirements with our usual service for society websites.
• Conclusion was to ask them specifically what they wanted, we’d likely be able to meet their requirements anyway, or they don’t need what they ask for.
  ACTION: james to reply to their email.

Socials

ACTION: olibacon to book football field at the start of June.